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Home and Away

1988 · 39 seasons · 22m per episode · Drama, Soap

Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 228 episodes (January 18, 1988)
• Season 2 — 220 episodes (January 23, 1989)
• Season 3 — 225 episodes (January 8, 1990)
• Season 4 — 242 episodes (January 7, 1991)
• Season 5 — 230 episodes (January 13, 1992)
• Season 6 — 230 episodes (January 11, 1993)
• Season 7 — 230 episodes (January 10, 1994)
• Season 8 — 230 episodes (January 16, 1995)
• Season 9 — 230 episodes (January 15, 1996)
• Season 10 — 230 episodes (January 13, 1997)
• Season 11 — 230 episodes (January 12, 1998)
• Season 12 — 230 episodes (January 11, 1999)
• Season 13 — 205 episodes (January 31, 2000)
• Season 14 — 230 episodes (January 15, 2001)
• Season 15 — 230 episodes (January 14, 2002)
• Season 16 — 230 episodes (January 13, 2003)
• Season 17 — 220 episodes (January 12, 2004)
• Season 18 — 230 episodes (January 10, 2005)
• Season 19 — 230 episodes (January 16, 2006)
• Season 20 — 230 episodes (January 15, 2007)
• Season 21 — 210 episodes (January 28, 2008)
• Season 22 — 225 episodes (January 19, 2009)
• Season 23 — 220 episodes (January 25, 2010)
• Season 24 — 220 episodes (January 24, 2011)
• Season 25 — 230 episodes (January 23, 2012)
• Season 26 — 225 episodes (January 21, 2013)
• Season 27 — 235 episodes (January 27, 2014)
• Season 28 — 231 episodes (February 2, 2015)
• Season 29 — 231 episodes (February 1, 2016)
• Season 30 — 230 episodes (January 30, 2017)
• Season 31 — 230 episodes (January 29, 2018)
• Season 32 — 230 episodes (February 18, 2019)
• Season 33 — 205 episodes (January 27, 2020)
• Season 34 — 240 episodes (February 1, 2021)
• Season 35 — 230 episodes (January 31, 2022)
• Season 36 — 230 episodes (January 9, 2023)
• Season 37 — 230 episodes (January 8, 2024)
• Season 38 — 230 episodes (January 13, 2025)
• Season 39 — 178 episodes (January 19, 2026)

Cast

• Ray Meagher as Alf
• Ada Nicodemou as Leah
• Emily Symons as Marilyn
• Shane Withington as John
• James Stewart as Justin
• Ethan Browne as Tane
• Nicholas Cartwright as Cash
• Adam Rowland as Remi
• Stephanie Panozzo as Eden
• Emily Weir as Mackenzie Booth

Details

Created by

Alan Bateman

First aired

January 18, 1988

Episodes

8820

Genres

Drama, Soap

Network

Seven Network

Status

Returning Series

TMDB score

6.4 / 10 from 78 votes