A pregnant woman from out of town admits herself to Wandin Valley Hospital with signs of foetal distress. Despite his reluctance, Terence is forced to operate when another doctor is unable to reach the town in time. Delivering a baby girl, the hospital staff are surprised by Mrs Myers' disinterest and apathy toward her daughter, whom she says is "not mine". Meanwhile, Simon has to refuse local girl Jenny Secombe's request for the birth control pill. At fifteen, Jenny needs parental consent to obtain the pill, but is afraid to ask her father. Shirley finds she is receiving unwanted attention from the recently widowed Frank Gilroy, while Simon continues to pursue Vicky, despite her insistence that they remain friends.
Ladies' Auxiliary President and part-time hospital administrator Elaine MacKay is killed in a car accident at the Five Mile Bridge. As the town grapples with the loss, speculation begins as to why Elaine was in a car with her husband's friend - Ian Sutton - heading out of town. Molly and Brendan Jones arrive in town.
Frank awaits Peter Gleeson's blood results to see if he was driving under the influence of alcohol when the accident that killed Elaine MacKay occured. Gossip begins to circulate in town that Ian and Eliane were having an affair. Andy, increasingly speculative as to why Elaine was traveling in Ian's car (which was heading to Sydney), goes to see Ian in the hospital. Molly adjusts to nights alone on the farm.
Tension is high between some members of the community and the seasonal fruit pickers, who are in town for the orange harvest. While making a house call at the Cameron farm, Terence spots one of the picker's children, Lexy Popovich. At first thinking that the child has malnutrition (because of his swollen stomach), Terence comes to the conclusion that the child has a hydatic cyst. After much convincing, Lexy's mother Sandra allows Terence to operate. The operation is a success. However, Sandra - who is attempting to hold down her job, regularly visits Lexy at the hospital, and, resultingly, is not taking adequate care of her health - collapses whilst working. Meanwhile, Shirley tries to dissuade Frank's interest in her by cooking for him (showing, she thinks, that she would be a bad wife). However, the plan backfires when Frank announces that he can cook and proceeds to whip up a gourmet meal.
Dr. Elliott fights to save a child's life despite opposition from the boy's mother who is leery of doctors since her husband's death. Hoping to deter Frank, Shirley makes an attempt at preparing an exotic dinner, but Frank's culinary prowess more than compensates for Shirley's poor cooking skills. Molly barters her hand-made clothes in exchange for services. Doris eats the rose bush Frank gives to Molly as a house-warming gift. Bob brawls with fruit pickers who are in town for the harvest. Molly disturbs a prowler. Simon Bowen faces making a decision about a difficult patient whom he believes to be a drug addict. Molly tries to get Doris to mate with Jerry Percival's pig but Doris kicks the unworthy beast out of her pen. Brendan cheers up a young patient by playing super-nurse.
Simon meets former nurse Emily Page, who knew his grandfather Charlie. Befriending Emily who is beginning to feel the effects of crippling arthritis he is shocked to learn that she plans to commit suicide when she feels the illness has progressed to such a point that living would constitute a burden to those around her. Terence persuades Pat Turner to admit her belligerent father Artie to the hospital so that she can have a long-overdue vacation. While at the hospital, Artie engages in a war of wills with his nurse, Brendan. Bill Ferguson continues to visit Sandra at the hospital. Molly buys an old, sick cow, much to the disappointment of Vicky.
On her rounds as district nurse, Matron Kertesz meets Lachie Hughes, a young man paralysed from the waist down as the result of a recent accident. Lachie's doting parents are a challenge for him but he makes friends with Molly and Brendan. Frank meets Jack Bates while fishing. Jack, a businessman who's returned to the valley after a forty year absence, talks Terence into performing a practical joke on Frank. Simon runs over a wombat and is forced to adopt it after Vicky finishes treating it. Marta pulls Lachie from a dam when he tries to go swimming by himself. Lachie takes a shine to Marta but she tells him she wants their relationship to remain strictly professional. Simon looks for the cause of a young girl's illness and weight loss. Lachie rushes his mother to the hospital when she suffers a spontaneous pneumothorax. Sgt. Gilroy gives Simon a rough time over his keeping the wombat (given the name Fatso by Simon). Shirley Dean receives special treatment from a real man about town and the policeman about town has his nose put out of joint. Marta tells Lachie the story of how she escaped from Hungary. Marta sleeps with Lachie after first consulting Terence about the logistics. Simon and Vicky's date is sidetracked when Vicky spots a cow stuck in a mud hole and asks Simon to help her get it out. Jack Bates has a heart attack and dies. Lachie makes plans to return to Sydney after receiving a letter from his girlfriend who wants to give their relationship another go.
Frank tracks down the troublesome youth responsible for a series of dangerous pranks and delivers him to the hospital where he is to work off his punishment. Molly hires Bob Hatfield to install a new toilet and bidet at the farm, a task which results in the expected complications.
Simon's plans for a weekend getaway to Sydney with Vicky are derailed by the arrival of his father, a skilled specialist himself, who is quick to offend Simon when he takes over one of his scheduled operations.
The team at the hospital - with the help of Shirley, Frank, Vicky, and Robert Bowen - work together to treat the passengers of the bus accident. Molly confronts the bank manager about her loan. After burning his hands at the accident scene, Frank moves in with Shirley and Vicky so that Shirley can take care of him. Robert expresses some reserved praise for Simon.
Vicky secures a high-profile job treating a Yarraman colt trained by Neil Stephens, but worries that Stephens is excessively pushing his reluctant daughter Robin into constant showjumping training. Meanwhile, Terence becomes concerned about Neil's wife Jill, who requests that Terence sterilize her. Simon suspects that a young girl is being physically abused by her father. Molly decides to go into business breeding turkeys. Marta spends an evening at Terence's vineyard with Alex Popovich. Shirley helps Frank work on his article for the Horticultural Society.
After Robin is admitted to hospital as the result of her horse-riding accident, Simon searches for the truth about the previous injuries - which were treated by Terence - that become apparent on her X-rays. Molly decides to start business as a yabbi farmer. Marta's friendship with Alex continues to deepen, with Alex gifting her with a wood-carving of The General. Shirley's attempts to get Frank to move back into his own house with a farewell dinner backfire.
Doug and Keith Abbot, two life-long bachelors with a very close relationship, are heralded as heroes and community role models after Doug saves a young boy's life when he gets electrocuted while climbing a tree. Later, an accident sends Doug and Keith Abbott to hospital.
Terence comes to the aid of a woman suffering from agoraphobia. Molly assists at the veterinary practice when Vicky falls ill, while Simon uses this as an opportunity to get closer to her. A three-year-old child is treated by the team after falling off a moving plough. Shirley continues to replace her craving for cigarettes with food. Marta learns that the Hospital Workers' Union has advised workers to strike for a pay rise, leaving only the medical staff to run the hospital.
Shirley, Molly, and Vicky assist at the hospital during the strike. Simon performs his first operation in the valley on Kathy Pieri. However, what is at first thought to be an appendicitis turns out to be something quite different. Terence worries that problems at home may be the cause of Brett Morgan's anxiety and inability to study or sleep. Vicky becomes upset when Terence refers to his wife in Sydney.
When Frank receives word that the future of the Wandin Valley police station is in jeopardy, he lays down the law to prove his importance in the small town.
Detectives Donnolly and Cairns are eager to charge Phil with Linda's murder so that they can wrap up the case. Unconvinced, Frank and Simon return to where Linda's body was found to look for more clues. Armed with what they discover, and in conjunction with the results of Terence's autopsy, Linda's death is attributed to a lightning strike and the corresponding pressure wave that knocked her down the hill where she hit her head. The homicide detectives remind Marta of Hungary's secret police and she wants to back out of the demonstration. Molly talks her into participating but despite their efforts, the trees are bulldozed. Shirley goes jogging with Frank—in a trench coat. It is announced that the Wandin Valley police station won't be closed.
Molly is branded as an eccentric and a nuisance when she reports Trevor Lang to the RSPCA for the neglect of his dog.
Having abandoned her yabbie farm, Molly decides to visit her parents in Adelaide but the town gossips believe that she has left Brendan for good.
The news of the possible arrival of big industry in Wandin Valley divides the community and causes tempers to flare. Frank's sudden financial windfall has the townspeople speculating about the source of his wealth.
Rowena Elliott, Terence's ex-wife, makes a surprise visit. Amateur boxer Mickey Lewis, his manager Harry Lyons, and Harry's daughter (Mickey's girlfriend) Sharon, arrive in the valley to challenge the local pugilists.
Vicky's early morning cleaning spree lands Shirley in hospital with a broken wrist. The arrival of a new vet to the district concerns Vicky who's worried about losing business.
A camping accident puts a woman in hospital with severe burns. The accident came as her family was on their way to Broken Hill where her husband was to start a new job. Molly and Brendan agree to take in the couple's two boys while their mother is in hospital, allowing their father to leave to start his new job.
The town is eagerly anticipating the arrival of a group of actors from the popular radio serial Green Pastures. Despite Bob Hatfield being the one to get them to come to the valley, it is Councillor Muldoon and long time fan Hazel Walmsley who are heading up the preparations for their arrival.
After Norbert Lawson is admitted to hospital following a bar fight with Bob, Marta sends Brendan out to look for Norbert's lost dog. Skye's communal value system is too much for Molly to bear.
News that Doris is pregnant inspires Molly and Brendan to consider starting a family of their own.
Jason Spencer returns to the hospital to help out and his return is none too soon for Matron Kertesz who continues to be challenged by staff shortages.
After her release from hospital, Shirley gets a ride home from Father Sean in the sidecar of his motorcycle, but the two are quickly called back to the hospital to allow Father Sean to attend to a man who collapsed outside the club.
Molly unsuccessfully tries to pass on her scheduling methodology to the clinic's new receptionist.
Molly is upset with Frank's lackadaisical response to her report of gunshots being fired at her by a pair of kids.
Vicky concerns herself with Laurie Walker, a local area farmer, who after having to put down his arthritic dog, is brought to hospital with severe lacerations to his arms after apparently falling through a window.
Shirley and Frank return from their honeymoon to face the daunting task of living together. Their first confrontation is over the placement of the urn which, unbeknownst to Shirley, contains the ashes of Frank's first wife.
Vicky makes the decision to move in with Simon, who is more than pleased with the decision.
Morning sickness and food cravings descend upon the Jones' household--for Brendan.
Andy Collins, a fifteen-year-old boy with dreams of becoming a jockey, goes to extreme measures to keep his weight down. When he begins taking his mother's diuretics, she is soon hospitalised as a result of taking the peppermints her son swapped for her medication.
Robin "Bobbi" Nichols returns to Wandin Valley twelve years after, at the age of sixteen, she ran off with the married man with whom she was having an affair.
The tension surrounding the arrival of a group of bikers is heightened when one of them is run off the road by Bert Griffiths, an elderly resident of Wandin Valley who refuses to wear his glasses and has subsequently become notorious for his bad driving.
Vicky once again has her professionalism questioned when Merv Cameron publicly accuses her of killing his livestock with a vaccine she administered.
Brendan meets young Jimmy Hartley when he comes across the boy sitting in the middle of the road. Taking him home, Brendan realises that Jimmy is deaf, his mother however denies this and states that Jimmy is just a bit slow.
Shirley's decision to throw out all of her artwork alarms Frank when he cannot locate the nude portrait she painted of him.
While out riding, Josh Prescot's horse collides with Vicky's car. Terence, who was in the vehicle with Vicky, tends to Josh while Vicky sees to his horse.
Jack Coombes believes his days as manager of the Darcy farm may be numbered when owner Kate Darcy returns to Wandin Valley and begins cutting staff.
Ros and Bernie Petersen's much-anticipated new baby is born with Down's syndrome.
Kate Darcy's continued physical deterioration causes Terence to ask her to visit him professionally. Unfortunately, an unwelcome diagnosis leaves Terence with the unenviable task of telling Kate that she has Huntington's disease.
