Neighbours: Jim Dies, Fiona Schemes, Julie Freaks, Helen Faints (1993)

[@jamesfenwick9299]

I remember watching this at the time. Obvious how much Helen loved him. So very sad.

[@LifeinAnalog]

Indeed. What really tugs at my heart is the bit where Rosemary tells Helen and Julie that Jim has died. The first thing that Helen does is turn to give her support to Julie, rather than dissolve into her own grief. That was so Helen.

[@PaulKinnear]

Yup defo more like a son than son in law

[@PaulKinnear]

@@LifeinAnalog yup - as a good grandmother would. Shame they ret-conned the fact that Julie wasn’t Jim’s biological daughter

[@dpinto6278]

​@PaulKinnear they did a lot of that.

[@Harry-fk5of]

This is actually quite creepy and macabre for Neighbours

[@Harry-fk5of]

@@kathleenmaclachlan1541 I'm not complaining, the current show should take inspiration

[@goodneighbours3217]

@@Harry-fk5of yes, modern Neighbours is very dull, even when they have big dramatic storylines, it just always seems so flat.

[@swifty8503]

Julie and Helen's reactions are heartbreaking

[@sexobscura]

heartbreaking = woeful

[@richardcrew417]

Amazing and sad scene, Anne Haddy was brilliant at conveying the grief for Jim who was more like a son to her than a son-in-law who she had lived with for years The emotion she showed over Jim showcased her acting skills

[@lawrencewilson4826]

One of the best neighbours episodes ever. It was all downhill thereafter, with death after death after death and the producers somehow confused over why people were no longer watching! Then they saw sense and brought back Madge and Harold.

[@danyoutube7491]

Yes, I remember being very sad when these pivotal, very important and well acted characters died.

[@bestestimesreborn]

Jim was a great character and so was Halen.

[@samuelcarnall309]

My god the acting is amazing 🤣

[@LifeinAnalog]

The over-the-top melodrama is what makes it fun. Julie and Fiona make quite a pair when they are shouting at each other. :) Bliss!

[@matskieden511]

😂😂😂

[@sexobscura]

My god you're ironic

[@danyoutube7491]

Jim's acting when dying is very good I think, he was very convincing.

[@Ben_Kirkham]

It’s the fake chest compressions that always get me! 😂

[@theparrybrothers]

Such a cruel death scene for a long-serving character. The heart attack scene is very well played by Alan Dale. Imagine if this had played out on Home and Away, shot for shot. With the much more lovable Alf (or Fisher) dying like that in 1995, after eight years on the show. It would have been very upsetting.

[@danyoutube7491]

You are right about the acting, he was very good. Thoroughly convincing, including the noises he was making.

[@jamesb821]

Fantastic episode

[@ForestKicks]

4:07 That's some of the most robotic conversation I've ever heard

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

"It's Jim. He's passed away." I suppose they had her deliver the line like that because the character was supposed to be a hard-nosed businesswoman but her acting when she walks into the kitchen is atrocious; you can tell that she knows what's coming next.

[@najbritcol]

And the creepy thing is that, except for Rosemary, all those other characters also died. (Fiona died off-screen in a car crash, while Julie's and Helen's deaths are well-known).

[@MarkWhich]

This wasn't too long after Todd's death, concidence hey?

[@najbritcol]

@@MarkWhich Todd's death (and before that, Harold's disappearance) were the beginning of what I would call Neighbours' decada perdida, which was only (partially) resolved when Harold came back from the dead.

[@MarkWhich]

@@najbritcol Certainly agree, Harold was definitely the first one to bring in any nostalgia back into the show.

[@dane21dc]

Creepy if it were real life maybe. Not when it’s a tv show

[@najbritcol]

What's more, although there has been no mention of Rosemary dying, the actress/author who player her has.

[@anicetune]

There's a good music video about this. It's called You Just Tired Your Old Grandad Out by Swedemason (on KZbin)

[@nderohan]

To be honest she could've saved him instead she just stands there! And calls after

[@alexanderjones9572]

Reminiscent of Kim and Frank on Emmerdale.

[@PaulKinnear]

@@alexanderjones9572this hathis happened before kim and frank

[@tariqkhader6196]

That monster was in a league of her own. Pure evil.

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

Jeez she stood still long enough, and even my cats do better CPR 😂

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

I should have watched the full clip before commenting. She DIDN'T want to save him 🫣

[@michaelmartin9090]

Whose that young lady at 5.03 sitting with Helen?

[@Jaymagpie2002]

Julie Robinson Paul sister

[@Eltonlaleham]

Julie was an alien

[@elijaprice]

The real tragedy is that mullet.

[@ObiWanFan30]

Before Alan Dale went onto be on NCIS.

[@smash461986]

Before Alan Dale went to literally everything. Even Star Trek.

[@calamityjane1981]

And 24

[@Springamatul]

Poor Jim😢

[@David-h4z2s]

What A Way A To Go

[@startracker5895]

Where was Paul when you needed him? He would have sent Fiona packing months before this!

[@colmreilly8779]

A fugitive in Rio.

[@gavin.d.m]

Not as sad as Daphne's death 😭

[@boldbeautifulau]

It’s not a competition.

[@mels.3750]

Poor Jim.

[@stephenkissane4268]

This street is full of death

[@Jaymagpie2002]

Did they ever find out what fiona did

[@LifeinAnalog]

They did. After Fiona fled town, the whole family discovered the truth. Helen invited Annalise (Fiona's daughter) to live with her. Fiona later died, offscreen, following a car accident. Annalise decided to give any inheritance to Jim's family, though I don't recall if there was any money left.

[@julienfroidevaux1143]

The best actors in this scene are the fallen oranges.

[@ewtwetrwerwteet]

Worst acting ever by that woman in yellow, I think from memory she wanted him fired in real life and off the show LMAO

[@markbutcher7111]

The woman in yellow is Joy Chambers who married Reg Grundy in real life, which is the production company for Neighbours (Grundy Productions).

[@ewtwetrwerwteet]

@@markbutcher7111 Makes sense. Got job based on who she knew, not how well she could act. Much like the show now. No wonder it's been cancelled

[@dane21dc]

@@ewtwetrwerwteetWhat, cancelled 30 years later? Yeah, that’s the reason. It’s back btw

[@lady_Cairix]

Call an ambulance love and stop the over acting

[@LouiseGilchrist-q5n]

Excellent episode Julie mullins is a fantastic great fabulous lovely wonderful actress Fiona is rubbish she can't act 1:46

[@aimeehall2461]

Aimee Hall

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

He was a monster, good riddance.

[@startracker5895]

How the hell was he a monster? He was one of the nicest characters ever!

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

@@startracker5895 Sorry, I was thinking of that guy from Bugs.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@ChrisPatrick-q6k Lol, Craig Mcwhatsisface, who played Henry Ramsay? How was he a monster?

[@smash461986]

He was Ed in Bugs.