donald fisher was married to marilyn chambers in home and away.
donald fisher was married to marilyn chambers in home and away.
who was donald fisher married to in home and away?
marilyn chambers
a yahoo! reporter placed marilyn and donald on their "best-ever soap couples" list and "tv week" named them one of soap's "odd couples", saying "who could forget grumpy old donald fisher with kooky young marilyn chambers in "home and away"?" the "sunday mail" simply brand her as "the dizzy wife of stuffy headmaster donald". a writer from "inside soap" included marilyn and donald in their feature profiling unlikely couples. they branded her a "half-wit hairdresser" and him a "haggard head" who found happiness together. the writer added that "at least marilyn chambers had a good excuse for her bizarre decision to go out with the aging donald fisher - she was as mad as a mongoose." following marilyn's abrupt departure in 1999, the show was "bombarded" by fans demanding to know what had happened to her.
marilyn chambers (home and away)
alan donald fisher, played by simon kay, debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 4 july 1988. in the book "home and away: behind the scenes"; james oram describes alan as a "confused adolescent who wanted nothing more than the love and respect of his father". the writer added that kay had the looks that placed alan into the "heart-throb department". alan's storylines included a brief dalliance with bobby simpson (nicolle dickson) and his death from a brain haemorrhage. the serial's writing team decided to kill alan off to create "dramatic content". norman coburn, who plays alan's father donald fisher, told oram that he was disappointed that alan was killed off. coburn said that he was "sorry" that alan was written out because he felt that kay was a "damned fine little actor". he added that he would have been an asset to "home and away" if he had stayed. coburn claimed that the producers realised that alan was a good character and regretted killing him off, but said there was no plausible way for him to return. however, the serial's writers wanted to reintroduce kay and began thinking of a solution; eventually creating a way for him to return. kay told oram that it would have seen donald writing a book about alan's life and a film being made from it. after a search for an actor to play his son, donald would meet a man identical to alan and be played by kay. the actor added that he would have needed to have "very serious talks" with producers if he were to return in the future.
list of home and away characters (1988)