Brendan is quick to ask for more time at the hospital when Molly's mother unexpectedly arrives two weeks ahead of schedule, but despite his best efforts of avoidance, disputes with Caroline soon arise.
Simon's car breaks down en route to his holiday destination forcing him to try and hitch a ride to a phone. After watching as a truck and a very slow moving tractor pass him by without stopping, Simon gratefully accepts a ride from a farmer and his attractive young daughter.
Mining engineer Warwick Larsen approaches farmer Max Grainger about reopening an abandoned gold mine on his property. Larsen has high hopes for the site and offers Bob, Cookie, and Max a share in the action.
Fundraising efforts for Muldoon's proposed new geriatric wing for the hospital are in full swing. The new addition will be built where Marta's flat is currently located so she is looking for a new place to live--and will not move in with Terence as Sister Loveday suggests.
The quest is on for a Miss Wandin Valley, and Councillor Muldoon's niece is the leading candidate-she was the Burrigan Turnip Queen in 1981 after all! Esme thinks it is quite nice that Terence and Marta are looking for a house, he's just helping Marta look for a new home but in Esme's mind, they're all but engaged.
Stewart Lawson, a depressed, bitter, and withdrawn man who is fighting a losing battle with leukemia, returns to the Wandin Valley hospital to die.
Shirley returns from her solo vacation to Bali bearing gifts, and a case of Bali Belly, but Frank's Indonesian cooking pot is accidentally broken by Louisa Kennedy, a young woman with a tendency be around when accidents occur.
With the task of casting complete, rehearsals for Simon's production of The Importance of Being Ernest are underway-with Wandin Valley's finest amateur thespians doing their very best to drive the show into the ground.
Frank organises a games tournament as part of the continuing fundraising efforts for the hospital's new wing. Craig Thompson comes to the hospital to have a minor cut looked after but his allergic reaction to a penicillin injection almost takes his life.
The arrival of an inspector from the Department of Health causes hospital staff to speculate on the future of the facility. Molly continues to plan out her chook farm while sewing a costume for a boy in hospital.
The Burrigan Show continues to attract spill-over crowds to Wandin Valley, most notable are two men who hitchhike into town looking for work, and three "ladies of the night."
Alwyn Watson, Esme's wheelchair-bound nephew and his wife Mary arrive in the valley for a visit. Also arriving is Mr. Brown, a mysterious stranger who goes about asking questions of everyone he meets and making notes. Mr. Brown's behaviour has everyone suspecting that they are whom he has came to see.
As the town prepares for the annual Wandin Valley Cup, Molly unsuccessfully tries to rally support for a protest. Kerry and Adam Burgess, two siblings bringing their promising race entry to town, break down near the Jones' farm and Brendan offers to put up their horse until the race.
Yvonne and Ross McLean, a prosperous couple in their 40s who desperately want a child, have their dreams crushed when they learn that not only is Yvonne not pregnant as she suspected, but her health problems will prevent her from ever conceiving a child.
A long-standing feud between the families of Rex Munro and Clarrie King escalates over an argument regarding an access road.
Brendan is upset by the hospital board's decision to place an ad for an Assistant Director of Nursing, a position he has unofficially held for the past thirteen months.
Brendan prepares to resign if the hospital board votes to appoint Judy Loveday the new deputy matron. Fortunately for Brendan, despite a panel stacked in Judy's favour, Brendan wins on account of Judy's sexist uncle voting against her.
In the midst of a heat wave, new nurse Sandy Wright begins work at the hospital. She's replacing Judy Loveday who left after not getting the Deputy Matron's job. Terence moves back to his flat above the clinic.
Molly turns her garden hose on Bob when he comes over to apologise for locking her inside the cage. Frank first encounters Nathan Webster when he passes by the boy while jogging.
Muldoon leads the council's effort to drive out the permanent residents of the town's caravan park by cutting off their services. Vicky, unusually clumsy and forgetful of late, is not pleased to discover that Nigel left town without saying goodbye, news that Simon is reluctant to divulge.
Terence's proposal to Marta is overheard by Bob Hatfield who quickly spreads the news. Bert Griffiths, the town's notorious bad driver, runs down Carpenter, the town's bus riding dog.
Brendan's ongoing feud with the hospital's chef spills over into the club where he lambastes Cookie over the poor quality of his food. Marta deceives Terence about not having been in contact with Bela, and when he arrives in town, after having entered the country illegally, Marta allows him to stay at her house.
Bela Szollos's presence in the valley continues to impact upon Marta and Terence's relationship, made all the worse when Bela informs Terence of his intentions to ask Marta to come back to Europe with him.
Pam Foley, a young widow raising two sons on her own, struggles to survive the additional strain of running a drought-ravaged farm. In the aftermath of Marta's sudden departure, Terence finds his relief in alcohol, but still must contend with the opinions of Esme Watson and Councillor Muldoon, going so far as to punch out Muldoon in the club, breaking his nose, when the councillor utters some disparaging remarks about Marta.
Fang's death from exposure to a poisonous substance, coupled with the hospitalisation of Leanne McGuire for a mild exposure to the same substance, unites Molly and Peter McGuire against a fellow neighbour whom they suspect of contaminating a creek running through the Jones' farm. Terence's continued moodiness has his patients deserting him in favour of Dr. Bowen.
Molly sits down with her animals to prepare them for their impending move. The death of one of the hospital's elderly residents requires Frank to look for a new home for her dog.
While Simon is attempting to show Vicky how to golf, the pair encounter young entrepreneur Robbie Quinn, a young boy with a knack for finding ways to extract money from those he encounters.
Frank welcomes Constable Perry Nolan, his new partner, to Wandin Valley. Brendan can't bring himself to tell Judy that he's turned down his promotion, and has thereby kept her from getting hers, but he eventually meets up with Judy's wrath when Terence lets the news slip.
Terence receives a letter from Marta (she's in Vienna) telling him that she and Bela are going to be married. Complaints from the community about Constable Nolan's corrupt behaviour force Frank to call Superintendent Burke to report him.
Cookie's night at the pub drinking with travelling lingerie salesman Hilton Mercer ends in trip to the hospital, with the pair clad in some of Hilton's finer garments, when Hilton breaks his arm.
Judy Loveday's warnings about Margaret Sloan are quickly confirmed upon the new Matron's arrival.
Terence rents out his vineyard cottage to an artist friend of Rowena's. The woman's passing remark about using a macrobiotic diet to cure her cancer sparks a debate with Terence about the merits of alternative therapies, a subject in which Terence later expresses an interest.
Terence accompanies Vicky on a trip to Magnolia Vale to recover her stolen truck. Simon was hoping to go with her, but as Terence wanted to check on some wine making equipment up for sale, he took Simon's place.
Frank hopes to keep quiet news that Brendan's FJ Holden, discovered to be bulletproof, was once owned by outlaws, but trouble is soon to arrive on the Jones' doorstep when a story about the car is printed in the local newspaper.
After Muldoon finds him sleeping in the club, Cookie talks his way into a brief overnight stay in hospital before disappearing altogether.
Molly scolds Chloe for ripping up the linoleum in the kitchen but she herself is soon down on hands and knees pulling up the flooring in an attempt to uncover an old newspaper from 1942 that contains a story about a ten-year-old Robert Hatfield winning a wood carving contest
Molly scolds Chloe for ripping up the linoleum in the kitchen but she herself is soon down on hands and knees pulling up the flooring in an attempt to uncover an old newspaper from 1942 that contains a story about a ten-year-old Robert Hatfield winning a wood carving contest.
Shirley tries to involve Councillor Muldoon and the rest of the shire council, finally resorting to blackmail, when she learns a homeless man and his children were forced to sleep in a barn while one of his sons was in hospital.
Shirley tries to involve Councillor Muldoon and the rest of the shire council, finally resorting to blackmail, when she learns a homeless man and his children were forced to sleep in a barn while one of his sons was in hospital. Shirley
Seeing Cookie firmly entrenched at Bob's house, Esme takes her feelings of betrayal and public humiliation to Shirley who does what she can to convince Esme that she is too good for Cookie, who Esme has finally come to realise never had any intention of marrying her.
Vicky is introduced to unconventional ruralised city restaurateur Ralph Bianchi when she returns his escaped horse-he exits his swimming hole in the nude, wraps a towel around himself, greats her and Wendy Hales, mounts his horse and rides away.
Simon's hopes for a wild and eventful bucks night fall flat when his friends' promise of a "quiet dinner with a few friends" at Bob's house turns out to be just that. Meanwhile, the ladies' "civilized evening" is livened up by Gabe's vodka-spiked punch.
Brendan asks Molly to cut back on her farm work now that she is six months pregnant. A rash of thefts around town, some at Muldoon's hardware store, keep Frank busy-and not very happy about Muldoon's suggestion that Gabe, a former employee, is responsible.
Jeremy Gunn - (Jayson Duncan), is expelled from a private boarding school for marijuana posession. There is more to that than meets the eye he is covering up for others as he has a low self- esteem. So he returns home to his father Tom (T.B.A)who is the neighbour of Brendon & Molly Jones - (Shane Withington & Anne Tenney). Jeremy's mother has left Tom and is travelling Europe somewhere. Tom is depressed and this trouble with Jeremy is the last thing he needs and there is tension between the two as Jeremy reminds Tom of his mother and believes the boy to be useless. Jeremy attends Burrigan High where he hooks up with some local lads he was mates with pre boarding school and they are all at the age where they are learning to drive. Jeremy seeks lessons from Brendan as his father has not got the patience. Craig Morrison was one of those lads, we worked together often in the 1980's. So i cannot remember exactly where Episode 1 ended but...Jeremy couldn't drive well at all, though bravado m
With Terence away on vacation, locum Ingrid Scanlon arrives to fill in, but Esme and the town don't seem quite ready for a female doctor. The doctors are kept busy giving hepatitis vaccinations after a hotel worker is found to have the disease. Tom Gunn's son, Jeremy, makes an unceremonious return home after being expelled from a private school in Sydney for possession of marijuana after his fleet-of-foot friends left him literally "holding the bag."
While sitting down for a drink with Bob at the pub, Father McBride scolds him for being a lapsed catholic. With him and Molly just struggling to pay the bills, Brendan doesn't appreciate hearing Simon talk about his plans for a grandiose six week European vacation -- or his suggestion that he and Molly come along.
Molly leaves for Adelaide to help care for her ailing mother, but Donovan eats the instructions for feeding the animals she left Brendan.
New nursing sister Marion Waring, who has come up from Sydney where she headed the casualty ward of a major hospital, proves to be a model of efficiency.
Simon is desperate to defeat John Hamilton, a new lawyer living in Burrigan, in an upcoming golf tournament and employs various aids to help his game.
From the moment he arrives on her doorstep looking for the "man of the house" to help de-bog his Rolls Royce, Vicky does not think very highly of the pompous Jonathan Hawthorn, a vacationing playwright who is looking after Bernard Haines' farm.
A Miss Country Hospital beauty quest is in the works and not wanting to be upstaged by Matron Arrowsmith's entry, Burrigan's beautiful Nurse Marilyn Legge, Maggie commands Judy to enter on behalf of the Wandin Valley Hospital.
Frank is furious when he can't discover who wrote the bad review about his play. A popular country and western singer comes to the valley with his teenage daughter.
Simon is estatic when he hears Vicky's good news. Judy helps a young girl cope with the pressures of adolescence. Terence has to face the dilemma of breaking bad news to a close friend.
Terence makes a morning house call to the Jones' farm to talk with Molly and Brendan and to answer some of their questions, referring them to an oncologist in Sydney.
Alf Muldoon returns to Wandin Valley from his travels abroad in America. Simon and Vicky are visited by Simon's well-to-do brother Nicholas, his American wife Melanie, and their overly-precocious ten-year-old daughter Fern who finds fault with everything Simon and Vicky have or do.
The town, and especially the local ballet school, are anticipating the homecoming of dancer Sir Adrian Dormin.
