Channel Seven’s Home and Away is famous for its dramatic storylines, which have included everything from horrific fires, to murder, kidnapping and even a cyclone.

And now a new bizarre fan theory has emerged to explain the chaos that seems to visit Summer Bay every ratings season.

Writing on the industry blog Media Spy, one fan reckons that soapie producers concoct ‘disaster’ storylines just so they can justify giving the show’s sets a make-over.

‘All soapies have these dodgy storylines every year in order to have a new set built,’ the fan says.

‘I think they all have a set designer on the payroll.’

A bizarre fan theory has emerged explaining why soaps like Home and Away and Neighbours embrace their ‘disaster’ storylines Pictured: A scene from the new season of Home and Away

Writing on the industry blog Media Spy, one fan reckons that soapie producers concoct ‘disaster’ storylines just so they can justify giving the show’s sets a make-over Picture: A scene from the notorious Neighbours ‘tornado’ storyline from 2014

A fan theory from Media Spy: ‘All soapies have these dodgy storylines every year in order to have a new set built’

‘They’re there to build sets. Hence why we have a school fire and a pub fire every few years in order to redo the pub and Sex the school scenes. And every 10 years during any soapie revamp, is when the big storm/earthquake/bomb etc to redo more than one set.’ 

The comment also appeared to allude to the notorious Neighbours ‘disaster’ storyline from 2014, when the show’s fictional Melbourne suburb was hit by a tornado.  

Meanwhile, another fan appeared to mock the new fan theory with a comment about how Home and Away shamelessly promotes sexy male cast members.

‘You forgot the biggest repeated dramatic storyline,’ they began: ‘three new shirtless brothers every three years!’

The weird fan theories come after a new Home and Away trailer revealed last week that one of the show’s favourite characters is about to be killed off.

The preview promises plenty of mayhem in the upcoming episodes, including multiple bomb threats, a tense police siege and a kidnap.

But the new trailer is bound to keep viewers guessing over just who or who won’t be left alive by the end of the week.

The preview begins with the ominous words: ‘After this week who won’t come home?’. A large box is then seen arriving at the local café…which turns out to be a bomb.

Another Media Spy user appeared to mock the new fan theory with a comment about how Home and Away shamelessly promotes sexy male cast members (pictured)

Since debuting in 1988 Home and Away has given fans multiple storylines featuring all manner of catastrophe.

According to one estimation there have been 23 murders on the show over the past three decades.

Since the show’s setting, the fictional Summer Bay, has a population of just under 400, this is an astronomically high homicide rate.

Meanwhile, in 2006 Summer Bay was terrorised by a pyromaniac, who seemed bent on burning the town down.

And five years later the town was nearly wiped out by a cyclone. 

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