'Digger Hale is 50 years of age and an accountant with a big city firm. A Digger from the last war, he has been a bit of a rough diamond in his time. He has a favorite saying that "if he starts a thing he always finishes it," and invariably he finishes it the wrong way round.
'Emily, his wife, was an English girl, and met her husband in London during the last war. She is still very much in love, although rather testy at times over his follies.
'Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, is 27, and is a private secretary in the American Army Headquarters. She is an unusual type–neither beautiful nor plain, with little dress sense, and rather shy and self-conscious. Yet there is something about her that makes her a pillar of strength in times of trouble.
'Monica, aged eighteen, is the antithesis of Elizabeth. She is a lovely girl, and is employed as a photographic model in a large advertising agency. She knows all about clothes and the art of being beautiful; she is vivacious and popular, but selfish in her outlook.
'Next comes Peggy, aged sixteen, freckled-faced tomboy of the family. Then Joan, aged twelve, a lanky schoolgirl with a talent for art, and a passion for the art teacher.
'There are two boys in the family as well, and Grandpa Hale, who fancies himself something of an Edison. The family is completed by Aunt Rose Parry, a widow with a fox terrier pup that causes no end of trouble.'
– The Australian Women's Weekly, June 26, 1943
First broadcast June 28, 1943 on 2GB Radio and had 419 episodes in total.
