Dan F

Episode 1086

Well I think it's because of copyright rules-that's why. They must be told to stop showing H&A episodes. That maybe the reason, thanks but what I find odd is that Neighbours has also suddenly stopped being shown on their youtube channel It's all their full length shows that they've removed from Youtube - as I said in my previous reply, it has nothing to do with copyright as they ran the Youtube channels themselves.

That one is 'Another Me' by Nick Barker & The Reptiles

Well I think it's because of copyright rules-that's why. They must be told to stop showing H&A episodes. It's not to do with copyright as they had an official partnership with Youtube. I expect that the agreement to show long-form programmes has just come to an end and Channel 5 want people to use their own website, rather then having to share revenue with Youtube. Channel 4 also did the same thing at the beginning of the year. Ultimately only they can answer that though. Yes that's pretty much it, Corey's father died in prison and he wanted revenge on the people who put him there - http://www.backtothebay.net/characters/henderson_corey.shtml

Do you happen to know any of any specific episodes where it appeared...? Long shot I know! If this is what I think it is, then it is heard in episode 915 after the recap finishes. Cheers, did manage to find it in another episode and FINALLY managed to decipher it after taking it into some audio editing software. Helvelln - Cruelest Plague And both scenes I used just happened to feature Lucinda....

Since they forgot that it was the school hall named after him, not the library I'm not sure when/if it was mentioned on screen, but the first I heard of it was when they started using the new exterior location for the school last year and had signs put up for the Stewart Hall and Donald Fisher Library. Though if you ask anyone, they'll just be able to say they were 'renamed following the rebuild' to cover the mistake anyway.

Do you happen to know any of any specific episodes where it appeared...? Long shot I know!

Split Enz - Message to My Girl

Irene works part time at both the Diner and the store for a long time. Around late 95 she stops working at the store though there is no mention of this onscreen. Presumably to do with Ailsa's storyline and so Irene was needed more at the Diner. Not sure if it was around that storyline. From memory she just stops appearing at the store like the writers forgot she worked there. Unless my memory is wrong. Perhaps DanF could shed some light? Not offhand I'm afraid, it's got me thinking though.

We're clueless as well, there wasn't anything particularly exciting in the episode that day. Before then I believe the busiest day was the stalker reveal in 2005.

It's all about the money - viewing figures are lower in August during our school summer holidays, so instead of taking a two-month break over Christmas (like Oz), they split it up into two one-month breaks and have one of them at a more financially viable period.

Yes the Christmas break is when they have the season finale - that episode airs in the UK this coming Friday.

Break in Aus? They had their annual break over Christmas which lasted from 27th November to 27th January, shouldn't be another one now until November.

What happened to the thread i started? Moved to here, as a whole new thread in the Character discussion forum isn't appropriate for one small question.

It's something I've just tried tinkering with but still not much joy, it was set to only show posts from the past year which I've now extended, but it's still only coming up with the latest 1000. Can't seem to get back any further at the moment but will try looking into it more.

I've got Maz's date of birth noted down as 25th March 1969, though I imagine they've given various inconsistent dates over the years.

Good to see you Liz! Golden Oldies was just for those of us with over 1000 posts if I remember rightly, in the end we just merged it into the General Chat thread. You should take a look at the early pages in that thread, just search for the above mentioned question.... or even the trifle making evening for a damn good chuckle The less said about that obsessive person at the hotel the better....and the Pizza Hut incident come to that....and the trouser incident....and him telling 'Thor' to take a long walk off a short cliff.... rest of the evening was amazing though Those long MSN and GC chats were certainly a source of sanity(??!) during some rather long hours of essay writing and rendering films for Uni!

Yup that's the logo we're talking about, if you follow my instructions it should refresh with the newer one visible. As mentioned in the first post, the forum went online in 2003 with the name AussieSoap, which later became Everysoap. The main BacktotheBay site was launched in January 2004, with the forum being relaunched under the BTTB name in September 2004 (with all existing members moved over to the new one).

Must still be in your internet cache, try a hard refresh by pressing CTRL+F5. It's been the 10 year one since the 14th.

There was a brief time around early 2005(?) when there were some problems with the hosting company and being able to get the BTTB domain renewed, (can't remember the finer details though I'm sure Chris would) which led to a vote on a new name for the site - thesurfclub.net was the winner. Whilst the domain was purchased, I think it was all sorted out in the end before a switch had to be made - though I know the forum was temporarily hosted there at one point. The forum was also on the domain 'catchsomesun.org' for a while in 2005 too. The 2005 stalker reveal remained one of the busiest forum days for many years, can't seem to find the stats to show what it is now, but I do remember it being overtaken on a rather random day where not much of note happened.

Who would that be then? After taking a trip down the memory lane sewers that was early GC, I was reminded of the fact that one of the very first things I did as a proper Admin was change your username - which in turn started off about half a dozen of the oldies. Over 8 years since Agentsassyj left the building

Yes it's Noah, the stills were from one of Seven's ad campaigns in late 2003, you can see the full version of the banner in the article (which I very nearly set as the forum banner temporarily to mark the occasion). I'm sure one of our golden oldies appreciated seeing him on our frontpage again after all these years

Thanks everyone for your stories so far (and for the appreciation!), great to read them!

