High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television. The series originally screened on Sunday, 17 January as a 93-minute pilot episode, or a television film as it is known, and a day later aired at its usual time of 22 minutes. At the beginning, the show was screened on Seven at 6.30 pm and currently airs at 7.00 pm, five days a week.