17/01/2024
Bay News - Home And Away: 36 Years Ago.
Stone The “Flamin Crows”... It was
January 17 1988 when “Home and Away”
first hit Australian Television screens.
Years later this show is still going strong, still pulling in audiences at 7PM Weeknights for the Seven Network Australia which produces it internally. While streaming on the 7plus app.
By any measure, it’s a remarkable
achievement for a show to last so
long. But here it is still going strong.
HOME and AWAY was created by
Alan Bateman as a 90 minute pilot,
in the fictional town of Summer Bay
(just a stone’s throw from Yabbie Creek).
He later said it was inspired by some
locals who were “Up In Arms” over the
construction of a foster home for children
from the city.
Roger Oakley and Vanessa Downing starred as Tom and Pippa Fletcher, who ran a caravan park with their five foster children Frank Morgan (Alex Papps), Carly Morris (Sharyn Hodgson), Steven Matheson (Adam Willits), Lynn Davenport (Helena Bozich) and very young Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie). Into the mix came Bobby (Nicole Dickson) and the
rest is history.
SINCE that time characters including
Alf Stewart, Sally Fletcher, Morag, Irene, Marilyn and Donald Fisher - and the legendary Summer Bay Diner - have practically become household names.
In its two-plus decades the show has enjoyed a cavalcade of actors who have gone
on to greater glory: Heath Ledger, Isla Fisher, Melissa George, Julian McMahon, Dannii Minogue, Chris Hemsworth, Simon Baker,
Guy Pearce, Ryan Kwanten, Naomi Watts, Todd Lasance, Craig McLachlan, Justine Clarke, Lincoln Younes and Steve Peacocke just to name a few.
IF you care to relive some of Home and Away’s best and worst moment again head on over
to their offical webpage, Facebook, and 7plus app.
Here is too another successful year
of Home and Away. ♥️
