H&A Spring Break - From the Bay to LA

[Dan F]

How long was Colleen back in 1997 for?.

Just the one episode

[j.laur5]

Thanks Dan F

It seems a bit pointless to bring back an old recurring character from 1988-1989 for just one episode!.

[CaptainHulk]

Back to Tiegan, yep. Around 11:20 in that episode when she leaves the table for school, Her drawers/shorts are just about visible.

[home and away 1988-2000]

I've started compiling a list of the UK dates, I'll put some up later and see if anyone can fill in any blanks for me, I do know that 1250 was broadcast on Christmas day 1993.

[H&Alover]

Another year gone (it shows the episode was from 1996 in the credits) so Shane and Michael have both died and Marilyn has married Don. The spare bedroom has appeared at the Beach House and Irene now has red hair, that short style really suited her.

In those years I always thought Jessie looked a lot like Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet with that hair and grin.

I liked Teigan, another troubled kid who got herself sorted and lovely to see Joey again. How had Tiegan managed to submit any homework if she wasn't able to read?

[CaptainHulk]

Another year gone (it shows the episode was from 1996 in the credits)

Filmed in 1996, broadcast 1997 (I mentioned earlier that that production cycle was one of the longest)

[Dan F]

Well the first 1997 episode hasn't seen the bizarre edit to the end credits that was on a few of the 1997-1999 ones last time around, which Channel 5 claimed was "how they received them" - so it'll be interesting to see if the next few eps remain untouched too.

Spoke too soon, the edit was back in today's ep. It was clearly just to remove the ©1997 from the final shot.

I cannot fathom any reason why they (the distributors presumably) would do it, it's present on other years of the show and was clumsily added back in during the last repeats from that era anyway....

[c120701]

Another year gone (it shows the episode was from 1996 in the credits) so Shane and Michael have both died and Marilyn has married Don. The spare bedroom has appeared at the Beach House and Irene now has red hair, that short style really suited her.

In those years I always thought Jessie looked a lot like Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet with that hair and grin.

I liked Teigan, another troubled kid who got herself sorted and lovely to see Joey again. How had Tiegan managed to submit any homework if she wasn't able to read?

It wasn't actually an extra bedroom as they had 3 upstairs, 1 down and then they changed it to 2 up, 2 down. Now it's 2 up, 1 down.

I actually remember today's episode really clearly. Has it been repeated on Channel 5 before?

[Blaxland 89]

Enjoyed the last Shannon episode. I really liked late 1997. Very character based time of the show. Funny to see Shannon vanish like that in the ending credits and Selina looking around

[c120701]

It was great to see a Caravan Park farewell again, hopefully they'll be something we see again now it's back.