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The Robinson family are a fictional family from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours. The family were created by Reg Watson and introduced in the first episode of the serial, broadcast on 18 March 1985. The family initially consisted of Jim Robinson (Alan Dale), his mother-in-law Helen Daniels (Anne Haddy), and his four children Paul Robinson (Stefan Dennis), Julie Martin (Vikki Blanche), Scott Robinson (Darius Perkins), and Lucy Robinson (Kylie Flinker). The Robinsons have one of the largest and most complex family trees in the show's history.

Creation

The Robinson family was one of three central families introduced to viewers when Neighbours began in 1985, created by the show's creator and executive producer Reg Watson.^[1] Watson said the idea for Neighbours began with the Robinsons – a widower and four children. He wanted a mother-in-law to live with them, and decided that she would be supportive instead of interfering, as television viewers had come to expect.^[2] Of how the Robinson family came to be created, Watson said "I thought how interesting it would be to have a family where the children could ask their parents anything and get an honest answer."^[3]

Development

The Robinsons are made up of several different family groups that have married together. These are the original Robinsons, the Daniels, the Martins, the Dennisons, the Simpsons and the Duncans. The Robinsons live in the fictitious Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough and have roots leading back to the 1800s in that area. The family have always lived in Ramsay Street, the land once owned by former Mayor "Black" Jack Ramsay.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Homes

The home of the Robinsons is no. 26 Ramsay Street, a large grey brick house at the top of the cul-de-sac. Jim Robinson bought the house in the early 1960s and lived there until his death in 1993. Jim's mother-in-law, Helen Daniels, who had lived with the Robinsons since the death of Jim's wife Anne in 1975 received the house in his will and lived there until her death in 1997. Philip Martin and his family lived there until they sold the house in 1999 to the Scully Family. In 2013, Jim's son Paul bought the house off his ex-wife Lyn Scully (Janet Andrewartha), once again for the first time since 1999 putting No. 26 back in the hands of the Robinson Family. Paul rents No. 26 Ramsay Street to Sheila Canning (Colette Mann) Until late 2015 when she buys it off him.

Bought by the Daniels Corporation in 1986, Gail Lewis moved into the house in 1987 and it became the second family home after her marriage to Paul Robinson in June 1987. Paul continued living there, throughout the end of his marriage to Gail and his next marriage to Christina Alessi. Paul moved to Hawaii with Christina and Andrew in 1992 and rented the house to Christina's parents until 1993 when he sold the house to Cheryl Stark. In 2005, Paul returned to Erinsbourough and bought back the house off Valda Sheergold, continuing to live there until 2013 where Paul moved into Lassister's and his niece Kate Ramsay moved into no. 26. Paul rent the house to The Willis family Until late 2015 when he sold it to Terese Willis.

Jim bought no. 30 and rented it to Paul and Terry as a wedding gift in 1985. Paul only lived there for a few weeks before Terry shot him. He moved back into no. 26 immediately after leaving hospital. Matt lived at no. 30 with his mother Hilary between 1989–1990.

Members of the Robinson family have lived in every house in the street at one point or another. Matt alone lived in no. 26, no. 28, no. 30 and no. 32 during his years in the show.

Incest

In 1991, Lucy Robinson returned to Ramsay Street. In the time she had been away, Jim's illegitimate son Glen Donnelly had showed up and revealed his existence to Jim. After living together for months, the attraction between Lucy and Glen resulted in a kiss. Though their relationship was short and mostly implied, the BBC cut the plot and edited the episodes around it.^[4] However, UKTV Gold re-aired these episode in 1998 with the plot remaining intact.

A second near-incest storyline was featured in 2007, when Elle Robinson fell in love with Oliver Barnes, and they had sex, shortly before Oliver was informed by his mother that Paul was really his father. Had this been true, this would have been the furthest an incest storyline had gone in the show's history. However, the claim was disproved by a DNA test soon after.

A third storyline aired in 2017, featuring a romantic relationship between half-siblings Amy Williams and Leo Tanaka. Their father, Paul, managed to stop them from consummating their relationship in time.^[5]

Character assassination

Stefan Dennis departed the series in 1992 and moved to the UK. His character, Paul Robinson, moved to the United States, a rather open-ended departure. Dennis returned in 1993 for the 2000th episode celebrations and to close the book on the character. In the week he appeared in the show, Paul set up Philip Martin, his brother-in-law, to make it look like he was defrauding Lassiters, the hotel Paul owns. After the police began investigating, Paul's conscience got the better of him. He wrote a letter that cleared Phil of all wrongdoing and escaped the country after saying goodbye to Helen. This was intended to be the character's final appearance and to this day many fans regard it as being completely out of character for Paul.

