Dan F

Can confirm that there was never any mention in 1999 of Pippa marrying Ian, despite the longstanding claim that Sal went to their wedding...

That was it It was one of these little cameo things as she's a real life 'influencer' in Oz (scroll to the bottom, no spoilers in link now) - https://www.backtothebay.net/news/2024/04/06/home-and-away-spoilers-felicity-catches-out-mackenzie-and-levi/

Latest gauge of distance we had was "a 10 minute drive" - which is yet another decrease on the 20mins mentioned a few years ago. Though we're at the point where any character that works in Yabbie Creek is constantly getting their coffees from the diner, or talking and walking through the bay on their short breaks, anyway. Rose recently admitted that she was on her third coffee from the diner in one particular shift. Because there's nowhere in the much bigger Yabbie Creek to take a walk or grab a drink...

It was mentioned in the ep - she tried to steal a handbag for a prank video

Though H&A did have a Derek hanging around for 7 years! https://www.backtothebay.net/characters/derek-young/

Technically he said "It's been a while since you called me" which is a bit more ambiguous

No conspiracy behind it due to the nature of their departures, it's just because they're awaiting profiles (and we've not got around to adding pics yet). I believe there's five in total, with Grant, Simon and Haydn being the others. It was decided to add placeholders for those remaining regular characters into the section not too long ago for logistical reasons, as we need all regulars available for selection in the database as we fill out our episode cast lists.

Well I’d quite like to see more of Dean’s old acquaintance Jo…

You say that like it's a bad thing...? JP's one-man-show would be quite entertaining I think!

That time of the year again, as we kick off the show's 37th season on UK screens. Usual spiel applies - this thread runs at Channel 5 pace so please be mindful of that in regards to spoilers, particularly if you've caught the first look episode on 5Star. As with last year, we start the season exactly 8 weeks behind the Australian airings.

No-one should step out of their house full stop towards the end of November in Oz (though I imagine some Final Destination Rude Goldberg type stuff would still go down even if they barred the windows).

If Stevo was still around, we'd probably end up having Dodge's psycho offspring turning up for revenge, it transpiring that Vicki Lisa had been pregnant when he disappeared.

I've had that song stuck in my head all evening with absolutely no idea why (particularly when I've been watching this week's Corrie and it doesn't really apply to Crawshaw)...then I come on here and find that...

It's even more of a headache in modern day eps - you can see the kiosk on the outside of the surf club, and they've even utilised it in scenes, yet there's no sign of it on the interior set Yes the main interiors were all sets. There were the odd occasions of course where they did use a real interior - the school hall early on with the assemblies/gym classes and the concrete stairwell for example, and when Roxy went to the hospital for her breast clinic appointment. If it's not obvious from being able to see out of the windows, you can usually tell with the different lighting and acoustics