In The Beginning

Neighbours first went to air on Australian television March 18, 1985 and has long been the ubiquitous cobber of homegrown drama. Ratings are going strong with no sign of Ramsay st. suffering a decline and yet bizarrely it is very difficult to find anyone who will admit to watching Neighbours. A scoff, a rolling of the eyes, perhaps some tutting at the vacuous nature of soap operas, this is what greets anyone game enough to volunteer being a Neighbours fan. And yet amazingly everyone knows who Harold Bishop is. How do they know him? Oh it seems they were once forced to take in a bit of Neighbours because their child, sibling, mother insisted on having it on. Poor things.

Though we begin this blog as the 2006 season draws to a close there will be plenty to talk about during the Neighbours free summer. But before we get into funky character analyzes we have a few more episode reviews before the dramatic cliffhanger ending. What will it be? Personally I'm still waiting for Dee to emerge from the river.