Karen Robson, an old friend of Shirley's from her nursing days, comes for a visit after having her husband walk out on her after twenty years of marriage.
Vicky reacts angrily to the attention Simon is paying to one of his patents. Cookie invests in some garden gnomes and is disturbed when he discovers some are missing. Vicky puts her self in a dangerous position when she helps a young boy trapped down a mine shaft. Simon worries when Vicky fails to come home and suggests to Frank that they organise a search party.
Brendan and Molly get an attractive offer for the farm from Muldoon. Vicky does some tests on some goats and suspects an outbreak of Anthrax. Vicky is shocked by some news from Molly's mum who has come to visit. Simon is worried about Vicky when she refuses to accept Molly's condition.
When the Burrigan Examiner refers to Wandin Valley as a boring place to live, war is declared between the two towns. Bob is concerned about the disinterest Molly is showing in the fight against Burrigan. Simon comes up with an idea of a car rally between the two towns to prove who is the best. Matron Sloan and Terence discover some interesting gossip about Hilda Arrowsmith. Molly is admitted to hospital when she takes a turn for the worse.
Molly is frustrated and frightened when she is put into isolation and is not able to see her family and friends. Molly's friends gather together to make her dream of "Molly's Farmland" a reality. Vicky is finding it difficult to cope with the fact that Molly has leukemia and delays her visit to the hospital. Brenda is excited at the prospect of having Molly home. Molly spends her last days with her friends reminiscing and enjoying their time together.
Molly is frustrated and frightened when she is put into isolation and is not able to see her family and friends. Molly's friends gather together to make her dream of "Molly's Farmland" a reality. Vicky is finding it difficult to cope with the fact that Molly has leukemia and delays her visit to the hospital. Brenda is excited at the prospect of having Molly home. Molly spends her last days with her friends reminiscing and enjoying their time together
A French student vet arrives to assist Vicky in her practice. Judy Loveday tries her hand at playing Cupid. matron Sloan helps Bob cope with his grief over Molly's death in more ways than one. Vicky is put out by all the attention the student vet receives from Simon.
Kelly is worried about a friend who comes to stay. Ben accidentally hypnotises Esme. Matron Sloan and Shirley are set to challenge each other in the darts tournament.
A young couple have trouble coping when tragedy strikes their family. Matron Sloan appears unusually forgetful. Terence is surprised when his son arrives earlier than expected.
Terence has the Valley wondering why he's making frequent visits to Burrigan. Judy sets her sights on Ben Green. Bob helps coach a young footballer with a promising future.
While Terence is concerned that CK's attitude towards life is a bit mature for his age. Matron Sloan has a hard time coming to terms with the changes in her life.
Judy believes that Kelly and Ben are together. The hospital staff is thrown into turmoil with the impending arrival of hospital inspectors. Simon's friends gather for his farewell.
Frank becomes suspicious when he sees Shirley with another man. Bob and Cookie invent a mechanical scarecrow which they believe will make them a fortune. Kelly has to make a major decision: stay in the Valley or go back to the City.
A young boy with cerebral palsy has trouble relating to his foster parents. Ben contracts the chicken pox and is admitted to hospital. The hospital staff are thrown into disarray as the fire alarm goes off.
A woman with only six months to live decides not to tell her husband. Bob crashes into Esme's taxi and refuses to pay for the damages. Shirley delighted when she is accepted for Help Line duty.
Bob thinks of a fundraising idea to help Cookie; It's Wandin Valley against Burrigan in the local dance competition. The doctors battle to save a little boy's life when he almost drowns.
Shirley has a nervous first night on Help Line duty. Bob plays nurse maid to Cookie when he is released from hospital. Sarah gives one of her pupils a book on sex education and lands in trouble with the parents.
Jo is saddened to learn her mother has moved on and left no forwarding address.
Donna and Jo travel to Rottnest Island and see the native Quokka first hand.
Frank and Shirley go to America to see Vicky, Simon and the twins.
Ben is victimised by irate farmers when he announces that the whole milk supply of the Valley will have to be dumped.
The wife of a road-house owner has a late pregnancy with a 50/50 chance that the child will be born deformed.
Kenny Mitchell is employed at the road-house behind the counter, with his special being a hamburger with the lot.
Laura breaks down and tells her mother why she is so upset about the Major's proposal.
Wandin Valley battens down the hatches and prepares for Big Jules's annual visit.
Sally, sick of being treated as a secretary instead of a policewoman, files an official complaint against Frank.
Shirley convinces Jo to audition for a television commercial.
Jo prepares to make her television debut while Frank acts the nervous "stage mother".
When the school principal decides to bring some "good old-fashioned discipline" back to Burrigan High, the students rebel and Jo organises a protest.
Jo is elected president of the new student council, and Alex learns that Andrew has a drug problem.
There is an outbreak of Asian flu in the Valley and it looks as if many small poultry farmers are going to lose everything.
Peter takes pity on a teenage runaway and lets him stay at Camelot, much to Ben and Donna's dismay.
Peter is devastated when he realises that Stewart was just stringing him along.
Esme is bitten by the gambling bug when Cookie installs a new poker machine in the club.
Peter's life hangs in the balance when he suffers a severe allergic reaction.
Peter and Alex organise a romantic weekend away in Sydney but it does not go according to plan.
Donna is shattered when she learns that Matt has bone cancer.
Donna finds her nursing skills challenged and ends up resigning after a battle with a middle-aged valium addict.
When Peter catches Penny and George in Alex's house they decide to get back at him with a magic potion.
Matron Sloan leave to spend some time with her sister in Darwin, and chaos quickly breaks out when Sue Daley is left in charge. Peter and Bob repair an old radio, and pick up a distress signal - from a UFO! Jo and Ben visit and rundown farm, and suspect something is not quite right. The Shelley children move in with Frank and Shirley when their mother is admitted to hospital.
Newly appointed Matron Hilda Arrowsmith sets out to seduce Terence. Cookie and Bob buy a racehorse in order to make some big bucks. Adam Campbell invites Jo to a party, but disaster strikes when they are involved in a car accident that leaves Jo in a coma with possible brain damage, and Frank is determined to find out who is responsible. While Peter is driving down to Sydney to meet Alex at the airport, he finds himself helping a damsel in distress.
Alex suspects Christine Mason is guilty of child abuse when little Yvette is admitted to hospital with a broken arm, but she and Terence have different opinions of what really happened. Cookies moves into Camelot after an argument with Bob, and also tries to woo Matron Arrowsmith-much to Esme's dismay! Jo, on the road to recovery, helps reunite a family.
Major Dungan's health is getting worse, but he refuses to see Terence for help. When Major falls into the swimming hole, Jo, Glen, and Darren, save his life and Terence convinces the Major to have tests. Love is in the air as Peter tries to find the right time to propose to Alex, and Spike the echidna decides to find a soul-mate.
The Wandin Valley residents band together to prevent the closure of the hospital.
Matron Sloan arrives back in Wandin Valley with the hope of saving the hospital.
Jo's school friend Fiona is fed up of having to look after her little brother Jimmy.
Fiona runs to Jo and the Gilroys for comfort when her mother turns on her and blames her for Jimmy's death.
When Peter allows his students to choose a book for their open-book review, their choice causes him nothing but trouble. Cookie organises a grand surprise, but Esme gets a surprise of another kind. A fourteen-year-old girl is brought into the hospital with an ectopic pregnancy.
A diabetic boy bluffs his way into hospital to escape his overprotective mother. Sandy's dad is not happy to learn that his daughter is studying "Puberty Blues" at school and confronts Peter about it.
Wandin Valley's new parks and Wildlife officer, Cathy Hayden, has trouble dealing with the attitudes of the locals, as well as her own grandfather. Peter feels disillusioned and wonders whether he should keep teaching, worrying Alex. Peter decides on a life on the land, and begins working on the Hayden farm. Frank tries to figure out why anybody would go out of their way to get arrested.
While doing a school project, Jo uncovers the story of the Valley's haunted house. She, Ben, Donna and Bob go ghost-hunting and end up solving a fifty-year-old mystery. Alex picks up a young pregnant hitchhiker, and blames herself when the girl is hit by a truck. Terence becomes concerned about Alex, as she becomes too involved with the newborn child who is suffering from heroin withdrawal.
Cathy is too busy organising the annual roo cull to face a journalist who has come to interview her for a story about the life of a ranger. Peter and Alex are having relationship problems and are not helped when Peter's old school-master arrives and offers
A farmer and his wife struggle to come to terms with loosing their farm. Jo's birthday party gives her a chance to make a play for Michael. Bob and Cookie fix Jo up with a 'hot' date.
Football fever grips Wandin Valley when the wombats take on the Widjeers. Michael tries out for the team, much to Matron Sloan's disgust. Shirley feels the burden of being a policeman's wife, having her husband on the job 24 hours a day.
Terence is named as Wandin Valley's Citizen of the year. Michael's offer to help Jo study for her driving test has unexpected consequences. Tempers flare over Cathy Hayden's decision to cancel the annual duck shoot and narrow minded gossips have a field day with Jo and Michael
An itinerant farm labourer's reluctance to settle down is putting a strain on his marriage and prompting his wife to hit the bottle.
When Leanne Madden learns that she is pregnant, her husband, Dave, isn't exactly overjoyed. They already have one child with Down's Syndrome and Dave is fearful that they could end up with another.
Jo has a hard time dealing with an over-zealous rookie cop. And when he decides to interfere in her love life, Jo blows her top. Terence and Alex return from Canberra very much in love.
When Terence's daughter comes to Wandin Valley to spend time with her dad, her arrival places a strain on Terence and Alex's relationship.
A father is displeased when his son befriends a handicapped person in hospital.
Jo's friend Darren Greenway is having more problems than usual with his father. Ron owns a junkyard and is trying to force his son to leave school in order to help with the business.
Jo and Cathy think they've discovered a Yowie in the National Park but what they really find is an escaped murdered who's been hiding out for more than twenty years!
There are pre-wedding jitters all around as the big day draws near. Alex's parents arrive in town and her father immediately takes over, causing Alex and Terence to have a blazing row.
o's father unexpectedly arrives in the Valley along with a little sister Jo never knew she had. Ben's former girlfriend, Barbara, arrives at the hospital to take care of him.
Jo settles into her new flat and inherits her school friend Sandy as a flatmate.
A man's imprisonment has meant a sentence not only for himself but for his family too. Jo and Sandy plan a romantic dinner party but the evening does not go the way they'd hoped or planned.
Alex organises the opening of the Community Health Centre to less than spectacular reception. Cathy and Matt go droving and and up spending the night under the stars together.
After receiving a bang on the head, Bob mysteriously develops clairvoyant powers. A girl returns from a holiday cruise to find that she is pregnant.
A boy's illness could be a lot more serious than it appears. Michael's attempt to help a man who has given up the will to live fails. Matt is offered first refusal on Ben's practice.
UFO's in Wandin Valley? It certainly seems that way after Bob and Cookie discover a landing site, and when a strange man is admitted to hospital, Esme thinks he is an alien!
Michael and Cathy spend a romantic afternoon on the river. Alex's dream to help the tenants of a dilapidated boarding house backfire when the landlady decides to evict them.
Jo's search for a new flatmate ends when Sally Lewis moves in, but Jo doesn't know Sally as well as she thought.
Jo is battling the HSC blues. She's having trouble juggling school and work and is arguing with everyone.
Jo is battling the HSC blues. She's having trouble juggling school and work and is arguing with everyone.
An aging drifter and his grandfather arrive in town. When Esme is charmed by the stranger, Cookie is less than pleased.
A woman's memory lapse and her forgetfulness proves almost fatal when she sets her house on fire.
A boy who believes he is descended from Captain Midnight takes to his ancestor's bush-ranging ways.
A reform school girl arrives for work experience at the park and takes a fancy to Matt. Michael decides to set matters straight between himself and Jo, once and for all.
