Alf married his original wife Martha for a second time in , the old romantic. For a while in , Alf started acting weird. Who sorted it? Not an international government body, but bait shop owner and president of the surf club: Alf. This was back in , so you may actually have been there for this one. That said, considering the sheer volume of secret relatives returning decades after being given up for adoption in Aussie soaps , it would be sensible for any and all acts of sexual union to be preceded by a DNA test.
When the daughter a year-old Colleen had given up for adoption arrived back in the Bay in , now a grown-up named Maureen, she hit it off with Alf and eventually moved in with him. When he wanted to propose marriage, she got cold feet and left town. Okay, this was actually pretty nice for old Alf. Initially his feelings were hurt when Summer Bay High principal Donald Fisher was selected among the local dignitaries to carry the Sydney Olympics flame, but after some shenanigans, Alf got to jog that little burner right on through the Bay too.
Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Following a nasty mayoral campaign, Alf was framed for embezzling money from the surf club by his dirty tricks-playing opponent Mayor Josh, who was trying to get rich from a development project that would destroy Summer Bay. Alf was wrongly convicted in and went to prison for nine whole months before his name was cleared.
Just four years later in , Alf went back to prison for nine weeks after being framed for the murder of Penn Graham which allowed him to return to the musical for its London run. Alf asked Morag to look into James and told Roo what James had said but she dismissed it. He got information from Morag and when Irene told him Roo and James were getting married that minute he interrupted the ceremony with the news that James had never worked at the hospital in Blue Mountains.
James explained that he had gone under his middle name there but it was enough to halt the wedding. Alf began to soften towards James when he was injured trying to stop an aerosol can exploding but when he learned that he was married and Roo knew he ordered him to stay away from her.
He was disappointed that Roo wanted to stay with him but made up with her after she and James broke up. He counselled Maddy over her feelings for Matt and Oscar, and organised the search when Oscar went missing. Hunter and Olivia tipped him off to the fact that Irene was drinking again and he poured her vodka away. He consulted with Chris and Evelyn on how to stop Leah and Zac postponing the wedding.
Soon after, he left town to help Seb look after an injured Don. He returned in the aftermath of the explosion at the caravan park that had killed Oscar and had to break the news to Zac and Leah that Hannah had died as well, as well as supporting Maddy when she had to have her arm amputated.
He was the one who worked out that Josh and Evelyn were planning to elope. He then defended Roo to Tanya before Maddy was found at a motel. Matt told him that Roo was hiding what pills she was taking and they staged an intervention, after which Roo gave him her pills.
Tori convinced him to take Justin along as a mechanic on a trial run of the Blaxland and after initial conflict they got on okay. However, then the boat broke down and Alf suffered a heart attack. Justin managed to summon help and he had surgery to insert a stent. He seemed to recover but then passed out again, having suffered a stroke.
When he recovered again after a visit from Marilyn, he had lost some of the movement on his right hand side. He refused to let Justin work in the bait shop, insisting it be closed until he could run it himself and then demanding Roo close it when he learned she had hired Justin after all.
He insisted on discharging himself from hospital, then took his bad mood out on everyone, especially Roo. After a lecture from Matt, he rehired Justin and apologised to Roo. He found himself running the bait shop himself when the Morgans all abruptly disappeared.
When Duncan turned up in town, Alf started avoiding him. They began to get on better after Roo got them to share a beer but when Duncan revealed he had a son, Bryce, from his marriage to Caroline Alf felt manipulated. However, after hearing that Caroline had taken Bryce to Hawaii and Duncan hardly saw them, he arranged a night-time fishing trip to bond. However, they ended up at odds again when Alf learned Duncan was refusing to pay Caroline extra maintenance and accused him of spending money on embryonic girlfriend Tori instead of his son.
