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I also note The Walkers weren't credited eiither.

The latest quiz has been launched and two character profiles have been added.

Yeah, it inculdes both Pippa. Pippa was on the show for 10 years and 3 months, Leah near enough the same, but the seasons have dropped a few weeks here and there in recent seasons.

Pippa's original stint was 2344 episodes long. Inclusinf today, Leah has been around 2308 episodes, so I guess mid-August she'll overtake Pippa.

In that case it is was a rather strange thing to say in the argument I was talking about. Her two proudest moments were "having Alan" and "leaving Donald".

The funeral episodes are certainly better. I think you could say that Alan's death was the total polar opposite of what the show now. No pointless cliffhangers, perhaps the even more poignant image of the empty to hospital bed. I do agree about it being a great week however.

Dan, don't give any spoilers away, I want the storylines to be a surprise 2016! Strange week, but I did enjoy the return of Lynn and Alan's death, well I can't exactly say it was a surprise, but I also found it slightly underwhelming. I guess because I've picked up bits of these episodes up here and there, I kind of knew it was coming.

She also seemed, em, glammed up. Obviously her family had been showering her with more flashy clothes than the Fletcher's

http://www.backtothebay.net/episodes/1988/159.php She appears in the next episode as well.

Talking of that family, Rebecca still seems slightly ambiguous as to whether or not she actually exists at the moment. She certainly wasn't created in Episode 7 when Roo says that she is Celia's only niece, but in 98 Barbara mentions "They are both fine" when speaking to Donald. However in an episode in the past few weeks she said her proudest moments were the birth of Alan and the other was leaving Donald. Seems a slightly strange to mention one of your children and not the other.

Also wondering, taking into accounts the frequently retrotted Ray Meagher story of a slow news day of he only signed on for six months, whether Fiona Spence and Judy Nunn, probably the two highest profile actors in the series at the moment have alternative work at this point, which accounts for their departures for a short period of time.

The mobile home was demolished in 2003. I don't know if this was because in real life, it had burnt down.

Cheers for that and clearing up the body question It's interesting to see it like that now. I know the pier etc have been used alot over the years but it's kinda nice that theres now a shop/diner etc so close to that original one! Am I right in thinking Bobby and Ailsa opened the Bayside diner because the old store burned down or was it already in existence? It was such an early epsiode I can't recall lol I remember the fire and obviously the diner being open but not if it was already there. Don't know if you're watching the Early Years episodes, but just so I don't give too much away. I don't know I've just been fooled by special effects, but I always got the impression that they actually do burn down the building in real life, like it was condemmed or something.

I think the change in Roo comes pretty soon doesn't it. These last few episodes have been brilliant, Fletcher's have become fairly marginalised I feel though.

Maybe they wanted us to think she was coming back. Technically she does come back, maybe she is removed after that.

Also I notice Lynn and Matt still hang around the credits, 145 is 18 episodes after she "left".

Anyone notice the continuity error in Episode 142. The girl who plays the pinball machine puts her bag outside the door before walking in. Yet, when Ailsa throws them out she walks out the shop with it over her shoulder.

In the first post, the one that's displaying normally, in the top right hand corner of that post there's a box called options. Click that and then click from the menu that appears "Switch to Standard"

http://www.backtothebay.net/features/8-10-...t-popular.shtml Next MPC 2010 added. Pretty small update, but it's just to make the numbers fall nicely.

Using my main script document, the earliest use of Sydney is 1991, spoken by Cynthia Ross.

Yeah, I can't Alf and Ailsa lasting together!

http://www.backtothebay.net/features/6-7-p...popular-c.shtml Those characters that scored 6 and 7 points have now been uploaded, whilst Dan has uploaded todays episode summary for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. APOLOGIES to anyone who clicked on the earlier link, had just posted it on another forums Bizarre News thread.

There's a scene during the Dodge storyline where he hands it in spell-checked, albeit perfect American instead of Australian English and Fisher says. Shows how certain things have changed twenty years on.

I think you're right, and IIRC at the same time Ailsa went back to her childhood home, her neighbour mentioned "Ailsa Hogan", which was Ailsa's name after she left prison. Like in 2008, it was nice that they were intertwining the history of the show in with the present, it's just a shame that they occasionally made a few errors.