I recall this series from watching it many years back. I did not know if I would still enjoy it (I loved it then). To my delight I found it just as entertaining as before. Now as a retired professor of sociology I enjoy the spoofs of the early "soaps" that this series makes. In the early soaps you typically had well off families in the professions or businesses that paid extremely well. Here you see the working class families struggling with a range of absurd issues. The only thing that puzzles me is why one did not see these fine actors in other series.