Although most of the passengers were found quickly, Duncan was still missing. After Marilyn forced him to admit he was worried, he wrote a letter to Duncan saying he knew he was a good person now. Soon after, Duncan was found and they were reunited. As they bonded, Duncan asked Alf for help setting up a seaplane business and Alf agreed on condition they were equal partners. Shortly after, he met Bryce for the first time when he and Caroline turned up unexpectedly. He was suspicious of Caroline but softened when he realised his barbed comments towards her were giving Bryce a bad impression of him.
He and Nate kept Chris busy while Irene arranged a farewell party for him. He tried to dissuade Duncan from challenging Caroline for custody.
He argued with John when they did the surf club inventory together and unsuccessfully tried to lecture Heath on writing himself off. He gave Hunter a job at the bait shop and split up a fight between Hunter and Mason when the latter was working at the surf club. He then attended the Summer Bay Grooves festival.
He left the festival in time to help out with the subsequent bush fire and searched for Marilyn in the aftermath, finding her badly burned.
He was quizzed by Kat about the accelerant used to start the fires then discovered someone trying to start a fire near the bait shop. However, he convinced them to let him come back on light duties. He was furious though that John wanted to leave town and take Marilyn with him, accusing him of taking her away from what she loved.
He officiated when Matt and Evelyn had a symbolic wedding ceremony at the farm and advised Hunter about getting a place with Olivia, before leaving to see Sally for a month. He rushed to hospital when Roo was admitted with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, where he collapsed with what turned out to be an angina attack brought on by stress and a virus. However, he insisted on being the one who broke the news to Roo. He stopped Brody going into the surf club, with Kat having to step in when they came to blows.
He gave the Astonis a caravan to stay when they broke down in town and agreed to father Ben fixing a water tank he accidentally damaged. He complimented Ben on his work and looked after Coco while Ben and Maggie were searching for Ziggy, introducing her to Raffy.
He continued to champion Ash as guardian for Luc even after his split with Kat and warned Justin not to judge Scarlett, then helped Justin with his plan to get Scarlett out of town for a while when her husband went looking for her again. He was pretty much the only person bothered by the discovery that Hunter was the one who had put Marilyn in a coma two years earlier, although he forgot about it very quickly.
He discovered that the pier where the bait shop and Diner were located was up for sale and he and Leah decided to buy it. However, they were outbid by the Astonis. He invited them over for a meal with himself, Leah, Irene and Roo to try and smooth things over but was bothered when they revealed plans to redevelop it. However, after having to spend the night there when the boat failed to start, he was attacked by a man who was living rough at the cove and suffering from amnesia.
He then found the man had stowed away on their boat and believed Alf had done something to him. Alf managed to keep him calm until Kat arrived to take charge. He was annoyed that the stranger, nicknamed Robbo, was released without charge but agreed to him staying at the caravan park.
He was accused by Ben of getting the council to block his redevelopment plans but found out for him that it was actually Nick Dutton. He was bothered by a number of thefts and vandalism at the surf club. When he learned Mick was in town, he arranged a home and job for him in Western Australia and tried to insist he take it. He had to say goodbye to Scarlett when she went back to her husband. Quinn finally got in touch to confirm Ryder was her son and said he was meant to be at boot camp.
Roo convinced Alf to let him stay with them and he arranged to give Robbo an old surf club car. He tried to get Ryder to come on early morning fishing trips with him but Ryder fell asleep on the couch and reacted badly when Alf woke him.
When Ryder missed another trip, Alf told him to move some wood in the caravan park as punishment. Roo secretly did the work for him and convinced Alf to take him on an afternoon trip instead. He bought Marilyn as a partner for the glow day obstacle course solely so that they could both sit it out, then stumbled upon Ryder sleepwalking and saw him fall down the stairs.
When it was decided VJ would take Luc out of the country, Alf arranged a seaplane to take him to the airport before an injunction Mick was filing came into force. He then told Mick the job in WA was still available.
He was reunited with Quinn when she came to pick up Ryder and convinced her to stay for the weekend rather than leave straightaway.
When he ran over Roo, Alf blasted him, resulting in him running away, but helped him smooth things over with Quinn afterwards. Roo suggested to him that Ryder should stay with them and he helped to talk Quinn into it, pleased that they were in touch again at last. Despite Robbo being wanted by the police, he warned the locals not to judge him without knowing the facts. He invited Hunter to move back in after finding him sleeping in the bait shop.
