Family and Friends (Australian TV series) Family and Friends (Australian TV series) Family and Friends is a short-lived Australian television soap opera debuted on 7 February 1990. The series was intended to be the Nine Network's response to the already successful soaps on the rival channels - "Neighbours" and "E Street" on the Network Ten and "Home and Away" on the Seven Network. Set in a suburban community the series focused on two families - the Chandler and the Italian-Australian Rossi families - who were linked by a long-standing vendetta stemming from an accidental death in the 1950s. Old enmities were renewed by the Romeo-and-Juliet style
Soaps In Depth $2.99 an issue, with an occasional $1.00 issue. Beginning in 2003, each issue costs $3.99. After the cancellations of "AMC" and "OLTL" in 2011 and 2012, respectively, with "GH" being the only ABC daytime soap to still air to this day, the ABC edition now alternately covers its NBC soap "Days of Our Lives" and the CBS soaps. The NBC edition is now defunct. When it was first published, coverage focused on NBC Daytime's soap line-up, which was "Another World", "Days of Our Lives", and "Sunset Beach". In 1999, NBC cancelled the long running "AW", as well as "Sunset Beach".