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.