Episode 9363 of the Australian soap opera Neighbours premiered on 11 December 2025 in the United Kingdom on Amazon Prime Video. It was also broadcast on Network 10 in Australia but was consolidated into a feature length episode with Episode 9362. It is the final episode of Neighbours after the show was cancelled for a third time after forty years of broadcasting. Neighbours was cancelled due to the loss of its broadcaster and main investor, Amazon MGM Studios. The episode was written by Jason Herbison and directed by Scott Major. Neighbours: The Finale (2022) was originally envisioned as the final episode of the show but the show was unexpectedly renewed by Amazon for their Amazon Freevee channel. Production on Neighbours ended in July 2025, after Amazon declined to renew the series.
The episode's plot revolves around the threat of demolition to the series' Ramsay Street setting, following the announcement of a freeway development. Paul Robinson (Stefan Dennis) and Shane Ramsay (Peter O'Brien) pitch rival developments to past and present Ramsay Street residents, who contemplate what their futures might hold, while Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne) determines to fight to save Ramsay Street. The episode was designed to reflect the real-world position of Neighbours and offer potential concepts for future revivals.
The episode received positive reviews from television critics who applauded Herbison's decision not to attempt to recreate the style of the previous finale. Episode 9363 was initially met with scepticism from critics who believed the 2022 finale had been so successful that another finale would be of inferior quality. Analysis that was more negative focused on the episode failing to relive the previous finale's grandeur and celebratory theme.
Plot Remi, Cara and JJ Varga-Murphy drive into Ramsay Street, mirroring their first arrival two years previously. Susan Kennedy, Karl Kennedy and Holly Hoyland discuss the potential end of Ramsay Street. Paul Robinson and Terese Willis look forward to a future away from the street, with Paul establishing his Robinson Towers development. Byron Stone, Aaron Brennan and Rhett Norman visit Jane Harris after Shane Ramsay invites them to view his own new development site, Ramsay Hills. Andrew and Wendy Rodwell intend to sell their house and go their separate ways, following the exposure of Andrew's affair with Holly. Krista Sinclair and Leo Tanaka tell their family that she is pregnant. Mackenzie Hargreaves and Haz Devkar reunite with Byron and Holly, and Mackenzie encourages Holly to be kind to herself.
Past and present residents gather at the Waterhole for the Ramsay Hills presentation led by Shane and his son, Max. Remi discusses regaining her memory with Wendy and Andrew. Paul and his grandson, Jimmy, sabotage the presentation and attempt to promote Robinson Towers to the group. Karl takes over from Shane to speak on behalf of Ramsay Hills. When discussing their visions for the new neighbourhoods, Paul and Karl co-opt the words Susan previously wrote in the Ramsay Street history book. Susan responds emotionally and leaves the presentation to meet Annalise Hartman, who reveals that it may be possible to save the street.
The residents attend a site visit to either Robinson Towers or Ramsay Hills, where they contemplate what the future may hold for them. At Robinson Towers, Sadie Rodwell tells Wendy that she is uneasy about moving on without her father. At Ramsay Hills, Holly and Andrew choose the name River for their unborn son, following Holly's recent miscarriage. When the two groups return to the Waterhole, Wendy asks to speak to Andrew. Dex Varga-Murphy returns home from summer camp and his family ask him to help make their decision about their future.
Realising that Susan did not attend either site visit, Karl and Paul return to Ramsay Street to find her. Susan reveals that she wants to fight for the street because other communities have beaten the odds. She states they have been through this before, and despite being able to see a future at either development, she loves Ramsay Street and does not want to find a new life. Paul asks what they are going to do.
Regular cast appearances
Jakob Ambrose as Colton Keys Lucinda Armstrong Hall as Holly Hoyland James Beaufort as Felix Rodwell Riley Bryant as JJ Varga-Murphy Emerald Chan as Sadie Rodwell Majella Davis as Krista Sinclair Stefan Dennis as Paul Robinson Rebekah Elmaloglou as Terese Willis Alan Fletcher as Karl Kennedy Ben Jackson as Max Ramsay Elise Jansen as Elle Robinson Lakota Johnson as Taye Obasi Annie Jones as Jane Harris Alex Kaan as Zac Willis Tim Kano as Leo Tanaka Candice Leask as Wendy Rodwell Hannah Monson as Nicolette Stone Naomi Rukavina as Remi Varga-Murphy Sara West as Cara Varga-Murphy Lloyd Will as Andrew Rodwell Marley Williams as Dex Varga-Murphy Jackie Woodburne as Susan Kennedy
Production Background The series had previously been cancelled in 2022, following the show's British broadcaster and main investor pulling funding from the show. The show came to an end on 28 July 2022, with Neighbours: The Finale originally conceived as the show's final episodes. On 17 November 2022, it was announced Fremantle and Amazon Studios had secured a deal to bring the show back into production for their streaming channel, Amazon Freevee.