Jo's HSC results arrive. Terence tries to convince the mother of a terminally ill boy to give her son a chance to enjoy life.
Is there a werewolf stalking the Valley cemetery? Cookie thinks it's curtain time when he is bitten by a mysterious monster. Michael has a secret admirer.
Terence's old flame, Marianna Kubik, starts work at the hospital and Alex is not at all happy. Jo tells Frank and Shirley of her plans to go away with Rob.
The battle begins to save Michael's life. It seems as if his chances are slim and the doctors have no option but to operate. Meanwhile, Jo is babysitting an insomniac child and is unaware of Michael's accident.
Michael's sister arrives in town and tries to hide the real reason for her visit.
Terence combs the seedy streets of Sydney searching for his daughter Sophie. Cathy is disillusioned with rangering and tries for a job as a barmaid.
Terence, still grieving over Sophie, leaves Alex and she doesn't know how to handle it. Cathy is working at the club and has to put up with Muldoon.
Alex's plan to go and find Terence is foiled when she learns the truth about the locum she had intended to leave in charge.
Matt is convinced that Cathy has gone mad when she decides to take flying lessons. Matron Sloan has to act quickly when a boy has an accident on a tractor.
Terence tells Alex of his intention to give up medicine and take up farming full time. Esme finds it difficult entertaining a nine-year-old computer whiz.
A boy turns to his father for help when he is tormented by a fellow student. The hospital chef decides to propose to the girl of his dreams, but wakes up the next morning to find he has popped the question to someone entirely different.
A dying woman comes to Wandin Valley in search of her daughter. Could the girl who she's looking for be Jo? An asthmatic teenager believes that he condition is turning her into an outcast.
Jo decides to look for her mother and places an ad in all the local papers. Alex blames herself when Jenny, a girl with renal failure, checks herself out of hospital.
Matt finds Sue Daley injured in her car. She says she had a car accident, but Frank has trouble believing her story. Matt is blamed for the death of a prize bull.
Michael starts his stint as acting matron and finds that life certainly wasn't meant to be easy. Matt is disappointed when the lady vet he had been expecting turns out to be a man.
Bob proclaims his innocence when he is arrested for drunk-driving. Cathy is swept off her feet on a romantic trip to Sydney with Mario but is stunned all the same when Mario proposes over a candlelit dinner.
Cathy prepares to fly off to Italy with Mario, but more important matters come first when she uncovers a marijuana plantation in the National Park.
A boy is injured in a car accident and Frank is having trouble finding the driver responsible. Matt's day doesn't start too well when he gets a visit from the taxation department.
Matt helps a young woman give birth in Cathy's barn. Alex has some news for Terence, but she's not sure how he will react to it. Why is Matron Sloan in such a good mood upon returning form her holiday?
A flu epidemic hits the town and Alex ignores Terence's plea to take it easy. Jo shows off her new engagement ring.
A Chilean refugee tries to make a new life for himself in Wandin Valley, but ghosts of his past come back to haunt him. Shirley is not keen for Michael to move in at the Gilroys with Jo.
A mysterious stranger arrives in town and confuses everyone with his various stories. All is revealed later at Camelot when a party game turns ugly. Paternal pressure turns a teenager to drink.
Alex tries to help a woman who lives in fear of her husband's violent temper.
Matron Sloan wins the lottery and everyone has suggestions on how she should spend the money. Jo and Michael go to Bribie Island to visit his family.
Alex starts having contractions and is convinced she is losing the baby.
Alex warns a young athlete about the dangers of taking steroids. Shirley is having trouble coping with Jo and Michael's impending departure from Wandin Valley.
Preparations are well underway for Michael and Jo's wedding, but things don't go quite so smoothly at the buck's night.
Shirley and Frank try to adjust to life without Jo. Alex is wondering about her purpose in life and is readily losing patience with her patients.
New nurse Lucy Gardiner tries Matron Sloan's patience but winds up charming Bob.
The latest new locum is giving Shirley a hard time and has Esme close to tears-but her affect on Terence is quite the opposite.
Yet another locum doctor arrives and Terence is hoping that this one will be better than the last two.
Everyone is waiting for a glimpse of the girl Cris describes as his "beautiful Jessie." Cathy tries her hand at writing a romance novel and is concerned when Matt takes the story quite literally.
Matron Sloan is worried about the hospital's future and takes her anger out on Lucy. Jessie starts at her new school.
Matron Hilda Arrowsmith arrives at the hospital and Maggie is convinced her old nemesis is up to no good. A childless couple pin all their hopes on an IVF program.
Frank tries to track down a runaway girl who is in town with the carnival.
Cathy and Lucy are waiting for a certain doctor to ask them to the Bachelors and Spinsters Ball.
A fastidious piano tuner is not happy with Cris's diagnosis of his problem. It doesn't look good when he is admitted to hospital with a serious throat blockage.
Romance hits the over-fifty set of Wandin Valley with the formation of a new club. Cris gets involved with two elderly sisters living in the past.
When Terence leaves to visit Alex, Cris's old friend Sandy McIntosh fills in as the latest locum.
Famine strikes Wandin Valley as the residents take part in a forty-hour famine for charity.
Cathy has an unexpected house guest, her sister-in-law Michelle.
Matt loses all his worldly goods when a fire breaks out in his caravan. Susan Baxter's medical condition is not helped by the constant fighting between her husband and teenage daughter.
Matt has begun to pack, ready for the bid move. He has put his practice up for sale. Shirley and Frank are awaiting the arrival of Julian "Luke" Ross but he is nowhere to be seen.
A road accident throws two unlikely characters together, a one-legged bike riding grandma and Skeeter Martin-the sparks fly.
The locals are looking forward to the return visit of cricket star Stewart Richmond. The Richmond's world is turned upside down when what they think is a passing case of pneumonia that Stewart is suffering from is in fact AIDS.
Lucy has a surprise visit from her ex-love Warwick. Ruth Lawson, an attractive artist, comes to the Valley to settle her deceased aunt Peggy's affairs.
Terence arrives in Marlu Ngurra, with one goal in mind-he wants to returns home to Wandin Valley with Alex. Bea Murray arrives on the same plane, she is terminally ill but has returned to the area of her birth to make peace with May Murray and her son, Steve, who she raised. Chicken Pox hits the Valley.
Petrol sniffing victims are rushed to the outback clinic at Marlu Ngurra and Terence again witnesses Alex's total commitment to the people of the settlement.
Pollution and the environment become issues in the Valley following Lucy's visit to the local tip.
Lucy and Muldoon argue over the state of the tip and she unearths some interesting information with the help of the eccentric Vincent D. Smith.
Adam Campbell returns to the Valley, but he is reluctant to go home to see his father.
Cris is accused of maltreating Jessie and is investigated by Maureen Hutchins from Family and Community Services.
Racial prejudice rears its ugly head with the arrival of beautiful Thai locum, Doctor Supatra Pasert. Her presence causes resentment among some of the residents of the Valley and especially from Vietnam veteran Dennis Taylor.
Matt's Valley Vat radio show is attracting some very strange callers. Dr. Supatra endangers a patients's life and Cris and Nurse David Mawby try to convince her to seek treatment for an ailment that threatens her own career.
Victoria Flemming, a famous opera singer and her "maestro," Francesco Giannini, are befriended by Frank and Shirley.
Carl Bailey, Cathy's mysterious man, arrives from Kakadu which puts Matt's nose right out of joint.
Dave Cooper, a courier driver, surprises the staff at the hospital with his medical expertise.
In light of an American mining company's plan to build a dam which would flood out Wandin Valley, hardened New York journalist Karen Breslin comes to town in search of a story about a conservation protest.
Frank and Shirley stand on opposite sides as the locals fight to stop the proposed dam development by Ted Kagan.
Frank is on leave as he is due to have his varicose veins removed. His replacement suspects Matron Sloan of being the "Ms. Big" of Wandin Valley.
Darren Stiles, a partner in crime from Luke's past, comes to visit.
Sue Daley's father, Keith, arrives back from Europe with his second wife, Frances, and it is soon becomes apparent that all is not well.
Dave Watson takes the law into his own hands when wild dogs kill his sheep. Matt and Lucy are in love and Cathy finds it amusing that they are trying to hide it from her
Dave Watson takes the law into his own hands when wild dogs kill his sheep. Matt and Lucy are in love and Cathy finds it amusing that they are trying to hide it from her
Former pop idol Martin Glass injures himself riding Cris' new motorcycle.
Cris falls for Charlotte Reed, a locum vet and mother of a child with Spina Bifida. Bob Hatfield says he is going to leave the Valley for good but Cookie is determined to change his mind
Luke's friendship with Kevin Walsh, an itinerant worker, soon turns sour when he discovers the man has abandoned his kids. They both are injured when they fall down an old well.
Wealthy Katie Wellbourne threatens the relationship between Matt and Lucy.
The pain of a broken leg from last week's incident with a wanted murderer is all but forgotten when Luke falls in love with Miriam Briggs, daughter of local politician Douglas Briggs. Cookie picks the wrong time to turn Esme;s house into a bed and breakfast
Carol Healey's strange behaviour is not noticed until her baby goes missing. Rhonda Sainsbury threatens to have the hospital closed down when her daughter Jane is struck down by a mysterious infection.
Cathy Hayden is offered a job in far-away Kakadu, but hesitates when palaeontologist John Freeman arrives in the Valley.
Matron Sloan faces the past when young Joshua Bates is brought to the hospital with serious burns after he and his mother are in an automobile accident.
Lucy becomes acting Director of Nursing and provokes a staff strike when she dismisses Janet, the kitchen hand, for petty theft.
Single father Mike Peters is unable to cope with his baby daughter. Bob Hatfield is given a greyhound as payment for a job. Luke celebrates his 18th birthday and Bob and Cookie are making plans for a surprise gift for him.
Ann Brennan comes to Wandin valley after the death of her father Snow and meets her half sister, Steve, for the first time. Wandin Vally reveals its musical talents when musician Paul Kelly makes a guest appearance.
A pesky donkey proves useful for Jessie's Gallipoli pageant. Terence becomes irritated when Ann releases his patient Fred Watkins for the Anzac Day march. Town drunk Dennis Taylor finally confronts his horrors of Vietnam.
A letter from Cathy gives Matt and Lucy a shock, she intends to sell Boolaroo.
Bob fights for his life after receiving a bee sting.
The annual fishing competition is due to get underway and Terence, Bob, and all the other keen competitors get angling fever.
Esme's use of steroids startles Wandin Valley residents. Steve's animals are being poisoned. Terence and Ann form a new bond and relationship as they help Linda McNeil give birth.
Esme's use of steroids startles Wandin Valley residents. Steve's animals are being poisoned.
Terence receives divorce papers from Alex and is far from happy. He clashes with Cassandra James, a psychic healer whose daughter Emma is a diabetic.
Something's on the nose when the food at the club tastes too good. Cookie collapses and is admitted to hospital.
A deliberate act by Lenny Jackson turns the winter burn-off into a raging bushfire which threatens Wandin Valley.
In the aftermath of the bushfire, Matt collapses and two women, Barbara Morgan and Karen Stone, report their husbands missing.
Terence becomes an impossible patient when he injures his foot. Matron Hilda Arrowsmith makes Ann a surprising offer.
Cris Kouros refuses to treat Gail Haines after her father-in-law Stan has a bad asthma attack due to her heavy smoking.
Still stunned by Lucy's decision to call off the wedding, Matt kidnaps Lucy and takes her away for a romantic holiday, where she finally reveals her fears about the lump in her abdomen.
Matt deliberately avoids Lucy in the hospital when he discovers that Lucy's condition is due to a past affair and Terence reveals that Lucy is infertile.
Lucy and Matt are dismayed to learn that Lucy's mother Lois has turned over all the wedding arrangements to Esme!
The arrival of shearer's cook Gladys Carter sends Cookie running. Her son Cholmondely, meanwhile, is smitten by Ann.
