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A handful of character profiles and a few titbits about the Early Years added today.

Two Walkers get a character profile today, Sid and Indigo.

Given Neighbours attempt at an Irish character, we should perhaps be glad.

To me an original character is the first group of full-time actors that they have when they launch show and when they released the show to the press, Fiona Spence and Justine Clarke were part of this, in the same way I wouldn't include Bob, as I would say he's merely a guest that appears in a few early episodes.

Celia and Roo were original characters even though they don't appear for a few days.

I've got a few fancards, though not really something I collect. I certainly look at some of the figures on Ebay which seem absolutely absurd.

Wasn't it a bizare return (probably been about 5/6 years since I saw the episodes), in that it's one when she appeared to have only filmed one day with one or two people, and has scenes with no one else. I remember someone saying Tammin Sursok left very early compared to when her characters does and if you watch, the great deal of her scenes are with guests or a few characters during her departure storyline.

It's 1997 and most of the information is given in the Scott Irwin biography. Basically, it's not much more than a one night stand after a night partying, but he hadn't been getting close to Sally, mainly for reasons other than Sally.

Indeed, with Roo returning last year, albeit played by a different actress, I think that leaves just Neville as the only character of the originals who never returned. (I don't know if you count Lynn as someone who returned as a guest star whilst still on the credits or someone who doesn't appear for 6 weeks whilst on the credits) EDIT: Forgot Sally.

In the Frank Morgan Story book that was released in the 80's (so probably not strictly canon), Frank's parents names are given as Les and Helena, Helena's maiden name Niarchos, with her parents being Spiro and Maria, thus that's where the Greek came from. However, I'd say there's also probably a chance that they wrote the Greek descent into the character because Alex Papps got the role.

That's very interesting, thanks! I'd always thought it was an entirely different place, maybe because the lack of an upstairs in Scott's boatshed just confirmed for me that it wasn't Michael's. How strange that it was built right next to the original. Rob must have been busy indoors during those 2003 scenes! Rob was mentioned in 1999 IIRC (I think I watched it when I found a link to AsiaPacific, who were showing episodes from 1999. Unfortunately buffering and the fact that I had couldn't record, and could only watch it when I was free at 4pm, meant I only caught a handful of episodes).

In addition to a new quiz going up, there's been a few updates around the site

More by fluke than anything else, I noticed when updating the site today that Morag was actually the 500th character profile added to the site.

Hi, ryno, Episodes 246-275 have been added.

For those that have either hawk-like vision or perhaps a pause button, you may have noticed that in the credits today we had a new character, eh, Roman Smith.

Can you travel there on the Bryan Ferry? I think it's quite positive in some ways to have use houses so close together, due to the overabundance if locations that now makes Summer Bay now feel like Australia's 6th largest place.

No, I don't think there is.

Heehee, complete chaos in Scotland, probably caused by all the TV crews scrambling over themselves to film the chaos.

No help in answering your question, but Summer Bay must have the most churches per head of population.

Does no one Generally Chat anymore?! Had completely forgotten whilst browsing around the sites that I had the most posts here, though I've always wondered with things being switched on and off around the forum whether that is technically true.

With Episodes 159-165 uploaded today and a few alterations having been made to 166-185 over the past few weeks due to a few things having been in the wrong episodes, we now have a full set of summaries for 1988.

I watched it last night as well and you despite as you saw the Vera-appearance feeling out of place, I also felt that there was something very human about two older people living in the same street and then dying a couple of years apart etc, and when I thought back through what soaps I've seen, it did feel pretty unique in the case and it did hit home in some ways about getting old.

I don't know what the figures are, but to me a rerun of a popular programme is certainly what digital channels should be airing. I'm sure there's one of my Freeview channels that has NZ drain unblocking on constant loop and you think that must pull in about 10 people each day.

It must be so that 22 years later, the SevenTwo finale would air on a Friday.

So, that's the year finished. Seems a bit odd that Roo was invited to the end of year party, maybe she was just too distraught after the David debacle and how fitting that Neville should have the last audible words, almost his only noteworthy thing all year. Had seen this episode on Youtube probably over a year ago, so knew what was coming and whilst there's obviously some continuing themes, like Bobby's parentage and Carly living in the city, a very nothing episode