TS: Home and Away v Neighbours

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let us discuss this matter of grave importance

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

So anyway - I'm presently leaning towards H&A. Firstly, Morag is back (surely she is the greatest soap opera character EVAH) and I've never been able to forgive Neighbours for axing my fantasy mum Pam Willis.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

also surely dr karl and headteacher susan are the most poorly-paid professionals ever, seeing as though the cabbie and crimper next door can afford a bigger house

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No no no. Neighbours has a kind of warmth to it that I love to have encircling me. Also, Darcy getting his comeuppance and Toady and Dee getting back together - swoon!

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Toady still in it? He is the Chris Moyles of antipodean drama.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Other than a fleeting resemblance to Moyles, he is nothing like him. Toady is the Larry of our generation. Um, Joe, if you don't know who's even in Neighbours, it's hardly a fair TS, is it?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Those of us without the luxury of Channel 5 can only dimly remember H&A *sniffle* and so can't really comment. Also I don't finish work until Neighbours is finished. So in other words, get off the thread, Rachel.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Morag is back? no way. I get to see Neighbours from a treadmill and Home & Away only if I am so comatose on a Saturday that the omnibus seems a good idea. Neighbours is way better. more humour + people are nicer to each other.

― Emma, Friday, 29 August 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Um oops I meant to prefix my question with a "why". He is lairy and annoying

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah morag is back to return to deal with alf's alzheimers. yes neighbours does make home and away look gritty but I find all their recent characters weak - bring back the madges and joe mangels

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Boyd will be first against the wall. teenagers are rubbish.

― Emma, Friday, 29 August 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Alf has alzheimers? I'd like to see a scene where he forgets the meaning of the word 'drongo'... so laden of pathos a nation of students would be reduced to tears.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Quit messing around the...eh.....that club with the boards and the waves.

Morag was the kind of satan woman wasn't she, did they invent that name for her. Neighbours is way better, it's wacky and the worst thing that ever happens is a prowler upsets the bins and is later adopted.

I am all about the Hollyoaks these days though, it is even easier to watch and obviously the beautifal woman quotient is through the roof.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

beautiful even.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I never get to see Neighbours or Home & Away any more, but when I did, it was Neighbours all the way. This is back in the days of the Alessi twins, Joe Mangel, Bouncer having dreams, Doug Willis and Jim Robinson's mushroom-induced hallucinations, Harold's disappearance, Kylie & Jason etc etc etc. Oh, and Clive ruled. Totally.

Bobby's face appearing in Ailsa's fridge just couldn't compete. I did have a supremely large crush on Alan Fisher for a while, but I was young. I actually quite liked it back in the day, but there was also something that little bit more watchable about Neighbours.

However, DESTROY Home & Away for years of "witty" people asking how Alf is every time I tell them what my name is.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yes the hallucinations, oh that was a golden age!

Do you remember the CURSED ROCK!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh Alan Fisher. Didn't he have a brain aneurysm or something when he was running down the beach? I liked him.

― Emma, Friday, 29 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The CURSED ROCK was the worst Neighbours storyline ever. It sux0red.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt have you no sense of humour, it even had weird didgeridoo noises.

I like the way Doug has been reincarnated as Joe. Did anyone else have mates who fancied Susan Kennedy? Ew.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Susan Kennedy = k-ROWR.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And then they all Des up...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a friend at university who fancied Karl Kennedy. Ew. I also had a (different) friend who fancied Tug from Home & Away. Ew to the nth degree.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

btw, yes Alan Fisher had a brain aneurysm. He was a surfing guy, but not in the slacker Brad Willis way, in a running-about-in-sexy-tight-wetsuits-to-excite-hormonal-teenage-girls kind of way. He wrote a book about surfing, so he was a sensitive soul too. Bless.

The cursed rock so wasn't as good as Jim's mushroom trip when the dog turned into a pig and Doug's head went all weird. Or Bouncer's dream, where Bouncer was in a field with big plastic flowers that looked like the Magic Roundabout, dreaming about finding true dog-love.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh - in a crossover with the Do You See response thread, Tad from Neighbours is now on 2 Pints of Lager.... as Louise's boyfriend. He has stupid facial hair.

― Emma, Friday, 29 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no recollection of Doug and Jim's mushroom trip or Bouncer's Dream. And now they will be forever denied me :(

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Hannah from Neighbours was also in Corrie, as I have just found out from the popular search engine Google.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The hypnotic piano music they used for sad/scary scenes in Neighbours was great, I remember the Jim Robinson death episode.

I love when they ram in pop culture references.

I missed Bouncer's dream, it sounds amazing. Doug and Jim's trip was classic.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember Tad and Paul talking about Mogwai on Neighbours. Mogwai!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure Tad had Jaguar! I am not making this up. Tad was a hardcore Underground Resistance purist.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Harold, meanwhile, was into religious deep house.

