Heartbreak, First love and Goodbye's | The Story of Jane Harris | Neighbours

When Plain Jane Superbrain came to Ramsay street 34 years ago we didn't know what to expect from her. We watched her fall in love, get into trouble and say goodbye. All these years later she's back in Erinsborough, but what's happened to her marriage?
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[@louhillen8254]

Jane should never have gone for Des. I was SO HAPPY that Jane and Mike got back together at the end - touching scenes - done so beautifully - I will miss Neighbours! ❤

[@Ianm3247]

Plain Jane the Superbrain. Great memories. I loved the Golden Age of Neighbours couldn't wait to get home from school every day and watch it. I would even watch it twice per day in school holidays.

[@sassi7966]

same! 😊❤

[@adriansal3524]

Same. I even remember waking up for neighbours the early years around 6.30am in the 90’s

[@TheSoulGardenUK]

haha..yeah! crazy hey! so many did this! like a ritual man! lol

[@isotropisch82]

Same... the height of decadence!

[@watchmanuk74]

I'll admit ibwas the same growing up we all rushed back to watch neighbours 😄😄😄😄 it was a 80s thing

[@paulabyas1610]

Plain Jane is not plain, she's beautiful!

[@TravelingwithValeman77]

And now Jane is a grandma! I am soo old. I remember watching these back in the 80's. Lol

[@jameskeeth4037]

Mrs mangle. The greatest neighbours character ever.

[@aivalistavro]

Totally agree.

[@karaloca]

I never actually saw her as the ‘ugly duckling’ character we were supposed to. She looked great to me.

[@dwillbecancelledsoon4086]

It’s a clichéd Hollywood thing. The old ugly duckling transformation. Put some drab clothes on and dorky glasses and we’re supposed to not notice that she’s pretty

[@DeeTeaDee]

Yeah it was sorta bad casting wasnt it?

[@angelkotilainen]

That's the movie / tv world for you. Hermione in Harry Potter was meant to be plain, but they picked Emma Watson. Jk Rowling questioned the casting choice and was told that's how it is. Jane / Annie was very pretty :)

[@happyhorse1028]

Probably because she was a model before she became an actor

[@DeeTeaDee]

@@angelkotilainen hmm. Dunno harry potter but, that emily watson IS plain. Very forgettable imo But jane super brain is just gorgeous Warped programs to be forced to watch as a young lad actually now i think about it. Grow up with the perception that gorgeous girls can be as sweet and humble as Jane from neighbours…..30 years later i can safely say…… ….they dont exist 😳

[@ddjr6673]

I've come here after the end of Neighbours and the superb moments between Annie Jones and Guy Pearce. VERY touching, more so than any other returning characters. I was transported back 37 years, to the beginning. Thank you

[@geoffreyrodgers2129]

Would love to be able to watch all the episodes from the glory days of Neighbours again (1986 - 1992) so many great characters and stories, then (1992 - 2002) still highly enjoyable then I either got too old or the show lost its way, but we've recently re-discovered Neighbours and almost 20 years since we last regularly watched it, have been finding ourselves tuning in to Ramsay St almost every night.

[@olly30]

You can watch them all on dailymotion.

[@rickhardman7376]

@@olly30 whats the user name please?

[@olly30]

@@rickhardman7376 All you need to do is tyupeinto google Neighbours Episode 10 or 24 etc and itwill appear on dailymotion. I literally watched 1986 -1990 recently

[@rickhardman7376]

@@olly30 There's load missing ... so not every episode is avaible

[@Craigy2818]

Current Neighbours has been amazing. The young cast have fit in so well and made it really enjoyable again.

[@adrianbradley8513]

I loved Neighbours in the eighties. Everybody says that their favourite episode is Scott and Charlene's wedding but mine is the one with Plain Jane's transformation from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. The look on Mike's face was PRICELESS and I remember at the time saying a little softhearted AHH to myself and how it put a smile on my average teenage face.Ps to all you ladies out there I'm now a 48 year old SINGLE male Plain Jim and I'm not ashamed of admitting to all of this.😆😆🥰

[@jamesdavidkmoss]

lol,me too.

[@angelkotilainen]

Aww memories :)

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

I always fancied Jane. I'm 53 .

[@dmmoctober]

Yeah and we’d never have guessed in a squillion years that underneath it all she was so booteefool

[@johnmaley6902]

She was beautiful before, never ugly , to be honest I’m ashamed of agreeing to this stuff when I was a boy, but I did think she was beautiful

[@PerryCJamesUK]

Plain Jane Super Brain was transformed into a beeeeaaaaautiful swan by wearing one of Sophia's old party dresses from the Golden Girls hehehe I absolutely love and miss the innocence of the 80s.

[@johnnykennedy4669]

Jane was so much easier on the eye than Charlene ever was. I had a crazy crush on her in the 80s!

