History Trivia / Neighbours

** Scott Robinson, Lucy Robinson (twice), Beverly Robinson (nee Marshall), Toby Mangel, Julie Martin (nee Robinson), Cody Willis, Cheryl Stark (briefly), Louise "Lolly" Carpenter (later combined with TheOriginalDarrin), Jack Scully, Libby Kennedy (briefly), Declan Napier, Lauren Carpenter, Brad Willis (also twice, though his original two-episode guest stint was very rarely brought up after the rest of the Willis family joined the show), Pierce Greyson, Nell Rebecchi, Byron and Nicolette Stone, and, appropriately enough, Darren Stark.
** A few of these have been subject to LampshadeHanging: in addition to the Pierce scene noted below, it came up twice with Lucy Robinson in the final weeks, first when Glen Donnelly looked in Harold's history book and said, "If I didn't know better I'd think these photos were of three different people," and again when Shane Ramsey met her for the first time in over thirty years and said, "I have to admit, I wouldn't have recognised you."

** Andrew [=McFarlane=] played Max Hoyland's father Bobby, despite being only 13 years older than Stephen Lovatt.

** Scott Robinson, Lucy Robinson (twice), Beverly Robinson (nee Marshall), Toby Mangel, Julie Martin (nee Robinson), Cody Willis, Cheryl Stark (briefly), Louise "Lolly" Carpenter (later combined with TheOriginalDarrin), Jack Scully, Libby Kennedy (briefly), Declan Napier, Lauren Carpenter, Brad Willis (also twice, though his original two-episode guest stint was very rarely brought up after the rest of the Willis family joined the show), Pierce Greyson and, appropriately enough, Darren Stark.

* DirectedByCastMember: Jonathan Dutton (Tad Reeves, albeit several years after he had left), Scott Major (Lucas Fitzgerald) and Kate Kendall (Lauren Turner), among others.

* OldShame: Alan Dale (Jim Robinson) very much hated his time in the programme, claiming he felt typecast for many years and the programme only paid enough to feed his family.
* TheOtherDarrin: Scott Robinson, Lucy Robinson (twice), Beverly Robinson (nee Marshall), Toby Mangel, Julie Martin (nee Robinson), Cody Willis, Cheryl Stark (briefly), Louise "Lolly" Carpenter (later combined with TheOriginalDarrin), Jack Scully, Libby Kennedy (briefly), Declan Napier, Lauren Carpenter, Brad Willis (also twice, though his original two-episode guest stint was very rarely brought up after the rest of the Willis family joined the show), Pierce Greyson and, appropriately enough, Darren Stark.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: When Todd Landers had the accident which eventually killed him, Jim asked Madge to go to the Robinson house to wait for Helen to give her the news. With mobile phone ownership much more widespread now, needless to say it is unlikely that a storyline would develop that way nowadays. Similarly, in the same episode Jim rung Phoebe and Dorothy at the abortion clinic to tell them about the accident, whereas now he would ring one of them on their mobiles.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Toadie was originally going to illegally adopt an East Timorese orphan from Indonesia in a 2008 storyline as it was mentioned by him as a plan to spite Steph but Toadie's actor Ryan Moloney felt it was too silly, so it was ultimately discarded (though not before Toadie had tried to go through the application process but his fraud was exposed) and replaced by him adopting Callum instead.
--> At first, they wanted to have Toadie adopt a kid from East Timor illegally, which I thought was just ridiculous. And it was just to spite Steph! I was like, 'What are we doing?' Then we never mentioned it again, which I think is worse. We just don't talk about that now, but having Callum there is really cool.

* ReferencedBy: The 1992 song, "Rest in Peace", by Music/{{Extreme}} pays homage to this short.

* CreatorsFavorite: Years after making this short, Norman would state that if all of his films were destroyed and he could only save one, he would choose this one as he felt the message was important for the world.

** Maria Mercedes has played both Lucia Cammenitti and much more recently Estelle Petrides.

* FakeAmerican: Music/TamminSursok as fashionista Montana Marcel in a 2022 arc.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show is far more popular in the United Kingdom than in its native Australia, to the point that the popularity was the only reason why Fremantle kept the show running, as Channel 5 provided half of the show's funding. Once they ended that and Fremantle failed to find a new UK broadcaster, they decided to pull the plug on the series until Amazon Freevee came to the rescue.

* ChannelHop: The show started on Creator/SevenNetwork in 1985 for a short run where it was almost [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled out of existence]] in the cradle because it didn't appeal to ratings homes in Sydney and taken off that channel; Creator/NetworkTen rescued it and brought it to acclaim with the help of the Creator/{{BBC}} a year later, and it attained plenty of success to the point where Ten moved it over to their new digital network Eleven in 2011 to give it a jumpstart no other show could provide. The BBC carried the show in the UK until 2008, when it moved to Creator/ChannelFive because of overwhelming costs a public broadcaster could no longer provide. After the show's cancellation in 2022, it was {{Uncancelled}} thanks to Creator/{{Amazon}} Freevee.