Fisher Fan

Aww nice too see Norman Coburn is still going, almost 80 now and he still looks well, An H&A appearance looks highly doubtful and in honesty this may sound terrible as Don fisher was my favourite character but id like to remember him in the original good days of home and away when it was more gentle orientated (even if it is dated now) not the tripe that's going on now, I don't even think the writers even know the don fisher character what with all this repetitive storyline mumbo jumbo going on at the moment.

They Could Do Recasts But That's Just Messy And Doesn't Always Work I mean Look At Neighbours They Did That A lot And It Just Looked Stupid Most The Time Especially Libby Kennedy In Two Weeks She Changed lol I Guess The Roo Recast Worked As Of Course She Went Away And Aged Like In Real Life So It did Work. I Must Admit I Stopped Watching H&A Around 2004 And Started Watching Again , I Don't Think It's Been The Same Since Early 2001 Now With Donald Fisher , Sally Fletcher, Bobby Simpson And The Likes Gone It's A lot Worse Off. Although It's Good To See An Original Like Alf, You Could Argue Irene, Marilyn And Leah Being Originals Or At least The Old School Cast But Even Alf Stewart Is Out Of Place Now Just Like Lou Carpenter In Neighbours Years Ago You Couldn't Imagine Neighbours Without Harold And Lou ...Or Home And Away Without Donald Fisher Or Alf Stewart. Now It's A Miracle Alf Or Lou In Neighbours Getting 2 Scenes Per Episode Or Even Per Week Now Days Still That's Soap land. P.S ....I Am From Norfolk, England So I Know Our UK Version Is Like Way Behind The Australian Broadcasts

This Is In No Way In Bad Reference To Lynne McGranger's Acting But I'm Just Not Buying This New Storyline With Irene Having This Sexual Abuse Bottled Up For How Many Years???. I have Watched H&A On And Off "Mostly The Old school H&A" For Years And The Last Character You Would Expect Something Like This Would Be Irene I Have Even Gone As Far As To Watch The Old H&A Episodes On YouTube , Metacalf Etc. Purely With Irene Scenes And None Even Attempt To Show That This Character Had Such A Dark Secret Of Abuse Of Any kind Or Even A Bad Upbringing Infact I Found One Episode In 1994 That Suggested She Was Very Close To An Uncle And His Kids (Her Cousins) And Went To A Ranch And Had The Time Of Their Lives Basically Saying She Had A Great Childhood And Teens. Surely That Would Haunt, Bring Her To tears Or Tremors If This Storyline Had Any Background To It , Sorry But The H&A Directors/Writers Haven't Done Their Homework With This, A Very Lazy Storyline In My View That Being Said I Do Like Irene And As One Of The Old School Characters I Hope They Bury This Storyline Very Soon And Save Some Embarrassment For Viewers.

Yaay Finally!! I Couldn't Believe Don Fisher Was mentioned Today On An Episode Of Home And Away ...Must Be A First Since We Last Saw Him In 2007, Although I Be Honest I Hardly Watched It Since Then But I Watched The Episode Today (26/Nov/2015 - Channel 5) It Was When Marilyn Who's Lost Her Recent memories Of Marriage To Jon Goes Round To Their House With Irene, Prior To That Tells Irene She Only Remembers Someone( I Couldn't Remember Her Previous Husband) And Mentions Don Fisher, A Twinkle In My Eye Lit Up Almost lol Wow Finally His Been Mentioned At Last. I think A Don Fisher Return Seems So Far Fetched Now Even His name Being mentioned Is A Bonus Owell I Can Hope Whoop Whoop lol.

Well Like I Say I Would Love To See Norman Coburn As Don Fisher Return But I Don't Think He Would, It's Been Almost A Decade Since He Last Appeared, And The Old Style Home And Away Was A lot Softer And more Joyful When He Was In His Prime Time On The Show. It Would Be Interesting To See How He'd Fit In The Show Now Though. Age Doesn't Necessarily Stop Some Actors You Are Right There Are Old Actors Especially When You look At Last Of The Summer Wine And On The Buses Where Most The Actors We're Between 69 and 90, Peter Sallis Was 88 When He Finally Retired And Peter Falk Was Still Doing Columbo Movies Aged 81 So It's Not Impossible Just Because Of his Age. Have You Also noticed No Other originals Have Returned With The Exception Of Sally Returning For the 25th Anniversary But I Would like To See Pippa , Sally, Travis, Shannon, Angel, Bobby, Ailsa And Fisher. Between The Pilot 1988 Until 2002 We're The Best I Would Say. Btw Have You Seen The Episode Of Don Fisher Getting Drunk And Dancing At Christmas It's On YouTube Episode 1835 - MERRY CHRISTMAS - It's One Of the best Episodes Of Don I've Seen And it's Rare Seeing Don Take The Formal Style And Put It On the Back burner And let His hair Down lol

