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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.
