Megan greeting Serge as he is released from prison and the two walk away arm-in-arm to face their future and adulthood together. Cast Barry Otto as Douglas Goddard Nicole Kidman as Megan Goddard Nicholas Eadie as Phil Goddard Veronica Lang as Evelyn Goddard John Polson as Serge Mark Lee as Laurie Fellows Pauline Chan as Lien Grace Parr as Le Alyssa-Jane Cook as Deb John Allen as T.V journalist Brett Climo as Ritchie Mick Conway as Knifethrower Celia De Burgh as Monica Montgomery Virginia Hey as Journalist Jim Holt as Lt Smart Cassandra Delaney as Melissa John Castelo as extra at BBQ Noel Ferrier as Prime Minister Robert Menzies Henri Szeps as Prime Minister Harold Holt Alan Cassell as Prime Minister John Gorton Kevin Manser as Prime Minister William McMahon Leo 'Lucky' Grills as Senator Shane Paltridge John Tarrant as Elphick (radio operator) Production The project was filmed in New South Wales, Australia, and for the month of June 1986 the Vietnam scenes were filmed in Phuket in Thailand. Kidman was 19 years old at the time, and Kennedy-Miller, the producers of the series, would later cast her in Dead Calm. Vietnam features a host of high caliber Australian television actors. Veronica Lang, Barry Otto and Nicholas Eadie (aged 27 at the time) comprised the Goddard family, playing Megan's mother Evelyn, father Douglas and older brother Phil, respectively. Otto is a five-time nominated Australian Film Institute actor, who built up a solid body of work since his debut in the mid-1970s. Playing Evelyn is Veronica Lang, an English actress who was a familiar face on TV screens in England and Australia from 1965. She starred in Winners alongside Kidman in 1985, playing Alison Trig. Both Barry Otto and Veronica Lang also starred in Aussie soap A Country Practice, in which Kidman also appeared. Playing the pivotal role of Phil, Megan's older brother who gets drafted into the army, is Nicholas Eadie. Reception The first episode of Vietnam was broadcast in Australia on 23 February 1987, and received some positive reviews from the Australian press. Reviews praised the show's accuracy in portraying society's changing attitudes towards the war, as well as the family dynamic and character development. "There is much to admire and little to criticize in Vietnam. Personal relationships inside and outside the family and the shift in society's attitudes have been penetratingly and evocatively observed. All the characters, including