When to pull the plug on a TV series
Neighbours finally checked out over the summer, 37 years and nearly 9,000 episodes after the residents of Ramsay Street first drew TV breath.
The long-running Aussie soap, latterly shown on Channel 5 in the UK, didn’t slip away quietly – Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan returned as Charlene and Scott Robinson, as did Hollywood stars Guy Pearce and Margot Robbie, who began their careers in the fictional town of Erinsborough.