A SPECIAL REUNION WITH THE WOMEN OF WANDIN VALLEY

Forty-one years on, the friendships and bonds remain strong for these A Country Practice icons, who are now on different paths

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Their beaming smiles give more than a hint of just how incredibly close the stars of A Country Practice remain, even almost three decades after we said farewell to the popular characters from Wandin Valley.

"It's a lovely photo, isn't it," actor Di Smith tells Woman's Day. Di, 64, who played Dr Alex Fraser, says it was just magical when she finally got to reunite with the gorgeous women she met through ACP for a long overdue lunch in Sydney with actresses Anne Tenney, Kate Raison, Jo Mitchell and Georgie Parker last week.

She says it was Georgie, 57, who wanted to post a photo on Instagram to share the love with the millions of fans who grew up watching the hit Aussie drama, sharing in the trials and tribulations that made it compulsory viewing from 1981 to 1994.

And it's clear from Georgie's joyful selfie just how much of a bond remains between these five TV stars.

"We're all bound together by this thing - A Country Practice. We've all had several TV series since then but the common denominator is being part of that wonderful cast," Di says, laughing about how ill-prepared they all were for an impromptu photoshoot.

LIVES CHANGED

"George said, 'Can we have a picture?' That's Georgie, of course, going 'I'll just take a photo and if we all like it, can I put it up on Insta?' She's fabulous and I just adore her, but I'd just washed my hair, and pulled it back!"

The last thing these fantastic women were worried about was how they looked on the day when they shared plenty of laughs as they reminisced about the show that changed their lives forever, and made lifelong friends of them all.