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[Bobby Forever Missed]

 

14 minutes ago, cymbaline said:

You could say the same about several couples in that era. Pippa and Michael is another older couple who had tied the knot within months of meeting. Though strangely, that seemed to make sense (chemistry between the actors?) whereas Alf and Ailsa's union didn't. I was surprised by that when I re-watched that first season. I remembered them as a solid couple with a "married for years" feel to them. Does anybody know how long they had been seeing each other before H&A started? It didn't seem to be a relationship that was going anywhere, until it was. 

I personally don’t know if Ray and Judy were in a show together before H&A but they could have been 

Edited January 21, 2023 by Bobby Forever Missed

[cymbaline]

It wouldn't surprise me if they had, knowing how small the Australian acting industry is. But even if they did, or were friends off-screen, it doesn't change my feelings on early Alf & Ailsa. Maybe it was the writing. The early months of the show are very uneven and it took a while for things to settle down. 

[Red Ranger 1]

23 hours ago, cymbaline said:

Alf and Ailsa's union didn't. I was surprised by that when I re-watched that first season. I remembered them as a solid couple with a "married for years" feel to them. Does anybody know how long they had been seeing each other before H&A started? It didn't seem to be a relationship that was going anywhere, until it was. 

I think it was still meant to be a pretty new relationship when the show started, to the point that Roo wasn't really aware of it.

[Herx]

Ailsa moved to Summer Bay less than a year before the pilot episode events. At first she briefly had something with Fisher. I'd say they probably were together only for a few months before the show started.

[Bobby Forever Missed]

2 hours ago, Herx said:

Ailsa moved to Summer Bay less than a year before the pilot episode events. At first she briefly had something with Fisher. I'd say they probably were together only for a few months before the show started.

I thought it was years before the pilot episode the implication was always that Ailsa was there when Bobby was a younger teen

[CaptainHulk]

On 21/01/2023 at 17:46, cymbaline said:

You could say the same about several couples in that era. Pippa and Michael is another older couple who had tied the knot within months of meeting. Though strangely, that seemed to make sense (chemistry between the actors?) whereas Alf and Ailsa's union didn't. I was surprised by that when I re-watched that first season. I remembered them as a solid couple with a "married for years" feel to them. Does anybody know how long they had been seeing each other before H&A started? It didn't seem to be a relationship that was going anywhere, until it was. 

I see Pippa and Michael as a roll dice that worked. I think Dennis wanted Debra more to start with (You can see it in his early performances) , I think they got involved a few months into Dennis' run.

[cymbaline]

22 hours ago, Bobby Forever Missed said:

I thought it was years before the pilot episode the implication was always that Ailsa was there when Bobby was a younger teen

I'd have to re-watch the old episodes to check but I got the impression Ailsa had been living in the area for a few years as well. I think a year would've been too quick for her to get settled in and get to know the locals, date Donald, then Alf. Bobby was a prickly thing so it would've taken time for her to build a rapport with her. It's hard to know how long she was going out with Alf but I don't think it was a new relationship. It was one that was going nowhere in particular, with Alf just taking her to the pub and keeping Roo out of the picture. 

[Red Ranger 1]

I don't know, I think the impression was that Ailsa was still a newcomer in town and the locals didn't know much about her.Bobby bonded with the Fletchers in a relatively short space of time so I don't think we need to assume Ailsa must have known her for years for them to be close.

[cymbaline]

Ailsa was harbouring her dark secret which would've made her cautious about getting too close to the locals. She had also managed to get close enough to Donald Fisher to go out with him for a little while. Who knows? It's fun to speculate 

[Old H&A Fan]

In Episode 145, remember when Brett was having his cocktail party at Alf & Alsa's house to showcase the proposed Macklin property development for Summer Bay, and Martin went to the cocktail party with Norelle and Bobby, in Lance's lovely $100,000 set of wheels. The car, all $100,000 worth, was stolen from outside the house. Sadly, we'll never know who stole it, and the joyrider will never get caught, and we know Lance didn't get it insured, Martin his "financial manager" "didn't get around" to getting the car insured.

Anyway. My question is: why did Martin leave the keys in the ignition? Why did Martin sneak into the cocktail party?