Who is alf stewart

Ailsa was on the scene from day dot. A sweet-natured local store owner, she was good friends with many of Summer Bay's locals back when Home and Away first aired in She quickly caught the eye of our Alf, and they became engaged reasonably quick-smart.

In a weird yet sneakingly soap-esque turn of events, it's revealed the lovely Ailsa is in fact a murderer. But there's a catch, the man she killed was abusive, so most of the Bay's locals side with her. After she marries Alf, a series of twists and turns dominate her narrative - from taking in damaged and vulnerable children, to a deadly car accident that leaves her in a coma.

While she recovered from the coma, she did later have a heart attack and died as a result in Aisla and Alf were married for years on the show. Viv, also known as 'The Guv' first appeared in Home and Away in , where she was serving time in prison. But before you get ahead of yourself, she didn't actually date Alf on the show, rather, it was later revealed when she enlisted the help of Morag the convenient lawyer-sister to Alf that she was in fact Alf's first girlfriend.

A slightly alarming blast from the past for poor Alf, we're guessing. Their love story emerged - Alf was protestant and Viv was Catholic, but despite their families disapproval, they were engaged when they were Fast forward back to her run-in with Alf on the show, she revealed one of the biggest bombshells of the time, she'd had Alf's baby - a son by the name of Owen Dalby.

Viv died soon after revealing the explosive feat - but Owen's son Ric Dalby became a regular show fixture, and he was a sweetheart to boot. All's well that ends well. Ex-girlfriend Viv was a whirlwind of revelations for Alf. Let's just say Bridget Simmons wasn't Alf's best choice.

Arriving in the Bay in , the lost and somewhat erratic soul of Bridget first came into Alf's narrative as she took on shifts at the Surf Club. Alf realised it was Owen Dalby, the violent father of Dalby, who Ric had accidentally killed when he pushed Owen down some stairs while he was beating him.

Alf was reluctant to tell Dalby who he was but asked Morag to represent him on manslaughter charges. With Ric going on the run Alf was determined to find him and form a bond with his grandson. He received his chance when Dalby, who had been cleared of manslaughter when it was discovered Owen died of a heart attack, came out of hiding in order to help Leah and Dan after a seaplane crash.

Alf met him at the hospital and told him of their relationship and Dalby was eventually convinced to go back to the flat with him. At first their relationship was strained and Ric decided to live with Sally and Flynn rather than Alf, after Alf walked in on him giving himself an insulin injection and assumed he was a drug addict, but they eventually forged a relationship and became close.

They bonded on a fishing expedition where Dalby decided to adopt the name Ric. Soon after, yet another Stewart was to be reunited with Alf when, on a regular trip to see his daughter Roo in New York after she had been in a car accident, he met and became acquainted with his grand-daughter Martha whom Roo had given up for adoption eighteen years earlier.

Alf himself was unhappy about Martha dating Jesse, who was on the rebound from Josie. When Alf turned sixty the residents of The Bay came together to organise a huge party for him with a number of familiar faces, including his sisters Morag, Barbara and Celia, his son Duncan, foster children Blake Dean, Sarah Thompson and Mitch McColl amongst others, returning for the big day.

Chloe Richards, back in the bay to escape a violent boyfriend, gave Alf, Martha, Ric and Kim a lift home from the party but their car was forced off the road and they were all taken to hospital where Chloe died and Martha was left seemingly paralysed.

A furious Alf went on the rampage in order to find the culprit and initially accused Duncan, who had left the party angry after Alf mostly ignored him but was cleared by the police and smoothed things over with Alf after their previous parting on bad terms.

Alf was horrified to discover it was in fact Jesse, spurned by Chloe, who had drank too much and accidentally run them off the road, and refused to forgive him, even though he handed himself into the police. Luckily Martha made a full recovery, eventually recovering the use of her legs, and the fact she encouraged Jesse to get a lawyer shamed Alf into agreeing to say goodbye to him before he was taken to jail, admitting he mostly felt guilty for not realising there was something wrong with Chloe.

He later helped protect the caravan park when the town was hit by a cyclone. When Josh West arrived back in town Alf was convinced he was bad news and the two quickly came head to head in the campaign to be Mayor. Unfortunately for Alf, Josh was willing to play dirty and set Alf up so it looked as if he had been embezzling surf club money.

A free Alf was ridden with guilt about not being able to help the guy and for months after was a changed man. He was quiet, withdrawn, snappy and jumped at the slightest sound. Luckily he had several heart to hearts with his sister Morag and Sally and eventually came through the other side.