Luke is torn between his feelings for Steve and Miriam Briggs. Old Eddie Marshall hides a secret in his artificial leg.
Ann is excited by the arrival of old flame Rex Sanders in Wandin Valley. Bankrupt Glen Morgan injures himself as he is about to leave his farm with his wife Barbara.
Cookie becomes unemployed when new barmaid Vera Charles takes over his job, all arranged by Muldoon. Young Paul Jenkins is left to babysit his brother while his single mother Joy is at work.
Ann becomes involved with Gemma Gordon, a young cystic fibrosis patient whose lifestyle with her single mother, Lynette, mirrors Ann's own upbringing.
Luke is diagnosed as having a brain tumour. Old Skeeter Martin returns to the Valley and helps Luke prepare for his operation.
Matt and Lucy's wedding day draws closer and there is trouble from all quarters.
Romance blossoms for Cris when the beautiful Elizabeth Brown arrives in the Valley. Sue Daley has a row with Ann and the almost kills one of her patients.
Shirley and Cris launch their election campaigns.
Frank and Sgt. Bruce Sharp pursue young car theives Danny Lalor and Richie Holland in a high-speed car chase.
New ranger Trevor Jackson confronts lawyer Andy Upton about the theft of an aborigine carving.
Steve falls for farmer Michael Herbert. Terence begins the restoration work on his new boat but burns his hand while welding.
Cris Kouros' parents, Theo and Claire, arrive in Wandin Valley to see their son and granddaughter Jessie.
Matt and Lucy become involved with Daniel Bailey, a young autistic boy. Bob and Cookie believe that Esme may be a medium for dead spirits when she tunes in a radio station on her new dentures.
Terence's life is threatened by the Rose sisters, Jennifer and Marnie, who have revenge on their minds after returning to town fifteen years after an automobile accident claimed the lives of their parents and left Marnie a paraplegic.
Corina Kennedy asks Terence for an abortion.
While Luke is in Sydney taking his aircraft maintenance apprenticeship course, and getting more grief than he bargained for in the process, Steve is rapidly going through farmhands unable to find one she can be happy with.
Valentine's Day. Terence is visited by Olivia Harrison, an ex-girlfriend, and after telling him that she may have Alzheimer's disease, Olivia asks him to aid her in the taking of her own life. Lucy is concerned about a number of cockatoos found dead on her and Matt's property but she is far from happy when Matt refuses to investigate the birds' deaths.
John Bushell and his girlfriend Goldie Harper, both of whom are mentally challenged, proudly announce to their family and friends that she is pregnant. Despite John and Goldie's exuberance, John's mother Sue is not pleased.
Luke falls for Donna Griffiths, a director who is making a post-holocaust film in Wandin Valley.
When an RSPCA inspector is found murdered, suspicion falls on farmer Dave Watson. Daphne Jones consults Cris on her daughter's strange behaviour.
When an RSPCA inspector is found murdered, suspicion falls on farmer Dave Watson. Daphne Jones consults Cris on her daughter's strange behaviour.When an RSPCA inspector is found murdered, suspicion falls on farmer Dave Watson. Daphne Jones consults Cris on her daughter's strange behaviour.
Sally Bryant's tragic death from kidney failure brings her daughter's biological father, Tim Lord, to town seeking to take custody of the young girl away from the Sally's husband Vince, the only father the little girl has ever known.
Pilot Pete McDonald arrives in town and for Luke's 19th birthday, he is hired to give Luke flying lessons.
Carol Baker, a new nurse at the hospital, struggles to cope with her alcoholic father and seeks to take revenge for his years of drunken abuse.
Terence and Linda's plans for a romantic evening are rudely interrupted by the arrival of her daughter Jane.
When Helen Johnson, a woman dying of cancer, intentionally overdoses and Cris doesn't act to keep her alive, her husband Andy accuses Cris of deliberately giving her a drug overdose.
Rosemary Prior, the hospital's new Director of Nursing proves to be a challenge. Luke moves out to Steve's farm after first giving her Dog to get his foot in the door.
The big-city brother of Glen Harvey arrives in town to ask him to come home to help run the family business. Steve has her home robbed by Janine Dillon, a young girl she rented a room to.
Dr. Harry Morrison, Terence's new young partner at the clinic, demonstrates himself to be both a golf hooligan and a snooker shark.
A single father isn't satisfied with Terence's diagnosis of his daughter's illness. Frank and Rosemary unknowingly trade barbs against one another in their anonymous letters to the editor in the Burrigan Examiner.
Tracy Dodds, A young girl hired to be a surrogate mother, decides to keep the child after giving birth. An aging thespian suffers from mercury poisoning. Lucy takes in a donkey.
Dave Watson organizes a roo cull that quickly get's out of hand when a rowdy group of hunters answer his ad. A talkative patient swallows a thermometer. Esme does Cookie's taxes.
Lynette Cooper, a young and inexperienced farm hand, is left on her own to run the farm where she is working, until her long-lost sister shows up after having broken out of detention. Shirley has pneumonia. Harry tries to impress a young woman on the golf course. Steve has a close encounter with a horse on the highway.
Luke's friend, mechanic Barry Carlos, gets involved in a stolen car racket. Cookie and Rosemary get locked in the walk-in freezer at the club. Roxanne Hartley, Harry's girlfriend from Sydney, comes for a visit. Matt and Lucy look after young Hedley Johnson while his mother is in hospital.
When Terence, Frank, and Shirley go sailing, Terence gets seasick and Helen Cook, the boat's captain, gets "boomed." Young Hannah Wallace fights arthritis. Steve talks Luke into finishing his education when he considers dropping out.
Linda Shelley returns to town and tells Terence that she is engaged. While leaving town, Linda is in a car accident which requires Harry to amputate her hand in order to save her life.
Donna Hume, Luke's girlfriend, arrives from Sydney wanting him to come back to the city with her. Esme lands in hospital after taking other people's pills.
Luke is hospitalised after Donna slips him a hit of LSD. Donna attacks Kate and Steve before dying of a drug overdose. Cookie organizes a snail race at the club.
Alcoholic school teacher Noel Lewis tries to deal with his out-of-control son. Harry's unusual medical abbreviations cause some confusion for his coworkers at the clinic.
Luke struggles to cope with Donna's death. A missing schoolboy is found dead. Thinking he's set himself up on a hot date, Cookie learns he's been misled into holding an environmental meeting at his home.
Luke, Steve, and Kate join Matt and Lucy on their camping trip into the national park. Kate's arachnopobia surfaces once in the great outdoors and threatens to put a damper on the entire weekend.
Luke and Steve hike out of the park to get help for Lucy. Cookie, Esme, and Bob play rousing a game of "Merchant Banker" when their weekend plans fall through.
Itinerant labourer Kevin Nicholls and his wife Colleen, an aspiring singer, learn their daughter is deaf and not retarded as they had always believed when the girl suffers a serious fall and lands in hospital.
Kate reveals her past fight with leukemia to Terence and Rosemary when she thinks she may be having a relapse. Colleen Nichols gives up her singing career to focus on her daughter.
To help finance her upcoming trip to Greece with Anne and Cris, Luke talks Steve into planting a potato crop. Sister Jenny Austin tests positive for HIV. Vernon looks after his infant niece. Luke and Steve share their first kiss.
Jenny informs her boyfriend of her illness. A stray dog finds its way into Steve's heart. Lucy and Matt are approved for foster parenting.
Karen Townsend, a 15-year-old girl brought into the hospital after having an abortion, identifies Harry as her lover. Steve must put down Tramp when she discovers that he has been killing sheep in the area.
Karen lets Harry off the hook by admitting that the events in her diary did not happen. Planning to write his memoirs (to be entitled "They Done Me Wrong"),
A charitable act toward a group of gypsies puts Steve on the outs with her neighbours. Shirley and Rosemary decide to teach themselves auto mechanics—and decide to use Franks squad car for practice.
Discovering that Steve's horse had been shot, immediate suspicions falls on the Gypsies who have been seen hunting in the area.
One week after Steve's death. Lucy is confronted by Jason's biological father who wants his son back. Frank gives Rosemary a parking ticket which she contests, adament that there wasn't a "No Parking" sign where she parked.
A school teacher is found to be involved in a drug operation with two of his students. Rosemary marks the first anniversary of her husband's death. Frank leaves for Sydney intent on bringing Luke back home.
Frank locates Luke in Sydney but he has fallen in with an old friend and refuses to go back to Wandin Valley. Rosemary is courted by local handyman Clarrie Rossiter.
Luke returns home with Frank after Razor is injured following a robbery. Lucy plays matchmaker for Harry and Kate but Kate informs Harry she's not interested in him. Esme is reluctant to participate in the national census.
Matt and Lucy have to give baby Jason back to his mother. Cookie writes his autobiography. Luke returns to the Brennan farm which is now up for sale.
Matt and Lucy disagree about the competence of Jason's mother. Lucy keeps going to her apartment to offer advice while Matt tries to get Lucy to let go.
An ill farmer must deal with her agoraphobic daughter who claims to have been raped by a neighbour.
Elaine Todd is rescued from the national park after being injured in a freak auto accident, but her five-year-old daughter Daisy, who wandered off into the bush afterward in an attempt to get help, is unknowingly left behind by her rescuers.
David finds the lost girl in the national park but cannot lead her to safety after he is bitten by a snake. A farmer who was treating his skin cancer with bee stings is brought to the hospital to be treated.
Singing star Amanda Rite is hospitalised after a car crash. Harry's brother Rick makes a quick impression on Kate when he arrives in town. Rosemary moves into the vacant flat above the clinic. Rick is injured while trying to break in a horse.
At Harry's suggestion, Rick returns to the family farm to claim Harry's land for his own. Amanda is found to be bulimic. Matt disappoints by not buying Lucy an anniversary gift but then surprises her with dinner.
Russ Thompson, a promising young football star, suffers a series of seizures after receiving a head injury. Lisa Haymer, a young nurse getting work experience at the hospital, has a rough start.
After Russ is diagnosed with epilepsy, his girlfriend Belinda breaks up with him. Esme accidentally backs her car over a young girl's pet rabbit.
Terence takes in Lizzy, a street kid recently out of detox, but her arrival upsets Esme who chooses to move out of Camelot.
An inspection of the hospital is marred by an out-of-control children's ward and a free running piglet. Terence begins to make progress with Lizzy until she hears that her boyfriend has been released from custody. Esme decides to return to Camelot.
Lizzy's boyfriend Wayne arrives complicating the situation at Camelot. Harry informs patient Marcello Giuliani about his cancer diagnosis but the man seems to be more interested in getting Kate and Harry together.
Lizzy announces that she is pregnant. Lucy begins the invitro fertilization process.
Lizzy is ten weeks pregnant and decides she wants to keep the baby. Luke has an impacted molar. Harry takes an interest in Virginia Richards, a new dentist in the district. A farmer\'s cows are found to be grazing on an old tip.
Preparing for her trip to Nepal, Rosemary goes hiking into the national park, taking Shirley with her.
Matt and Lucy's house has termites but Lucy won't allow chemicals to be used in their extermination. Harry and Kate clash with Terence and Rosemary over their different treatment methods.
Harry is vindicated when Kate discovers his patient lied to others about her asthma. Cookie schemes to win a radio contest. Lucy has surgery to help her and Matt conceive. Lizzy decides to move back to Sydney to live with her mother.
When Lorrie Brown is found dead, suspicions falls on Denise Scott and her husband Colin when it is revealed that she had been prostituting herself to Mr. Brown.
The rampaging off-roaders have and accident in the national park. Discovering that Lorrie Brown died of a snake bite, Frank feels guilty about the affect his investigation had on the lives of the people he questioned.
Robert Prior, Rosemary's pianist son, arrives in the valley. Robert suffers from schizophrenia, and soon after going off his medication, he asks Rosemary to kill him. Cookie and Esme battle Bev, Esme's new neighbour, over a Cabbage Gum tree in her yard. A cyclist is diagnosed with testicular cancer.
