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Friday Flashback: Ailsa sees Bobby’s ghost in the fridge

In one of Home & Away's more bizarre storylines in 1995, Ailsa suffered a bout of depression and began hallucinating.

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In one of Home & Away‘s more bizarre storylines in 1995, Ailsa (Judy Nunn) suffered a bout of depression and began hallucinating, resulting in the surprising emergence of Bobby’s (Nicolle Dickson) ghost from a fridge door.

The visions were explained by writers as the result of expired anti-depressants from a post-natal period.

Ray Meagher recently told TV Tonight, “The thing that was a bit funny that I always used to have a chuckle about with Cornelia Francis, Norman Coburn and Judy Nunn, was one of those situations where we had to shoot the scene twice. Once with Judy in it, and once without Judy.”

According to Meagher Judy Nunn’s character had “lost her marbles” and was seeing characters that were not physically present.

“I can’t remember the bloody detail or who was crazy. But it was pretty bizarre that, you know, Judy was there, then she wasn’t there and all that sort of stuff.”

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  1. I was 13 when this episode aired and it was one of the most memorable. I watchdd it again during the time 7two replayed the early years.
    When I watched the first season of Stranger Things, it actually reminded me of Bobby coming out from the fridge!

  3. It was actually due to PTSD after being robbed at the Diner, and also due to Echo Point premiering on 10 that same week. H&A bosses had enough time in advance to plan this for the same time to boost ratings. It worked!

      1. Seven denied of course that Bobby storyline as well as the return of Marilyn (Emily Symons) and Steven (Adam Willits) had anything to do with Echo Point debuting in the same week. “The stories are done months before,” Seven executive Des Monaghan told TV Week. “We were just very pleased that Channel Ten decided to launch their show that week.”

  4. I remember there was a whole storyline with Alf having a brain tumour and seeing hallucinations of Ailsa, and she was being quite wicked. That was an interesting one.

    I do miss Ailsa, though – what a great character, played beautifully by Judy Nunn.

    1. Maybe that’s the one he was referring to… he was a little vague on the storyline which is entirely understandable. Soap actors always have to be looking forward just to stay on top of the amount of scripts. Once a script is done, it’s forgotten.

      1. Oh yeah fair enough. 2.5 hours of TV per week for a fair chunk of the year for almost 40 years… you’d be lucky to remember storylines from a couple of years ago…

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