[@johnmaley6902]

Seeing her in the finale, I still saw the beauty, just from her whole being x

[@djstonedog]

Last week I was this year's old when I realized Mrs Mangel is in the classic 1975 Aussie movie Picnic at Hanging Rock and is one of the characters that mysteriously vanishes and is never seen nor heard from again!

[@anneharris5778]

The best era of neighbours x

[@georginaemmerson6104]

Loved the early days best .

[@easydrive3662]

The one thing I have noticed is how good the stage sets look still, in fact better than today's.

[@peachesmcgee4795]

Oh the memories... Always made me laugh that they put a pair of glasses on her and called her "plain" when she was clearly anything but!

[@froggy8030]

Jane was always beautiful!

[@theprinceoftides6836]

Golden age of Neighbours. Love it.

[@karlperriment7763]

The casting was just Magic back then

[@Leoviliti1]

I was 21 when it all began. March 1985...I cried at Daphnes death ..I cried when Shane Ramsey went to travel around Australia ..I was already hooked by then ..however during my raising of a family ..episode watching soon turned into a back burner.....have you ever tried to sit down and watch TV when raising kids... No time for busy mums.. But watching this definately brings it all back to me..

[@Tao_Tology]

"I love you, Clarkie" 😢

[@mathewdeering]

Ah, so good. When I was a 10 year old kid, I had a bit of a thing for Annie Jones - and it's good to see her on TV again side-to-side with Kylie. And damn, I had good taste as a kid. 'Cos I'd still take her any day.

[@redd605]

It's so good to see Jane character back next week in the main title credit of neighbours again after all this time and the Mrs mangal painting by Helen Daniels over the fireplace again in her home

[@GMW.artist]

David and Aaron live in "her" house now (No.32). I doubt she'll move in when they are foster parenting and have two teenage boys to look after...

[@thebadgamer1967]

Always thought the Des and Jane hook-up was gross

[@scottlp2323]

Back in the day it was all, 'Kylie this and Kylie that' but all I wanted was Annie. Had such a huge crush on her and my fragile, young teen heart was smashed to bits when she left. Or at least that's how I remember it. lol. ;) Great to see her back again. :)

[@angelamarcostejada6357]

Jane and Des was a very unbeliveable relationship. Writers are wrong on this

[@One21Jiggawatts]

I didn’t remember that at all. I remembered Des as being a father figure to Mike and being in love with daphne, but I may have fused Des with another character.

[@122willywonka]

Love the old programmes

[@DeeTeaDee]

Shes sooooo much better looking than kylie

[@Colonel_Pinecone]

AAhhh Yes ...Des with the big ears ..... And Plain Jane super brain ......She was Gorgeous! and still is!

[@lifeisagame2023]

Childhood crush right there!

[@DeeTeaDee]

Ahh man. As a young lad I thought she was so pretty. And today i think she looks GORGEOUS. I mean then, and NOW. So classy and beautiful

[@ann9721]

love neighbours have watched it since begining and got my husband to watch ,he thinks it is best soap of all ,so sorry to see it finishing .feels like ,part of family

[@annebellette201]

Sad to see it end thank you for sharing

[@johnnykennedy4669]

Most gorgeous actress ever to appear in a soap opera.

[@antoniettemusolino1317]

Old skool neighbours Gold 🤩

[@kathleenharvey7315]

Great series.

[@kamandi1362]

Plain Jane Superbrain was one of my first crushes. 😍

[@DistantCousin]

LOVE Jane!

[@dionneking8]

thank you so

[@andyreeve3880]

Des was seriously punching here

[@johnmaley6902]

Used to get my dad to tape it when I was at my sports, back in the day when everyone had their own tapes, recorded on LP omg

[@DeeTeaDee]

Plain Jane. Man shes FAR from plain. She’s gorgeous.

[@jaggass]

Nice to see Des Clarke and Jane Harris in the show today.

[@olly30]

Paul, Jane, Des,clive, Melanie and Lucy and Glen Robinson due back

[@markprior2278]

Haven't watched neighbours for years. Had such a crush on Jane that after she left i stopped watching.

[@mrmrsmsmisscloud7512]

My favourite episode was when the character Warren, played by Ben Mendelssohn made a few appearances in 1986 (Australian times). I always liked him a great deal.

[@stevored1989]

Don't know why but it never gets mentioned he was in Neighbours before carving a career in Hollywood, he should have been mentioned in the same way as Russell Crowe but somehow never was.

[@GregOrCreg]

@@stevored1989 Although they're both big stars, especially Crowe, it's not as if they were regular/prominent cast members like Guy Pearce and Margot Robbie. Ben started showing up in films like The Year My Voice Broke, with Noah Taylor, within about a year of his Neighbours appearance, so his soap-days were quite short-lived prior to him graduating onto the big screen.

