Season 1 (1988): Complete, including the feature length pilot episode
Season 2 (1989): Complete
Season 3 (1990): Complete
Season 4 (1991): Complete
Season 5 (1992): Complete
Season 6 (1993): Missing 3 episodes
Season 7 (1994): Missing 3 episodes
Season 8 (1995): Missing the final 66 episodes of the season
Home and Away (often abbreviated as H&A) is an Australian television soap opera. Home and Away follows the lives and loves of the residents in Summer Bay, a fictional seaside town in New South Wales. The series initially focused on the Fletcher family – Tom (Roger Oakley) and Pippa (Vanessa Downing), and their five foster children, Frank Morgan (Alex Papps), Carly Morris (Sharyn Hodgson), Lynn Davenport (Helena Bozich), Steven Matheson (Adam Willits) and Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie) – who moved from the city into the Summer Bay House, where they assumed the new job of running the caravan park, and eventually took in a sixth foster child, Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson). Home and Away was not without controversy. During the first season alone, it featured several adult-themed storylines such as teen pregnancy, rape, drug and alcohol addiction, drug overdose and attempted suicide. The series has dealt with similar storylines over the years which have often exceeded its restricted time slot. Palm Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches district has been used as the location for Summer Bay since 1988.