On 20 February 2025, Carl Greenwood from The Sun published a news story claiming that Amazon MGM Studios and Neighbours production company Fremantle had failed to reach an agreement on the renewal of the series. The story was published prior to the show's cast and crew being informed, which they had planned to do the following morning. David Knox from TV Tonight noted the closure of Amazon Freevee and the departure of producers who commissioned the series to Amazon as reasons for the cancellation. It was revealed that production of Neighbours would continue until July 2025 and a series finale was planned to be broadcast in December 2025. Isabella Rayner from Sky News Australia reported it would be the show's "final episode". A petition to save the series and prevent the episode being its last was launched on change.org and amassed more than 19682 signatures.
On 11 July 2025, the show was then given a tentative final broadcast date of 11 December 2025 and it was confirmed that the 9363rd episode would be its last.
Development The show's executive producer Jason Herbison first spoke about the final episode the following day after the cancellation announcement. He told Angela Bishop from 10 News First it was too early to know what the episode would feature. He acknowledged he wanted it to be "a little bit" different to the previous finale episode. He added "I certainly wouldn't want to repeat myself – that was a great finale, I loved writing that episode. It was incredible that everyone came back for it. I don't know, I think this time around it would be a little bit of a different tone." He concluded that he envisioned Neighbours as being "eternal" and the finale would have "a door left open kind of ending again."
Herbison knew he could not end the series in the same way as he previously did. The show was losing its studios and backlot sets at Nunawading studios. The site was sold to property redevelopers but was leased back to the show's parent company, Fremantle Media. Herbison noted this was not the case when the previous finale was created so he had to approach it differently. He created an ending which could allow the show to return again without it relying on using the studios. He told Lucy Croke from TV Week that "this is what the finale sets out to do." Writing in TV Tonight after the finale, Herbison described the Robinson Towers and Ramsay Hills developments as "backdoor spin-off ideas", which each provided "an opportunity to create a leaner [production] model that isn't shackled to a costly heritage site". He also told Johnathon Hughes from Radio Times that "I approached the ending very differently this time. I knew I couldn't compete with 2022 or do the same thing twice."
Herbsion set the tone for the episode as optimistic but wanted to incorporate the sentiment the production were feeling about losing the show and studios. He opted to develop a storyline about Ramsay Street facing demolition. He explained that "I couldn't help but play with that sense of deja-vu. We have been here before, right? The threat to the street is an echo of what is happening to the show itself." The episode's final scene pays homage to the previous final scene from Neighbours: The Finale. Herbison included a much smaller cast for the scene than that were included for its predecessor. It took Herbison months to make peace with the show ending but he revealed that he felt different by the time the finale was broadcast. He described the ending of Episode 9363 as challenging to create and struggled to conclude all the characters storylines. He believed he needed an extra weeks worth of episodes to have done it better. He concluded "I hope the loyal fans can appreciate why I've gone the way I did." In the months after production finished, spoilers about the show's finale were discovered before it was broadcast. The episode's dialogue remained a secret, which Herbison hoped would surprise viewers.
There was more content filmed for the episode that post-production had to cut from the final edit. Herbison revealed "I'm a nightmare for directors because I always write long and I enjoy having material to play with in the edit." Of the show's future, Herbison said the episode features "a little bit of a twist which does leave open many possibilities". He also teased that the rival housing developments were possible future spin-offs, and that there was a real chance Neighbours could return as a limited series.
Cast Herbison mainly chose former cast members to return for the episode from the show's Amazon era. Other characters from its previous run were selected to return because they had been planned to return before the show had run out of time to do so. On 10 November 2025, many Amazon era cast members were confirmed to have returned for the show's final episodes. These were Scott Major as Lucas Fitzgerald, Peter O'Brien as Shane Ramsay, Kimberley Davies as Annalise Hartman, Georgie Stone as Mackenzie Hargreaves, Shiv Palekar as Haz Devkar. Richie Morris, who last played Levi Canning in 2022 also reprised his role and Kate Gorman appeared as Sue Parker. In addition, Naomi Rukavina was confirmed to be returning from maternity leave to give her character, Remi Varga-Murphy an ending. On 20 November, more returns were confirmed including the non Amazon era cast members Ben Hall as Ned Willis and Darcy Tadich as Jimmy Williams. Also confirmed were a raft of cast whose characters last appeared in 2025, including Ayisha Salem-Towner as Nell Rebecchi, Zima Anderson as Roxy Willis, Xavier Molyneux as Byron Stone, Gemma Bird Matheson as Kiri Durant, Matt Wilson as Aaron Brennan, Liam Maguire as Rhett Norman and Lucinda Cowden as Melanie Pearson. Herbison later revealed that Levi and Ned were the two character he had planned to reintroduce into the show and therefore included them in Episode 9363.
Cowden was partly responsible for her return as Melanie as she feared not being invited back. She emailed Herbison about returning, noting "I tried to sort of give it a humorous tinge, rather than try to sound quite so desperate." He responded to Cowden, asking for time to figure out her return and her agent soon contacted her confirming her return. In a backstage video, Molyneux claimed he did not want any dialogue but "I just wanted to come and say hi to the cast and crew, and tie it all up in a bow and just be here, I guess."