This year we’ve all found ourselves with a LOT more time on our hands. And what better activity to soothe the soul than re-binging some classic TV? There’s almost nothing more cosy than snuggling under a blanket and deep diving into a well-loved show. So we’ve compiled this list of classic Aussie TV shows we’re re-watching (and falling in love with again) in 2020.

McLeod’s Daughters

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Hardship and respect for the land are key at Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback that once belonged to Jack McLeod. Now, with his passing, his two daughters are reunited to decide the ranch’s future. While Tess initially wants to sell her share, she finds that the land beckons to her. And her sense of optimism is much needed, given that Claire has spent years struggling to keep the ranch financially afloat. These two decide to run it together, with their housekeeper and mother-figure, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky, who is escaping her own troubles in town. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they’ve inherited.
Watch on: 9 Now or Stan

A Country Practice

Follow the highs and lows of the townsfolk of Wandin Valley. This drama TV series revolves around the daily happenings of a ‘small town’ rural Australian hospital, its doctors, nurses, patients, and pretty much everyone else in the locale. A heart-warming Australian drama series that at times will see you laughing hysterically and at other times crying rivers. Well worth watching.
Watch on: 7 Plus

Offspring

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Offspring is an exuberant drama set in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman (Asher Keddie) and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to over-think and fly off into fantasy.
Watch on: Netflix

Seachange

In one day successful city lawyer, Laura Gibson’s world falls apart. Suddenly she realises she no longer knows her husband, her children, or where her all-consuming career is going. On a whim, Laura grabs at a position as magistrate in the small coastal town of Pearl Bay and with two bewildered kids in tow sets off to change their lives forever.
Watch on: 9 Now

Packed To The Rafters

Meet Dave and Julie Rafter – just your average Australians with three grown-up children. On the eve of their twenty-fifth wedding-anniversary it seems they’re at last about to have the house to themselves. But home is a very welcome refuge for their children and when unforeseen problems loom, they return like a boomerang.
Watch on: 7 Plus

A Place To Call Home

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1953. After 20 years living in Europe, Sarah Adams returns to Australia. While working as a nurse on the ocean voyage home, Sarah meets the influential and wealthy Bligh family and discovers a scandalous family secret. In Sydney, Sarah finds her estranged mother still unwilling to forgive her perceived “sin” of converting to Judaism. With no other prospects, Sarah takes up George Bligh’s offer of a job in the Inverness hospital, much to the disapproval of George’s overbearing mother, Elizabeth.
Watch on: 7 Plus

Kath & Kim

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Kath and Kim follows the day-to-day Australian suburban life of Kath Day-Knight (Jane Turner), her only child Kim Craig née Day (Gina Riley), Kim’s husband Brett Craig (Peter Rowsthorn), Kath’s love interest and eventual husband “purveyor of fine meats” Kel Knight (Glenn Robbins), and long-time family friend Sharon Strzelecki (Magda Szubanski).
Watch on: Netflix

Secret Life Of Us

The Secret Life Of Us is an Australian drama revolving around the lives of the residents of an apartment block in an urban suburb of Melbourne. It follows the characters through some of life’s most complex journeys, as they search for themselves in their work, social and family lives, yet always following one simple rule: all roads lead back to your friends.
Watch on: 10 Play