(sorry I've plunged this into studentism)

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Hannah was Les Battersby's lodger for a while, she played a backpacker over for the Commonwealth Games.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere, Jim Robinson was the Vice-Pres in 24, and some diplomat/goverment official type in the West Wing. Jesse Spencer (Billy Kennedy) was in the PD James murder mystery thing at the weekend, and has grown up to be as rowr as his youthful good looks would have indicated.

Frente played a gig in Home and Away organised by Angel. Weren't the Pet Shop Boys in Neighbours once? Or have I totally made that up?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, can anyone confirm whether or not Terence Donovan (AKA Doug Willis and Jason's dad) is dead?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

He doesn't have a date of death on imdb so probably not.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yes the pet shop boy who isn't neil tennant drove up ramsay street in an mr2 and asked annalise or some other sarky-looking bint for directions to a recording studio. and clive james was in it as a postman

I have friends that fancy Susan Kennedy. I have heard her described as "the Australian Catherine Deneuve".

Yay Morag though for pure soap evilness. And Irene "when I was on the grog" Roberts.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Have we all seen the xxx Sally Fletcher video thats doing the rounds?

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, she always seemed like such a nice girl

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder if any other australian soap stars have made forays into the hardcore.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I heart Angel. She was great in Roar, and had a lovely cameo in The Limey. Not seen the lesbian snog in Mulholland Drive yet.

I admit it. I visited her fan site. I couldn't help it. She's lovely.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

She (Melissa George) was also in Friends playing one of Ross and Rachel's nanny (i.e the one that wasn't Freddie Prinze Jr).

I wish I knew as much about other stuff as I do about crap on the telly. I would so win Telly Addicts if it was still on.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nanny = nannies obv.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Annalise was in Ally McBeal once, being sued for having big boobs or somesuch japery. Does anyone remember when Annalise was a poet for a bit? And composed such genius works as "Is She Stupid, Or Is She A Kid?" which was written about Danni Stark because Danni was lusting after Annalise's then-boyf Mark. It went something like:

Is she stupid, or is she a kid?
If she carries on being stupid I could run her over in my car and make a skid.

She roooled innit.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Danni Stark had diabetes for about three episodes and then it was totally forgotten about, so you kept seeing her eating and drinking all the stuff she had been warned off in the "this is how we deal with diabetes, kids" episode.

Annalise's sister was the most annoying woman on television.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

One day soon Marlene will come back from her cruise and find out that her daughter is dead.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to remember that Annalise's mum was vaguely instrumental in Jim's death. But I think Jim wanted to die because Julie was his daughter.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Annalise also had a poem about a tea-bag that brett and dani's band turned into a song and performed it on the pavement outside her house when annalise was at her lowest ebb

ten points to whoever can remember the name of said band

also I liked it when they replaced mattress-back cheryl for a fortnight but swapped the actresses over mid-scene

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't Angel going to be in the US version of Coupling?

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: extremely good point Matt, when Cheryl popped clogs she and Lou had split up and Lou had left for a bit and he blundered in during her wake and said "Hahahahaha who's died? hahahahaha" which was PURE CLASS.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

When Julie fell off that big building, we videoed it and had a Julie-falling-off-a-building party with lots of alcohol and cheering (students, huh?). She may actually surpass Annalise's annoyingly perky sister as one of the most irritating people on telly.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

!!!!!!

I'd missed that.

Not enough Joe Mangel love on here, surely the greatest Neighbours character ever? Mark Little made a speech at Glasto a few years back about human rights abuses in South America or something, but it completely backfireed as no one was listening to anything he said, rather they were all standing there going "ey! It's Joe Mangel!" to their mates and txting frantically.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Julie dressing up as a schoolgirl to solve Phil's erectile problems, classic or dud?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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No sign of Cindy and Stu.

The Scully's kitchen has been done up.

Steph accused!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A body is found!

Looks grim!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That kinda contravines Health and Safety letting Toadie into the burnt out building like that?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

NOT THE COFFEE SHOP TOO?

NOOOOOOOoooooo!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ROBBO!!!

yay!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Steph didn't do it, I can't believe that. The death isn't straight-forward though. Pillow fibres in the lungs.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Robbo's been in prison. He's a better man now. Hmmm, "proerty developer" huh? Dodgy!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Cindy is alive!

property developer, I mean

Stuart's okay too (but we knew that)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Lynne has her doubts re: steph!

