Dan F

They were next to an SOS phone, though not sure how common those are on country backroads... Probably installed it due to the all the Summer Bay residents that end up in accidents/explosions/breakdowns on that same road (no wonder I was required to wear hi-viz when I walked it last year!)

Well given they were heading "upstairs" when Gary's house is a bungalow, it was probably a roof-top performance. He and Ailsa were foster parents in the 90s. Though, from memory, I think out of all the kids they took in over the years (Blake, Karen, Aaron etc.), Curtis was the only one who was officially 'fostered'

Despite what's been claimed, they've always been provided alongside the episodes for C5 to use if they wish (though they'd have to edit them on themselves). They just chose not to until now. They were actually the sixth set used at Oz pace - at this point, Sonny is the latest addition and there's three versions on rotation with the different theme songs.

They did so for the first time just after Theo won that race, they sneaked away to one of the garages whilst Gage was busy collecting the winnings.

Sorry I meant the show's publicity did a picture for it, not Phil and Maz. Nothing famous about it. Here's a tiny copy of it that we have on our old BMD listings

No it was off-screen, though they did do a publicity photo for it

We also saw Sophie (Simpson) give birth twice, eleven years apart, though she was a guestie during the second.

31st March

I'm guessing H&Alover is referring to when John first found out Irene was drinking again - she was crying over the broken bottle at the bottom of the stairs.

Irene left for rehab on the same day that Flick later collapsed (though it was an episode apart for us).

Though they did randomly treat Aussie viewers to the new international closing credits for the season finale.

Yes it's the 5Star ep that drops, as it does now. To put it simply, everything is exactly the same, only the episode will be added at 6am on demand, rather than 6:30pm. The episode uploaded on a Monday (which is still labelled as Tuesday in line with the C5 airings) ends in 2 or 7.

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

Onto the 2025 season we go, and as per the norm of the past few years we begin 8 weeks behind Australian airings. A reminder that the thread runs at the (proper) Channel 5 pace, so anyone watching a day early on 5Star, or via 5's on-demand offering, should take that into account and not post any spoilers.

Yep you're correct with the line-up (none from 99-08), though there was also Alf's very first store which was a sort of bait shop/boat repair/bottle shop cross before he teamed up with Celia. I recently wrote the history out for an Oz pace news story, which will no doubt make it's way into a UK pace one soon enough