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Home And Away

Home and Away
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Genre Soap opera
Created by Alan Bateman
Starring Current cast
Theme music composer Mike Perjanik
Opening theme "Home and Away"
(short theme; instrumental)
Ending theme "Home and Away"
(international broadcasts)
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 30 (+ 5 specials)
No. of episodes 6614
Production
Executive producer(s) John Holmes
Julie McGauran
Producer(s) John Holmes (1988–89)
Andrew Howie (1989–94)
Russell Webb (1994–2001)
Julie McGauran (2001–07)
Cameron Welsh (2007–12)
Lucy Addario (2012–)
Location(s) Palm Beach, Sydney, New South Wales
Camera setup Video (1988–2003)
HD video (2003–present)
Running time 22 minutes
Production company(s) Seven Productions
Seven Network Operations Limited
Red Heart Entertainment
Distributor Southern Star Group
Release
Original network Seven Network
Picture format 576i (4:3) (1988–2000)
576i (16:9) (2001–)
1080i (16:9) (2007–2010, 2016-)
Audio format Stereo
Original release 17 January 1988 (1988-01-17) – present
Chronology
Related shows HeadLand
External links
Website

Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales, where he noticed locals were complaining about the construction of a foster home and against the idea of foster children from the city living in the area. The soap opera was initially going to be called Refuge, but the name was changed to the "friendlier" title of Home and Away once production began. The show premiered with a ninety-minute pilot episode (subsequently in re-runs known as Home and Away: The Movie). Since then, each subsequent episode has aired for a duration of twenty-two minutes and Home and Away has become the second-longest drama series in Australian television. In Australia, it is currently broadcast from Mondays to Thursdays at 7:00 pm (on Thursdays, two episodes are played in a one-hour block).

Home and Away follows the lives and loves of the residents in Summer Bay, a fictional seaside town of New South Wales. The series initially focused on the Fletcher family – Tom (Roger Oakley) and Pippa (Vanessa Downing), and their five foster children, Frank Morgan (Alex Papps), Carly Morris (Sharyn Hodgson), Lynn Davenport (Helena Bozich), Steven Matheson (Adam Willits) and Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie) – who relocated from the city and moved into the Summer Bay House, where they took on the new job of running the caravan park, and eventually took in a sixth foster child, Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson). Home and Away was not without controversy. During the first season alone, it featured several adult-themed storylines such as teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol addiction and drug overdose. A storyline, in particular concerning rape outraged the public and a protest erupted, as viewers deemed it an inappropriate subject to be covering in an early evening time slot. The series has dealt with similar storylines over the years which have often exceeded its restricted time slot. Palm Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches district has been used as the location for Summer Bay since 1988. The exterior scenes are filmed mainly at Palm Beach, while the interior scenes are filmed at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern.


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