Neighbours and Home and Away were moved to early-evening slots and the UK soap opera boom began in the late 1980s.

Daytime drama Doctors began in March 2000, preceding Neighbours on BBC1.

Believing that Prisoner would resonate with new audiences, in 2010 111 Hits Group Programming Director Darren Chau began planning to replay the entire series on 111 Hits to combat the launch of channel Eleven, and in particular Network Ten's plans to move a struggling Neighbours from Network Ten to channel Eleven.

She began her career as a child actress, starring in various television shows and rose to prominence in 2002 in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Nina Tucker.

She is known for her role as Sky Mangel in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and her music career, which began with the release of her debut album Tightrope in September 2006.

Home and Away is the most successful program in Logies history, having won 38 awards since it premiered in 1988, followed by Neighbours with 30 Logies since it began in 1985, A Country Practice ( 29 awards over 12 years ), and Blue Heelers ( 25 Logies over 12 years ).

Ten began screening Neighbours on 20 January 1986.

At the age of 52, he began to revive his career and started taking acting classes, something he had not thought about after being cast in Neighbours.

Neighbours has been filmed in Pin Oak Court since the series began in 1985 and it has since become popular with tourists.

When Neighbours first began, Number 22 was initially empty.

It began life on TV2, but was moved to TV1 when Neighbours came along.

Erinsborough High School has been featured on screen since Neighbours began in 1985.

Lassiter's was originally owned by Jack Lassiter ( Alan Hopgood ) when it first began appearing in Neighbours.

Neighbours has been filmed in Pin Oak Court since the series began in 1985 and it has since become popular with tourists.

The imported Neighbours screens as five new episodes a week, which are shown once at 1: 45 pm and repeated at 5: 30 pm on Channel 5 each weekday.

Sydney was the only city where it was shown in the earlier 5. 30 p. m. timeslot which put it up against hit dating game show Perfect Match on Channel 10 so Neighbours had low ratings in Sydney, and Seven's Sydney station ATN-7 quickly lost interest in the show.

The success of Neighbours prompted the creation of somewhat similar suburban and family or teen-oriented soap operas such as Home and Away ( 1988 –) on Channel Seven and Richmond Hill ( 1988 ) on Channel Ten.

Channel Seven's Home and Away, a teen soap developed as a rival to Neighbours, has also achieved significant and enduring success on UK television.

Since 1990 most new Australian serials have been based on the successful Neighbours formula of foregrounding youthful attractive casts in appealing locations.

Attempts to replicate the success of daily teen-oriented serials Neighbours and Home and Away saw the creation of Echo Point ( 1995 ) and Breakers ( 1999 ) on Network Ten.

By March 2007 Australian viewing figures for Neighbours had fallen to fewer than 700, 000 a night, prompting a revamp of cast and graphics used on the show, and a deemphasis on the action oriented direction the series had moved in with a move to refocus the show on the family storylines it is traditionally known for.

It has been suggested that with their emphasis on the younger, attractive and charismatic characters, Neighbours and Home and Away have found success in the middle ground between glamorous, fantastic US soaps with their wealthy but tragic heroes and the more grim, naturalistic UK soap operas populated by older, unglamorous characters.

Neighbours, which is celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2005, was aired on the US channel Oxygen in March 2004, however it attracted few viewers, perhaps in part because it was scheduled opposite well-established and highly popular US soap operas such as All My Children and The Young and The Restless, and due to low ratings it was cancelled shortly afterwards.

* Neighbours ( 1985 ) The character of Daphne is originally a stripper at Des's bucks party, and eventually goes on to marry him.

Joe Perrone went on to play Gino Rossini in the popular Australian television serial " Neighbours " in 1987 ; guest starred in the Australian sit-com " Acropolis Now " in 1992, and featured in the 1988 US motion picture " Phantom of the Ritz ".

On 27 August 2010, the soap opera Neighbours filmed scenes in the harbour and on board the cruise ship, Pacific Jewel.

Good Neighbours ( Guid Nychburris in Middle Scots ) is the main festival of the year, a ceremony which is largely based on the theme of a positive community spirit.

* Bree Timmins, on the Australian soap Neighbours

He lived in Box Hill North, Victoria in the late 1980s while working on the Australian drama series Neighbours.

* Episode 6456 of Neighbours broadcast on 27th August 2012 included a competition between two students attempting to resolve the equation in an infinite series with operator equivalents.

On 11 February 2008, BBC One dropped Neighbours and the programme has since been broadcast on Channel 5.

She also had a cameo role on the Australian soap opera Neighbours on the episode titled " What's a Spice Girl Like You ...?

In Neighbours ( 1985 ), the character of Daphne is originally a stripper at Des's bucks party, and eventually goes on to marry him.

Before appearing on Neighbours, Smith had previously acted in guest roles in drama series such as the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police.

The Reg Grundy Organisation also created Neighbours, a suburban-based daily serial devised as a sedate family drama with some comedy and lightweight situations, for the Seven Network in 1985.

Southern Cross dropped Rove Live and Totally Wild in 2004, Big Brother in 2006, The Bold and the Beautiful in 2007, Hueys Cooking Adventures, Australian Idol and Thank God You're Here in 2008 ( though it was brought back in 2009 with its move to Seven ), and Neighbours and The Simpsons in 2009, TDT now broadcast these shows.

The Australian soap opera Neighbours was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985.

Neighbours underperformed in the Sydney market and it struggled for four months before Seven cancelled it.

The prominence he gained from Sons and Daughters allowed his idea for Neighbours to be picked up by the Seven Network in 1985.

:: Neighbours, Seven Network

:: Peter O ' Brien, Neighbours, Seven Network

At the end of 1985 Louise Le Nay was appearing as Barbara Hill in the original run of Neighbours, when it was still screened by Australia's Seven Network.