Home and Away 2025: Release date and where to watch

Get ready for the ultimate Home and Away catch up streaming with the new 2025 season now airing on Seven and 7plus.

The second longest drama series in Australia, Home and Away premiered with a ninety minute pilot episode on the Seven Network in 1988.

It has since become a television staple, and testament to its success is its global reach, having been broadcast in over eighty countries around the world.

Home and Away follows the residents of the fictional seaside town of Summer Bay in New South Wales as they navigate life and love and deal with tragedies and heartbreaks in between.

Currently in Season 38, find out how to watch Home and Away catch up episodes using this guide. 

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Is Home and Away on tonight?

New episodes of the soap opera are broadcast on Channel 7 as they drop, as well as on 7plus for Home and Away catch up streaming online from Monday, 13 January 2025. New episodes air Mondays to Thursdays at 7pm on Channel 7. You can watch Channel 7 shows for free without having to worry about monthly subscriptions or contracts on free to air.

TV show	Schedule	Channel / Streaming
Home and Away 2025	Mon-Thur at 7pm	Channel 7 / 7plus

Home and Away 2025 trailer

New Home and Away episodes air on Channel 7 from 13 January! Check out the trailer for the 2025 season below:

What is the plot of Home and Away?

In the beginning, Home and Away focused on the Fletcher family, Tom (Roger Oakley) and Pippa (Vanessa Downing), and their five foster children – Frank Morgan (Alex Papps), Carly Morris (Sharyn Hodgson), Lynn Davenport (Helena Bozich), Steven Matheson (Adam Willits) and Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie) – who relocated from the city and moved into the Summer Bay House.

Starting anew at their foster home, they worked at the caravan park while adapting to their new lives. The Fletcher family later took in a sixth foster child, Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson), expanding their family.

While Home and Away tends to highlight family life and issues surrounding foster children such as teenage problems, the soap opera doesn’t shy away from exploring heavier themes.

Being on television for over three decades, Home and Away has also seen main characters come and go. Currently, Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher) is the only remaining original cast member who’s still on the show, although some of the previous main cast members have returned to star in special episodes.

In the latest 2025 season, we’ll also meet new Home and Away characters, including Mark Townsend, played by Craig Hall. He plays a detective investigating the attack on Tim Russell (George Pullar). Then there’s Sonny (Ryan Brown), Remi Carter’s friend and Lacey (Sophea Pennington), a newbie in Summer Bay.

How many seasons of Home and Away are there? 

Since its premiere in 1988, the series has aired with over 8,000 episodes. Home and Away 2025 marked the soap’s renewal for a 38th season.

It’s Australia’s second longest TV series next to Neighbours and continues to be a mainstay on local TV. Home and Away catch-up is easy when you have Channel 7’s on demand streaming service 7plus.

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What else is on Channel 7 tonight?

You can count on Channel 7 to deliver the widest range of content and spanning across all genres, which you can also explore using our free to air streaming search bar below.

Channel 7 and its catch up streaming service, 7plus, is home to hundreds of reality shows, dramas, comedies, documentaries, movies online, and more. Apart from Home and Away, the platform also offers other reality shows such as The Real Housewives of Miami, Below Deck Down Under, and Southern Charm.

New TV shows are added each and every week so the choice is never an issue. These include drama hits like Accused, The Arrangement, Fortitude, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.