Home and Away (1988 - ) (original) (raw)

Australian drama soap opera which premiered on 17th January 1988 on the Seven Network, follows the personal and professional lives of the residents of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales. Beginning in 1988, the series initially focused on families and fostering wayward children and teenagers. However, since it's inception, it has highlighted controversial issues such as teen pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use and overdose, rape, sex, murder, abortion, mental illness and self-harm, to name a few. It has emerged as the highest-rated and most popular soap opera on Australian television, ...(more)

Australian drama soap opera which premiered on 17th January 1988 on the Seven Network, follows the personal and professional lives of the residents of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales. Beginning in 1988, the series initially focused on families and fostering wayward children and teenagers. However, since it's inception, it has highlighted controversial issues such as teen pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use and overdose, rape, sex, murder, abortion, mental illness and self-harm, to name a few. It has emerged as the highest-rated and most popular soap opera on Australian television, and is the most awarded television series in Australia. Each new season begins either late January or early February, while each season finale in either late November or early December, as the show goes off-air for two months between seasons. (less)

Starring: Ray Meagher, Kate Ritchie, Vanessa Downing, Roger Oakley, Alex Papps, Sharyn Hodgson
Producer: John Holmes (XI)

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