Goodbye to All Saints

One of Australia's most successful dramas finishes its 12 year run tonight with the final of All Saints airing on channel 7 at 9:30pm tonight.

The show has been nominated for and won numerous Logie Awards, including five "most popular actress" nominations in a row for Georgie Parker from 1999 (she won it in 2001). The program won most popular Australian drama in 2001,2002 and 2003.

The popularity of the show has seen it reach audiences of more than 1.5 million viewers, the most popular period being the blossoming romance between former nun Nurse Terri Sullivan (Georgie Parker) and Dr Mitch Stevens (Erik Thomson). When Parker left the show in 2005 it lost many of its viewers, but there was one endearing character throughout the entire show, Nurse 'Von' Ryan (played by Judith McGrath) that held the cast together and played the cool, tell-it-like-it-is nurse that everyone grew to love.

Dr Frank Campion (John Howard) has been another unforgettable character along with Nelson Curtis (Paul Tassone) and Charlotte Beaumont (Tammy MacIntosh).

It's the end of another long-running Australian drama. Certainly All Saints had lost its way over the last few years with the flashy revamp and shift to emergency rescue rather than hospital drama but it has certainly made its mark on Australian television and given us some of our most watched storylines (and most heartbreaking character departures).

Here's the finale promo;

Looks set to be a tear-jerker.