History Series / Neighbours

* ActorAllusion: Jane Badler's vllainous character Diana Marshall was called Diana in tribute to her character from '''V'''.

* InstrumentalThemeTune: When a long-standing character dies, Neighbours will sometimes end the episode with a sad piano version of the theme tune, together with a montage of photos of the character's time in the show. This has been done with Todd, Jim, Helen and Madge.
** Though in Madge's case, the sad piano theme tune played over the regular 2001 credits, but with a montage the next episode of her recent period on the show. This was because, from 2000 onwards, Neighbours started filming in widescreen.

* OutOfFocus: Lou Carpenter's appearances have become very irregular ever since Harold Bishop left, and even when he is in the show he seldom has any significant storylines.
** Tom Oliver's contract gave him 4 month blocks alternating between filming and holiday which later changed to 2 month blocks. This has led to Lou's sudden preoccupation with visiting his daughter Lauren in Mt. Isa and (upon Lauren moving to Ramsay St.) his half-Chinese lovechild Mai Ling and adoptive daughter Lolly. He left the regular cast in 2015, and hasn't appeared as a guest since late 2016.
*** Erinsborough High School and the associated staff and students (the ones who are not regular characters) are featured much less than in the past.
*** Madge Bishop's appearances became notably less frequent and prominent in the last couple of years she was in the programme.
*** Although Mike Young (Guy Pearce) officially re-joined the series just before the 2022 SeriesFauxnale, he only occasionally makes actual appearances, since he is now a tour guide in England.

** Erinsborough High School and the associated staff and students (the ones who are not regular characters) are featured much less than in the past.
** Madge Bishop's appearances became notably less frequent and prominent in the last couple of years she was in the programme.
** Although Guy Pearce (Mike Young) officially re-joined the series just before the 2022 SeriesFauxnale, he only occasionally makes actual appearances, since he is now a tour guide in England.

* KilledOffForReal: It's to be expected in a soap opera, but if a character leaves ''Neighbours'' they either get PutOnABus or are KilledOffForReal. There are very few inbetweens. A few examples of characters KilledOffForReal are: Daphne Clarke (1988), Kerry Mangel (1990), Todd Landers (1992), Jim Robinson (1993), Julie Martin (1994), Cody Willis, Cheryl Stark (both 1996), Helen Daniels (1997), Madge Bishop (2001), Drew Kirk (2002), David Bishop (2005), Stingray Timmins (2007), Marco Silvani (2008), Bridget Parker (2009), Ringo Brown (2010), Kate Ramsay (2014), Doug and Josh Willis (2016), Sonya Rebecchi (2019), Gary Canning (2020), Finn Kelly (2020), David Tanaka (2024) etc.

* MuscleAngst: Aaron Brennan once revealed that he bulked up in part so that people would stop bullying him. Furthermore, before he and David Tanaka got together, the latter worried about not being fit and muscly enough to impress the former.

* AbortedArc: Perhaps inevitably, a few storylines had to be cut short following the series cancellation in 2022, most notably Karl and Susan's financial troubles resulting from a bad investment. [[spoiler:The 2023 revival picked this up by revealing that they had managed to recover to some extent when Susan was given a generous retirement package, but she's not happy about retiring and still resents Karl for it. Susan and Terese's conversation about it has a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall regarding the fact that it wasn't resolved at the time due to everything else going on (i.e, Hendrix's death).]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Most of the first episode of the 2023 revival is spent building up to a wedding, going out of its way to imply that it's a vow-renewal ceremony between Paul and Terese. [[spoiler:It instead turns out to between Terese and ''Toadie''.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:The 2023 revival begins by breaking up Toadie and Melanie, who had married in the 2022 finale, while also revealing that Paul and Terese's reconciliation didn't last (though how "happy" the latter ever was is debatable).]]

* RightBehindMe: When Melanie comes along to Felix Rodwell's welcome party, in the aftermath of her tryst with Toadie, Wendy vents to Sadie about how rude she was to put her in that situation. "She may have thought she was invited, but she must have known she wasn't wanted. ...She's behind me, isn't she." Melanie takes the hint and leaves, but not before calling Wendy for not just being honest from the start.

* TimeSkip: The 2023 revival picks up two years after the 2022 cancellation. [[spoiler:Flashbacks to the events of 2023, including the breakups of Paul and Terese and Toadie and Melanie, have filled in the gaps.]] As such, the show is now set a year in the future.

** At one point the record between appearances was Kim Taylor/Tanaka (Jenny Young), returning 32 years and 7500 episodes after her storyline wrapped up. (This record has since been beaten by Shane Ramsay returning in 2022 after a 35-year gap.)

* TieInNovel: Two of these written in 1989 by Valda Marshall and Ray Kolle, both early writers for the show: ''The Ramsays: A Family Divided'', begins with Madge's first meeting Fred Mitchell in 1965 and tracks the eventual breakdown of their marriage in 1985 (coinciding with Henry going to prison and Charlene's secret TeenPregnancy), and ''The Robinsons: A Family in Crisis'', the story of the month leading up to Lucy's birth and Anne's death in 1975. Both are generally consistent with the information presented onscreen at the time, to the point of LooseCanon, but the former changes Charlene's ex-boyfriend's name from Greg to Ian, and the latter has since been contradicted by retcons. [[labelnote:context]]A throwaway line stating that Jim and Anne's first three children being planned was contradicted by the revelation in 1993 that Julie wasn't Jim's and was a ChildByRape, while an episode in 2022 has Paul describe his mother dying after a long illness that he didn't take as seriously as he should have, contradicting the book showing her dying suddenly from a blood clot after giving birth to Lucy (according to WordOfGod, the DeathByChildbirth at least is still canon, but it would have not been as sudden or shocking as the book portrays). More generally, the friendships between Jim and Max and Anne and Maria show no signs of the animosity that would have resulted from Max and Anne's affair resulting in a pregnancy, which was revealed in 2009.[[/labelnote]]
* TimeSkip: The 2023 revival picks up two years after the 2022 cancellation. [[spoiler:Flashbacks to the events of 2023, including the breakups of Paul and Terese and Toadie and Melanie, have filled in the gaps.]]

** Nell for her father Toadie and Melanie, [[spoiler:to the extent that she's scheming to break up Toadie and Terese despite Melanie having walked out on them.]]

** Krista is looking at baby names and comes up with Finn or Izzy (depending on the sex), to which Leo states that those names carry bad memories in Erinsborough. She then goes on to suggest Darcy, at which Leo jokes that she might as well consider Robert or Andrea (which is a bit of a stretch, since Darcy Tyler's crimes were nowhere near at the level of Finn Kelly, Robert Robinson or Andrea Somers, nor would his reputation in the street, be as bad as Isabelle Hoyland).

** Krista is looking at baby names and comes up with Finn or Izzy (depending on the sex), to which Leo states that those names carry bad memories in Erinsborough and jokes that you might as well consider Robert or Andrea.