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Other bizarre plot lines:
Harold Bishop falling off some rocks and being swept into the sea, being presumed dead for a couple of years, and then showing up in Erinsborough with memory loss believing he was called Ted.

The 'has Len been mangled' storyline. Mrs Mangel was the resident Ramsay Street busybody in probably either the late eighties or early nineties, and - presumably to save paying another actor - we never got to actually see her husband Len. At least, I think we never did, but there's always the chance he may have occasionally appeared as a minor part. Anyway, they built a whole plotline around this absent character in that some people believed that Mrs Mangel had bumped Len off. I can't actually remember the conclusion, but presumably it was all a big misunderstanding.

And thirdly, for years and years, us being supposed to believe that Paul Robinson (played, of course, by the wonderfully wooden Stefan Dennis) was some sort of internationally successful businessman who ran the Lassiters complex.

Yes I remember Stefan Dennis! I'm 20 now, so I was about 3 when it started in the UK, so I don't remember all the early storylines, but I've been watching it for at least the last 10 years, probably longer...

*takes half a minute off to at Stefan Dennis*

OK, I've completely lost track of where I was with this - is there anything I should have been adding/changing/removing that I haven't yet?

I think the time lag factor is definitely worth including - particularly in the context of why they don't do topical storylines.

Okay - will do!

There's a few yankie spellings lurking and a couple of bits that could do with further explaination-

centered = centred

"Other main locations include the Lassiters complex, which contains Lassiters itself"

Might be better as

"Other main locations include the Lassiters complex, which contains the Lassiters hotel itself"

As 'Lassiters' isn't obviously the name of a hotel. Thinking about it, the hotel itself isn't really featured these days, is it?


doctors surgery = doctor's surgery- there is only one doctor, isn't there?

The hotel is featured more now than it used to be as Taj works there (or did until a few weeks ago).

Oh, and sometimes there is only one doctor, sometimes there is two, so I think doctors' is better

And hang on, yankie spellings? I'm English! They're called typos!

I obviously haven't watched properly for some time, as I've no idea who Taj is

He was the one who started out as Nina's boyfriend and then, when he lost out to Jack, moved on to have an enormous cruch on Libby.

shazz

Clearly a long time away from the programme. Only the name Libby means anything to me there

Ooooh! You should start watching it again! Harold's had a stroke and it's turned him eeeeeevil!

This is rapidly ceasing to be a PR thread but-

I believe I could five minutes of it and saw him being nasty to coffee shop customers. I thought he was just having a bad day

Well, does it need to continue being a PR thread? Is there anything more that needs doing?

Hi Good work

I was wondering if it was worth mentioning the insufferable Kylie and Jason fever in the mid eighties?

I've mentioned they were in it - do I need to mention the mania?

ooh I don't know, I consider that it's a whole dreadful episode in history that's best forgoteen really..

But then I don't like Neighbours that much!

Something that hit me, on first reading, was this example:

"However, there have been feuds between families, the most notable in recent times being between Karl Kennedy and Joe Scully, echoing the feuds that Max Ramsey used to be involved in right at the start."

I don't know about this. It seems (a) highly specific of specific characters in a specific feud with a specific timeframe and (b) mentions Max Ramsey without any context of who the character is. I'm not sure that the section needs this example - is seems unnecessary.

What do you think?

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