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Reference > The Month That Was... June 2007 by Steve

One Year Ago - June 2006

Neighbours celebrated its 5000th episode with a cliffhanger in a mineshaft and the return of an old favourite…

 

• Robert tries to get rid of Elle by planting a bomb in her car, but she escapes unhurt. Meanwhile, Cameron wakes up and knocks out Robert when he arrives to visit. Robert gets in the hospital bed and pretends to be his twin, while Cameron goes to Ramsay Street where he’s arrested for the bombing

Gail, the triplets’ mother and Paul’s ex-wife, arrives to see her comatose son, putting a spanner in Paul and Izzy’s relationship. Meanwhile, Robert ‘wakes up’ and Cameron finds himself in jail, with nobody believing his pleas of innocence. Robert goes on a camping trip with Paul to attempt some father-son bonding, before revealing the final part of his plan and tying his father up in a mineshaft, before causing the roof to cave in and leaving him there to die

When the police turn up at his wedding, Kim does a runner as the rest of the family distract the police and Janelle is left devastated

Sky is inconsolable following her break-up with Dylan, and things get worse when she realises that she’s pregnant. After finding out that JP is infertile, and the baby is too old to be Stingray’s, Sky struggles to find the words to tell Dylan that he’s going to be a father


Despite the misgivings of each of their families, Boyd and Janae decide to go ahead and get married at a registry office, using a fake birth certificate for Janae. Summer and Bree manage to alert Max and Janelle, who turn up just as the ceremony is ending

Karl and Susan bond as Cassie passes away, and she helps him when Karl realises that Tom is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. After helping Tom to move into a home, Karl and Susan reminisce at the farm and, after rescuing a lamb from a snake attack, they end up in a passionate clinch

Realising that nobody will approve, because of the age difference, Stingray and Rachel begin a secret affair

 

Five Years Ago - June 2002

Harold found himself alone after bidding farewell to Tad…

• Tad finally works out that Doula has been behind his problems with identity theft, as revenge for him getting her fired the year before. When Tad catches Doula’s accomplice, Richard and chases him onto the street into the path of a car, Harold is called to identify the body, which had ID showing he was Tad. However, Richard was the real victim and Tad manages to get his life back just in time to leave and join the extreme sports tour in the USA

Following the church fire, Rosie has an idea to raise money and launches a calendar with the men of Erinsborough in various states of undress

On the night of the calendar launch, Susan is running late and slips on some milk, bangs her head and loses 30 years on her life, waking up as a terrified 16-year-old, unsure of where she is and with no memory of ever marrying, or loving, Karl

Rosie’s genius grandson, Boyd, is moved up a year at Erinsborough High as part of an accelerated learning programme but quickly starts acting up in an effort to impress, and fit in with, the older students

Flick returns to Erinsborough and Marc tells her that he still wants to be with her. After being rejected by Steph and moving into a flar, Flick realises that she can’t resist Marc

Valda causes chaos when she mistakenly believes that Harold and Lou are a couple. Harold kisses her in order to make her realise that he isn’t gay, but she finds out that some stamps left to her by her sister, Beverly, are incredibly valuable and leaves for a world cruise

Darcy and Penny start a secret doctor-patient relationship, but struggle to keep it a secret from Karl and the other doctors at the hospital

 


Ten Years Ago - June 1997

A snake and a runaway teen caused mayhem on Ramsay Street…

 

• The Martins and Wilkinsons decide to go camping together, in an attempt to bond as one big family. Unfortunately, they bring a venomous snake back with them in the camping gear and it’s soon on the loose at number 32, leading to Lance getting bitten as he tries to protect Anne

With everyone else away, Helen is alarmed to catch a young girl in the act of burgling number 32. Helen and Toadie get to know the girl, Jamie-Lee, and try to help the runaway reunite with her parents

A depressed Lisa loses the big netball game and finds herself in trouble with Lou when her team wreck his bus. Feeling increasingly unhappy, Lisa is alarmed when Sarah uses the journals at the surgery to diagnose her with an overactive thyroid, but Karl soon tells Lisa that she’s just going through a low patch and warns Sarah about her amateur diagnoses

After a terrible opening night for his double decker bus restaurant, and an equally awful review from the local restaurant critic, Lou begins to realise that his new business is more trouble than it’s worth, but it seems that all of his problems have gone away when it mysteriously burns down, leaving many people wondering if it was an insurance job

Debbie and Darren continue to see each other, while Libby pledges her love to Darren, but it’s obvious to everyone that it’s only a matter of time before Libby and Darren get back together

Marlene and Lou both join a dating agency, while Susan decides that she wants to have another baby, despite the risks it would involve – and Karl’s misgivings

Twenty Years Ago - June 1987

There was a wedding in the Robinson family, but it wasn’t quite what it seemed…

• After planning to move in together and realising how expensive it will be, Scott proposes to Charlene and she accepts, much to the horror of their families. Dan Ramsay is particularly disgusted about the idea of the Ramsays and Robinsons being joined by marriage

Jim and Scott find themselves at war again and an angry Jim almost crashes Number 13. Jim later reads a letter that Anne wrote to Helen, thanking her for giving them her blessing, despite her doubts about them marrying young. Jim comes to his senses and, at Anne’s grave, he gives Scott and Charlene the approval they’ve been looking for

The build-up to Scott and Charlene’s wedding also sees the first appearance of Jim’s interfering cousin, Hilary

Only a couple of weeks before his brother’s wedding, Paul surprises the family when they all arrive for dinner by announcing that he and Gail are getting married, there and then. What the family don’t realise is that it’s a marriage of convenience, but Hilary soon smells a rat when she stays with the couple and finds them sleeping in separate rooms

Whilst helping Daphne decorate her nursery, Mrs Mangel takes a fall and wakes up with amnesia, having lost two years and not realising that she now lives in Ramsay Street or that her husband, Len, left her for another woman. As her memory returns, she vows to sue Des and Daphne

Harold is horrified by the idea of Scott and Charlene living in sin together and, during an argument, she throws her engagement ring into the lake, believing that the diamond hasn’t been put in yet and it’s only glass

Amidst all the rubbish Henry finds in the lake, Lucy and Bouncer find an old bone. Henry jokes that it’s probably from a dinosaur. However, when it turns out that there’s a Aboriginal burial site only a few miles away, it seems that the bone could have come from that, and Paul is asked not to disturb it again

 

Please note that dates are based on Australian screenings

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