Well, it’s hard to believe but as of today, 14th January 2014, ‘Back to the Bay’ is 10 years old! There’s an article on the main site detailing some of the history of the site, as well as some pics of days gone by, but I thought I’d give a personal perspective in this thread. Whilst it’s a bit of an old cringeworthy cliché to say it’s been a “life changing experience”, my own involvement with the site has certainly had a huge effect on mine. In 2003 I came across Jeremai’s ‘Home and Away Source’ website, it stood out as one of only a couple of sites that actually provided original content rather than copying and pasting stuff from the official site (the latter of which is a practice that still continues to this day sadly!). As I’d spent a week in Los Angeles with a few H&A cast members a year earlier, I contacted him to see if he’d be interested in some pics and a report of the trip. Jeremai’s H&A site merged with Chris’ existing Aussiesoap site & forum in September 2003. The forum later turned into EverySoap, which as the name suggested had a subforum for soaps from the UK, Oz and also the US. The main BacktotheBay site was created on 14th January 2004 alongside a long-gone Neighbours site. The Everysoap forum continued until September 2004 when that was finally rebranded as BTTB, with all accounts and H&A related forums moved over. Whilst it’s quite a struggle remembering the forum that far back, I do remember a rather bizarre Games Arcade built into the board software which got rather competitive. I’d only got around to re-registering to the Everysoap forum on 12th January 2004, and I slowly got involved in helping out with features for BTTB, alongside Ryan. In June 2004, a day I remember due to it being the day of my college graduation ball, we were both asked to join the staff - Ryan as a Contributor and myself as a Moderator. Only a couple of months later I made my first month long trip to Palm Beach, and from that came our very first location photographs, alongside a small behind-the-scenes feature and video. 2005 brought about another interesting year with having the pleasure of conducting two phone interviews with former cast members - one of whom kindly invited me along to the H&A cast party in London’s Leicester Square, and who remains a mate to this very day. At Christmas 2005 after a couple of ‘guest stints’ whilst Chris was away, I was made an Admin permanently. In 2007 I headed back to Palm Beach for a longer stay and spent 6 weeks stalking a very welcoming H&A crew, and travelling around NSW taking hundreds of location photos (a task now undertaken by QA until my return!). Whilst some other planned activities never came to fruition due to internal politics at Seven, I did have the pleasure of meeting with Bevan Lee and discussing some of the outstanding storylines that were going to feature in H&A’s 20th year, as well as receiving genuine gratitude for all the support that both BTTB and its members had provided the show with. The previous year we had also run a story on behalf of North Palm Beach Surf Lifesaving Club advertising their upcoming open day, after which they were able to increase their number of members by over 70%. As a result, on my arrival in Palm Beach I was graciously given a bag full of merchandise and an honorary membership to the club. The Surf Club were also kind enough to donate more goodies for our Scriptwriting Competitions in the years following. The competitions were head-judged by former H&A Script Producer Coral Drouyn, who had herself been an active member of the forum in previous years. In its final year, the competition was held in honour of one of our forum moderators Frankie (also chief whip of the previous competitions), who had passed away six months earlier. The past few years we've concentrated on trying to build up BTTB as a one stop reference site for the show, something which I hope will continue long into the future. I know updates have been a bit far and few between in recent months, but I've had plans for some major revamps for some time now - I'm just lacking the technical ability so have to wait until Chris is available to help. I know I’m not the only one for who the forum has had a big effect - whilst I won’t name names I know there’s been friendships formed; fledgling writers at the start of their careers testing the water in the Fanfiction forum & scriptwriting competitions; discussions on the forum that have later manifested themselves into the show; and even a bit of real life romance between members! Sadly we did lose the first year of posts after a forum crash in early 2005 and a few other glitches, with some gems such as the first ‘BTTB Big Brother’ and an infamous discussion about cabbages being forever lost. Our last statistical milestone came in July 2012 when we reached both 900,000 posts and 19,000 members on the same day. So once again, a big thanks to all the staff who have contributed to BTTB over the past decade (which are listed on the main site but also copied in below), and most of all to all the members who have helped create such a thriving H&A community! Thousands have come and gone, but there are still a small amount of people who have been with us since the first years of BTTB’s existence – so an extra thanks to you ‘Golden Oldies’ (remember that back in the day?) for sticking around! Administrators Chris Jenkins, Dan Foster Forum Moderators Dean, -Karen-, Nick (Foxy), Jen, John (john003au) and Meredith (Mez83) Contributors Barbara, Red Ranger 1 and Ryan Librarian Quiet Achiever Former BTTB staff members: Anaya, Andy, Bttb-rox!, Cal, Cat, Cerise, Claire, Edward Skylover, Eli, Emmasi, Frankie, Jackieleanne, JameyMaria, Jeremai, JosieTash, -Kirst-, Lisa P, Liz, MarMar, Melmarshall858, Nicom, NuttyNeighbour, Scandal-01, Si-Co, Skykat, Theresa and Valli. Please feel free to share with us any of your own memories from over the years, whether you're a long term member or a relatively new one!

There's a large number of guest character profiles from various eras being uploaded at the moment over on the site, with today's update including a pre-Ricky Bonnie Sveen. A big thanks to RR1 once again who's written the majority of these ones - I've quite a backlog to get through You can see the full list of updates so far here