A jealous girl drops her baby sister off at the community health center. Rosemary's son is struck by a car and while he's in hospital, Harry convinces him to go back on his medication. As part of their latest scheme, Cookie and Bob "borrow" Ruby to sniff out truffles.
Julie Dixon arrives in the valley and immediately seeks out Kate. After locating her, Julie drops a bombshell by telling Kate that she is her half sister.
Kate's father arrives in the valley and is introduced to his daughter Julie for the first time. He initially denies his affair with Julie's mother but finally admits to it when he is pressed by Kate.
Local curmudgeon Perce Hudson resists the help of his granddaughter Darcy who has come to help him run his farm. Judy Young, wife of area farmer Graham Young, gives birth by C-section and afterwards, both mother and child are diagnosed as having syphilis.
Graham\'s admission that he caught the disease from a prostitute while overseas threatens to end their marriage. Lucy takes up the cause of mother's rights when Esme confronts a nursing mother at the club.
As Christmas approaches, Matt and Lucy\'s relationship continues on it\'s rocky course. Darcy has an eventful first day on the job as the clinic receptionist. Dylan Brown, a young boy fighting leukemia, is admitted to hospital, along with his pet plant, but he is pessimistic about the chances of a bone marrow donor being found.
Luke and Kate move into a new apartment. Lucy can\'t keep the news a secret and tells everyone that she is pregnancy.
The research facility is cleared of responsibility when blue-green algae is found to be poisoning the town\'s water supply as a result of farmers over use of super-phosphates.
Matt hunts down a feral cat after it attacks Perce. Harry is distraught at the thought of having to replace Nellie, his beloved but broken down automobile.
Laura is diagnosed with OCD in hospital and it is revealed the condition came about as a result of her having to care for her dying mother. Harry helps Kate with her snake phobia.
Kylie Tomms, a little girl enamored with Harry is trampled by cattle after falling into the coral on her family\'s farm. Harry is distraught over the girl\'s sudden and tragic death.
An elderly woman leaves Lucy $50,000 in her will but when the woman\'s estranged daughter arrives, she accuses Lucy of conning the money out of her mother. The money is held in old company shares that eventually turn out to be worthless.
Fergus Morton, an old college friend of Matt\'s, arrives in town bringing out the worst in Matt while at the same time steeling drugs from his surgery. While learning to drive, Darcy runs cyclist Hugo Strzelecki off the road. He is operated on by a famous surgeon visiting the area. A muscular disorder has the doctor thinking about retirement but Harry talks him out of it.
Matt discovers Fergus\'s involvement in a bird smuggling operation. Fergus asks Matt to keep quiet but when his partners show up, the seriousness of their situation escalates. Rosemary campaigns for orderlies for the hospital. While helping Luke renovate the lodge, Darcy learns about Steve.
Rosemary lets Hugo move in with her but when he gets an offer from Darcy to move in with her and Perce, Luke quickly intercedes and offers him a room with himself and Kate. Esme returns to Wandin Valley after receiving the Order of Australia. Alf Muldoon becomes the new owner of the club and quickly closes it for renovations putting Cookie out of work.
Rosemary gets Hugo a job at the hospital as an orderly but his too-eager work ethic quickly alienate his coworkers into striking. Harry is looking for a horse to buy and finds one that is owned by Spence Anderson and Meredith Hendrix, a farm couple with a troubled marriage who are looking to sell their farm as well. Harry quickly takes a liking to the horse, the farm, and Meredith. After an accident, Spence reveals to Terence that he has Multiple Sclerosis and has been keeping his illness hidden from Meredith in an attempt to drive her away so that she won\'t have to cope him as his condition deteriorates. Cookie goes on the wagon to win a $50 bet with Bob.
Harry cools his desires after Terence tells him about Spence\'s illness. Spence over exerts himself on a crosscountry endurance race and afterwards, Spence tells Meredith about his illness and the couple decide not to sell their farm after all. Shirley tries to encourage Terence and Rosemary\'s relationship, a plan which they happily go along with. Lucy operates on Gertrude, one of her goats, when Matt is not available. Kate goes to the ball with Richard Wellbourne.
The club reopens but the restaurant portion remains closed. Lizzy returns to the valley to have her baby. Wayne, Lizzys ex, has escaped from custody, killing a police officer in the process, and is back in the district looking for her.
A siege evolves at the Hudson farm when Wayne holes up there with Darcy as his hostage. Frank is shot in the leg when he arrives and the shootout eventually ends when Darcy pushes Wayne off the farm\'s second floor balcony. Wayne later dies in hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound he received in the fall. Lizzy gives birth to a daughter and names her Terri in honour of Terence. When Esme\'s cousin breezes through town, the two troublemakers wind up at the bottom of a public fountain in Burrigan.
Luke and Darcy meet Doug Simons, a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran. Harry tries to get Hugo take a more tactful approach in his attempt at getting a boy suffering from low self esteem back into shape.
Luke gets an interview with the Australian Air Force. When Luke finds Doug with Harry\'s stolen prescription pad, Doug admits that he never fought in the war but rolled his car the night before he was to ship out. Bob adopts a dog he nearly ran over, but must give him up when a young girl comes by to claim her pet. Lucy gives Kate a sewing lesson. Luke tells Darcy of his plans to join the air force. Erin leaves the Tyler residence.
Harry takes up the case of a young retarded girl whose mother and doctor both see psycho-surgery as the best and only treatment for the girl. Harry adamantly opposes such a radical treatment but has a difficult time convincing her mother likewise. Luke turns down his acceptance into air force training as a navigator as it his been his dream to become a pilot. Matt discovers that a chemical supplier has been diluting his products and as a result several animals have died. Hugo enters a bike race and wins after an early setback.
Bob celebrates his 60th birthday but after being disappointed to learn that his pension amounts to just $2500, he gives it to Cookie to bet on a horse that a computer program of Tiger Kelly's has predicted to win. When Esme tells Bob the wrong horse was accidentally bet on, Bob is furious. He lashes out at a despondent Cookie and ends their friendship. When the program is found to have been in error, and Bob's horse (Glorious Decade) gallops to victory at 50:1 odds, Bob basks in his newly acquired fortune before patch things up with his longtime friend. Luke decides on a new life plan, he decides to become an auto mechanic. While he's making plans, Luke asks Darcy to marry him. Darcy informs Luke he can still enter the air force and transfer to pilot training later on. Bob and Cookie decide to do some travelling and pack their things before hitting the road. Luke leaves for Melbourne to join the Air Force.
Constable Tom Newman and his pregnant wife Allison arrive in the valley. Two cattlemen stop off at the Hudson farm to rest their animals. After the death of one of their cattle, a suspicious Hugo calls Matt out to the farm to inspect the animals—Hugo suspects the animals are stolen. Esme comes to the conclusion that her nemesis, Ivy Clements, has absconded with the proceeds from their lamington sale. An old man dies in hospital leaving behind a deaf, mute boy as the only clue to the his identity. Hugo becomes Matts new veterinary assistant.
Lucy takes a fall in the hospital and goes into premature labour. Allison Newman looses her baby and tells her husband she doesn\'t want children but would like to return to the city to concentrate on her career instead.
The father of a girl with Down\'s Syndrome is concerned about the nature of Hugo\'s relationship with her. Hugo is simply helping her in her swim training but Ruth misinterprets his intentions and thinks he\'s interested in her romantically. Allison tells Tom she\'s leaving him to return to her life in Sydney. While spending their day off on the golf course, Harry and Kate came to the aid of a fellow golfer after she collapses.
Ruth\'s father continues to hassle Hugo and refuses listen to this daughter\'s ambitions of making it to the Special Olympics. Darcy tries to get Simone to metamorphose into a salamander. Esme informs Rosemary of the risks associated with such an endeavour and she puts a halt to Darcy\'s experiment. Rosemary slams the door on Terence\'s nose after an argument. Lucy leaves her job at the hospital. Kate and Harry help Terence and Rosemary end their fighting ways. Hugo reveals to Darcy the truth about his father.
Frank decides it may be time to retire but later changes his mind. Tom attempts to reconcile with his estranged wife but soon learns that she has already moved on.
Rupert Bright, an eccentric man who has had twelve of his cats die in the past four years, catches Frank in a leg trap and concludes that he is responsible for their deaths.
Terence and Rosemary\'s plan to get away for a quiet weekend at the Wandin Valley Estates vineyard is disrupted when they meet up with Esme and learn that a murder mystery weekend is being hosted at the winery by mystery author Madeleine Wells.
Frank becomes the new manager of the club and despite Hugo\'s concerns, Frank assures him that his job is not in jeopardy. The murder mystery weekend takes on an ominous tone when the hostess is found unconscious. When Esme learns that Madeleine\'s niece Jillian Carter, suffering from a mental disorder giving her multiple personalities, is responsible for the attack on Madeleine, Jillian\'s alter ego of Geraldine throws Esme in the trunk of her car and drives off. She is ultimately pulled over by Tom who discovers Esme and takes Jillian/Geraldine into custody.
Gil Tyler, Matts father, arrives in the valley and offers his son a job in Vietnam. Young David Kelly and his pet rabbits are at the centre of a feud between the boys father, Bruce Kelly, and their neighbour Ray Hall over Ray's dogs' aggressiveness towards David's rabbits. Hugo spikes a handful of eggs with cayenne pepper as part of a trap to catch the person responsible for stealing eggs from Lucys hens, but unfortunately one of Ray Halls dogs takes the bait resulting in Hugo receiving a stern lecture from Matt. Davids favourite rabbit is mauled by one of Ray's dogs.
When three more of Davids rabbits are killed, David takes matters into his own hands and shoots Ray's dog. Ray sees David with the gun and a struggle ensues between the two during which the gun discharges, shooting and killing Davids older brother Shane. Matt accepts his father's job offer after discussing Gils proposal with Lucy. They plan to leave for Vietnam after their child is born.
One week overdue, Lucy is getting anxious to give birth. Matt is called away to attend to Bruce and Karen Dyson birthing cows. Hugo and Brett Cooper, another cyclist, are both attacked and savagely beaten in the park by a gang of teens. Shirley returns home and hounds Frank about redecorating the club and tells him she wants to have a part in it\'s day-to-day operation.
Lucy gives birth after 24 hours of labour to a son she and Matt name James. With palm trees in tow, Darcy\'s globe-trotting mother returns to the valley after a prolonged absence. Darcy is excited to finally see her mother again but a dispassionate Perce just wants his daughter to leave. Tom charges Steve Dyson in connection with the violent attack on Hugo and Brett.
Bob and Cookie return to the valley for a visit. Bob has started a great new life for himself in Darwin but Cookie, who has come down with pneumonia, has not been having a good time and has been missing home. Kate clashes with the hospital\'s new nurse, Malcolm Fairfax, but he is quickly fired after he approaches Rosemary trying to have Kate dismissed. Kate applies for Lucy vacated position. Bernice decides to transform Perce farm into a Bed and Breakfast.
Cookie is slowly recovering in hospital but a conflict between him and Bob is making things difficult. Bernice considers leaving again but ultimately decides to stay in the valley.
Anna first day in town sees her operating on Kate horse Lightning and eventually being forced to put the horse down. Darcy dates a drug rep just to spite Hugo who had told her not to. Bob and Cookie Magnolia Vale Arms pub is cutting into Frank business at the club. Billy stones Tom on their first encounter.
Billy runs away from home, he plans on going back to Phoenix where he still thinks his parents are still living. Hugo develops a crush on Bernice but she lets him down easy.
While filling in for Darcy at the clinic, Bernice becomes an impromptu interpreter for a sick Japanese patient who then proposes to her. Cameron West, the son of Karen West, a new nurse at the hospital, keeps Tom busy. Fatso suffers from a flatulence problem. Darcy beats out Hugo for the position Anna veterinary assistant.
Cameron father comes to the valley after Karen is hospitalised for high blood pressure. Harry becomes the object of affection of an elderly patient. Wandin Valley\'s senior population takes over the disco Hugo has organised at the lodge.
