Enjoying the current storyline’s leading up to Christmas. Janes return has been great, she’s a fantastic actress and a great character. Her reference this week to an old storyline in which she found a gun in the backyard hidden there by Jo Mangle was a great nod to the past.
Leo’s secret revealed this week has also been interesting, setting up some good arcs to come in the new year.
The lighter moments with Jane and Paul being “sprung” were very humerous too.
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What was the Christmas episode like?
It was alright. They showed all the families opening Christmas presents and doing an Aussie Christmas in Summer for the benefit of the Brits, like a child running through the sprinkler, in the yard.
Bonnie Anderson as Bea sang at the Christmas concert. The christmas carol “Oh holy night” was great but the other song was not a Christmas carol so that was a bit odd.
Paul Robinson had a prang in his car and bumped his head. He had visions of his father Jim Robinson in a bauble hanging from his rearview mirror. That was cheesy but he had a good message for his son and it was good to see Alan Dale back after 25 years.
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Ok so he didn’t come back from the dead?
No, he couldn’t. He had a heart attack, was found dead in his house and they had a funeral for him. They couldn’t do a “back from the dead” storyline for him, even if they wanted to.
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Jim has continued to age since he keeled over in 1993.
Wouldn’t be the first time a soap opera has trotted out a “faked death” storyline. Perhaps Jim just got sick of all the drama in Ramsey Street and wanted to escape to a quieter neighbourhood?
Surely the writers could’ve come up with something better than Jim appearing in an inanimate object considering Home and Away did Bobby appearing to Ailsa on the fridge door all those years ago.
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It was very reminiscent of that and quite a few viewers have been critical of it. Considering Paul hit his head there was no reason why it couldn’t just have been a dream sequence where Paul imagined what his dad would look like if he had lived. that would have explained the ageing . 
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They could have done what they did in Sons And Daughters when Rowena Wallace returned, as Pat the Rat’s twin sister Pamela.
Alan could have come back as Jim’s long lost twin 
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The show has been going for so long now that the Robinson family tree already has a whole forest full of long lost relatives. 
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Over the holidays, Five in the UK have scheduled some episodes of Neighbours as early as 8.50am and 8.45am. This means that the UK has seen some episodes BEFORE some states of Australia! As it’s shown at 6.30pm local time across Australia (excepting Remote & Eastern licence area), on 28th Dec and 1st Jan, the UK see the episode well before Perth/WA, 10-15 mins before Darwin, and it begins there while still underway in Brisbane and regional QLD.
I doubt this has ever happened before. Back in the 80s/90s some regional Aussie stations were well behind with Neighbours, but probably not as far behind as the UK (but for quite a while the UK were ahead of some parts of Oz, notably regional WA and Tassie, with Home and Away).
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Darius Perkins, who played the original Scott Robinson in Neighbours in 1985, died on Wednesday from cancer aged 54.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/fiona-byrne/beloved-neighbours-actor-darius-perkins-dies-after-cancer-battle/news-story/a81594f216511d02c19894383e5940ec
Another one gone far too soon.
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Sally-Anne Upton is joining Neighbours in a recurring role with her episodes premiering this month.
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So her tongue was stitched back on
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Not sure I’d be able to watch her in Neighbours after her last role!
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Sally makes her debut as Mrs Punt on Wednesday 23 January, she is the sister of Valerie Grundy (deceased character).
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