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20 unusual facts about Neighbours


Colin Lane

He has made numerous appearances on Australian television, having had guest appearances on Good News Week, Spicks and Specks, Welcher & Welcher, Thank God You're Here and Neighbours.

Dan Hall

He provided vocals for "Don't Look Back" which was used on TV soap opera, Neighbours.

He left Taxiride in 2001 to work solo, he provided vocals for "Don't Look Back" which was used on TV soap opera, Neighbours and then formed Airway Lanes in late 2004.

Gaby Roslin

Evans left the show in 1994 and Roslin continued with his replacement, former Neighbours star Mark Little, until 1996.

Georgina Andrews

Georgina Andrews is an Australian actress best known for her recurring role as Heather Pryor in the television soap opera Neighbours.

He Don't Love You

There were two versions filmed: one was the Australian version set in a factory, whilst the UK version was almost the same, but featured "Neighbours" star Holly Valance.

In Love Again

In mid-2007, it was used as a promotional song for a change to long-running Australian drama, Neighbours.

Justin Kennedy

Kennedy has appeared as an actor in numerous television shows including Stingers, The Secret (2006 film) and Neighbours.

Madeleine Jay

She was featured in guest roles in television series such as Round the Twist, Neighbours, Pirate Islands, Blue Heelers and Tangle.

Midlife crisis

In the Australian television series, Neighbours, Karl Kennedy went though a midlife crisis dating young women and changing his appearance.

Moya O'Sullivan

Moya O'Sullivan is an actress best known for portraying Marlene Kratz in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

Oakey, Queensland

Oakey has been regularly mentioned on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours, with characters both originating from the town and moving to the town.

Rob Elliott

Had several parts in Neighbours and in 1996, he became host of Talking Telephone Numbers (based on a UK format) for the Seven Network.

Somebody Out There

In Neighbours the song was featured, when Samantha Fitzgerald was playing it in her house also when Bridget Parker and Declan Napier when they went on their first date to the cinema.

Steve McCann

McCann guest starred along fellow Aussie extreme sportsman, Renton Millar in an episode of Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2002.

Takin' Back What's Mine

The song has been featured a few times in the Australian soap drama Neighbours just like her debut single "We Think It's Love" and is also one of the tracks featured on the CD portion of Neighbours: The Music.

The Last Day on Earth

Not initially intended for release as a single, the song was used in promo advertisements for Australian soap opera Neighbours, and the song then began selling digitally, and peaked at #2 on iTunes.

TV Week

In 2014, Bauer Media published a one-off special titled TV Week Soap Extra, which previewed the 2014 storylines from various soap operas, including Home and Away, Neighbours and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Whitehead, County Antrim

Neighbours actress Jackie Woodburne lived in Whitehead before her family emigrated to Australia.

Wishing I Was There

From early 1993 Imbruglia was an actor on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours.


Al-Mujaydil

However, in 1950, after intervention from the Pope Pius XII, the Christians of the village were offered the opportunity to move back to the village, but refused to do so without their Muslim neighbours.

Almami Moreira

Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Moreira reached Boavista FC's youth ranks in 1995, but started out professionally with northern neighbours Gondomar S.C. and Gil Vicente FC, on loan.

Amy Smith

Amy Greenwood, married name Smith, fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours

Ascott Martyrs

The rest of the women’s children were cared for by neighbours and the Milton-under-Wychwood branch of the Union, while the women were imprisoned.

Binley Woods

One of Binley Woods' claims to fame is that it was used as one of the locations for the videotaping of the 1990s BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, as home to Hyacinth Bucket at 117 Heather Road, and 119 Heather Road for her neighbours Elizabeth Warden and Emmet Hawksworth respectively.

Bury Me Deep in Love

It was also used in the Australian TV soap Neighbours for the wedding of Harold and Madge Bishop and the Australian drama series Packed To The Rafters for the wedding of Ben and Mel.

Caitlin Stasey

After a year studying and attending auditions, in April 2005 Neighbours casting director Jan Russ cast her as Rachel Kinski.

Callum Jones

Callum Rebecchi (previously Jones) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours played by child actor Morgan Baker.

Carmella Cammeniti

Carmella was the second member of the Cammeniti family to appear in Neighbours, after her father, Rocco (Robert Forza).

Dagmar Bláhová

Dagmar Bláhová (born 8 March 1949), Liberec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born Australian television actress notable for her appearance as Maria Ramsay in the popular Australian television soap opera, Neighbours.

Degema language

The people of Degema are linguistically and culturally distinct from their Kalabari neighbours (The Kalabari people speak Kalabari, an Eastern Ijo language spoken in the Akuku Toru and Asari-Toru Local Government Areas of Rivers State.

Don Battye

Battye co-composed the famous theme song to Sons and Daughters with Peter Pinne, plus two songs for inclusion in 'Neighbours'.

Donna Freedman

The South Wales Evening Post called Donna "one of the programme's most popular faces" and the Bristol Evening Post said she was "one of the most refreshing Neighbours characters to come along for many a moon".

Dorchester Town F.C.

A young Trevor Senior impressed alongside ever-present top scorer Paul Thorne, whilst Graham Roberts joined neighbours Weymouth early in the campaign for £6,000 before going on to star for Tottenham Hotspur and England.

Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes

Thus they only needed to plant distinctive species, such as Dracaena reflexa, to make the boundaries visible and make them known to the neighbours.

Felicity Scully

Soon after settling into the area, Felicity later sees older boy Sean Edwards (Daniel Collopy) much to her father Joe's chagrin.

