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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 443402" data-attributes="member: 673">Regarding the pilot and later introduction of ongoing characters, I&#039;ve gleaned this from the Super Aussie Soap book. The pilot and subsequent season one episodes were indeed produced together. Filming began in August 1981, with the series premiering in November of that same year. While the network appear to have left the pilot script intact, it was felt that there wasn&#039;t enough characters in it to sustain an ongoing series, so further regular / recurring characters were added to the subsequent early episode scripts.&nbsp; Our ITV region used to air it in the afternoons, around 2pm, before CITV would start. They dropped the show in 1998, rather randomly into the early episodes of what would be its final Seven season. I&#039;d presume they&#039;d bought the rights to the full season, so I don&#039;t know why they didn&#039;t see it out to the end or at least burn off the episodes in a different timeslot.According to Wikipedia, some ITV regions didn&#039;t air episodes featuring storylines that they deemed unsuitable for daytime viewing. The only other time that I recall them doing this was when it was implied that Shannon (Isla Fisher) was in a relationship with a woman, who she subsequently moved to Paris with. I think they edited out a lot of that storyline, to the point that her onscreen departure didn&#039;t make a great deal of sense due to the amount of scenes that had been cut.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 443402, member: 673"] Regarding the pilot and later introduction of ongoing characters, I've gleaned this from the Super Aussie Soap book. The pilot and subsequent season one episodes were indeed produced together. Filming began in August 1981, with the series premiering in November of that same year. While the network appear to have left the pilot script intact, it was felt that there wasn't enough characters in it to sustain an ongoing series, so further regular / recurring characters were added to the subsequent early episode scripts. Our ITV region used to air it in the afternoons, around 2pm, before CITV would start. They dropped the show in 1998, rather randomly into the early episodes of what would be its final Seven season. I'd presume they'd bought the rights to the full season, so I don't know why they didn't see it out to the end or at least burn off the episodes in a different timeslot. According to Wikipedia, some ITV regions didn't air episodes featuring storylines that they deemed unsuitable for daytime viewing. The only other time that I recall them doing this was when it was implied that Shannon (Isla Fisher) was in a relationship with a woman, who she subsequently moved to Paris with. I think they edited out a lot of that storyline, to the point that her onscreen departure didn't make a great deal of sense due to the amount of scenes that had been cut. [/QUOTE]

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