He was called to the school when Ryder misbehaved, only to be trapped in a sinkhole with Roo after a gas explosion, where he suffered a heart attack. Thinking he was going to die, he told Roo her mother Martha was still alive.
However, she refused to visit him, sending John and Marilyn instead, and Tori refused to discharge him. He eventually got out and tried to talk to Roo, admitting the truth: Thirty years ago, shortly after he married Ailsa, he received a letter from Martha but it gave no clues as to tracking her down.
When he admitted he might never have told Roo, she decided to move out. He visited her at the motel and gave her the letter. A worried Ryder took him fishing to cheer him up, which contributed to him missing Leah and Jasmine being taken hostage by David Cantrall, although he helped convince Jasmine to stay in town afterwards. He also objected to Robbo being released on bail. He accepted a dinner invite from John, although a miscommunication meant Roo ended up being there as well. Afterwards, Roo asked him to help her find Martha but he refused, thinking it was just going to result in her being hurt, and was annoyed when she involved Colby.
He softened after hearing Roo confiding in Ryder about needing to find Martha and gave her a box containing an old Stewart family ring that Martha had sent back, telling her not to let his opinion factor into whether she searched. He tried to throw Jennifer and Hunter out after catching her trying to seduce him but Leah talked him out of it.
He then joined Justin and John in trying to build bridges with Ash. Shortly after, however, Alf found Martha outside the house. He fetched Roo but was reluctant to talk to Martha himself, feeling there was nothing she could say that would interest him. She ignored him when he went to her motel. He later found Martha leaving her contact details and Martha explained she had borderline personality disorder. In her absence, Alf talked Robbo out of skipping bail.
When Roo returned, she was reluctant to discuss Martha with him but Alf told her not to keep secrets. Despite this, he still felt uncomfortable and decided to go away for a while. He returned to find Ryder heartbroken after breaking up with Coco. He worked out that Ryder had recorded a video of Leah secretly and posted it on her website, getting him to own up.
He was suspicious of Ebony when she started asking questions about Robbo. He found himself repeatedly having to chase up Willow and Dean for their rent money and threw them out after Dean trashed his van. When he caught Ryder and Ty fighting and Ryder refused to explain why, Alf sentenced him to clean out the surf club and caravan park as punishment.
After Ty went missing, Ryder admitted Ty had kissed him and Alf helped John rescue Ty from the bush before telling Ryder he handled it correctly. Alf was knocked over and injured after disturbing an intruder at the surf club but was soon back on his feet.
Ben asked him to have a word with Ryder about dating Coco but he struggled to know what to say and ended up passing the job on to Roo. When he worked out the pair were planning to sleep together, he refused to leave them alone in the house and stopped Ryder taking caravan keys, as well as sending Coco home when they tried to sneak out onto the beach together. He was angry when it turned out Dean was the one who had assaulted him weeks earlier but accepted his apology and agreed to let him stay at the caravan park until his trial.
With Roo away visiting Duncan and Caroline, Alf had to deal with Ryder feeling increasingly isolated. Alf began to get through to Ryder about his feelings of abandonment but quickly broke his word not to leave him when he received word Caroline had died and had to go away alone to her funeral, leaving Ryder with Leah.
He returned home shortly after Roo to find Ryder passed out drunk in his room. Alf had to look for Ryder when he promptly stormed out of the house saying he was leaving town and reluctantly thanked Dean for returning him, promising to be more considerate to Ryder.
When John still made things difficult, Alf pulled him back into line by threatening him with a review. He was once again left looking after Ryder on his own when Roo took a teaching placement in the Kimberleys and was a rather awkward confidante over his new relationship with Raffy.
He called Martha on impulse after hearing about Willow being shot and was surprised when she turned up, admitting he missed her. Alf insisted it was only temporary; however, after they enjoyed the lunch, Martha decided to stay on in a van. After witnessing her giving advice to Ryder on how to help Raffy with her anxiety, Alf invited Martha to join him on a fishing trip.
