Tom Fletcher played by Roger Oakley debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 17 January 1988. Ruth Deller of television website Lowculture described Tom "One of the nicest dad characters in soap, ever". The Soap Show called Tom the "first patriarch of Home and Away."
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“Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)
“Now, good night! may Sweetest Slumbers
And soft Silence fall in numbers
On your Eye-lids: So, farewell;
Thus I end my Evening knell.”
—John Fletcher (1579–1625)