Home and Away

I was an avid viewer of both Home & Away and Neighbours as a teenager but lost touch with them after a few years. When both moved to Five, I picked up my viewing again and now back to being something of an addict. If you're not familiar with the soap, it takes place in the small fictional coastal town of Summer Bay and the majority of the action takes place in the residents' houses, the Diner, the Surf Club, on the beach, in the high school or at the police station. Compared to when I watched previously, there aren't that many of the 'old' cast left from the ITV days, with Alf and Irene being the main stalwarts left. As with Neighbours these ...  Read the complete review

***Why Home and Away*** *********************** I openly admit H&A is one of my few guilty pleasures in life. I have set it on series link so I record it every night at 6. I have never normally shouted out loud that I watch and love H&A mainly because you never normally hear people saying 'did you see last nights H&A?" instead you hear 'did you see last night Coronation Street?'. But I have to admit that lately I have found more and more people admitting to being a closet H&A fan! ***The bay*** ************ H&A s a fictional Australian soap set in the seaside town of Summer ...  Read the complete review

Home and Away is a Australian soap set in the fictional seaside town Summer Bay and is without doubt in my mind a secret pleasure. The show is set in a fairly run down seaside town Summer Bay and centres around three things, the high school, the beach and the cafe/hang out point and basically is filled with really good looking people of both sexes. The show is a bit like an Australian version of Hollyoaks in that because the show is mainly centred on the high school has a high turnover rate for young pretty things of both sexes. The show is more edgy than Neighbours often the stories are bit more explicit than the blandness from Grundy TV, there ...  Read the complete review

My second favourite Australian soap export (Neighbours being my first) is Home and Away. I think I like Neighbours the best because to me it came before Home and Away and seems like the original Australian soap and I grew up more with it. However, Home and Away is the most successful series in the history of the Logie Awards (the Australian television industry awards) having won 34 Logies compared to 30 for Neighbours. Home and Away began in 1988 and is now the second longest running Australia television soap. I remember when it started and was instantly attracted to the show due to the fact that it was set in beautiful Australia, right by the beach and ...  Read the complete review

Home and Away is an Aussie soap that is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, Sydney. It began production in Sydney in 1987 but first aired in Australia in January 1988. Originally it centered around the caravan park and the Fletcher family, including a succession of foster children, that ran it. It is shown in Australia on the Seven Network which originally produced and owned Neighbours but they axed the soap due to low ratings. When a rival network created a success of Neighbours, Seven decided they had been hasty and so created H&A to fill the gap. Today only one of the original cast members remain, the head of the Stewart family, Alf, ...  Read the complete review