Talk:List of Home and Away characters

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[edit] Suggested merge of Flynn Saunders article

Ok someone suggested a merge, but the article is valid as Flynn was a major character for a number of years so he should warrant his own article. That article would benefit from more info, but it should remain independent from this list.--NeilEvans 23:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Please read my message at Talk:Home and Away. Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 01:04, 26 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Qualifying Criteria

What is the criteria for qualifying for a listing on this page. 90% of the characters are those who made the opening credits of the show, but there's a further group of people who would appear just be fran favourites.--Ryan86 00:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking verification for Trent Baines

I know nothing of the show, but I'm trying to make articles link up.... Trent Baines is currently not linked from anywhere, and his article claims that his main claim to fame is "Home and Away". But I see that he hasn't even made the character listing. Is he sufficiently non-notable that I should ask for his article to be deleted, or should he be added here? --Alvestrand 03:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Trent had a lengthy stint on the show from 2006 to 2007 but was not a regular.Skteosk (talk) 22:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pippa

OK, I'm a tragic.... I cannot believe she doesn't have an article! One of the FOUNDING CHARACTERS for crying out loud... No, I'm not that tragic, I won't be creating the article. I don't even own any DVD's, commercial or otherwise. Garrie 03:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philip, Stacey, Gary, Alison, Dodge - why not in cast list?

I just ran through the cast list and couldn't find several of the major supporting characters from the early years in the list, so here's a reminder from old memories alone:

Philip was (I think) a doctor with shortish black hair, and was killed in a terrible fire. His girlfriend was called Stacey Macklin; I think she had relatively short (for a woman) blondeish hair. They were both main intro characters at one time. I think they were probably 30s-ish in age. Stacey I think was the daughter of the owner of a major employer in Summer Bay called the Macklin Corporation, and worked there herself too.

Gary was a guy with longish dark hair, heavily involved with Carly, and then was found suddenly to have jumped off the top of the cliff. The ensuing investigation revealed something about an engagement ring, possibly stolen by Gary from Celia for his own purposes - I think that Carly had just broken off her engagement with him or something like that, but I haven't seen the episodes for about nineteen years since they were screened in the UK. Anyway it was all highly dramatic and has to be worth a mention.

Alison was a young woman with medium-long black hair and a really spoilt attitude. She went after Lance as a boyfriend just because she knew he had money. But he eventually saw through her and in a memorable scene, after she asked him to buy her a car, he agreed to buy her a 'Roller' (Rolls-Royce), then presented her with a tiny die-cast toy of one. That was the end of that relationship.

Dodge (I believe his name was Brian Forbes, but Dodge was his nickname) was a bad boy with a kind of smouldering aura of mischief and discontent who came to stay with Tom and Pippa for quite some time and was a very, very bad influence upon Steven, catching him at a low point in his morale and changing his attitudes considerably for the worse, at least on the surface, in the course of befriending him. Sally in contrast was not taken in, immediately sensing that all was not right with Dodge, and hated every moment Dodge was around. Though I had forgotten this detail, I have read at one of the major Home and Away websites that Dodge was actually responsible for starting the fire that killed Philip. When Steven finally saw through Dodge's 'cool' veneer and realised he was not a good person to be associated with at all, the two of them fell out, and around that point Dodge left Summer Bay. Then several years later Dodge returned suddenly and seemed to have it in for Steven still and wound up throwing both himself and Steven off a cliff, in an echo of the Gary incident. At this point, while Steven survived the drop Dodge vanished, presumed drowned.

Isn't it worth at least including these in the character list for completeness's sake? They weren't exactly one-episode wonders, any of them, but rather regular characters for quite some time, all of them, and with the possible exception of Stacey, rather strong and memorable characters at that.

Sadly, my personal memories of Home and Away only go back as far as 1992 or thereabouts but while I've heard of many of these characters I don't think they were actually classed as regulars - the fan site Back to the Bay includes (admittedly incomplete) images from early title sequences which don't include any of them and many are listed as guest stars. Several characters had pretty lengthy runs without becoming regulars (June Reynolds springs to mind). Oh - and the reason Dodge left Summer Bay was because he was doing time for manslaughter.Skteosk (talk) 22:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


All of these people were only guest players and should be listed in the recurring characters page. Conquistador2k6 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conquistador2k6 (talk • contribs) 01:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)