[@leeelliott5522]

I remember seeing Janes transformation I was only a kid, my reaction was “FFWwarrrrr” my mom was laughing, I’m pretty sure I lt was the first time i realised women were hot

[@BintyMcFrazzles]

Amazing how all these "great " characters all judged Jane by her appearance and how Charlene bullied her. Jane went from being a dork to beautiful simply by taking her glasses off and everyone liked her. Great when you're like me, when I started wearing glasses at the age of 13 around this time, and they still enforced the stereotype. Still, I LOVED neighbours in the 80s!!

[@adrianbradley8513]

Jane wearing her classes and being "Plain" and then becoming an unrecognisable beautiful girl when she took them off always reminded of how Lois Lane was in love with Superman but didn't realise he was Clark Kent when he put a pair of glasses ON. I don't know what the situation with Superman's secret identity is as I don't read comics but if Lois Lane knows that Clark Kent IS Superman I wonder"Did she slap her forehead with the palm of her hand and shout DOH!!!" when she found out.😂😂😂👓❤️

[@scottyunitedboy2925]

@@adrianbradley8513 The film Not Another Teenage Movie did a brilliant send up of that type of ‘transformation’ in 2001

[@VictoryRRR]

Times must've changed then.. Most of my favorites male celebs look even better in glasses. 😃

[@angelkotilainen]

@@VictoryRRR Right! I love The Holiday movie when Graham puts on his glasses. So cute!

[@aniq_0]

I love annie jones

[@metalmickey]

Jane was a solid 10

[@davidedwards6807]

Had a crush of Jane must have been the glasses lol

[@scunthorpesid3635]

Last ever episode of Neighbours being filmed today 🙁

[@Greenwillow]

Watching this in the eighties I always thought Jane was much prettier than Charlene.Great to see these.why did Jane break up with Mike???🤔

[@pheasyyy]

i need one for bridget!

[@KayleighNatasha]

Would love to see Guy Pierce return

[@GetRekt-bw6pu]

He is

[@ykook7000]

Guy Pearce is back

[@Bustygirl-dz1wi]

he is in the last episode tonight

[@carolinemoore2813]

Plain Jane super brain!!! 🤣

[@danieladams9950]

Plain Jane was beautiful

[@barihope]

Liked Jane with Mike not des. Liked des daphne

[@garynewton1263]

Oh Kate Gorman from Zoo Family, I had a humungous crush on her. I'll never forget seeing her and her friends one saturday night in 85 on the Spider ride. I wanted to tslk to her but way too shy. Kate, You were so damn cute.

[@tomspence8506]

At 3:17 you can see that Kylie Minogue is actually VERY small!

[@marcelparker6755]

She's only 5 feet tall.

[@amyclarke41]

ook a good tv show

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

i love the skirts.

[@kierangilly1]

Never had Charlene down as a bully

[@UKfan1975]

great memories, thought Jane was cute.

[@paulec2634]

Wow Jane got bullied by Charlene....

[@ranatangboo1185]

Bec of mrs mangle .we also called one of the ladies on estate that bec she was exactly like her..i think everyone named someone mrs mangle back then.

[@TheAxelay]

She certainly was cute though, I was just around that time so what would've I've known back then. Yeah Kylie was always on front but Annie had her own presence though and her Jane character certainly blossomed throughout the series. Australian women were fine back then.

[@GregOrCreg]

Has much changed? Margot Robbie certainly indicates that it wasn't just 'back then'.

[@PST101]

Aah. Those were the days. Had no idea Jane ever returned. Think I gave up around the early to mid 2000's. Not sure where exactly that was in the UK. Think we may have caught up by then. Be good to know who else returned. I know Kylie hasn't....... Yet.

[@dianne342000]

I am in Australia. Right now Jane, clive, Amy and Melanie are all back. Glen appeared for the first time on Friday (today is Sunday) and is fully back this week.

[@stephenking6396]

Mrs Mangel 😂 Best character ever!!

[@Irishgui83]

I was about 5 or 6 when she was in it and I loved her lol sadly, she apparently was harassed by children in her local area, who made her life a bit of a misery due to her portrayal of Mrs Mangle. The guy who played Joe Mangle said it on some 'talking head' TV appearance.

[@shadowweaver3693]

Wow grandma is lethal….”she has intelligence to make up for the plain look”…..ouch

[@theodoretekkers]

Everything looks so much different now

[@brandongodfrey1181]

Completely different

[@teleaddict23]

Everything looks a bit fake now. The sets look so perfect and modern cameras make it look too glossy with a lot out of focus backgrounds.

[@DistantCousin]

@@teleaddict23 Oh, it's a lot slicker now!

