sallycinnamon78
New Yorker
It's confession time... about one of the daftest TV shows ever (bar El Dorado).
From around late 1987 to early 1989 I loved Neighbours, adored Kylie Minogue... who was a very cute girl next door type and not the pneumatic blow-up doll she's become now. My little sister decided she was going to marry Jason Donovan - she's changed her mind now.
I had the Neighbours annual, storybooks, and used to ring up Grundy television pretending to be an adult at the age of 9, desperately trying to get a tour of the studios.
Then Home and Away arrived in 1987. I remember a hell of a lot of fuss: it was the big bad wolf compared to nice, safe little Neighbours. How times change!
My earlier Ramsey Street memories:
Shane, Paul, Gail, Lucy (Kylie Flinker, then Sasha Close, then wooden horse Melissa Bell), Jim, Scott and Charlene - it was excusable to like Kylie then, as I was 10: there is no justification for it now whatsoever, unless you are hard of hearing or have an unhealthy appreciation for horses.
Madge, Daphne, Des, Dr someone or other, who has bright red hair... clive gibbons, I think the actor/character may have been? Jane, Mike, Mrs Mangel, Henry with the dunnybrush hair, Todd and Katie... and, of course, Helen Daniels.
My boyfriend makes me laugh - he's Australian and likes Neighbours (something not so common back in the show's earlier days), but hasn't got a clue who the hell I'm talking about when I mention the older characters who are long gone.
In 2001, I went to my university's Language Institute at lunchtime to watch some videos for an assignment. There were 21 TV/video sets in there - and ALL OF THEM, except 2, were tuned into Neighbours! Scary. Please tell me you guys have more sense than to watch it...
Washed up old Neighbours has-been Jason Donovan turned up at my uni to sing four songs to us. He charged the Student Union £10k! Even Keith Harris and Orville didn't have the gall to charge that extortionate an amount, and defunct pop band East17 played at my school, for 50p per ticket, during the height of their fame.
From around late 1987 to early 1989 I loved Neighbours, adored Kylie Minogue... who was a very cute girl next door type and not the pneumatic blow-up doll she's become now. My little sister decided she was going to marry Jason Donovan - she's changed her mind now.
I had the Neighbours annual, storybooks, and used to ring up Grundy television pretending to be an adult at the age of 9, desperately trying to get a tour of the studios.
Then Home and Away arrived in 1987. I remember a hell of a lot of fuss: it was the big bad wolf compared to nice, safe little Neighbours. How times change!
My earlier Ramsey Street memories:
Shane, Paul, Gail, Lucy (Kylie Flinker, then Sasha Close, then wooden horse Melissa Bell), Jim, Scott and Charlene - it was excusable to like Kylie then, as I was 10: there is no justification for it now whatsoever, unless you are hard of hearing or have an unhealthy appreciation for horses.
Madge, Daphne, Des, Dr someone or other, who has bright red hair... clive gibbons, I think the actor/character may have been? Jane, Mike, Mrs Mangel, Henry with the dunnybrush hair, Todd and Katie... and, of course, Helen Daniels.
My boyfriend makes me laugh - he's Australian and likes Neighbours (something not so common back in the show's earlier days), but hasn't got a clue who the hell I'm talking about when I mention the older characters who are long gone.
In 2001, I went to my university's Language Institute at lunchtime to watch some videos for an assignment. There were 21 TV/video sets in there - and ALL OF THEM, except 2, were tuned into Neighbours! Scary. Please tell me you guys have more sense than to watch it...
Washed up old Neighbours has-been Jason Donovan turned up at my uni to sing four songs to us. He charged the Student Union £10k! Even Keith Harris and Orville didn't have the gall to charge that extortionate an amount, and defunct pop band East17 played at my school, for 50p per ticket, during the height of their fame.
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