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Number 96 DVD cover

Number 96

Many years ago, when the residents of Ramsay Street and Summer Bay were not even a twinkle in a TV producer's eye, Australians were gripped by a sometimes shocking, frequently risque and often comic soap about neighbours in an apartment block in Paddington, Sydney.

Number 96 was one of Australia’s most controversial and highest-rated TV shows ever. Never broadcast in the UK, soap fans now have the chance to watch 32 consecutive episodes of one of the show's most infamous plots - the pantyhose strangler!

The action starts when bar owners Les and Norma discover their waitress, Lorelei Wilkinson, dead in their lounge. The Pantyhose Strangler has struck and all the residents of Number 96 are at risk and under suspicion.

The soap was groundbreaking for its time and pushed boundaries that even today's television executives are often too afraid to. An entertaining mix of melodrama, high camp and farce, you have never seen anything like Number 96!

Classic Aussie soap fans will delight in seeing much loved actress Pat McDonald (Fiona Thompson, Sons & Daughters) in the role of Dorrie Evans. Other familiar actors include Bunney Brooke (Vi, E Street), Sheila Kennelly (Floss, Home & Away) Chantal Contouri (Melina, The Sullivans) and Joe Hasham (Ken, The Young Doctors).

Thanks to Umbrella Entertainment in Australia (the guys who gave us DVD releases of The Young Doctors and Sons & Daughters) viewers around the world now have the chance to enjoy Number 96 - and word is that if the sales go well more episodes will follow!

  Director: Peter Benardos/Brian Phillis
Format: PAL
Language: English
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Number of Discs: 4
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 30/08/2008
Run Time: 800 MIN
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