She did a portrait of him and he felt uncomfortable on hearing her talking about painting someone you love. She nearly left town as a result but he convinced her to stay. However, he was concerned when she became obsessed with getting in touch with Roo. He managed to calm her by getting Roo on the phone but Martha decided she needed to return home. Unknown to anyone, he met up with Martha out of town, with them travelling on together. He attempted to surprise everyone by returning unexpectedly only for Roo and Ryder to turn out to have made plans.
He was reunited with Jett, now confined to a wheelchair, and was worried at how much John was doing for him, so took John out for a drink while Marilyn got Jett to help at the Diner. With Justin now dating Leah, Alf gave him a stern warning not to hurt her. Roo was stunned when Martha announced she was leaving and Martha and Alf explained they were having a long distance relationship.
He tried to take him to task for underpaying Ryder only for John to correct it unprompted. Alf agreed to try John being in town for the weekend and doing paperwork by e-mail during the week. With the system working, Alf decided to go and visit Martha. He returned to find Ryder and Roo arguing about Ryder taking a job at Salt and, after establishing Ryder was serious about it, convinced Roo to accept his choices.
He and Ben were pressganged into cheering John up when he was missing Jett and he advised Ryder over his break-up with Raffy. He then helped Ryder out by taking Ben home when he got drunk in Salt. He was the first to realise Ben might have depression and agreed to Ryder having a party at the caravan park.
He gave Ryder a driving lesson, although Roo gatecrashed to pester Ryder about going to uni. Martha arrived back in the Bay and agreed to stay with him at the house this time. They went on a road trip instead and on their return announced they had news: Martha was moving in. However, his attempts to give her attention just made her annoyed and Roo had to step in. He was annoyed when Martha spent time at art class and missed a meal with him, so went off to a remote fishing spot.
The two of them spoke to Alex Neilson about getting a support system set up in the area. He was worried when Leah went missing so Martha convinced him to go away with her for a few days. He returned in the aftermath of the armed siege at the hospital in which Mason had been killed. When the news arrived that Robbo had also been killed in a car crash, Alf organised a candlelit vigil on the beach.
He admitted it had been a gut reaction but also said he meant it and Martha accepted the proposal. He then learned Ryder was facing charges after Jade falsely accused him of uploading an intimate video of her without consent. He was unhappy that Jade was still staying at the caravan park but convinced Ryder to get a lawyer. The service went ahead without a hitch and he even had the satisfaction of kicking Jade out of the caravan park when she turned up at the reception causing trouble after Nikau produced evidence of her deceptions.
He and Martha were invited to have a staycation at the house in place of a honeymoon but found it strange being their on their own so decided to go away on a proper vacation. His frustration about being kept out of the loop increased when he learned that both John and Marilyn and Ben and Maggie had split up in his absence.
He reluctantly attended a lunch with Evan that Ryder had arranged and found he liked him. However, Roo then told him Evan was dying and he joined her in breaking the news to Ryder. He agreed to keep quiet about Ryder knowing and helped him organise a gig with Evan at Salt. Martha convinced him to talk to John about Marilyn visiting.
Alf alerted Ryder when he saw Evan at the hospital and advised Ben to try again with Maggie. He convinced Ryder to accept Evan needed to die without him around and said goodbye to Martha when she headed off to organise an art exhibition in Merimbula.
He checked on John and Marilyn after John had moved back home to recover and offered to take them out. He witnessed John and Marilyn being short with each other and, with Leah, organised a farewell lunch for Ben and Maggie. On learning Marilyn was staying at a motel after her split with John, he convinced her to move back in with him and assured her she was part of the family. He was with Ryder when he first encountered Owen Davidson, who resembled Evan and was revealed to be his twin brother.
