Richmond Hill is an Australian prime time television soap opera made in 1988 by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network.

Popular veteran actress, Gwen Plumb, famous for her long-running role as Ada Simmonds in The Young Doctors, starred as Mum Foote.

There were also several actors from Sons and Daughters, including Tom Richards, Rona Coleman, Angela Kennedy and Michael Long, as well as an assortment of young beginners, Ashley Paske, Emily Symons (pre Home and Away), Marc Gray, and Melissa Tkautz, all made their TV debuts in the series.

Former comedy star Ross Higgins of Kingswood Country played the central role of the local police officer and family man Dan Costello.

In August 1987, David Brown of TV Week reported that the Grundy Organisation were producing new prime-time drama series Richmond Hill, which was commissioned by Network Ten.

"[2] The series was produced by Phil East, who previously worked on Neighbours, and filming was due to start in October at Network Ten's Studio B in Sydney.

[3] The series, although quite popular, was considered a lukewarm success in the Australian ratings, and was cancelled after six months in June 1988, and ended abruptly at episode 92 later that year.

The UK's ITV bought Richmond Hill in June 1988, and it was announced by the network in August that encouraged by the huge success of its sister-series Neighbours on the BBC, they had paid £600,000 for the rights to screen the series.

[4][5] ITV decided to show Richmond Hill as hour long episodes on Wednesday and Thursdays, directly opposite Neighbours as part of a revamp of the daytime schedule.

Richmond Hill was last screened in the UK in the mid-1990s on cable & satellite channel Wire TV (hosted by Femi Oke and co hosted Chris Stacey with guest presenters Darren Edwards, and Darren Gray), it was screened back to back with USA soap The Bold and the Beautiful, before Wire TV was finally axed in 1994.