''Echo Point'' is an Australian

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produced by

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for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995. The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap '' Home and Away'' on the

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. The series focused on several families and teenagers in a coastal community, and a key on-going storyline concerned renewed interest in a long-unsolved local murder mystery.

Transmissions

''Echo Point'' originally aired at 7:00pm weeknights (scheduled against '' Home and Away'' and ''

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'') to low ratings. The series was then shifted to the 6.00pm timeslot but was cancelled after 130 episodes had been produced. The final episodes were aired in a late night 11.30pm slot.

UK

The only two ITV stations purchased the series in the UK.

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started screening the series from Monday, 1 September 1997 as a replacement for ''

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'', shown Monday to Wednesday at 17:10–17:40, until November 1997. The series reappeared in early August 1998 when it was broadcast at 10.30am each weekday, From November 1998 it was screened each weekday at 04.30am alongside Shortland Street to clear off the episodes. Central Television screened the series Tuesday to Thursday at 13:00–13:30 as the replacement for ''A Country Practice'' from Tuesday, 1 September 1998 and completed the series in June 1999.

New Zealand

TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show which featured former

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actor

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Cast

In alphabetical order: *

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– Belinda O'Connor * Liddy Clark – Iris Delaney *

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– Maurie Barnard *

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– Shelley Radcliffe * Kimberly Davenport – Holly Winton * Jack Ellis – Marty Radcliffe *

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– Daniel Blake * Diarmid Heidenreich – Dean Loman *

– Zac Brennan * Mick Innes – Darcy Brennan * Tom Long – Dave Campbell * Allan Lovel – Gordon Amadio *

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– Frannie Loman *

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– Edwina Amadio *

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– Trish Loman *

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– Lisa Loman *

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– Neville Loman *

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– Elizabeth O'Connor *

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– Coral O'Connor *

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– Hooper Hadley

References

External links

Echo Point at the National Film and Sound Archive
* Network 10 original programming Australian television soap operas 1995 Australian television series debuts 1995 Australian television series endings English-language television shows Television series by Endemol Australia {{Australia-tv-prog-stub