So the production values seem great only if you don't go on for closer inspection(bit wobbly that wall, mate). The acting is good, even top-notch. But that's as far as the leading stars are concerned. Or some occasional guest star sporting a holier than thou british accent. Otherwise even regulars on the show are played competently by actors of average skill.
It's a small blessing that the show didn't drag on for years and years.
At the heart of the plot is a firm of solicitors but since that sounds dubious in the US let's just call them lawyers. The patriarch is a self-built success story among such a notorious elitist class - it was in early XXth century Australia. A bit of a mysoginist, too. A true blue conservative. Not very likeable. The First World War provides Australia with its baptism of fire and blood - nationhood is all the rage. For the Carsons there is grief, followed by those jazz years. The old man is now severely incapacitated but will not name a successor. Son battles widowed daughter-in-law. Period piece holds up well into a new period. Depression years. More problems afflict the firm. Loyal employees fear for their jobs.
On the whole the series is well-made, the acting is above average and the plot grabs your attention in a way that is more consistent with good storytelling than with usual soap artifices.
Very good impression caused on this viewer at the time and that's why I'm not revising my score. Because what I'm comparing it to is other Australian fiction available on tv when Carson's Law was produced - and nothing comes even close to being this well made.moreless
Carson's Law
Network Ten (ended 1984)
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Australian legal drama set in the 1920s revolving around the Carson family. The show ran for two years on the Ten Network.
| S 1 : Ep 12 | Hideous Nights | ||
| S 1 : Ep 11 | The Witness | ||
| S 1 : Ep 10 | Happy Families | ||
| S 1 : Ep 9 | The Royston Trial | ||
| S 1 : Ep 8 | Preselection |
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Christine Harris
Amy Carson
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Lorraine Bayly
JENNIFER CARSON
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Kevin Miles
GODFREY CARSON
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