Family Tension Is Timeless

LIKE the good folks of Outback House (Sunday, 7.30pm, ABC), I will soon be without TV for three months as I am heading off overseas armed only with DVDs of Alias. While Alias pretends to be about the succession of amazing wigs and stunts, what it's really about is family life, 21st century style. At the end of the first season Sydney was held at gunpoint by her presumed-dead Russian double-agent mother. At the end of the second season Sydney realised her housemate was an evil clone and fought her ...