How amnesia made Neighbours forget itself

The Australian soap went from fuzzy romances and 80s mullets to an over-reliance on memory loss as a plot deviceThe year is 1988: Margaret Thatcher has become the UK’s longest-serving 20th-century prime minister; Prince Charles has narrowly avoided death-by-avalanche while on a skiing holiday; and a leather-jacketed Bros are topping the charts. And, on 8 November, nearly 20 million people tune in to watch Scott and Charlene’s wedding on Neighbours.Originally broadcast the year before