Neighbours 2017 sees return of Dee Bliss. Get up to speed before it airs.

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Yes, Neighbours is still a thing.

In fact, the 32-year-old Aussie drama is serving up some of the soapiest storylines we’ve seen in years.

Case in point: this season, Dee Bliss comes back from the dead.

That’s Dee, as in Dee Bliss. As in the blonde beauty who married Toadfish “Toadie” Rebecchi for a few minutes in 2003 before they got distracted kissing and their car ploughed through a fence over a cliff and into the ocean.

You remember, right? (Post continues after gallery.)

Toadie's and Dee's tragic wedding

Dee and Toadie wedding dayDee and Toadie get married and it lasts a record several minutes. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Toadie and Dee car accidentThe car they were traveling in hurtles into the ocean. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Toadie's desperate searchToadie desperately searches for Dee, still dressed in his wedding suit. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Comforting ToadieWedding guests arrive to comfort Toadie. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Toadie's mate StuartToadie's mate Stuart's face says it all. Dee must be dead. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Dee is deadToadie realises that it's most likely Dee is dead. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Toadie and the dogToadie and Dee's dog console each other. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Toadie reads Dee's letterToadie finds a letter Dee wrote to him and left on his pillow. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

PI finds DeeToadie hires a PI to find out if Dee is alive. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Toadie seeing DeeIs Toadie seeing Dee for the first time? You'll have to watch Neighbours in 2017 to find out. Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

Her body was never found; she was gone forever. Or so we thought.

Then came last year’s cliffhanger (sorry, too soon?) final episode in which Toadie’s brother sat him down to tell him is dead wife might not actually be all that dead, because he’d spotted her in Colac, Victoria.

Questions: How did she survive? Why did she not come back to Ramsay St? Why is she so rubbish at hiding – I mean, did she ever even leave the state?

All we know from the 2017 promo is that Toadie hires a PI to try answer some of these questions, that his pregnant new wife finds out about it, and that he opens a door and looks shocked by what’s on the other side.

Unexplained pizza delivery? Or a wife back from the dead? Image: Neighbours, Network Ten

The exact details of Dee's 14-week guest appearance remains under wraps, but the actress who brings Dee to life, Madeleine West, assured The Geelong Advertiser viewers won't be disappointed.

“[Dee]’s not a ghost, nor is she a figment of Toadie’s imagination and she wasn’t abducted by aliens," the mother of six said, shutting down three of our top five theories in the process.

"Suffice to say, she has returned and the audience will be in for several big shocks.”

If last season is anything to go by, we can expect some serious drama to unfold in the scandal-plagued Melbourne cul-de-sac.

Listen to Rosie Waterland and Laura Brodnik talk about the Neighbours cliffhanger on The Binge.

Neighbours returns January 9 6:30pm on Eleven.

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