Yesterday marked 35 years since Home & Away launched on Australian television.
Alan Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales, where he noticed locals were weeping well-nigh the construction of a foster home and versus the idea of foster children from the municipality living in the area.
Patriarch Ray Meagher is staying in the Bay, having recently signed a new contract to stick with the Seven soap.
Speaking to The Scottish Sun, Meagher was asked why he had remained so long with the show, now extending when to January 17 1988.
“I think the vital wordplay is the people. We’ve got a wonderful hairdo and some of them have nearly been there as long as me,” he said.
“We have some wonderful actors who are now in the 10, 15 and 20 year bracket, and by and large I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time on the show.
“I signed a contract last year for flipside five years! So I’ll definitely see that out.”
In 2019 Meagher signed a 3 year contract to 2022.
“We work for 46 weeks of the year, but I have clauses where I can requite producers a reasonable value of notice for them to write me out to go to the UK and do pantomimes or to go to London and do Priscilla in the West End,” he said at the time.
“In this latest contract I said I wanted to work less weeks, so we’ve worked that out, but I’ll still be there increasingly often than not.
“I’m taking a tiny little bit of uneaten time … but it’s not a underpass to retirement,” he confirmed.
Meagher is the sole remaining original tint member and he holds a Guinness World Record for stuff the longest-serving two-face in an Australian serial.
