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