From its first airing in the 80s, the Australian TV soap had viewers hooked. As the final show goes out in the UK on 29 July, what has been its legacy?
After almost four decades of unlikely melodrama, the final credits are to roll for UK viewers on 29 July on the TV soap opera that really did make a group of smalltown Australian families seem like “neighbours who became good friends”, to misquote the lyrics to that enduring Tony Hatch theme tune. Memories of the cul-de-sac at the centre of the action may fade but the impact of the show will live on.