Before Flynn eventually passed away he shared a quiet moment with Alf, asking him to look after his family for him. Alf took him at his word, moving into the Caravan Par House to support Sally, arranging for Martha to move in while he was in jail, and he has lived there ever since, bringing together the two original characters under one roof. He got to give Martha away at her wedding to Jack but when she was injured in an explosion at the reception she was one of several residents lost in the bush after the crash of a helicopter taking them to hospital.

Alf got into a fight with a reporter for claiming they were dead then the stress of organising the search caused him to suffer chest pains but he eventually managed to make a speech bringing the community together.

He was reluctant to celebrate his birthday during the search but Ric and Cassie insisted on giving him a gift. When she was finally found safe and well Alf decided to fly personally to New York to deliver the news that she was safe.

He received a phone call saying that his sister Celia had had a stroke so he flew once again to her aid. In his absence his granddaughter Martha fell off the rails. He caught Cassie twice in trysts with Jules and was there for Martha when she admitted her despair over her abortion. His main story for the year came when Jack pulled him over for a routine breath test and discovered that his license had expired after he failed an eye test.

Jack was forced to tell him to stop driving. When his family began nagging him to get it renewed he reluctantly admitted to Martha that he thought he was possibly going blind; that his father had had glaucoma and that it was hereditary.

His family eventually convinced him to have tests after he nearly ran Sally down while driving illegally but he failed to show for the results despite being dropped off outside. When Ric convinced him to head in and apologise he was relieved to hear that his problem was only cataracts and that he only needed a small operation to fix things. He briefly went missing when the boat that he, Brad, Ric and Dan had taken on a fishing trip was thrown onto a sandbank during a storm and they had to be rescued.

A furious Sally blamed him and out of guilt he moved out of the house onto his boat. Fortunately Pippa recovered and Sally forgave him, allowing him to move home again. The next key event saw a time capsule left by his mother be discovered and the revelation that Colleen was actually his half-sister.

Although initially shocked Alf later saw how much it meant to Colleen and made an effort towards her, causing a misunderstanding where everyone thought they were getting married before the truth was revealed. He was devastated to find out that Martha had cancer but there was a happy occasion when Morag finally got married to Ross Buckton.

New arrival in town Bridget Simmonds set her cap at Alf and though initially reluctant, they began seeing each other. Things started to not add up though when Bridget took money for advertising which never materialized. Confronting her, Bridget lied that her cancer had returned and he later took her side when Rachel turned against her. He received word that Duncan was getting married in Vegas and arranged for Pippa to come and cover him with Irene away and Roman in hospital.

He was unimpressed by the tacky ceremony when he returned a few weeks later. He worked hard with the surf club to get the winter surf carnival and was gutted when a severed hand on the beach and a shark attack, meant the carnival was lost to the town.

In early , Alf ended up caught up in the race riot that burnt down the Diner. The experience left him disenchanted with life in Summer Bay for a while until some words from Miles and Irene, a fishing trip with Tony, the fact that people like Martha and Aden had managed to pick themselves up after tragedies and even a chat with Nicole inspired him to carry on. He was bolstered by the return of Marilyn, who he quickly invited to move into the caravan park house, but shocked when she told him she was dying the result of a prediction made by a psychic.

He was very uncomfortable when Marilyn introduced him to her ventriloquists doll Mr. Oddly, as the result of a bad experience at his fifth birthday party, and made several attempts to get rid of him. When Marilyn decided to burn the doll, he took great delight in lighting the match.

Tulip died of an overdose shortly after Alf broke the affair off and Penn blamed Alf, swearing revenge. He pestered Alf, breaking into his room and planting photos of Tulip everywhere and vandalising the house. Alf kept tight-lipped about his past with Penn, only telling Miles, so he appeared guilty when Penn turned up dead.

He was delighted when Roo returned to town but bothered by her secret conversation with Gina. When Roo told him the truth about trying to help Martha and Hugo, he gave his blessing.

He spent six weeks in jail on remand before being released on bail. When Will admitted he had killed Penn, the charges were dropped and, after accepting John had done a good job running the surf club in his absence, Alf left to travel the world on a six month backpacking tour.

He returned to the aftermath of the bachelor and spinsters ball and made a deal with Romeo to let the latter run a tour business with the Blaxland. He clashed with Harvey Ryan when he revealed Alf had never bought a permit for his mooring and unsuccessfully tried to convince the council to let him keep it. When he learned Harvey would get the mooring, which he had installed himself, he and Romeo removed it.

He then decided to stand for council against Harvey. However, he lost the election, unaware that the mayor had rigged the vote.