Tom Newman and Trevor Jackson lead a group of kids on a camping trip into the national park. Billy is not happy about the trip and makes an effort to ensure his dissatisfaction is known. Billy and Gemma Andrews go off by themselves and return to the cave they had been to previously with the group. While there, Gemma is bitten by a spider.
Trevor finds the lost kids but breaks his leg after falling off a cliff requiring Billy to go for help on his own.
Amber Thomas, Darcy sister, stops in Wandin Valley with her boyfriend Howie on their way to Sydney. Leaving town, they are involved in a car accident that kills Howie and leaves Amber brain dead. Esme insults Hugo croissants instigating a bake-off between the two. Darcy father arrives and is told about Amber\'s accident. Looking for a horse, Kate passes on what could very well be the perfect horse in favour of an old broken down horse that used to work in the circus.
Darcy comes to terms with her sister death and agrees to the donation of Amber organs. Esme finds a baby on the doorstep at Camelot, but the mother later returns and is coaxed into revealing herself. Anna diagnoses a farmer dog as being deaf and discovers it is the result of the food it been given.
Leanne Hewson, a new nurse at the hospital who is also a recovering drug addict, has a difficult time dealing with the reactions of her coworkers and patients, one of whom tries to use her to feed her own addiction. Billy has his friend James Hutton stay over for the weekend, at which time it is revealed that James has been molested.
Anna has Tom secretly get a replacement bird when James pet budgie dies while in Anna\'s care. Tom arrests James father when James identifies him as his abuser.
Max Blair, a journalist from Sydney who has AIDS, has come home to Wandin Valley to die. His sister Trish is supportive but her husband Ray is adamantly opposed to Max's homosexuality and has no qualms about stating that he thinks Max has gotten what he deserves. Tom catches up to a car thief when the man runs off the road but must then look after the man's injured dog. The Lodge hosts a "Back To The 40s" ball.
Frank wants to "de-rubbish" the house but Shirley shows him the sentimental value of their belongings. Anna plans a birthday party for Billy but is called out on a job leaving Hugo and Darcy in charge of the festivities. Max plans to kill himself but is unable to go through with it. Ray eventually agrees to let Max stay at his and Trish's home. En route to a conference in Brisbane, the airplane carrying Shirley crashes. Initial news reports are not promising and before long Tom arrives on Frank doorstep to inform him of Shirleys death.
Two weeks after Shirley Gilroy death. A ceremony in held to officially rename the hospital Muldoon Wing the Shirley Gilroy Wing in her honour. Hugos father makes a visit and asks Hugo to return home to take over the family business.
Hugos father is hospitalised with a heart condition after a night of heavy boozing. After Bernice accidentally shoots Dog, plans are made for her (Dog) to become a hospital pet.
After hurting his back in a fall, Terence makes the decision to retire. While he's making hasty decisions, Terence ends his relationship with Rosemary as well.
Perce asks Esme to dinner after some encouragement from Darcy. Terence helps a young bed ridden patient deal with the frustration of his condition. To earn the respect of a retired police officer, Tom learns to ride a horse. After resisting assistance from his friends, Terence asks Harry for help. Terence sees a specialist in Burrigan who confirms Terence's own self diagnosis of Post Polio Syndrome.
Glenn Garrison, a young boxer in town for an exhibition fight at the lodge, is nearly run down by Darcy while on Hugo's bicycle. When Glenn's opponent pulls out of their bout, Hugo steps up to replace him.
Despite the cancellation, Hugo and Glenn decide to go ahead with the fight anyway. Hugo is knocked around the ring rather easily by his well-trained opponent but he does manage to land one cheap shot that unfortunately inflicts permanent damage on Glenn that could end his hopes of a boxing career. Despite warnings from the doctors, Glenn says he plans to continue fighting.
Tom, Kate, and Anna track a ghost horse through Hanging Tree Hollow. Kate falls down a gully and is struck on the head by a rock. Frank receives a note from Shirley (she left it with Terence with the condition that it be delivered to Frank if she died) on their anniversary that directs him to do four tasks.
Kate is brought back to hospital and Terence is called upon to operate in an attempt to save her leg. Hugo takes a betting tip from Esme to back Glorious Decade (the horse Bob won his fortune on) but loses big time and finds himself in trouble with Shorty Price. Darcy gets Bernice to talk to her about her younger brother who died soon after being born.
Terence and Harry are away for a medical conference but their sunny resort is inundated by the full effects of Cyclone Wally.
Darcy learns about her mother previous relationship with Paul. Terence returns from the conference and must operate on Esme after Dr. Beardsley's first operation on her was botched.
Dee Dee Mann, the young daughter of the club's new cook, has an accident while she's swimming with Hugo and Darcy and nearly drowns. Despite the seriousness of the accident, her father Ivan won't take her to the hospital as a precaution afterwards. Unfortunately, Dee Dee later has difficulty breathing and must then be rushed to hospital.
Hugo has returned from his trip to Barcelona in love with a mystery girl, but Rosemary is nowhere to be found, she has apparently decided to stay another week.
Cheri reveals to Bernice her motivations. Anna catches the man believed to be her stalker but he claims to have been just looking for help after having car troubles.
Rosemary has finally returned from her vacation in Barcelona. She has come home with her brother Michael Perry, a priest, who is waiting to appear in court on an assault charge.
Billy suffers a fall and loses his memory, he later regains it after a hospital room visit by George.
Hugo befriends auto mechanic David Cornish, who he discovers requires regular dialysis, but David's continued disregard for his treatments lands him in hospital.
Gareth Spencer, Anna's stalker, has returned and is taunting her and Tom who are unable to do anything to stop him since he is acting as a real estate agent for Anna's neighbour. Bernice is suffering from a headache which she believes is an after effect of a certain mushroom omelette she had at the club, but Esme is convinced it is a brain tumor. When she's feeling better, her headache diagnosed by Terence as just a migraine, Bernice gets a little revenge on Esme by bringing up Esme's own experience with mushrooms.
Anna stalker is arrested after a final confrontation with her in her home. Bernice, Esme and Rosemary compete for the right to throw Terence's birthday party, but Frank gets the honour and holds it at the club. After failing to find someone to perform a strip-o-gram for Terence, Bernice takes on the task herself. Darcy is introduced to dance as part of her rehab.
Anna meets Brett and Niki Hill while doing some work on their farm. Bretts physical abuse of his wife grows more and more obvious as Anna spends more time at the couple farm. After hearing Nikis numerous excuses for her many injuries, Anna steps in and takes Niki to the hospital where she finally asks for help. Tom takes out an Apprehended Violence Order against Brett Hill to keep him away from his wife but after Niki is released from hospital, Brett tracks her down at the Hudson farm and convinces her to come home with him. Soon after arriving back at the farm, another argument breaks out, but this time the outcome is fatal.
Harry and Kate announce their intentions to move in together, much to the dismay of Esme who was expecting a wedding first. Harry and Kate move in at the property across from Anna. Faith Finlay arrives at the clinic overjoyed at the prospect of giving birth to her first child but complications arise requiring an emergency cesarean delivery to be performed. Rosemary consents to let Terence remove a wart on her foot. Hugo and Darcy plans for entering a dance contest go awry when Darcy is kicked by a cow.
Harry and Kate are in the midst of moving into their new home when Harry old college girlfriend arrives unexpectedly on their doorstep. Hugo gets into perfume sales but the product is not quite up to snuff. Frank eventually finds it useful as a dog repellent. Anna looks into a series of wallaby deaths in the national park.
After she wanders off into the national park, Christine is diagnosed as a manic depressive. Tom cooks dinner for Anna as they write up his divorce papers, and share their first kiss. Hugo schemes to sell junk food in the hospital and Bernice takes a splinter getting him out after he is discovered.
Truckers rerouting through the valley are causing mayhem on the roads. Tom tries to intervene but winds up being beaten up and left at the side of the road. Kate and Harry try to delegate their domestic duties. After Anna diagnoses a farmer's cattle as being infertile, Darcy informs Bernice to stop her from buying them.
Toms conflict with the truckers comes to a head with a face-to-face confrontation at the club. Darcy and Bernice convince a waitress a the club to seek medical advice about her incontinence. Billy has the mumps.
Harry parents make a surprise visit and while they are in the valley, his mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. An accident while training puts Hugo in hospital with torsion of the testes. Max is hit by a car just as Anna is deluged with patients. Tom's divorce is finalised.
Feeling bad about not being unable to drive Hugo to the hospital, Darcy sets out to get her drivers license. While out driving, Darcy and Bernice are pulled over by Tom, who is not pleased to learn that neither of them have a driver's permit. While in hospital, Hugo befriends a young girl with injuries to her eyes. Harry and Kate decide to go back to Texas with his parents to help the family begin to cope with his mothers illness.
Grant Williams, Anna's ex boyfriend, arrives in town. He is acting as Brett Hill defense lawyer in his domestic abuse trial for which Tom is the arresting officer and Anna a crown witness.
The animosity between Tom and Annas ex comes to a head when Grant tells Tom that he and Anna are getting married. Bernice finds a stash of money that Perce had hidden in the chimney at the farm.
Kate takes her acupuncture exam. Harry approaches Terence about becoming a full partner at the clinic. Darcy becomes involved with a skydiver who drops into Rainbow Farm.
Julia Lamb, Toms mother, makes a surprise visit to Wandin Valley but as he soon discovers, her only reason for coming is to try to keep her relationship with Tom out of the press.
Julia Lamb is hospitalised suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Julia tells a reporter all the details of her and Tom past. Tom is mad about what she done but Anna goes ballistic and tells Julia off. Rosemary losses a contact lens during an operation and thinks it may have ended up inside the patient. Involved in a music program at his school, Billy trades up to a timpani, much to his delight, if not Anna.
Kate opens her new acupuncture clinic to slow business. After Kate treats Hugo for what he believes to be the flu, his condition rapidly worsens until Darcy finds him collapsed at the Hudson farm. Billy breaks his arm after falling off a ladder but doesn't tell anyone he's hurt. Anna gets the neighbours of a farmer who is reluctant to ask for help himself to lend him a hand. A talkative parrot is accidentally let loose in the hospital by Terence.
Hugos condition, which has left him paralysed, is diagnosed as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Darcy stays at his bedside but has a hard time coping with his condition. Tom and Anna both have the day off work but Tom is unable to go through with his planned marriage proposal and they are both eventually called back to work. Bernice's attempts to get involved with a wealthy estate owner go awry when she arrives at his home for a party only to discover she there as hired help. On a barren road outside of town, Tom proposes to Anna.
Anna and Rosemary go for a joy ride in Terence's new $70,000 sports car but soon find themselves locked out and stranded in the middle of nowhere. The news of Tom and Anna engagement makes it's way through the town but everyone keeps asking the same question—where's the ring? While Harry is assisting 72-year-old Dr. Wren, he comes to the conclusion that Dr. Wren is no longer fit to practice and has been relying on his secretary to keep his practice running. Hugo continues to deal with the frustration of his debilitating condition.
Tom buys Anna a ring which turns out to be stolen. After gathering up the courage to ask for the ring back, Tom must tell her the truth before he eventually gets her a proper replacement. Norman Wren proposes to his longtime secretary Lillian Parker. Bernice and Terence get Hugo out of the hospital for a dip in the hot tub that Bernice has installed at Rainbow Farm. Kate and Harry host a surprise party for Tom and Anna
Kate accident prone young cousin Claire is getting work experience at the hospital. She becomes friends with Hugo who decides to tell Harry about a suspicious mole that Claire is having trouble with. Harry removes the mole and tests conform that it is benign. Trevor Jackson has repeated trouble keeping Bernice from stealing plants from the national park. Getting the feeling that she is being watched by someone, Bernice comes across a young boy (Ryan Kwanten) who has run away from home and is now living in the park.
