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''Chances'' was an Australia n evening Soap Opera , produced from 1991 to 1992. It told the story of the average middle-class Taylor family whose lives are transformed by a $3Million lottery win. The series was broadcast by the Nine Network , initially as two one-hour episodes each week. Principal cast members included John Sheerin and Brenda Addie as Dan and Barbara Taylor, Jeremy Sims as their mischevous son Alex, Deborah Kennedy as Dan's sister Connie Reynolds, Tim Robertson as Dan's brother Jack, Anne Grigg as his wife Sarah, and Michael Caton as neighbourhood friend Bill Anderson. Though ostensibly a family-oriented drama, to help ensure the program's success, Channel Nine asked for nude scenes and risqué elements to also be included in the series. Initial publicity for the show focused on the sex angle, and it was for this that ''Chances'' was chiefly known. The show's early ratings proved disappointing, resulting in several cast reshuffles that saw many of the original characters written out of the series, and new actors including Abigail , Lynda Stoner and Patsy Stephen brought in. Attempts to boost the ratings saw an increase in the sex and nudity in the series, while storylines became increasingly bizarre and fantasy oriented, with new stories involving ghosts, an angel on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, Oriental villains, an Egyptian Sun Goddess, man-eating plants, and neo-Nazis hunting valuable Third Reich artifacts. These changes provoked much press and public discussion and comment; however, they did not lead to a strong increase in ratings. Eventually low ratings saw the show moved to a late-night slot, and the production rate reduced from two to one episode a week. With the reduced output, the size of the cast needed to be reduced, so further drastic cast purges occurred. In the later episodes, much of the Taylor clan had departed and Alex Taylor became the focal point of many of the storylines. The series ended in 1992. Selected episodes have subsequently been released on DVD in Australia. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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