It really wasn't the shows fault. When actirs pass on their legacy is hard to fill, if not impossible

Jackie was born in Ireland but she was only little when she moved down under (about 3 I think)

The late Vivian Grey, who played Mrs Mangel was also British. Kylie Minogue is also half welsh on her mothers side.

And there were a lot more guest characters with strong British accents back then, also characters like Helen whose accent seems more like a British/Australian hybrid

I guess that's why it made sense for to pack Mal off to London when he left.

​@Harry-fk5of Alot of Australians are of English and Irish decent many left the UK 🇬🇧 in.droves to Australia 🇦🇺 ten pound pommes.

Always had a soft spot for her.

Check her out in prisoner cell block H 😘

lol me too ❤

I met him Tenerife in o Neil’s bar down Veronica’s in 1997 (playas ) top dude 🍻🤪🥳

Brett really Blewitt with Libby.

It was. Lol.

Approximately 29 years ago today.....damn 👴

​@@Made_In_Heaven88 30 !

I know, she's looking in the direction of No. 30 and would need eyes in the back of her head PLUS x-ray vision to see No.28 from there. Similarly, for years, No.26 was visible from the Kennedys' kitchen window even though you'd actually never be able to see it from that window.

@@stephenmcconnell1000 that's crazy!

@@stephenmcconnell1000 that used to irrationally make me uncomfortable

Don’t worry, she gets her just desserts for being so nosy in the end

30 yrs. Alan Fletcher and Jackie Woodbourne are the longest serving cast members.

How did your maths calculations come up with 39yrs 😂

@@kefanolia12 typo. 29 years I meant

It was another 4yrs before he turned up.

All the Martins were so great. I need them back!!

Yes incredibly awful !

At the time they thought Phil had pushed her (and to be honest, it wouild've been justifiable homicide IMO, she was annoying)

As she was meant to be blind drunk, the intention was probably that she was almost too pissed to notice herself falling or passed out as she went over the edge.

@@stephenmcconnell1000she was saying things a suicidal person would say like everyone would be better off without her. That and her not screaming when falling would make me believe she jumped on purpose .

@@startracker5895 she was feeling sorry for herself because she was pissed and stumbled over the edge as a result, lol. Let's not overanalyse throwaway fiction here 😂

@@stephenmcconnell1000 apparently it was supposed to be suicide but they changed their minds at the last minute. Which makes sense by the way Julie was behaving before she died.

hahaha. Great aussie rock band. She got that same haircut as Toni Childs!

wtf?

@@smashingrickfanboy9457 Just my opinion

@@tombaycka true true.

Mike Myers the actor, he certainly does look like a younger version of him

This was all before the plane crash. This was 1994 and the plane crash was 2005

Yes, but it’s a reminder to all girls that nothing last forever

Malcom Kennedy aka Benji Mcnair is English born in London UK 🇬🇧

Sons and daughters, another Aussie soap

Phil was married to Jill, who was Paul Robinson's sister. So yes.

⁠@@smashingrickfanboy9457 Do you mean Julie? 😅

It was *your* invitation to join them, metaphorically speaking.

The episode was a post card from Australia to the UK

You're only just noticing it now? They had that envelope background for nearly 4 years!

Because you often get other people's mail when they deliver to the wrong address? Probably symbolised how you pop it in the right box because that's what good neighbours do.

They were very early 90’s that’s for sure. Around this time ‘Neighbours’ had lost most of it’s very popular characters and it was beginning to dwindle in the ratings. This was the first attempt at refreshing the show. Some new sets, new theme and titles and credits. That wasn’t the problem though. The theme tune melody was iconic and only needed a refresh, likewise the graphics. The Kennedy’s were an attempt to actually bring a whole new family dynamic in with this. The problem was the writing. Everybody was so goody two shoes. They needed a new Mrs Mangle busybody type and a new nasty Paul Robinson type. Those key character tenements that make soap dramas compelling viewing. What they ended up with was loads of stray teens moving in and out of one and others houses, often without on screen families. If you looked at the real houses from outside then the crappy sets that were supposed to be on the inside, the whole show just became disjointed and lost within itself. Afterwards, it only declined to the point where it ended. Hard to imagine that in the UK in 1988 upwards of 18 million viewers were watching it. By 1998 it was less than half that. By the time it was axed in 2022, it was barely able to manage 1 million. The final episode managed to pull in 3 million British viewers, more so to see Kylie and Jason’s (disappointing) return and all the publicity surrounding it. It’s going to be interesting how it fairs once transmissions begin on Freevee.

The original was horrible lol. Grainy backdrop and a very old fashioned theme, it was clearly so outdated by the early 90s.

Literally cry more, the original came out in the mid 80s, this was almost 10 years later.

​@@wishkid79 Brits don't like change, as evident in Coronation Street and EastEnders, which clings to its roots. In the 80s, Neighbours mastered the difficult task of capturing the hearts of British people. Had it adopted the same model as Coronation Street, keeping the likes of Jim, Madge, Mrs Mangel, Jane and Henry around forever and keeping the same format, Neighbours would probably still be pulling in millions of viewers today. Neighbours had a different system though. Every 6 years, it was like an entirely different show. Over the 6 years, it would gently change its target audience. It would start off as a family show with kids. The kids would grow up, they would be followed through high school, then they would become teenagers, have relationships, go to 'uni', get a job at the Coffee Shop etc. and then a massive revamp would clear everyone out and a new generation would begin. At the end of every generation, the show turns a bit silly and becomes a kind of big celebration of Neighbours as a whole, perhaps to justify a later revamp? As far as I can tell, the generations are 1985-1991, 1992-1996, 1997-2001, 2002-2006, 2007-2011, 2012-2016, 2017-2022

​@@wishkid79those are extremely skewers numbers. You're picking the highest rated individual episode of the 80s when in reality it generally got 5-7 million viewers per episode. 1 million UK viewers per episode for a daytime soap in 2022 *before* accounting for catch up and streaming is actually a really solid audience, we know full well why C5 tanked the show due to their shady dealings.