Hugo is out of hospital and rehabbing at Rainbow Farm where he quickly comes up with an idea to sell fertiliser but his ambitious plans are side tracked by the inability of the chickens to keep up with demand. Bernice brings Ben back to the farm, his mother it turns out is engaged to the police officer who is currently working with Tom, and he and the boy do not get along. After accidentally hitting George with her car, Darcy frantically tries to keep him alive while Anna is away on calls.
News of an archaeological dig in the national park soon has Bernice and Hugo assembling would-be specimens of their own from various old bones found around the farm. A young man recently out of prison comes to the valley looking for Harry, but his exact business is unknown and Harry begins to worry about the boy intentions. Harry fears are confirmed when he is called out to a farmhouse to see an patient only to find the boy waiting for him with a gun.
Harry is able to flee the farmhouse only to be chased down and run off the road.
Christmas 1992. Anna mother arrives in town for her daughter wedding and is promptly pulled over for a random breath test by Tom who has yet to be introduced to her. Anna mother is not happy about the impending nuptials and, after Billy is taken to the hospital with a spider bite, she informs Anna why—Anna is a carrier of a genetic disorder that she could pass on to any children that she and Tom were to have. Bernice marries Pearl White and Pudge McKeever but Pudge and Perce later come to blows when Pudge learns of an affair Pearl once had with Perce.
While Billy remains in hospital, Anna and Tom are married—on a rather unstable barge in the middle of a dam. Tom and Anna wedding night grinds to a halt when they are both called away on jobs. Hugo and Darcy take in the children of a woman who will be in hospital over Christmas. After performing her first two weddings, Bernice learns that she is not yet licensed so the two marriages she has performed are not legal. Once Bernice breaks the news to Tom and Anna (Pudge and Pearl have left town and are long gone), the couple arrange for a small ceremony, with Billy present this time, to be performed in church before the Christmas service.
Rosemary confronts Dr. Wendy Gale when Wandin Valley Hospital is threatened by Government cutbacks. Bernice is suspicious of Perce's response to a human skull found on the farm.
Hugo walks out on Darcy. Perc gives Darcy a surprise gift and saves her from rip-off salesman Lenny Sawyer.
Bernice is convinced Esme has uncovered a treasure at a Hospital Benefit Fete. Harry and Kate clash over treatment of Jo Davis.
Harry and Kate surprise everyone at a Benefit Concert, and Terence plays dirty politics with M.P. Douglas Briggs.
Bernice's plans to impress visiting gourmet travel writer Victor Tutt are foiled by Miss Sterling, and Anna explains the facts of life and genetics to Billy when he has to have a blood test.
Darcy suspects she has cancer. Victor Tutt is forced to confront his obesity and his feelings about Leonie Sterling.
Anna's brother Alec arrives with a dangerous parcel from Asia. Perc has the last laugh when Bernice and Hugo find a gold mine.
Anna is torn between her love for her brother Alec and her husband Tom.
Rainbow Farm is invaded by bikers and Darcy befriends a runaway teenage mother-to-be.
A woman rejects her baby while Anna almost accepts her role as a policeman's wife.
Terence and Frank are victims of inexplicable acts of vandalism. Frank is bashed.
Bernice tries to give up coffee and becomes addicted to carrots. Harry and Kyle play a joke on Kate.
Hugo falls in love and Stephen fails his professional duties to a baby.
Hugo discusses marriage with his pregnant girlfriend. Billy gets into trouble with a TAB card.
Tom and Anna risk losing Billy when his paternal grandparents come to stay.
Harry and Kate find there is more to a relationship than a magazine quiz.
Darcy gets jealous when her girlfriend flirts with Hugo.
Frank believes he is responsible for a car accident involving Darcy and Tara. Darcy learns a few home truths from Hugo and Tara.
Kate's mother Liz drops a bombshell when she comes to stay. Billy learns not to interrupt Peter Page, an archery teacher who stutters. Anna treats a ravished Ruby and a distraught Esme.
Kate and her father Des are shocked when Tom arrests Kate's mother. Tom accepts a racehorse on behalf on Anna. Harry is shot by Billy's arrow. Harry becomes involved in a feud between Darcy and Hugo.
Terence and Rosemary hope that Donald Lightfoot will make his 100th birthday and Anna is forced to operate on Tom's racehorse.
A romantic weekend at Wandin Valley Estate Vineyard turns to disaster for Terence and Rosemary.
Darcy and Lee become innocent victims of date rape when they go out with medical students.
Anna is frustrated by Sgt. Newman's inability to charge Owen Wyatt with the rape of Lee Stephens.
Darcy plans to leave Wandin Valley with Tony and faces a difficult introduction to his parents.
Frank's developing romance with April is brought to a holt. Darcy is upset by the way Val is treated by her son and husband.
Kate hands in her resignation with plans to go to China. Her beliefs in acupuncture are challenged by a visiting gynaecologist.
Harry proposes to Kate but she declines to answer. Tom questions his vocation in the police service after a call from Internal Affairs and conversations with his former wife.
Terence and Rosemary help a local magistrate, Toby Olding and his wife Olivia, come to terms with his infidelity and homosexual behaviour when Toby discovers he is HIV positive.
Harry and Kate discover a way for her to go to China and to stay together as well.
Highly qualified Dr. Simone Fox arrives as Harry's replacement but falls to pieces during a simple medical procedure, and Bernice can't help thinking she's seen Simone somewhere else before.
Kate meets Lottie, a mysterious young woman on a lonely road, and Esme has supernatural forebodings when she learns Lottie is the granddaughter of an outlaw.
As Harry and Kate prepare to leave Wandin Valley for China, Sister Jules Goodfellow prepares to take over from Kate.
Sister Goodfellow loses self-confidence when she discovers her husband has been unfaithful, but Harry helps her to reconsider the facial surgery option.
In the aftermath of the accident, Terence fears for Harry's life - he has a collapsed lung and a badly injured hand which could threaten his career as a surgeon.
China. Jules undergoes an operation to fuse her spine and Andrew admits he was driving the car which forced them off the road.
Harry is still guilt ridden about the accident and Jules' husband Ben is unable to cope with her paralysis.
Jules is triumphant when she finally makes it into her wheelchair and her dependence on Harry is growing.
Kate and Harry's relationship seems threatened by the growing attachment between Harry and Jules.
Harry is forced to confront his emotions and decide whether it is Kate or Jules who he really loves. A rift develops between Terence and Rosemary after a bad call in a tennis game.
Will Terence's relationship with Rosemary be tested when his ex-wife returns?
Terence is concerned about Alex's disillusionment with medicine, but it is Rosemary who comes to Alex's rescue.
Anna suspects a case of domestic violence and mystery surrounds the poisoning of a valuable herd of angora goats.
Anna's theory on how the goats died is shattered and a visiting Indian couple surprise Frank and Esme with their knowledge of Aussie slang.
Rosemary is frustrated by community attitudes when she tries to help a woman and her daughter Zozan obtain refugee status.
Hugo comes to the aid of a young girl haunted by violent memories of her past.
The Wandin Valley Agricultural Show comes to town and Terence has some devastating news for a champion woodchopper.
Jack struggles to come to terms with his illness. Frank and Billy pull a swifty on Anna to take first prize in the Pet Show.
Kate helps a woman and her son deal with the shame of his father molesting him.
James endangers his life over his mother's relationship with another man.
Excitement as Bronwyn Gibson, a famous Shakespearean actress arrives for Wandin Valley's production of Macbeth.
Rosemary confronts Bronwyn Gibson about her drug habit. Rehearsals for the play turn chaotic and there is doubt whether the show will go on.
Mystery surrounds an unidentified body found in the remains of a house fire. Anna is threatened with legal action over her treatment of a badly injured horse.
Anna befriends Martha Lynch who believes the body from the fire is her missing son. Harry's murder theory is shattered.
Harry and Kate's marriage reaches breaking point when Jules Goodfellow returns to Wandin Valley for the trial of the man who caused the accident that left her a paraplegic.
Andrew Rendell goes on trial and there is outrage when he receives a lenient sentence. Harry is finally forced to make decisions about his involvement with Jules and his marriage.
Hugo finds a runaway girl hiding out on his land. Anna is appalled when a dog dies through the negligence of a well-respected vet. Kate and Harry's plans for the perfect dinner party go awry.
Bettina's dreams of living with her sister in Sydney are shattered by bad news from Tom.
Hugo becomes involved with Tess Osmond, an ex-prisoner determined to make a new life for herself and her young son.
Tess' dreams of life on the outside fail to materialise, and she believes her attempts to go straight is futile when she is suspected of stealing money from the Hospital.
Kate becomes involved with an elderly lady hiding a mysterious past. Rosemary and Bernice are shocked to discover the identity of an intruder in the hospital.
A fifty-year-old mystery of romance gone wrong is finally solved and a dying woman is reunited with her family. Anna and Darcy uncover the secrets of the waterhole.
Terence's son Chris returns to Wandin Valley with his son Jack, and panic takes hold when Terence suspects Jack has malaria.
While Terence fights to save his grandchild's life, Chris must defend the ethics of having abducted his son.
The custody battle for Terence's grandson heats up when Jack's mother arrives from Vietnam to claim her son.
Christopher is faced with a heart-rending decision about his son's future.
Esme announces she is leaving Wandin Valley. Christopher gets an unusual reaction from Ruth when he asks her to marry him.
Esme surprises everyone with her plans for the future. A young boy comes to terms with his injuries. Ruth makes a decision about Christopher's proposal.
Bernice is devastated to learn she has cancer and decides to shun medical treatment and run away to India.
Bernice is confronted with medical and personal ultimatums and is forced to make important decisions about her future.
Tom is involved in a high-speed car chase which leaves the perpetrator, a young boy, badly injured.
A frightening experience for Tom and Anna when the irate father of the boy injured in the car chase arrives at their house.
Hugo is infuriated by Christina Agapitos, a volatile young woman with a knack for causing disasters.
Hugo is falling in love with Christina but is puzzled by her mysterious background. He is shocked to discover her secret - she is suffering from leukaemia.
Hugo struggles to come to terms with Christina's reluctance to fight her cancer and her father's belief that his daughter will die.
Hugo convinces Christina to accept treatment for her leukaemia. Tom discovers the power of animal mating calls when he goes camel searching in the National Park.
Hugo arranges for Christina to attend a CanTeen camp for young people with cancer. An emotional time for Kate as the camp brings back memories of the time when she had leukaemia.
Hugo's jealousy of Christina's involvement with Martin, one of the boys from CanTeen, leads to an accident which could have serious consequences for Martin.
Rosemary's son returns to Wandin Valley with his new wife who is unaware that he suffers from schizophrenia.
Rosemary's daughter-in-law threatens to leave her husband, claiming she can't cope with his schizophrenia.
Trevor Jackson's eleven-year-old "Auntie" and Billy find a weird old hermit in the National Park. Darcy faints when she tries to watch an operation on her injured knee.
Billy's St. Johns First Aid Course helps old Joe Cohen when he is injured. Esme pulls a fast one on Harry when he tries to hypnotise her.
Ian MacIntyre, the new park ranger, takes pity on a sick woman and her children and allows then to live in his farmhouse.
Gliders. Harry reaches a better understanding of religious beliefs when he helps deliver the baby of a Muslim patient.
Kate technically assaults physio Mike Stirling in an attempt to protect herself from sexual harassment. Ian impresses Darcy when he rescues a small boy.
When Kate's story of sexual harassment is substantiated, Mike offers to drop his formal charges, but Kate decides to further her case to help protect other women.
Cyclone Clair, alias Claire Bonacci, the new nurse, arrives in the Valley and Terence and Rosemary batten down the hatches.
Claire finds her way in the hospital and helps a woman come to terms with the loss of her husband and bond with her newborn child.
Tom takes out an Apprehended Violence Order against Peter Courtland, but when he goes out to Peter's farm to collect his firearms, Peter takes him hostage.
With the fire raging around them, Terence and Rosemary struggle to get back to the hospital which is being evacuated as the fire closes in.