Family and Friends is a short-lived Australian television soap opera by the Nine Network which debuted on 7 February 1990 and aired for a single season until 27 December.

Old enmities were renewed by the Romeo and Juliet style romance between Jennifer Chandler (Roxane Wilson) and Robert Rossi (Renato Bartolomei).

Episodes were initially broadcast in one-hour instalments up against Ten's E Street on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 19:30–20:30, but ratings were poor.

[3] The show was promptly reformatted as half-hour episodes stripped at 17:30 weeknights, but ratings remained very low.

And now that it was lead-in to National Nine News's 6pm bulletin its low ratings meant it remained in a precarious position.

[6] After viewing a few episodes, Robin Oliver of The Sydney Morning Herald said Family and Friends had "a solid and very narrowly focused start – and one of two disappointingly wooden performances".