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• The street used for exterior shots is Pin Oak Court in Vermont South, in the heart of Melbourne's middle-class suburbia. The houses are owned and lived in by real residents. Grundy Television pay the residents for the use of the court and now also provide security at night times after a number of vandal attacks.
  
  
• The show's longest-running character was Helen Daniels who appeared until episode 2,965, when Anne Haddy was forced to give up her role due to ill health.
  
  
• The show is the longest running drama in Australian television history, and recorded its 4,000th episode on 21 December 2001.
  
  
• Helped launch the acting careers of Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Pia Miranda, Radha Mitchell, Jason Donovan and Jesse Spencer, as well as the music careers of Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Holly Valance and Delta Goodrem.
  
  
• In 1988, the "Neighbours" cast were requested by the British Royal Family to perform at the Royal Variety Performance.
  
  
• Several of the show's writers have also appeared in front of the camera, including Alan Hopgood, Louise Le Nay, Chris Milne, Shane Porteous and Ian Smith.
  
  
• Was originally screened on Channel 7 in Australia in 1985 until it was canceled at the end of 1985 (after only eight months) in favor of Channel 7's new one-hour news service. The show was saved by rival network Channel 10 who acquired the rights for the show and, beginning in February 1986, have screened it ever since. The show has since become Australia's most successful drama series, enjoyed by 30 million viewers a day in more than 20 countries.
  
  
• "Stuart", played by Blair McDonough, is asked to participate in a reality show set in Ramsary Street, but he rejects the offer, saying he doesn't believe in reality TV. Blair McDonough was the runner-up of the first Australian "Big Brother" (2001/V) season in 2001, on the same network.
  
  
• From 14 June 2004 episodes got their own original title e.g. "Spilling Secrets" as opposed to being just a numbered episode.
  
  
• The current longest-serving cast member is Ian Smith, who has played Harold Bishop since 1987.
  
  
• The soap is set in the fictional Autralian suburb of Erinsborough, which is an anagram of 'Neighbours' with an extra O and R.
  
  
• Is the sixth Australian soap opera to appear on U.S. television (Paradise Beach, Pacific Drive, Home & Away, Prisoner, and The Sullivans are the others). In July of 2004, it also became the sixth Australian soap opera to be discontinued in the United States.
  
  

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