[@GregOrCreg]

Why does everyone here seem to hate Kylie? I think her music is excellent, and she's clearly gorgeous and effervescent. That said, for some reason I never found her all that attractive as 'Charlene' (and I say that as someone who actually likes late 80s/early 90s perms). I suppose she was a bit obnoxious and common (Kylie in rl comes across as much classier and elegant). By contrast, 'Jane' was much sexier.

[@happyhorse1028]

Imagine starting your career as model only to branch into acting and be cast as a plain Jane.

[@bernierose719]

It’s called acting

[@GregOrCreg]

I guess they cast a beauty on purpose, for the 'Ugly Duckling turns into a Swan' reveal, but they didn't do a good enough job playing down her looks (as unfashionable as the glasses admittedly are).

[@kayleegreen2134]

Plain jane super brain

[@garynewton1263]

She was better in the Henderson Kids.

[@El-Rollio]

There’s some edits to make to this now!

[@scottmcphee2076]

Who was the character that Jane hit? (At 3:11) I recognised the actress because before Neighbours she was in a children’s drama series called Zoo Family.

[@Skylover1]

Sue Parker

[@marktaurus206]

Guy Pearce is English Born in Ely Cambridge .

[@bostonblackie9503]

I thought the Des and Jane thing was stupid.

[@javis88h]

Pow right in the kisser..

[@TititoDeBologay]

I want to know what Oz actor &/or singer DID NOT get their start in Neighbours? If They didn’t they probably started in Home & Away.

[@AGxAG]

Sons and Daughters too 😂

[@ggoannas]

I’d never seen Neighbours. Didn’t realize how badly acted it was. 😂

[@KS-oh9no]

I can't find full episodes of the series where can I get this? Specially from 1985-1995?

[@KayleighNatasha]

Several episodes you can watch on Dailymotion

[@TheAxelay]

Try Pirate Bay or U-torrent

[@davidknight9421]

Will uk gold tv channel show neighbours from the start

[@misterrightuk]

Is UK Gold still running. I used to watch old Neighbours episodes on that channel about 20 years ago

[@josmith2031]

🥳🥳🥳🤣🤣🤣

[@minouchesfourtwo]

Thank fuck it’s finished

[@melissacantrill13]

Kylie and Jason they were younger lol

[@rammingspeed5217]

Sho0w me yer hairy beaver!! (for my own enjoy)

[@GregOrCreg]

Jane looked stunning even with the glasses (although admittedly they weren't the most fashionable style of eyewear, even at the time). It's funny but out of the pair, I think it's Kylie or 'Charlene' who really grew into her looks (post-Neighbours, Kylie was/is one of the most stunning women in the world), whereas Annie Jones/'Jane' always looked good, and yet supposedly she's the 'Plain Jane' who needed to be smart to compensate for how 'hideous' she looked. Has there ever been a more ridiculous case of gaslighting a person into believing they were less attractive than they actually were?

[@annmacleod1099]

This was when neighbours was good in the year 2021 neighbours is not good now .no i won't be back .don't start what I can't finish who are you to say don't start what I can't finish .

[@Ah-ed6ie]

Bouncers Christmas, too many to choose from

[@VictoryRRR]

She isn't even ugly or that plain lol.

[@peterfranks6243]

She was always a stunningly cute girl, only Kylie's Charline got the attention

[@melgrant7404]

Kylie looked so much better back then

[@lewis72]

2:06 Spoiler alert. They get married 37 years later.

[@alexanderjones9572]

Think this must’ve been before I watched it. Who was Tom, and what relation was he to Madge? I remember Madge, Mrs Mangel, Jane and Charlene, but not Tom.

[@andyjarvis7120]

Tom Ramsey was Madge and Max's brother

[@GregOrCreg]

Like you, I don't remember Tom. I remember Max (the older brother, whose appaerance on the show preceded Madge and Tom), but not Tom, and the weird thing is, I vividly remember everyone else on the show around this time (although I don't think I ever saw this particular episode, since I don't recall Charlene acting like a bully, or there ever being a time when Madge and Mrs. Mangle were on good terms).

[@BBBVVV86]

Where I can watch this show (HD Full episodes) with Kylie Minogue?

[@natewilson2378]

You won't find any in HD from back then

[@BBBVVV86]

@@natewilson2378 Oh so sad but what about without HD?

[@natewilson2378]

There are some DVD'S with some early episodes, other than that you would need to search on here or Dailymotion.

[@matthewbrown3420]

Jane's electrocution episode 745 please?

[@shiralleehaggart72]

Felt sorry for Jane Harris. Despite her appearance she was attractive and had a beautiful face. She was bullied for her looks but the best scene for me was when she gave snotty gob Sue Parker a knuckle sandwich.

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

I'm trying to remember the stories reason why Jane left des

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Loved Jane and Charlene but never cared for Mrs Mangle

[@Abigart69]

ngl i preferred her before the transformation