Alf invited him to stay in a caravan. He dealt with Roo dating Owen and, when they went away together, Marilyn convinced him to go and visit Martha. On his return, he found Roo upset. She refused to explain why and Alf had his own problems, since Martha was refusing to sell her house in Merimbula and move to Summer Bay full time. Martha explained she saw it as her safe place when she needed a refuge and Alf offered to move there with her but Martha was happy to keep both houses.
He accused Owen of upsetting Roo until Roo put him straight, then was confused when Martha insisted on going to Merimbula without him. On her return, she revealed she had a son, Kieran, who she had only just got back in contact with. Alf met Kieran when he followed Martha to the Bay and, aware he had a drink problem, let him stay in a caravan on condition he not visit Martha when she was alone.
However, he was worried on learning Kieran was a violent drunk who Martha had had to call the police on when he attacked her. When Roo told him that Kieran had been drinking and had intimidated her, he was determined to get rid of him, and was involved in a confrontation with him at the surf club where Justin had to intervene to stop Kieran hitting him. Alf and Roo went to the police and learned Kieran was already wanted on an assault charge, but Kieran disappeared before he could be questioned.
Martha blamed Alf and Roo for driving him away and threatened to go back to Merimbula, also accusing them of keeping her prisoner. In fact, Kieran had returned and kidnapped Martha. After he was arrested, Martha decided to go back to hospital.
Organising the surf club AGM, Alf assumed he would be re-elected as surf club president as normal but John announced he was standing against him.
Alf refused to lobby for votes and was left dispirited when campaigning by his new girlfriend Susie McAllister saw John elected instead, but, after initially refusing to shake his hand, hid his hurt to give John his congratulations.
However, he tore a strip off John for getting Susie to serve Marilyn divorce papers and was even more furious when Susie ran off with the sponsorship money for the surf carnival. John and Dean both helped to make the event a success as Alf was officially reinstated as president.
Some time later, he stopped a fight between Lewis Hayes and Christian by turning the hose on them. He was frustrated that Ryder seemed happy to lounge around after he and Chloe lost their jobs at Salt and insisted they find some sort of work. When they came up with a food truck idea however, Alf helped loan them the money to get it going. He defended Ryder and Chloe when they set up their food truck outside the surf club but made Ryder own up after Chloe claimed to have seen a rat in Salt.
With Nikau having resigned to take up a modelling career, Alf found himself running the bait shop, surf club and caravan park largely single-handed. And now, he is a sauce entrepreneur, having created his Flamin' Hot Sauce with the help of website builder GoDaddy. GoDaddy have been wonderful — it's not just the profits that are going to the charity, every single dime.
Yes, yes, yes! Alf was always quick-tempered but his brushes with the law seem to have been more due to random circumstances. He was arrested in the late s when he tried to cover for foster son Curtis and again a few years later for allegedly embezzling surf club money after he was set up by Josh West.
For that, he was sent to prison for nine months but his conviction was overturned when it was discovered the judge was corrupt.
Bizarrely there is a Facebook page devoted to Alf Stewart Memes which has 90, followers. It redubs Home and Away scenes of Alf depicting him as having a "rape dungeon" and captions photos of him with crude remarks but most of them are too obscene to publish. In the early naughties, the three longest serving members of Home and Away —Norman Coburn, Kate Ritchie and Meagher—were awarded a Guinness World Record for longest serving actors on an Australian series. Meagher is still on the show, nearly two decades later.
There have been rumours in the last few months that Alf—say it ain't so! I'm sure he would have told me - he's not retiring at all. In fact, Meagher informed the Brisbane Times in September that he'd just signed another three-year contract.
A thorn between two roses? Everything you need to know about Ray Meagher , the man behind Alf Stewart. The man who has played Alf for over 30 years since the age of 43 was born on July 4, , in Roma, Queensland, and raised on a sheep and cattle station. His first performance? At age 11, as the wicked witch in a play of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. A keen sportsman, he even represented his home state in rugby.
Perhaps the year-old's staying power comes from his farming background, not being afraid of hard work. I have never missed a call time. I have never turned up not knowing my lines," he tells the Queensland Times.
What a day!
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