Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series)

Sons and Daughters is an Australian Logie Award-winning soap opera/drama serial, broadcast by the Seven Network between January 1982 and December 1987 and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It was created by executive Reg Watson, and is distributed by Fremantle.

Sons and Daughters is remembered for its regular use of dramatic end-of-season cliffhangers and its most famous character; Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton, initially played by Rowena Wallace, who became in 1983 the second soap opera actor, rather than personality, to win the Gold Logie award, the first being Pat McDonald in 1974, for her work on Number 96.

The story follows a Romeo and Juliet style romance of two twins separated at birth, who meet twenty years later who fall in love not realising they are siblings. The series was billed as an Australian version of Dallas and screened in seventy countries.

When Rowena Wallace decided to leave the series, in 1985 her popular character was recast, with Belinda Giblin taking over the role, in a story-arc which sees the character receiving extensive plastic surgery in Rio de Janeiro, and returning as the look-alike Alison Carr.

A notable cast member in the series later years was the Australian pop singer Normie Rowe. Rowe had previously appeared in musical theatre, but it was his first major TV drama role.