Despite this, he worked with Harvey, along with Gina, Elijah and several other residents, to raise funds for a school Miles and Sally were planning to build in Thailand. He went over there to help with the construction and, when he returned, had to endure a treatable form of malaria. When Sally returned to town, Alf was pleased to see her but realised something was wrong and she admitted that her daughter Pippa had an incurable genetic condition, mitochondrial disease.

Alf, along with Roo, Marilyn and Harvey, tried to buy the house in order to get her the money to go to a clinic in the United States but was refused a mortgage so put the Blaxland up for sale in order to afford the deposit. After avoiding their farewell party, Roo convinced him to say goodbye to them. Maddy asked Alf to let Josh stay in a van when he found himself homeless but Alf refused. Maddy instead hid Josh in her room and when Alf found out he threw him out, causing Maddy to run away.

Shortly after she returned, Alf went to visit Sally and Pippa in the States but returned when he learned Harvey had gone missing at sea. He welcomed the pair back from the Bay Meets the River music festival and returned home with Roo and Maddy to find Harvey waiting for them. He had trouble coping with the discovery Josh and Maddy were sleeping together, trying to ban Josh from the house, but ultimately accepted they were old enough.

He employed Denny Miller as his new assistant at the bait shop and began to see her as a surrogate daughter. He was briefly hospitalised after eating risotto that Chris had made with poisoned mushroom. He then had to deal with Roo being hospitalised with an infection immediately after returning from holiday, and was glued to her bedside as she lay comatose. When Nate asked him about where she had been, he discovered she had left Las Vegas, where she had supposedly been staying, weeks previous.

Maddy found her passport which showed she had been to Peru, and Nate was able to give her the correct treatment. He argued with Roo about her keeping her travel plans secret but made peace with her when she explained she was fed up of people knowing her business.

When he learned Andy had been dealing drugs out of the caravan park, he threw him out, saying Josh could stay if he went quietly. He gave Marilyn away when she married John and accompanied Chris in going to help Spencer when he was lured to a motel by internet predator Keith Potts. He supported Maddy and Josh when they revealed they were expecting a baby. Then Maddy admitted to him that Oscar might be the father, and when an ultrasound showed she actually had cancer he arranged a visit from cancer survivors Irene and Marilyn to reassure her.

After taking her to the hospital to begin her chemotherapy, he went home with Roo to get her things. They learnt that Maddy had disappeared and Alf helped supervise the rescue operation when several residents were injured in a bus crash. He talked Roo out of following Oscar to the city and supported Maddy when she returned and began chemotherapy. He shut down a protest led by Josh trying to stop a mural that he had graffitied on the side of the surf club being removed. He was interested when John talked about setting up a war memorial in Summer Bay but felt dispirited when Evelyn came round with details of a school excursion for Anzac Day and dismissed it as a waste of time.

He admitted to Marilyn and Roo that he had never been to the war memorial in Canberra, and still had the ashes of his grandfather who died in World War I, so Marilyn suggested he go on the excursion as a chaperone. Afterwards, he joined the teens in spending a night in the trenches. The experiences at the museum and in the trenches caused him to suffer flashbacks and after wandering off during the night he was found collapsed and rushed to hospital.

He got talking to Tom Knight, a World War II veteran in the next bed who felt guilt about losing his plane crew and about being estranged from his son.

Later, he was told that Tom had died. He returned home without a diagnosis and ended up snapping at Maddy when she energetically welcomed him back.

He snapped at Maddy when he saw her with a photo of Ailsa before breaking down in tears on the beach. On his return, he apologised to Irene but walked out of his first counselling session with Maria Carmichael without really saying anything. Roo brought Maria to the house and after chatting to her for an hour he accepted it was helping and agreed to see her again.

He led the SES in searching for Leah when she wandered off into the bush after being diagnosed with an aneurysm. He continued to have counselling sessions with Maria at the house but found it difficult to talk about those who died. He blew a stack at John for organising the surf carnival without him, but when Marilyn stood up to him he admitted he was fed up of being mollycoddled and agreed to do it together. He led the town in a toast to Brax when he was declared dead.

He organised the search for Billie when she went missing from the hospital. He warned Zac he was in danger of losing Leah when he began spending all his time with Hunter. Soon after, he went to visit Don in the Whitsundays. He returned to help an amnesiac Marilyn and continue his investigation of James.

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. That whole Ailsa marriage? Not legit. Alf learned in that due to her personality disorder, his first wife Martha had faked her own death by drowning, leaving him and their daughter Roo. That made his subsequent marriage to Ailsa curly hair. Had served time for the murder of her abusive father during which she was assaulted and impregnated by a prison guard and then gave the baby up for adoption, died of a heart attack in , just to remind you accidentally unlawful.

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.