Top 10 Characters who appear in most episodes

[j.laur5]

1.Alf

2.Irene

3.Sally

4.Donald

5.Leah

6.Colleen

7.Ailsa

8.Marilyn

9.Pippa

10.Sam

Would this list be right?.

[JamesC10]

I would say you are right OP

BUT sadly Alf and Irene rarely feature in many episodes now

[Spinach]

Who would be in it if you extended the list to 20, I wonder? Morag, Hayley, Jesse, Steven, Michael, Bobby, Kirsty, Martha, Tony?

How many characters have actually stayed beyond three or four years?

[Ryan]

It sounds about right in terms of length of tenure j.laur, though if we were to break it down into number of episodes they actually appeared in there might be some changes.

[Jacklost]

Who is Sam?

[Ryan]

A foster child, looked after by Bobby till her death, then by the Rosses until Pippa left and then spent 1998-2000 with Fisher, who was sort of a grandparent (though I think he may have always called him Uncle?)

[rachel1990]

If you go to Imdb and type in Home and away it gives a list of how many episodes each cast member did. However I Don't think Kate Ritchie only did 926 episodes while Josh Quong Tart did more. However its an okay guide but take it with a pinch of salt.

[Red Ranger 1]

IMDb cast lists...well, if you're after a very rough guide then that's fine but there are huge swathes of the 90s where episodes either have minimal cast lists or are missing altogether, whereas some idiots keep adding 2000s-onwards actors, and not just the regulars, to hundreds of consecutive episodes, often stretching months in either direction of their actual stint.(Hence the likes of Josh Quong Tart and Luke Jacobz were supposedly still around at the end of 2012, over a year after they actually left.)

[Jacklost]

And some actors listed there only has a few episodes like the first actors that played Flynn, it says he only was in 32 episodes.

[H&Alover]

A foster child, looked after by Bobby till her death, then by the Rosses until Pippa left and then spent 1998-2000 with Fisher, who was sort of a grandparent (though I think he may have always called him Uncle?)

Bobby married Sam's long lost dad Gregg who left the bay when Bobby died. Donald was a kind of step granddad to Sam though he did always call him uncle.