The idea for the series reportedly grew out of Morphett's frustration with the lack of good roles for female actors on Australian TV at the time.
The main screening of Certain Women was on Wednesday evening, commencing at 8.00 pm after ABC's current affairs program This Day Tonight.
The same main characters from the original six tv plays returned – solicitor Frieda Lucas (June Salter), her widowed mother Dolly (Queenie Ashton), Dolly’s elder daughter Jane (Joan Bruce), as did the Stone family's other three daughters, Marjorie (Judy Morris), Helen (Jenny Lee) and Gillian (Elisabeth Crosby), plus their son Damon, and Marjorie’s husband, Carl Faber (Peter Sumner).
[2] Apart from Morphett, noted playwright David Williamson and Logie-winning writer Cul Cullen contributed scripts and story arcs.
The final episode of Certain Women was screened in Australia in its usual Wednesday evening time slot, on 22 December 1976.
[6] The main title theme track for the Certain Women series exists in the ABC sound library.
The ABC has placed online, a short black and white clip from an early Certain Women episode, which has survived.
Jane and Alan discover their daughter has a new boyfriend Julius, played by the then well known, and now famous Australian actor, Bruce Spence.