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    Echo Point

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    Debuting in June 1995, this Aussie soap opera from the Ten Network was designed to do battle in the television ratings with the Channel 7 series Home and Away.

    Echo Point was a (fictional) sun-dappled coastal community with two cafes, a hospital, a police station, a garden centre and a haunted house. The slightly confusing location was an idealised dream of a place by the sea: urban, suburban and coastal all at the same time – and as close-knit as a small country community.

    Like Home and Away, Echo Point focussed on parents and children and teenagers and their relationships (basically, who’s snogging who and not telling their parents about it).

    The show had a familiar bland cast of characters: good girls, bad boys, cute kids, a sprightly single mother, a disillusioned wife, an erring husband, a grumpy boss and a father who drank too much.

    The family theme was very strong and the absence of a parent played a part in several characters’ lives and provided a gap in the dramatis personae, presumably to be filled at a later date – Where is Zac’s father? Who is Belinda’s father? When will they turn up in the plot?

    It seemed that half the cast worked at either the Shed or the Bakery (the two cafes). And if they didn’t work there, they ate veggie-burgers there.

    Amidst the small-scale domestic dramas of the Lomans, the Amadios and the O’Connors, a slightly Gothic sub-plot focussed on Daniel Blake (Phillip Gordon), a man without any apparent family ties whose parents were found murdered in their Echo Point house 15 years ago.

    For a while, he was the chief suspect but there was insufficient evidence to try him and he left town. Suddenly he was back to claim his inheritance and lurk mysteriously – dressed in black – in various Echo Point locations. He even popped into the Bakery for a coffee.

    After two weeks of disastrous ratings at 7.00 pm, Echo Point was moved to the earlier timeslot of 6.00 pm.

    The Ten Network eventually pulled the plug on the soapie after just four months on the air. It was replaced on weeknights with reruns of the vintage American sitcom, The Brady Bunch, while the remaining episodes were shown in one-hour blocks at 4.00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

    Echo Point was filmed in Sydney in the Manly district and at Balmoral Beach.

    Zac Brennan
    Martin Henderson
    Jules
    Melissa Tkautz
    Belinda O’Connor
    Rose Byrne
    Coral O’Connor
    Roxane Wilson
    Neville Loman
    Sean Scully
    Trish Loman
    Victoria Nicholls
    Dean Loman
    Diarmid Heidenreich
    Frannie Loman
    Rebecca Murphy
    Lisa Loman
    Hayley Phillips
    Edwina Amadio
    Jessica Napier
    Daniel Blake
    Phillip Gordon
    Maurie Barnard
    John Clayton
    Hopper Hadley
    David E. Woodley
    Darcy Brennan
    Mick Innes
    Iris Delaney
    Liddy Clark
    Gina
    Tasma Walton
    Johno
    Corey Wyer
    Shelley Radcliffe
    Louise Crawford
    Marty Radcliffe
    Jack Ellis
    Jack Radcliffe
    Phillip Holder
    Holly Winton
    Kimberly Davenport
    Robin Ollie
    Rhondda Findleton
    Dr Jo Price
    Susan Kennedy
    Nurse Claire
    Carolyn Dante
    Nathan Potter
    Ryan Kwanten
    Dave Campbell
    Tom Long
    Heather Campbell
    Alyson Standen
    Gordon Amadio
    Alan Lovell
    Marina Foster
    Veronica Neave
    Sgt Murphy
    John Sheerin
    Father Patrick
    Brian Vriends
    Elizabeth O’Connor
    Rowena Wallace
    Det Sgt Warren
    David Whitney

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