She needs a good lawyer. Toadie is never out-of-work!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm trapped in the celler"

-end credits-

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuart might not be OK! Sindy's mobile picks a REALLY shitty time to run out of batteries! Wooh! Exciting! Did Paul explain what had happened with whichever Alessi he ended up with?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Alessi's will be fogotten about. Unless it's them who really started the fire!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe she knew Paul was coming back and Christina/Caroline hoped she would kill him for being in jail, except it went all wrong (I can't remember if that's even their names or which one he married) because he wasn't in the pub at the time.

(note: this seems to be deeply implausible. However, it is Neighbours).

Hey! Maybe it was Karl Kennedy in his mid-life-crisis black clothes!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it must've been Karl! It's too obvious for it be Paul. I mean by Monday Lou and Harold will be accusing him I reckon.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it was Toadie and it all went wrong and that's why he was so desperate to go into the building and make amends!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If it does turn out to be Robbo, I'm never going to watch Neighbours again.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

someone fetch me a tissue *sniff*sniff*.

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I hope they bring Joe Mangle back full time, I reckon he's gonna have a fling with Lynn.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I think a write-in campaign to being back Melanie is also required!

(HANNAH MARTIN IS GROWN-UP. I FEEL OLD.)

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

someone fetch me a tissue *sniff*sniff*.

OMG WHAT HAPPENED? I missed it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Loads of old characters came back, and Annaliese made a documentary featuring loads of other old characters!

In the show:
Lucy Robinson
Phil
Doug
Lance
Rosemary Daniels
Joe Mangle
?

Documentary

oh what the hell, it's all here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/neighbours/20years/comeback.shtml

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

oh and Paul Robinson has lost a leg!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

MRS MANGLE IS STILL ALIVE! (albeit off-camera)

Annalise showed her film - cameo appearances aplenty! Hannah & Debbie Martin, Brett & Debbie Stark, Marlene, Ruth, GAIL ROBINSON!, Hilary, one of the Ramseys, Melanie, Billy, and a host of others. Plus! A bonus addition in the form of Sarah, who blew Doctor Kennedy a kiss - needless to say Susan was pissed (although still jubilant from the IZZY TAKEDOWN of yesterday).

Oh, and in INSANE BABY NEWS, Steph got thrown off the adoption list forever for being very dumb,

According to my sister, Joe is hanging around, so hurrah!

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Hooray!! I think that's the best news I've heard this year (God, this year has been crappy, sort it out!)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

That's marvellous news. Keep Doug Willis as well, he can develop a love/hate relationship with Max.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Sarah's filled out a bit, hasn't she?

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Gah, I missed this! Rather, I knew it was on but the mister forgot to tape it for me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

just the concept of *recording* Neighbours fills me with mirth. Mind you, it's probably not as funny as the fact that for half a second, I considered whether or not I might purchase A DVD OF THE THING!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but the idea of Doug and Gail and Annalise reminds me of a time when I didn't have to record Neighbours because I didn't have a job and nostalgia is a great thing.

Why don't they do an omnibus? Am I going to have to wait for it to turn up on UK Gold in about four years?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

no need for uk gold

annalise looked awful!

i wanna see lance again!

and can we see tad, toadie and stonefish all together? that would be the best thing.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

ECHO POINT

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

i suspect esteban buttez to be a refugee from mono

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Its funny, I watch Neighbs quite regularly but I somehow must have missed the actual 20th anniv show (I think it was on about 3 4 months ago here?)

**WHOOPS SPOILERS AHOY AVERT YE EYES!!****

****

Joe M is still in the show now. He's goin' out with Lynn Scully! :D And Steph hates him! She thinks he's not good enuff for her mum!

Oh and she's preggers now, so no more adoption woes.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

i don't reckon i've seen a single episode of neighbours since about 1989

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

You're a wiser woman than I, miss gemily ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

sounds like exciting stuff! maybe i should make more of an effort. i see coronation st is starting next week. but it's on at 5pm, i'm never home then! booo.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

I wish they'd never got rid of Eastenders over here! I was mightly pissed off when that happened :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

me too! i could play the theme tune on the piano. i like english soapies much more than ours.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

I can't say i've ever sat down and watched a full episode.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

look ECHO POINT was underrated

who could ever forget that month on ten in 1995

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

What was that other one set on the gold coast?

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Well I clearly forgot! Never 'eard of it.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

It was called pacific something or paradise something. Anyhow, it sucked.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Ah, Pacific Drive was the name.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

i think there was one called paradise beach as well wasn't there? it sucked too

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, my husband mentioned it when I queried him about Pacific Drive....and don't forget Breakers.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

these were all variations on a theme by the sound of it

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

pacific drive was the late night one which was a weak version of chances crossed with melrose place on the gold coast

haha thats classic aussie tv right there

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Steve's been poisoned....by EXPIRED CHEESE.

― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Friday, 9 January 2009 14:01 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, but he had two doses, mind.

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

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