[1][2] Regular characters included a Greek-Australian and his wife (Mr and Mrs Pappas) who ran the corner store; their daughter, Angela, who was a first year Arts student at University and battled with problems of conflict with her traditional parents; a man who owned a used-car lot (Ray Dunlop, played by John Meillon); a young man who was an accountant by day and a jazz pianist at night; and a nursing sister.
Set in Paddington, Sydney, but with a structure that facilitated movement around Sydney: Vernon said in an interview that 'The used-car man, Ray (played by John Meillon, and his wife (played by Carole Skinner) live in Woollahra, and his mother-in-law lives at Lindfield, which moves the characters around to different suburbs.
Among the other characters are city workers and young couples who earn their living in modern offices and escape at 5 p.m. to their Paddington terrace houses and Edwardiana.'
However later on the writers were listed as John Martin, Brian Wright, Colin Thompson, Lance Peters and James Workman.
"[5] The Sun Herald thought the series was "loaded with promise" but it "seems an odd kind of thing to narrow down a serial which could go on and on forever to the problems of a Greek family battling the generation gap.