Wanted: Episode Summarisers

[Ryan]

You may not have noticed that we recently gave the Episodes section a complete overhaul and Chris has already listed what's changed and the benefits these new features will bring elsewhere. We hope you think it's an improvement, as we certainly do. However, you may notice that a large number of the summaries look like this.

We're missing approximately 50% of the circa 4700 episodes that have aired. And unfortunately, it doesn't take a great mathematician to work out that 50% of episodes therefore don't have an episode summary, which is where you become important to us. BttB wants to be able to be a good source for Home & Away, from the beginning to the current episodes, and a big part of this is episode summaries. With approximately an average of 230 episodes every year, this is a lot of work, but even if you can only help us with one episode, that will bring us one episode closer to having a complete collection of summaries. You will not only be helping us, you will be helping the whole community.

You will be credited on every summary you complete. If you're interested in contributing with summaries - whether it's one or 100, please PM Ryan for further information or reply in this thread. We appreciate any help we can get! Also, thanks to Eli for her help with writing this because my creative writing is pants.

For Reference, the following summaries are what we currently don't have.

Summaries required

1988: 15; 91-103; 105-165

1989: 367-448

1990: 449-489; 505-565; 569-588; 590-592; 598-605

1991: 687-777; 783-910

1992: 911-949: 977-1145

1993: 1146-1216; 1266-1375

1994: 1376-1435; 1475-1605

1995: 1606-1660; 1662-1664; 1666-1835

1996: 1836-1946; 1948-2065

1997: 2066-2075; 2077-2128; 2132-2295

1998: 2296-2456; 2458-2525

1999: 2526-2528: 2564-2615; 2639; 2651-2658; 2666; 2670; 2677-2684; 2688-2745

2000: 2762; 2774-2776; 2778-2786; 2788-2839; 2864; 2867; 2873; 2884; 2889; 2901; 2948

2001: 3033; 3035; 3037-3042; 3058-3060; 3131; 3146-3169; 3171-3189

2002: 3193-3199; 3201-3205; 3207-3211; 3217-3227; 3229-3243; 3245-3267; 3283; 3285; 3288-3305; 3338; 3368; 3376-3385

2003: 3501-3616; 3618; 3623: 3626; 3628-3629; 3633-3634; 3636-3644; 3648-3649

2004: 3668-3669; 3678; 3683; 3686; 3688-3689; 3691; 3693-3694; 3696; 3698-3699; 3724; 3728-3730; 3735; 3738-3745; 3749-3755; 3758-3760; 3763-3765; 3768-3770; 3773-3775; 3778-3780; 3783-3785; 3788-3789; 3793-3800; 3809-3810; 3813-3815; 3826; 3829

[Jess]

Is it just writing the summaries you need, or do we need to have our own copies of the episodes?

I'm more than happy to write summaries, I just don't own any footage...

[Ryan]

Are you able to expand on what you mean by "own"?

[suzannelgnz]

Hi Ryan,

I don't mind helping do a couple of summaries

Do I need to have uploaded the episodes or should I just do so when I know what I am doing

[rising-flame]

Ryan,

I'm more than willing to help, it's something i've been meaning to do anyway. I don't have any episodes though, other than what i can find on youtube. If you can find some way of supplying episodes, I'm more than happy to return an episode summary

[Jess]

Are you able to expand on what you mean by "own"?

I don't have any episodes... at all. Other than what could possibly be on YouTube (haven't looked yet). But I'm willing to do ep. summs. Basically what rising-flame says above.

[.Amy.]

I would love to help, just yell out which ones you want me to do, I would prefer the later episodes but I'm flexible.

[Eli]

I might be able to do some of the late 2004 ones, Ryan.

Sky asked me a couple of months ago because I mentioned that HAAN has long summaries from most episodes after the '04 Olympic Cliffhanger. I then asked Marieh and she said we could use the summaries, so I'm willing to translate if we have any of the ones you're missing. I'll look into it and post the numbers I could do.

[Eli]

Hm, okay I've looked over the summaries we have... I can translate these:

3820, 3824, 3828, 3830 and 3832-3835.

It's weird though, cause I know I have written some summaries for BttB from right after the '04 Olympic cliffhanger, but they're not on the main site...

[Ryan]

I'll send a PM to all who have expressed interest within the next 24 hours.