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I was curious to see if Nancy and Ingo had ever been on the same side lol so did a bit of research and apparently she wasn't too happy about it either: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/28338883.html Of course the above was the year before Twitter truly took off so she may have said more if the whole thing had played out a couple of years later. There is one tweet that subtly references it from 2010 though:

True, Guza's GH (and going all the way back to Monty) would have had something like this - with relatively few beats to play out - done and dusted by the end of May at the latest and most likely even sooner. While the Claudia Zacchara murder investigation also took a while to get Sonny to trial, there were more a lot more beats to play out - such as Franco, Sonny shooting Dante etc. I do agree that the prolonged nature of the story has allowed TA to settle into the role and the audience a chance to get used to her in the role, so that is a positive.

Yeah I seem to recall that as early as 1997 Steve Burton was unequivocal about never wanting the Q memories to ever come back.

Agreed. It was the perfect ending.

Just watched the last episode of season 3 and

Dominique's. Apparently he was given up and raised by Katherine Bell's maternal family or something.

Anyone else watching this show? I feel it's kind of slept on. Due to air the final episode of it's third season this week, with a fourth season already ordered. It's an alternate history about what may have happened if the Soviets won the race to put a man on the Moon.

Oh Lisa Elliot, yeah she was a teacher at Erinsborough High and flatted with half-sisters Sarah and Catherine (and later Ben after Catherine left). She was only on for about six months in 1997. Lisa and Harold were actually on briefly together (in the latter part of Madge and Harold's initial post resurrection stint - they briefly left and then returned in the latter half of '97 after Lisa had gone). She wasn't very memorable so it's plausible Harold doesn't remember her either lol. Her exit storyline involved her quitting teaching after Billy wrote "Lisa is a numb-nut" in one of his assignments in order to prove that she wasn't bothering to read them when marking them!

It'd have to be next to the elevator to Helena's lab...the lab was 30 storeys (so like 90 - 120 metres or 300 - 400 feet) deep lol

I could definitely see Liz friends with Mary - with Mary always getting carried away concerning Paul, and Liz trying to be her voice of reason. Liz also would have made a good ally for Nina.

Well if Helena can have a secret lab (which is still there btw - it's where Finn and Liz hid Peter) built under GH without anyone noticing, I suppose at the very least Sonny can get either a gym or a secret entrance for his minions lol

Don't forget Camryn Grimes as Cassie on Y&R at that time too lol

20 years ago it was Neighbours that was completely ignoring their history with no Robinsons left (I think it was the Perfect Blend website who sometime in either 2003 or 04 bemoaned that Helen Daniels hadn't been mentioned in years) and Harold Bishop being the last "Ramsay". Whereas Home and Away was still having visits from Pippa or her original foster children every 1 - 2 years. Of course this began to change in 2003 when they brought Teenage Sky Mangel on and Harold's son David, followed of course by Paul Robinson's return at the end of 2004 and the exceptional 20th anniversary celebrations. Meanwhile Home and Away seems to have pretty much cut ties after Sally left, except for Marilyn and Roo returning and the use of Alf's long lost daughter Quinn (originally a brief storyline from 1995) to provide him with another grandson - Ryder.

I think Patricia Breslin had that too, since she had a bit of star power from her TV work

I'm just grateful that her mother does not appear to be Felicia.

Luke actually arrived in November 1978 but other than that your point still stands. He arrived nearly a year after Monty and didn't become a lead until the fall of 79.

Yeah, I think most of us would agree that Scott and Liz becoming family was the best thing to come out of Liz and Franco.

I know right. I feel a lot of Imran's potential that was evident back in 2019 was basically squandered.

I have heard that

Apparently it's going to be a month long celebration

And 40 years later they still passing that ugly rock around lol

Not surprised that 2000 is ranked as the lowest, although the blurb gets it a little wrong here as both the 14 characters exiting and the hospital becoming public happened in 2001 (I think the clinic becoming a public hospital is often conflated with the clinic shifting premises after the liquefaction of the old clinic which did happen in 2000). Not surprised 2007 is ranked the highest, that set off a ratings renaissance that lasted for about 5 - 6 years. I thought 1994 was better than 95 or 96 so surprised to see them ranked so highly

Not this time around I don't think, but there were a couple of complaints during Te Rongopai's first stint on the show back in 2018 https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/24-05-2022/rude-well-show-you-rude-30-years-of-shortland-street-viewer-complaints (scroll down)

Yeah, particularly since the Maori Health Authority is actually a real thing due to become live on July 1 and Te Rongopai seems to embody all the fears and negative stereotypes about it.