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![]() Promotional image for An Eye for an Eye featuring Dan Ewing as Heath Braxton.
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Written by | Sarah Walker |
Directed by | Arnie Custo |
Starring | |
Composer(s) | Michael Yezerski |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
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Executive producer(s) | John Holmes Julie McGauran |
Producer(s) | Lucy Addario |
Cinematography | Bob Miller |
Editor(s) | Stafford Jackson Wales |
Running time | 66 minutes |
Production company(s) | Seven Productions |
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Original network | Presto |
Original release | 9 December 2015 |
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Related shows | Home and Away |
Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye is a television film and spin-off of the Australian soap opera Home and Away. It was written by Sarah Walker and directed by Arnie Custo. It premiered on 9 December 2015 on streaming service Presto, following the season finale of Home and Away. An Eye for an Eye was the first local production commissioned for Presto. The idea for a special was suggested during talks about a joint venture between Presto and the Seven Network. The network's CEO hoped An Eye for an Eye would keep regular viewers of Home and Away interested while the show was off air, while also attracting a new audience to Presto.
The plot centres on the kidnapping of Ricky Sharpe (Bonnie Sveen) and Darryl Braxton's (Stephen Peacocke) infant son Casey by Brax's enemy Trevor "Gunno" Gunson (Diarmid Heidenreich). Former Home and Away actors Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley reprised their roles of Heath Braxton and Bianca Scott especially for the telefilm. An Eye for an Eye was filmed at the Seven Network studios in Eveleigh, Palm Beach in Sydney, the town of Blackheath, and across the Blue Mountains. More crew members were brought in to help out, while many of the cast members had to fit in filming around their Home and Away schedules.