When Stefan Dennis returned to the show in 2004, most of his storylines stemmed from the fraud storyline and displayed him as a morally corrupt, hate-filled villain. Since his return, Paul has murdered Gus Cleary, set fire to and destroyed the Lassiters complex, attempted to sell Ramsay Street to American developers to turn it into a shopping centre, been a homewrecker to the Bishop family (formerly friends of his) and eventually lost his leg in a fall. A possible explanation has been offered for this behaviour: a brain tumour, which Elle believes may be responsible for everything bad he has ever done. After the tumour was removed, Paul lost 20 years worth of his memory.

Return

In the finale of the 2004 season, Paul returned to the area and re-established the Robinson family in Neighbours. Since his return, he has seen Rosemary and Lucy, and his daughter Lucinda "Elle" Robinson has come to live with him. In 2006, Adam Hunter began his Neighbours career as the remaining triplets Robert and Cameron. When Cameron is in a coma, Robert (who put his brother in the coma in the first place) has come to live with his father posing as Cameron to get close to the family and fulfil his plans of revenge. Fiona Corke returned briefly in 2006 and 2007 as Gail and in 2009 the family tree was extended with Paul's long lost sister Jill (product of an affair between Anne Robinson and Max Ramsay) being found. Jill's death in a road accident means her orphaned children Katie, Harry and Sophie have now moved into Number 24. Paul's youngest son, Andrew came to visit his father at the end of 2009 and moved in with him and his wife Rebecca.

Family members

Reception

In her 1994 book The Neighbours Programme Guide, Josephine Monroe wrote "In the nine years that Neighbours has been going, each member of this remarkable family has endured enough trauma to put most people into an early grave! It seems these Robinson folk have invincibility running through their veins."^[6] In 2003, Inside Soap ran a poll asking which soap families were the most loved and loathed of all time. The Robinson's came third with 16% of the vote to find the most loved family of the 1980s, behind the Watts from EastEnders and the Ewings from Dallas.^[7] They were also voted the third most loathed family of that decade, receiving 11% of the vote.^[7] Roz Golds from The Birmingham Post called the Robinson family "the original heart of the show".^[3]

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/17/how-we-made-neighbours|title=How we made Neighbours|last=Abbott|first=Kate|date=17 September 2013|work=The Guardian|accessdate=20 April 2014}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&kw=charlene+and+neighbours+and+mechanic+and+brisbane&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=news890528_0166_3221|title=Afloat on soaps|last=Oliver|first=Robin|date=28 May 1989|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=30 November 2014}}
3. ^¹{{cite news|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Perspective%3A+I+don't+see+myself+as+a+sex+symbol%3B+When+Roz+Golds+heard...-a0139390276|title=Perspective: I don't see myself as a sex symbol|last=Golds|first=Roz|date=3 December 2005|work=The Birmingham Post|accessdate=20 April 2014}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://lowculture.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/23/a-guide-to-recognising-your-ramsays-and-robinsons/|title=A guide to recognising your Ramsays and Robinsons|last=Deller|first=Ruth|date=23 July 2009|publisher=Low Culture|accessdate=25 May 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814051405/http://lowculture.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/23/a-guide-to-recognising-your-ramsays-and-robinsons/|archivedate=14 August 2009|df=dmy-all}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/neighbours/news/a825243/neighbours-spoilers-tanaka-twist-paul-robinson-comforts-amy-shock-incest-reveal-leo/|title=Neighbours explores the aftermath of Tanaka twist today as Paul comforts a distraught Amy|last=Dainty|first=Sophie|date=5 April 2017|publisher=Digital Spy|accessdate=21 April 2017}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Monroe|first=Josephine|title=The Neighbours Programme Guide|year=1994|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=978-0-86369-831-6|page=98}}
7. ^¹{{cite journal|date=27 September – 3 October 2003|title=Family faves!|journal=Inside Soap|issue=39|page=31}}