I Can't Remember Much Of Home And Away In 2008 As I Started To tire From It By This Time, I Would Say Home And Away Lost It's Appeal Since 2005. I Still Wish They Kept at least The 1995 - 2000 Home And Away them Tune, Baring In Mind In 1996 They Swapped the singers round And Shortened the Song by A Few Seconds But It Was Still A Classy Unforgettable Song And It Suited the Show.

I'm Sure Most On the Set Of Home And Away Would Know Of Don Fisher, Especially The Originals Like Alf, Marilyn And Irene Who Are Still On The Show, If I'm Honest I hardly Watch The new Series Now I Kind of Stopped Watching Home And Away Since 08 I Do Occasionally Out Of Curiosity Take A Peek What Is Going On In The Show But I Just Wonder Whether Some Of The New Younger Cast Members And Even New Directors Would Remember Him They Should Tbh Considering He Was Part Of The Show For 16 Years, Remember It's Been At least Almost 9 Years Since His Last Appearance In 2007.....(12 If You take In Account Him Leaving As A Full Time Character) As I Wrote It Would Be Awesome To See Him Back Even For One Show As I Doubt He Would Return For Anything Longer And It Was Sad How He Departed In 2007, They Really Dropped The Bomb On Fisher Then, Infact I Just Felt Sorry For Fisher Who I Remember As A Formal , Well Suited , Intelligent Man And Here he Was Looking Frail , bankrupted And Barely Capable Of Buying A Meal In The Diner If only He Left On A Much lighter Note Like In 2003 When he Embraced With Sally And Had That Dream Sequence Of Him in the Pilot Episode Scaring Her lol. Anyway I Read You Watch Old Episodes Of H&A Too......I Wonder If You Prefer The Old H&A Too It Was much More Fun Then And Wasn't as Dark As It Is Now You Used to Have So Much laughs With The Show , Even The First Two Theme Tunes We're classics.

Donald Fisher: Played By Norman Coburn (1988 - 2003) Guest Appearances in 2004/2005 and Then 2007 Where His Last ever appearance Was episode 4502 YouTube As Much As I'd Love For Don Fisher To Return To Summer Bay I Doubt This Will Happen Now, Keeping In Mind Fisher (Norman Coburn) Hasn't Been On H&A Since His Last ever Appearance Back In 2007 Even Then He Was Getting On In His Age, Norman Coburn Is Now 78 So I Would Think His Either Fully Retired Or Working Very Minor Occasions And I'm Doubtful H&A Directors/Producers Have Or Will Approached Norman For A Guest Stint In Summer Bay, Especially If Their New Breeds As They May Not Remember The Character And I'm Pretty Sure Norman Would Pass It All Now And Fair Play To Him. It's Always Cool To See "The Old School" Characters Return Now And Then Although I Feel As Much As I Loved Fisher He Might Be Out Of Place Now In The Show What With Loads more Young Characters, The Braxton Regime and Just The Pure Cinematic Look To The Show Compared to It In The 90s Growing Up Watching It, Even Alf Stewart Is Barely Getting Main Priority In The Show Now And Looks Most The Time In The Background. Home And Away Was A lot Better Back Then In My Opinion And I Still Occasionally Watch The Old H&A On YouTube And Don Fisher Had Some Up And Down Storylines He Must Be One Of The Unluckiest People In The Show What With Loosing Almost All his Kids Alan(Deceased), Bobby(Deceased), Rebecca (Deceased), He Took On To Foster Shane(Deceased) Angel And Sam Who Both Later Left Summer Bay Sometime In The Late 90s. Two failed Marriages To Marilyn And Jane And As Far As I Know Don fisher Has probably Taken the Most Punches than Any Other Character In Home And Away I've Watched At least Four Episodes Where Poor Don Is On The End Of A Fist One I Remember Watching As A Kid When Alf Knocked Him Down In the School Of All things With Kids Watching On Crikey Only In Soapland lol.