Neighbours: for people who haven’t watched it for 15 years?!

[Hairybaker]

As an original fan from the 80s/90s who hasn’t watched it in years, can anyone give a brief synopsis of current storylines so I get what’s going on in the final week?!

I’ve just watched the last two weeks so I can be more up to date for the last episodes. Rarely watched since mid 90s, but I did dip in and out of it since the first lockdown, never enough to be sure who everyone was though.

What struck me watching the last two weeks is how stunningly beautiful (and samey) all the girls are who haven’t been on for a while but are coming back - did they go through a stage of casting clones?? Paige and the girl who declared her love for Chloe are interchangeable. And Elle is stunning too.

You're suffering from that phenomenon common to people old enough to remember the 90s, the firm belief that the 90s were only about 10 years ago 😃

Thank you all for the various explanations and whoops re Jim Robinson, (I don't remember him dying.) I saw him in 24 the US show with Kiefer Sutherland I think anyway 😂

I meant the actor who portrayed Jim Robinson of course...

Is this the last week of Neighbours? Thought it was way in the future. Used to be about 6 months behind Australia on BBC

Madge is making a ghostly appearance apparently!

They're doing a great job bringing back all these characters.

I haven't watched it since about 1990 so I've got a lot of catching up to do but I'll be watching this week. Quite excited actually.

I used to be a massive Neighbours fan bit stopped watching when it moved to Channel 5. I've just set the last week up to record as well. Maybe they'll start repeating it from the beginning again on an obscure channel now?

It used to be, but they have a Christmas break in Australia and it’s off the air for a few weeks over there, so after almost 40 years (!!) we caught up.

Another one who has just started watching again! I think I must have stopped around 2000 and have now watched the last couple of weeks.

I was surprised to see Rebekah Elmaloglou in Neighbours - I remember her as Sophie Simpson in Home and Away thirty years ago!

It’s both nice and odd that there are so many old characters back/still in it. In some cases scenes were entirely made up of old characters so it was almost like watching it from thirty years ago except everyone looks much older! Except Harold who doesn’t seem to have aged at all.

@NooNakedJacuzziness A Country Practice takes me back! Flying Doctors, Sons and Daughters and The Sullivans too! The actors seemed to rotate between them! There were other animals than Bouncer in Neighbours though.

I fancy watching the end. I can't remember when I stopped watching. I remember billy Kennedy (Jesse spencer) leaving and I think I remember a millennium episode so around 2000!!

I loved the Flying Doctors, think I loved that more than Neighbours at one point.

I’ve just looked up Ian Smith (Harold)- he’s 84!! He’s aged very very well.

And don't forget The Young Doctors, that was my favourite @LIZS - happy times coming home from school to that one!

Me

just watching now

lovely seeing the old characters I knew and watched as a 12yr now all old 😂

loving the flashbacks of Harold’s wedding Des stag do.

Didn't Jim turn up as a ghostly hologram in a car rear view mirror or something when Paul was having some sort of crisis?

I used to hate Jim. He was such a boring strict dad. And profoundly unattractive in his pastel polo shirts.

Sons and Daighters too!

Anyone remember that awful bar that all the Young Doctors used to go to called "Bunny's"? All peopled by men and women in bizarre seventies times warp clothes.

I seem to remember GhostJim as well! Maybe it's a collective hallucination.

Thanks so much for the summary @LIZS. I will can now enjoy watching the final week without confusion.

I do hope that in the last few minutes they reveal that the entire 35 years was a dream by Bouncer, and then they all disappear, poof, like that.

Ah yes Young Doctors, there were some cute young actors in that!

I don’t remember GhostJim. I do remember GhostBobby in H&A, coming out of the fridge door to scare Ailsa.

I haven't watched neighbours for years and like many here started watching the last couple of weeks. I too couldn't believe how old Plain Jane super brain looked. Omg when did we all become so old? 😆

Lots of mullets iirc

Any reappearance of Karl and Susan daughter Libby I believe ?

Then, I think it was Joe Mangel, and lou, I think his name was