Most Popular Character 2012: 67-80

We continue our countdown with the characters who scored 4-5 points.

	67. Indigo Walker (5 points) I have to say that this was probably the biggest surprise for me. Nice enough looking girl, has had what feels like a large amount of screen time and yet has only managed 5 points. OK, it’s still 5 times more than her husband scored, but with a grand total of 6 points, they’re not exactly Shane and Angel or Kirsty and Kane. Actually, they’re as popular as Steven and Viv and only marginally more popular than Nathan Roberts and that Irish nurse.
	67= Nathan Roberts (5 points) One wonders whether it was the 1993 stint or the 2002 stint that touched someone so much that Nathan was their favourite character ever. I’ve only ever seen his final stint, but I enjoyed what was not only just a story to let Lynne McGranger go on holiday, but a thought provoking story of someone trying to rebuild their life after prison.
	67= Steven Matheson (5 points) I was away to say recently departed Steven, until I realised it was now about 3 months since Steven departed on 7Two, was not one of that bad-boys turned good, but more good-boy done good. Comes back in a few years where he is probably slightly more edgy, with relationships with his students.
	67= Josie Russell (5 points) The less popular of the two Laurie Foell characters to make the list (though I won’t tell you whether it’s Angie or that prosecutor that is also on the list). Quite an interesting character in that most of the time people believed she was up to no good, but she was actually trying to help them out most of the time.
	67= Sarah Lewis (5 points) Perhaps not Summer Bay’s original head case, but probably the first in the almost constant conveyor belt that has hit Summer Bay since 2004, who have come to the bay with the sole purpose it seems of killing or maiming as many people as possible.
	67= Paris Burnett (5 points) Fortunately for art lovers, this wasn’t what Hitler said during the 40’s, but one of Irene’s love interests and school headmaster about ten years ago. Then was rather randomly written out in an episode, after some members of his family died and was never seen again.
	67= Tony Holden (5 points) HotDad, as some of our members liked to call him at the time (though I can’t really comment as I don’t have a thing for 40-year old men, or men of any age) is really only now lukewarm as his popularity tails off. Still more popular than his youngest sons though.
	74. Joey Rainbow (4 points) A lovable oddball from the second half of the nineties, who must have been doing something right because he outlasted most of his contemporaries from his teen-group by almost two years. British viewers were recently treated to two episode repeats which showed his battle with schizophrenia. Left to teach other school kids the danger of mental illness, but has never visited his former school.
	74= Shauna Bradley (4 points) A character I was surprised to see here, as she was universally reviled by everyone in 2001 after breaking Jude’s heart and almost breaking Sally and Flynn up, then coming back the following year to steal Jude back from Charlotte who had just recovered for a miscarriage.
	74= Karen Dean (4 points) A surprise inclusion for possibly one of Home and Away’s most forgotten characters, probably only remembered now due to the repeats. At the current moment she’s playing the sickly sweet little sister of Blake, but it soon all begins to go downhill. First prison and then appearing in Muriel’s Wedding.
	74= Max Sutherland (4 points) The Sutherland’s nephew, who was dumped with them after his father went on the run and proceeded to become involved in a whole lot of bizarre storylines involving writing novels with Colleen and some sort of Blake/Meg rip-off which ended up with the Sutherland’s all trapped down a mineshaft. Unfortunately they escaped.
	74= Duncan Stewart (4 points) It feels like Duncan was universally loathed when he was actually on the show, but only after his departure have people realised what a deep character he was and how his departure has left a huge hole in the show.
	74= Brad Armstrong (4 points) Pretty short-lived and forgettable brother of Rachel Armstrong, brought in it appears solely to be a love interest to Sally. Got as far as the alter where Sally realised she wasn’t over Flynn at all and embarrassed Brad so much that he soon left with his half-sister who he didn’t know existed a few weeks before.
	74= Frank Morgan (4 points) With his 80’s hair and 80’s shirts, and going to work in a very 80’s looking office, Frank is one character who always appeared very dated.