Fletcher Humphrys

During October 2006 and April 2008, he guest starred as Guy Sykes, an acquaintance of Katya Kinski (Dichen Lachman) on Network Ten's Neighbours.

Habeas Corpus Parliament

I must needs put you in mind how necessary it will be to have a good Strength at Sea, next Summer, since our Neighbours are making naval Preparations...

Ibón Pérez Arrieta

In his country, Pérez could never play in higher than the third division in his beginnings, moving in 2001 to Iberian Peninsula neighbours Portugal with Desportivo de Chaves where he scored at incredible rate, always in the second division.

Jaromar II, Prince of Rügen

During the early years of his reign, he tried to maintain peaceful relations with his neighbours, the Dukes of Pomerania, especially with the princes of Gützkow, who were vassals of Barnim I.

Jeremy Clarkson: Meets the Neighbours

Jeremy Clarkson: Meets the Neighbours was a television series presented by Jeremy Clarkson and during the course of the series, he drives a 1960s Jaguar E-Type.

Jim Leighton

His erratic form in the league was particularly evident when United suffered a 5–1 demolition to neighbours City (then newly promoted), a 3–0 hammering by Aston Villa on Boxing Day and were crushed 4–0 by Nottingham Forest in the penultimate league game of the season.

John McArdle

Playing a regular character in Brookside's heyday (alongside Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston, and working with writers such as Jimmy McGovern), he burned himself into the viewers' memories with his portrayal of a man beyond breaking point, which culminated with him ranting at neighbours and churning up their lawns, as he drove his car around in circles.

Juan Antonio Larrañaga

In January 1980 he made his first-team debut in the Copa del Rey, against Navarre neighbours Peña Sport FC.

Kevin Tully

He made his debut for the club on Boxing Day, in a 2–1 defeat at Lancashire neighbours Burnley, and went on to make a further four starts and one substitute appearance before the end of the 1972–73 campaign.

Kylie Minogue filmography

1988 - Won a Silver Logie for Most Popular Actress and a Gold Logie for being notable for the performance in Neighbours at the Logie Awards/Logie Awards of 1988, both for Neighbours (1985).

Malvern, Victoria

Jesse Spencer – Hollywood Actor, late of Neighbours, now of 'House' fame, attended Malvern Central School in the 1980s.

Marca Hispanica

The Muslim forces however continued to raid their Gaul neighbours to the north, reaching as far as Autun.

Ned Parker

In February 2008, it was announced that O'Connor was to leave Neighbours that year, along with co-stars David Hoflin (Oliver Barnes), Jesse Rosenfeld (Marco Silvani) and Sweeney Young (Riley Parker).

Neighbours From Hell in Britain

According to Neighbours From Hell in Britain, the most common forms of neighbour-orientated nuisance stem from issues around Noise, Anti-Social Behaviour, Harassment, Bullying, Boundary Problems and more frequently with Car/Vehicle Parking issues.

Paul Coia

Coia took an acting role in an episode of the sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt called 'Holiday', first shown in 1990, in which the Nesbitt family and their neighbours the Cotters go to Fuengirola.

Paulo Futre

In his fifth season, Futre provided countless assists for striker Manolo who scored 27 goals for the Pichichi Trophy, with him netting in the season's domestic cup, a 2–0 win over neighbours Real Madrid; during most of his spell with the Colchoneros, he was also team captain.

Polruan

It is bounded on three sides by water: to the north by Pont Creek, to the west by the River Fowey and to the south by the English Channel and neighbours village Bodinnick to the north, connected by a 4 mile walk along the hill tops.

Preston Pals

To aid this scheme, he encouraged local councils to establish what became known as Pals battalions, made up of groups of friends and neighbours who were keen to fight alongside each other, rather than being individually assigned to regular army regiments.

Raeti

Alternatively their language may have been Italic, akin to that of their close neighbours, the Veneti (whose language, considered part of the "West Italic" sub-branch of the Italic branch of Indo-European, was closely related to Latin).

Sophie Ramsay

In September 2011, the official Neighbours website reported Jones had decided to cut her waist length hair into a Bob cut.

The Audreys

"Small Things" was used as soundtrack music in the November 2010 episode of Neighbours, when Steph Scully was sentenced to 6 years in jail for the death of Ringo Brown.

The Dead of Jericho

As do Ms Scott's neighbours, including the nosy handyman George Jackson, and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (the latter also figures in episode 3.1 of the spin-off TV series Lewis).

The Henderson Kids

They included Tottie Goldsmith, Kevin Harrington, Peter O'Brien, Stefan Dennis, and Jane Hall who, like Minogue, Kilpatrick and Jones, went on to appear in Neighbours.

The Mississauga Blob

Peel Regional Police questioned the family and neighbours and concluded the object was a "flaming Frisbee" thrown into their yard as a prank.

Travelling gnome prank

Television storylines involving travelling garden gnomes have appeared in soap operas including both Coronation Street (Norris Cole pranking Derek Wilton) and Neighbours (Dr Karl Kennedy pranking Marlene Kratz).

Union for the Mediterranean

Bishara Khader argues that this ambitious European project towards its Mediterranean neighbours has to be understood in a context of optimism.

Wondrous Oblivion

Set in suburban south London in 1960, several themes run through the film, though the main storyline concerns the friendship between a young boy, David Wiseman (Sam Smith) who is the son of European Jewish immigrants, and his new next door neighbours, father and Dennis (Delroy Lindo) and young daughter Judy (Leonie Elliott) who are West Indian immigrants.