The goings on at the number96 apartment block were not only ground breaking and daring at the time this show began in 1972, it is actually hard to imagine many of the storylines getting aired on television in the twenty first century.
Number96 also had one of the first sympathetic gay characters on television (probably then or since!) in Don Finlayson, the lawyer who actually became the moral backbone of the show.
An ill-advised plot to blow up the apartment block and kill off some popular and long standing characters did not have the desired effect of increasing the show's profile and popularity, and by 1977 the show was off the air for good.