147-166
As the Home and Away Most Popular Character countdown continues, we look at who ended up in positions 147 to 166, with three points.
147. Adam Cameron (3 points)
Played by Mat Stevenson
The show’s resident lovable rogue who clocked up five years in the late 80s and early 90s with increasingly hair-brained ways to raise money. He turned up again at the end of the 90s, noticeably less lovable and running a burger kiosk.
147= Andrew Lawrence (3 points)
Played by Joshua Hewson
This character from last year seems to have stuck in the mind, possibly because it was nice to have a return to our mainstay characters providing a home to troubled youngsters, as Andrew got rescued from a weird doomsday cult and reunited with his family.
147= Annie Campbell (3 points)
Played by Charlotte Best
A troubled(ish) youngster given a home by the mainstays a decade and a half earlier. Annie was a rather sheltered farm girl who moved in with Irene and was one of those characters who pleasingly managed to never quite fall into the trap of becoming conventional.
147= Buddy Morgan (3 points)
Played by Buddy (provided by Kirsko Film Animals)
There may still be some strange pocket dimension in the Morgans’ back yard housing poor Buddy. He was once the Morgans’ beloved pet but no-one’s seen him in years.
147= David 'Dingo' Lewis (3 points)
Played by JK Kazzi
Okay, does someone just like any River Boy? Dingo popped up this year to hang around for a few weeks annoying Mali and the staff at Salt before ending up facing charges as an accessory to murder.
147= Zoe McCallister/Eve Jacobsen (3 points)
Played by Emily Perry
There was nothing “accessory” about Eve’s relation to murders, although she completely failed to kill anyone important, with even Peter Baker getting struck off her kill list after a recount. The police were about the only people not to realise that the Summer Bay Stalker was probably the only major guest character in months.
147= Grant Mitchell (3 points)
Played by Craig McLachlan
In 1990, fresh from his star-making role as Henry Ramsay in Neighbours, Craig McLachlan moved over to Home and Away as the new Summer Bay High history teacher and proceeded to, well, not really do much at all before fizzling out after about a year.
147= Heather Frazer (3 points)
Played by Sofia Nolan
You’d think if the show was going to rewrite history to give Marilyn a daughter, they’d have done something other than treat her like any old guest villain and then have Marilyn never mention her again, with a confused and rushed exit where it wasn’t clear whether she was a murderer or not.
147= Jack Wilson (3 points)
Played by Daniel Amalm
It’s a shame Adam and Jack kept missing each other (Jack twice turned up within a year of Adam leaving), because Jack would probably have been really keen to help Adam out with unfallible schemes that fail. Instead, he had to make up his own.
147= Joey Collins (3 points)
Played by Kate Bell
Another of the show’s sadly small number of gay characters, Joey was also one of those young women that the show seemed to torture a bit more than was really necessary. Unlike other examples, she did at least get to live.
147= Josie Russell (3 points)
Played by Laurie Foell
Often overshadowed by her evil identical cousin Angie, Josie turned up in the bay to build relations with quasi-niece Tasha and stop the town being turned into a toxic waste dump, although frustratingly Irene and co treated her like she was a villain anyway.
147= Lorraine Jensen (3 points)
Played by Elizabeth Chance
Another short-lived guest character from last century that seems to have floated to the top of someone’s head. Lorraine was the mother of the equally short-lived Paul and Mullet and her most memorable act was trying to stop Paul playing the piano.
147= Martin Dibble (3 points)
Played by Craig Thomson
Martin was kind of Adam if he had even less of a brain. He actually did cross over with him for a bit, but was mainly teamed up with sidekick Lance to form a band or run a sausage stand. Made a couple of returns in the 00s where he pretended to be area manager of a firm he was actually a mechanic for.
147= Meg Bowman (3 points)
Played by Cathy Godbold
Meg’s one of those characters who’s most famous for dying, which is, to be fair, the whole thrust of the character as she came to Summer Bay to live out her last weeks with terminal leukaemia and have a doomed romance with Blake. Doomed because she was dying, not for the usual reasons.
147= Neville McPhee (3 points)
Played by Frank Lloyd
One of the original characters, Neville lived at the caravan park and was, for the most part, just kind of…there. He got written out in early 1989 and didn’t even manage to make later guest appearances like wife Floss to let people know he existed.
147= Oscar MacGuire (3 points)
Played by Jake Speer
Oscar was part of the mid-10s teen group, who turned up with twin sister Evelyn to live with their aunt and uncle and even ended up moving into the caravan park house, that famous refuge for waifs and strays. Like Mason, he lingered in town that little bit too long and ended up getting blown up.
147= Peta Janossi (3 points)
Played by Aleetza Wood
Another one-time resident of the caravan park house, taken in by Joel and Natalie during their short period running it. Still best remembered for her relationship with Edward to the point that no-one seems to remember she was on the show quite some time before him.
147= Rosie Pritchard (3 points)
Played by Teri Haddy
Still possibly one of the show’s greatest regulars-that-never-were, Rosie stuck around for a few months befriending Sasha and being in desperate need of parental figures, before abruptly leaving in the middle of a teen pregnancy plot.
147= Scarlett Snow (3 points)
Played by Tania Nolan
Still the show’s shortest-serving regular, appearing for a little under six months in 2017. She looked like she was going to get together with Justin, then didn’t, and ended up leaving with the husband she’d been desperately hiding from a short time earlier.
147= VJ Patterson (3 points)
Played by Felix Dean & Matt Little plus others
We actually got a rare guest appearances from VJ this year, as he popped back for mother Leah’s wedding. Well, he was at the last two. It’s kind of appropriate that one of the few characters to grow to adulthood on-screen ended up taking responsibility for a child that wasn’t biologically his. He and Sam Marshall should compare notes.