Reg Grundy, the television producer behind the Australian soap opera “Neighbors,” has died aged 92.

    Grundy’s production company also created many of Australia’s other biggest TV shows, including “The Young Doctors” and “Prisoner,” called “Prisoner: Cell Block H” in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

    He developed “Neighbors” in the 1980s.

    The popular soap, which made Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan international stars, is still running today.

    The Reg Grundy Organization, founded in 1959, produced many of Australia’s most-popular television shows.

    It has since been bought and is now known as FremantleMedia Australia.

    The head of FremantleMedia Australia, Ian Hogg, said in a statement that Grundy was a national treasure, and that his “legacy to Australian entertainment is insurmountable*.”

    “His visionary ability to know how to connect Australian families through some of this country’s most loved programing has stood the test of time,” he said.

    “Grundy is an icon and he will be sorely missed.”

    Grundy initially made an impact with game shows, including “Wheel of Fortune” and “Sale of the Century.”

    He later branched out into drama and also produced “Abba: The Movie,” a successful documentary which opened in 1977.

    His name is so ubiquitous* in Australia that “Reg Grundies” is commonly used as rhyming slang for “undies.”

    In 2014, it emerged that he had been behind an undeclared donation to a fundraiser linked to the country’s Liberal party, some years before.

    He died at his home in Bermuda, where he has lived with his wife Joy since 1982. The couple met when she auditioned for one of his game shows. They were married for 45 years.

    (SD-Agencies)