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Neighbours spin-offs Years" was released in 2015 to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary. Two television spin-offs have reached the pilot stage. After Clive Gibbons (Geoff Paine) became popular with viewers, his 1989 return to the show was scripted to set up a spin-off series "City Hospital". A pilot was made, but it was not picked up by any television networks. Following Caroline Gillmer's exit from "Neighbours" in 1996, she filmed a pilot episode for a sitcom based around her character Cheryl Stark, which was initially called "In Cheryl's Arms". The sitcom's name was later changed to "In Carol's Arms", as the networks