Echo Point

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Echo Point was an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Productions for Network Ten in 1995.

The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to finally trounce the opposition soap Home and Away on the Seven Network. 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.

Echo Point was scheduled in direct competition with Home and Away, which had at that time entered a ratings slump. However Home and Away demolished Echo Point in the ratings and the series was cancelled after a little over 100 episodes had been produced. The final episodes were aired in a late night 11.30pm slot. The only purchaser of the series in the UK was Central Television, the only member of the ITV network to screen it.