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I feel like I have the British Soap Awards 2005 or 6 and maybe 8 on DVD somewhere.

I can't stand Reiss, the actor can't act.

Ooh thanks, @Errol!

How Neighbours came back from the dead. https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/neighbours-revival-daytime-emmys-back-from-dead-1236027221/

Ted, Harry and Barney Mitchell are due to be introduced, an extention of Billy Mitchell's side of the family Would rather Ben, Courtney, Louise, or Mark jr were recast. Not introduced in more Billy.

I wonder what they'll do story-wise. Will they kill off Gail? I'd quite like to see her move to another country or something, rather than something sad.

Neighbours didn't air in the US previously, and now it does. So presumably they want to appeal to the American market.

This was a great scene in the aftermath of Den's death.

No worries, do share your thoughts if you watch!

Madge's death, the Lassiters fire and plane crash are probably the best ones I think.

Hopefully they will in time, you never know. But I doubt it! Have you watched any of the Classic eps on Amazon?

Thanks! I have some of the old years on a drive, but the 80s especially is pretty poor quality visually, I guess due to how old the episodes are. 1995 and 1996 seem to have survived pretty well, so I've watched all of 1995 now and did start 1996.

That's a good quality recording! I wish I could watch more old Neighbours episodes.

I think Zainab was great too. I agree that Joshua Pascoe was good. I really don't like the Max Bowden version at all. I really like Lauren, so I'm glad they brought her back. Pat and Frank's dynamic was really interesting.

Ooh, that's a difficult question! I've pretty much watched all the characters now having seen the Drama repeats. My favourite character of all time is probably Janine Butcher. My top 3 are probably: 1 Janine Butcher 2 Ben Mitchell (Harry Reid version) 3 Carol Jackson I really enjoyed Janine's 1999-2004 stint, and she was also very troubled even as a little girl on screen. I wasn't so keen on her later stints. I also really liked the Harry Reid version of Ben Mitchell, but the recast to Max Bowden has pretty much destroyed the character for me, because he's now nothing like what Ben was supposed to be at all. I think Carol is a brilliant character, mainly because the actress was very good. I think Pat was a great character, and Peggy. I also feel like I appreciate Pauline more as a character now, having seen her entire stint. I'm also a big fan of Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf's version), and I really liked Chrissie Watts. Here are some of my favourite characters in action! I wish I had some better clips of Harry's Ben.

Ronnie always attracted tragedy, I definitely liked Roxy more.

I liked Bonnie's version better too, and would like Delta to sing the theme. The current version just has a cheap production, and the vocal isn't very good. My favourite is the extended Greg Hind theme from late 1994 to 1998, and the Janine Maunder theme from 2002 to mid 2007.

2008 was a good year. In fact I think it was mostly good from 2005 to around 2010. In this Drama repeat, I'm looking forward to the arrival of Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell.

Yes, although I'd happily get rid of the current theme tune for something a lot less cheap sounding! I really liked the 2004 opening titles.

Head writer Shane Isheev has shared some pictures of what were alternate designs for the Neighbours opening titles over the years; in particular 1996, 1999 and 2002. Here are the real titles from those years, for comparison. The 1999 ones that didn't make it to air were better than the ones that did!!

Yes, it was the the episode of the infamous 'How's Adam?' scene I'm currently watching 2005 on UKTV play and Drama. 2005 is when I first became a fan of the show, so it's interesting watching it back.

Which years of EE have you watched? I took a break from about 2011ish to 2015 I think.

I don't see it as a classic Neighbours storyline, but I've heard people say that too. I can see where they're coming from, in the sense that Neighbours can be quite silly and very idiosyncratic, however I think there's good silly and bad silly, and that was definitely the latter. I would not have allowed something like that to go to screen. But Neighbours does have an issue where it doesn't know where to hold itself back sometimes, especially the modern show. Anyway, if that was a classic Neighbours storyline, it would be funny for a start!

I kind of like how it's been written, I think Whitney did get a happy ending in a sense. I feel like her having a baby and fostering a kid was her happy ending, and that she didn't necessarily need to have a man to have a happy ending. I guess they were trying to emulate what happened with Biana taking on Whitney in a way, even though the difference is that Bianca was with Whitney's dad. I like how Whitney started reflecting on her behaviour and how men have always treated her badly. They even touched on the abuse again. I kind of liked Whitney because of how things never went quite right, but I do think it's nice she's finally had a baby. I'm the same. Was never a huge Whitney fan but I did feel emotional seeing her leave. 16 years is a long time so I guess we're bound to feel something unless we have hearts of stone! I didn't see Whitney ever leaving until it was announced.