We try to be humanitarian. We actually believe in the value of human life and in the value of human relationship, of civil society, of community, of friendship, of loyalty and all those other things that are perhaps a little bit old-fashioned, but I believe are the glue and fabric of our society. So in many ways Blue Heelers reflects a lot of things that people want their society to be. They haven't always been so confident. He laughs at the memory.
Sacks now sees what people are attracted to.
It's the return to a simpler life, a life where problems arise, but are solved. It's got a little of that SeaChange phenomenon in a way. The show is built up very much so on family relationships. The Tom character might be the father, the PJ character might be the uncle, all the other characters are just very much like a family tree, and I think that's what the audience likes. There's a familiarity that they relate to, I think, like they do in a family.