After years of peddling game shows and soft soap like The Young Doctors, the Grundy organisation adopted a serious dramatic tone with Embassy, which had the distinction of being the first Grundy series sold to the ABC.
Set in the fictitious south-east Asian country of Ragaan, the show revolved around the lives of the staff at the Australian embassy.
Some of the potentially contentious story-lines were deemed offensive by the Malaysian government, which suspended diplomatic relations with Australia for a short time as a result.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs were not delighted, and the controversy led to less than spectacular overseas sales, but in Australia, the show won two AFI awards in 1991.
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