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I'll always defend 1994 because it seemed like everyone genuinely happier and there were belly laughs galore (Jack/Fisher bedroom incident, Rob, Roxy and the overheated lift, Waterbedgate, Sleepwalking Irene, Sarah: "I look like Ronald McDonald and Shirley Temple rolled into one!") and there was *some* drama (Ross seperation, Year 12 cheat week arc, Shane/Ros)

I think Big Alf is a legend myself. Every village has a grumpy old man who demands respect because they've lived there all their life. They also tend to be judgmental about anyone who's not from the village. That's exactly who Big Alf is.

No, it was previously established in 2023 that she dropped out of medical school to pursue music instead.

"I'm afraid Miss Crawford, that Your bag of tricks is rather empty now, isn't it?" *smug Joker-esque grin from the ep she called that Boys' school for Sam, followed by Freeze-Frame and Lois with a face like a slapped arse*

In no order: Pippa, Donald, Sally, Alf, Ailsa, Irene, Bobby, Marilyn, Colleen, Morag.

I enjoy reading the interviews with actors I used to really enjoy watching who perhaps we don't really too much about or know about their thoughts of working on the shows at the time. You learn lots of little bits of info of actors who have since faded into obscurity, like real-life romances between actors or that they had kids etc. I still recall the TV Week gossip column of one issue of TV Week said Georgie Parker was in talks with Neighbours about a possible role, and they were negotiating a schedule that allowed her to commute between Sydney and Melbourne (I think something similar was offered to fellow H&A alumni Jodi Gordon and Kip Gamblin). It obviously came to nothing and I've never found it again or a trace of it online, but there must be so many behind-the-scenes stories and gossip snippets in those magazines that have since been lost and make interesting trivia now. Me too - the one she had Bobby is probably the prime example of why I didn't like Floss. Her telling Bobby about that caused so many disruptions for Bobby, just as she was becoming settled into a stable life with Tom and Pippa. Floss just wouldn't let it go. I know the show has to think and about keeping the show fresh and not "let's make sure we still have some original cast in 20-30 years time", but the majority of the cast likely didn't leave of their own accord: Lynn, Floss, Neville, Martin and Lance were all definitely axed. Celia, Tom and Pippa #1 - based on Cornelia Frances' comments about her own exit, it sounds like those three were either axed or something went down behind the scenes that led to their departures. Steven and Carly - I suspect they didn't have their contracts renewed, but we don't know for sure. By 1990, the show was moving into the next generation of the Fletcher/Ross family (Michael and new Pippa, Finn, Sophie, Haydn), so they may have it felt it was the natural time for Steven to move on too, especially since Steven had just finished high school and his peers Emma and Viv had left a few months earlier. And Julian McMahon wanted to leave, so it's very possible Carly was written out too, since the character would have become a spare part in the new Ross family, and had pretty much run her course. Roo - Justine Clarke supposed wanted to leave because of the way she was treated by viewers. Justine has had the most successful post-H&A acting career of the original cast, so she would have left sooner rather than later anyway, but we still might have got another year or two out of her. So that just leaves Frank, and longer-running characters Bobby, Fisher, Ailsa and Sally.