homeandawayroxsomuch.

I somewhat doubt it. I think the past 2 years were to bookend the 35th anniversary year, but they haven't really had old episodes over the break otherwise. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised though.

I've been watching some mid-2000 episodes and I was wondering if it's just me or were the camera angles in the old Stewart House a bit odd? Specifically in episodes 2852, it feels like all the shots there are quite close up, I'd have barely recognised it as the Stewart House. I know there are some wider shots in the mudslide episodes, but that's when the house collapses.

I just thought (probably mistakenly) that @Red Ranger 1 had wondered if Irene had had cancer in the first place, so I was giving confirmation that she had in 2011. I don't think she has done a second time though. The only one I know of is Steph Scully, but that's Neighbours.

Irene had breast cancer in 2011, around the time of Gypsy's return with Lily.

Probably pedantic of me to point out, but if Harper and Dana were Steven and Selina's nieces (personally, I would have loved for them to have been their daughters), they wouldn't be Mathesons because Steven was an only child. If it was on Selina's side, they'd be Cooks. An alternative would be previously unknown daughters of Uncle Phil (but aged down a few years because I think they're born after 1989 and Phil died in 1989), in which case they'd be Steven's cousins.

I feel like the CES was mentioned a lot in the first couple of years, especially in relationship to Lance, Martin, Carly, etc.

For some reason, I feel like Dana is played like what if she could be Steven Matheson's daughter? But then it's been explicitly said that Harper and Dana suffered from neglect due to their parents' drug issues. Steven Matheson would never touch drugs.

I cried when I watched the episodes around Tug's car crash in early 1994 because I watched it barely 6 months after Dieter Brummer died and Shane was the first to realise that something serious was happening with Tug.

Somehow, the highest-rating love interest for Bobby is Alan.

Either way, he was still on the show for a while after leaving the force.

Angelo Rosetta.

I was under the impression that Peta was in year 11 in 2000 too? I can't remember if it was mentioned when she and Edward were planning to leave school and Judith wasn't happy about it because it would affect Peta's future post-Edward's death as well. Definitely Kimberley was 3 years older (and then Aleetza Wood and Cameron Welsh 5 and 6 years older respectively), but then Zac was only 3 months older than Ryan and 6 months older than Bec but seemed older. It also always shocks me that Stephen James King was younger than all of them (a few weeks younger than Bec).

What about Maggie as a school principal?

Alan is a definite highlight of 1988.

Is it just me or is the singer of the theme tune no longer credited? I haven't been able to spot a name.