Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running Australian television soap opera, running daily episodes of 25 minutes not including comercials. Originally aired on the Seven Network in Australia in 1985, it was shifted to the Ten Network early in its run and has remained popular with its core teenage audience ever since.

The soap follows the daily lives of several families who live in the fictional Ramsay Street, Erinsborough, including the usual soap events of births, deaths, and marriages. The show features a regular turnover of attractive young actors mixed in with the more stable cast of older people. Though it is not commonly mentioned so as to not alienate viewers in other Australian cities, Erinsborough is undoubtedly supposed to be a suburb of Melbourne. The show is filmed in Melbourne, and for street scenes uses a court in Vermont South, a suburb in eastern Melbourne.

Many successful Australian actors and singers had some of their earliest work on Neighbours, including Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Natalie Imbruglia, Jason Donovan, Holly Valance and Delta Goodrem.

One of the most enduring characters on the show is Harold Bishop, played by actor Ian Smith, who also wrote many of the scripts for the show.

The show is also popular in the United Kingdom. It quickly gained a cult following there in the late 1980s when BBC ONE began screening it at lunchtime, and it was soon given an early evening repeat slot, where it often achieved an audience rating greater than the total population of its native Australia.

The show has also been sold to networks in many other countries.

List of characters

Harold Bishop
Helen Daniels
Charlene
Max Ramsey
Scott Robinson
Jim Robinson
Paul Robinson
Jane
Mrs Mangel
Des Clarke
Daphne Clarke
Mike
Taj
Clive Gibbons
Lucy Robinson
Toadfish (Gerrard Rebecci)
Stonefish
Big Kev
Liljana Bishop
David Bishop
Sky Bishop
Joe Mangel
Kerry Bishop
Rocco
Conner O'Neill
Lou Carpenter
Karl Kennedy
Susan Kennedy
Libby Kennedy
Ben Kennedy
Joe Scully
Lynn Scully
Michelle Scully
Steph Scully
Oscar Scully
Max Hoyland
Izzy Hoyland
Mr. Ikamoto
Bouncer the Dog
Cassie the Sheep
Serena Bishop
Stuart Parker
Boyd Hoyland
Summer Hoyland
Gus
Cindi
Drew
Dee
Flick
Darcy
Valda
Tad
Rosie
Tahnee
Doula
Penny
Jack Lassiter
Carmel
Roxy the Fox

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Neighbours is a 1952 Academy Award-winning short film by the National Film Board of Canada using the technique known as pixelation.