Legend leaves for ever… or for a bit anyway

It’s been an emotional day, and a deeply tearful evening looms too, as Harold Bishop sets sail from Erinsborough to go and live on a sexually liberated commune with a gang of foreign students. Neighbours will be a weaker show for it. After all, great as Lou Carpenter is, his head is just too boulder-like, and his voice lacks the velvet Bishop smooth. He was an intelligent and decent man.

To put it all in perspective, here’s a few things that happened when we first met Harold (then known as The Fonze - we think), way back in 1987: