Jack Ellis, Tom Long, Martin Henderson, Rose Byrne It marked a TV return for Victoria Nicolls ( The Restless Years, Sale Of The Century, Prisoner) and included teen actor Martin Henderson, best known from New Zealand soap Shortland Street, making his Australian TV debut. Like with any new soap, Echo Point had a cast of familiar and fresh faces to form the series’ base of four families living in a small coastal community that is remarkably not dissimilar to Summer Bay of Home And Away. “We were just very pleased that Channel Ten decided to launch their show that week.” “The stories are done months before,” Seven executive Des Monaghan told TV Week. Seven denied that it had deliberately timed the return of three key characters to hurt its new rival. Also returning to the series were long-lost characters Marilyn ( Emily Symons) and Steven ( Adam Willits).

Bobby had been killed off two years earlier but was back for some dream and flashback sequences and as a ghostly vision to Ailsa Stewart ( Judy Nunn). In such a competitive timeslot, Echo Point didn’t stand a chance - especially when its first week coincided with Home And Away‘s publicised return of character Bobby Simpson ( Nicolle Dickson). The weeknight soap debuted in June 1995, slotted in at 7.00pm directly up against Seven‘s Home And Away. It ranks on the list of some of Australian TV’s most infamous soapie disasters among such titles like Arcade, Holiday Island, Paradise Beach and Family And Friends. Of all the vintage soaps to get a new lease on life online, Network Ten‘s Echo Point would have been way down the list of likely candidates.

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