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Round the Twist – Series One – Skeleton on the Dunny (1989)

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clip A new beginning – let's twist and shout

Original classification rating: G. This clip chosen to be G

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Tony Twist (Richard Moir) and his children, 13-year old twins Linda (Tamsin West) and Pete (Sam Vandenberg), and young Bronson (Rodney McLennan) are moving from the city to start a new life in the country, living in a lighthouse. But all is not what it seems when they arrive at their new home.

Curator’s notes

by Annemaree O'Brien

This opening scene introduces the offbeat comedy series, with the Twist family crammed into an old truck, happily singing together. In a short space of time, we learn a great deal about this family, and how they relate to each other, through their dialogue and actions, the old truck and the junk in the back, their clothes (Dad’s holey jumper is a feature), and accessories such as Pete’s sunglasses.

Some information is given more subtly, for example, this is most probably a single parent family because there is no room in the truck for anyone else. At the lighthouse, the graffiti on the sold sign, a mysterious face in the window and a spooky dunny foreshadow plenty of interesting things to come.

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