the character, Close agreed to film on a recurring basis until she was in her final year of school. In 1991, Lucy was recast once more after producers decided Lucy would feature in the show on a permanent basis, with Melissa Bell taking over. This allowed Lucy to become one of the show's central characters. Development Characterisation While played by Flinker, Lucy was described as being an innocent child who never does any wrong. Margaret Koppe of TV Radio Extra said Lucy was "a nice, normal little girl of nine" who looks up to her older sister Julie Robinson (Vikki Blanche), although she sometimes prefers "rough and tumble fun with her brothers." A writer for the Neighbours Pocket Trivia Book noted that Lucy has her "fair share of adventures" while growing up on-screen. She is Jim Robinson's (Alan Dale) "spoiled little girl" and behaves "terrible" towards her father's girlfriend Zoe Davis (Ally Fowler) taping "ugly threats" from television shows and playing them over the phone to scare Zoe. She is also a "disobedient snooper" and causes trouble for Rosemary Daniels (Joy Chambers) by exposing letters sent from her ex-fiancé Gerard Singer (Bryan Marshall) and mother Helen Daniels' (Anne Haddy), confessing their love. But Lucy does have "a good side" to her curiosity; for instance she helps the police catch the culprit of a robbery that occurs at Clive Gibbons' (Geoff Paine) house. Flinker said she shared some similarities with Lucy, but she liked to let her hair down and was more of a tomboy. In her teenage years, Lucy was described as giving her father plenty of reasons to worry, going from one dead-end job to the next and being incredibly flirtatious. During the character's return in 2005, whilst an interviewed by Digital Spy, Bell spoke about how Lucy has grown up and learned from her mistakes, changing from a rebellious young woman into a clever business woman and stated: "I started in 1990 and I've come back many times, the last about eight years ago. Now I'd describe Lucy as a centered woman with her life together, very focused on her business. But she probably yearns for a family and for love. Just growing up does that to people. She's grown from her early twenties to her late twenties, and she's very different to when she was at earlier stages of her life." She also made light of the