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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 257009" data-attributes="member: 673">Lane End - 1972A largely forgotten soap from ABC. Lane End was set in Paddington, Sydney and followed the lives of those that lived and worked there including a nurse, a used car salesman and a Greek couple that ran the shop. ABC pitched it as a city version of Bellbird and it shared some of the same production crew including writer Barbara Vernon (she of the Bellbird induced breakdown and subsequent author of it&#039;s tie in novels). Vernon described it as a &quot;a kind of Sydney Coronation Street&quot; and said that &quot;like Bellbird &quot;it would focus more on &quot;comedy drama rather than heavy drama&quot;. Probably most notable among it&#039;s small cast was Carole Skinner who would go on to play Nola in Prisoner. The show started airing on April 11th 1972, going out for a half hour once a week on Tuesdays. It only ran for it&#039;s initial episode order of seven episodes, finishing up on May 23rd, which would lead me to believe that ABC were only testing the water with it rather than having any great faith in the premise being a hit.&nbsp; The launch of the much flashier (pardon the pun) other Paddington soap Number 96 only one month prior probably didn&#039;t help Lane End&#039;s cause either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 257009, member: 673"] [CENTER][B]Lane End - 1972[/B][/CENTER] A largely forgotten soap from ABC. [I]Lane End[/I] was set in Paddington, Sydney and followed the lives of those that lived and worked there including a nurse, a used car salesman and a Greek couple that ran the shop. ABC pitched it as a city version of [I]Bellbird[/I] and it shared some of the same production crew including writer Barbara Vernon (she of the [I]Bellbird[/I] induced breakdown and subsequent author of it's tie in novels). Vernon described it as a "a kind of Sydney [I]Coronation Street[/I]" and said that "like [I]Bellbird[/I] "it would focus more on "comedy drama rather than heavy drama". Probably most notable among it's small cast was Carole Skinner who would go on to play Nola in [I]Prisoner[/I]. The show started airing on April 11th 1972, going out for a half hour once a week on Tuesdays. It only ran for it's initial episode order of seven episodes, finishing up on May 23rd, which would lead me to believe that ABC were only testing the water with it rather than having any great faith in the premise being a hit. The launch of the much flashier (pardon the pun) other Paddington soap [I]Number 96[/I] only one month prior probably didn't help [I]Lane End's[/I] cause either. [/QUOTE]

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