Home and Away is an Australian soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The 3rd season of Home and Away began airing from 8 January 1990. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1990, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's executive producer Des Monaghan. In January, Rebekah Elmaloglou began appearing as Sophie Simpson. The following month Craig McLachlan and Julian McMahon took on the respective roles of school teacher Grant Mitchell and soldier Ben Lucini. March saw the introduction of Jaiman Paget Bayly as recurring character . Beach House landlord (David Weatherley) made his debut in April, while Craig Black began his second role in the serial as student in May. Josephine Mitchell joined the cast as policewoman . Les Hill and Belinda Jarrett joined the show in July as the Dean siblings, Blake and . Kate Raison arrived in September playing the role of , a love interest for Steven Matheson (Adam Willits). October saw the arrival of divorcé , played by Dennis Coard, later to become Debra Lawrance's real-life husband. The following week, he was joined by his teenage son Haydn, played by Andrew Hill. In November, Rachael Beck joined the cast as guest character , the sister of established character, Grant.