Dan F

You're right, It did get some mentions in the late 90s, I know they wanted to buy out Travis's whalewatching business at one point. Though offhand I don't think it was actually seen again until 2003, at the time of Dani's trial. Then again quite prominently from 2007 (pre-Sam & Jack's wedding, then later Kirsty working there) through to around 2010 with the whole Penn thing. Our filming location pages are quite useful in that regard: The Sands Resort (1989-91, 2007) The Sands Resort (2003) The Sands Resort (2007 onwards)

Indeed, it's part of the former Callan Park Hospital estate. Though unless we're talking about a different time, it wasn't the place used for Justin's sessions in 2023 as they were up at Scheyville. I'm not recalling the Kirkbride building being seen on the show before offhand, though just as a matter of interest the care home that Irene was admitted to in 2005 was also on the same complex.

Always been there at the existing location, but seldom (if ever) used before now. Given it's at the bottom of the garden at right angles to the house, you'd be forgiven for thinking it belonged to the house next door at first glance.

For those that haven't already seen it, those that placed 21-39... https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/21-39/

And now into the top 50.... https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/40-60/

We're actually all good for summaries in recent years, just need to get them uploaded. Thanks though and will bear it in mind in the future.

Those that placed 61-79 https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/61-79/

Characters that placed 80-99 https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/80-99/

Forgot to post in here yesterday, but all characters that placed at 100 and lower are now up https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/mpc2024-index/ Given it was the same person who voted for both Peter and Lorraine, who has been a regular poster in the Early Years threads, I think we're safe to assume it was written correctly

Thanks for the heads up, bit of a glitch with categories but Chris has now fixed

All the characters that scored 3 points... https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/147-166/

And we’re live, with all those that scored 1-2 points… https://www.backtothebay.net/features/most-popular-character-2024/mpc2024-index/ Big thanks to @Red Ranger 1 as ever for providing another excellent commentary

We're aiming to start on 8th December.

We counted Buddy.

Though as explained to you last time around—and also pointed out in both the initial post in here and the page on the main site—it's not about who you find most interesting out of the current characters It's supposed to be your favourite characters over the entire history of the show, or for however long you've watched. So your Blind Freddy vote (which we obviously didn't count) could have gone to Billie or someone else you preferred.

Voting has obviously closed now, with over 1900 votes submitted covering nearly 200 characters - results will come in December for anyone interested.

The info alluded to above was given to us direct from Bevan Lee to include in our Martha and Merv profiles: https://www.backtothebay.net/characters/baldivis_mervin/

As per our location page, the council gave word that they planned to demolish in September 1988, whereas Celia took over on-screen in October 1988 - the delay between filming and TX at that point was around two months, so they probably wouldn't have known when scripting it.

Tane did used to live there (since 2020), but had moved out to the farmhouse back in January after the split from Flick.

I wouldn't say that - this is what was going on the previous time I was there