Season 3

1983 · 84 episodes

Episodes

1Little Voices - Part 1Janice is discovered caring for her baby brother after both have been abandoned by their drug addict mother. Janice is only nine years old and the baby is going through heroin withdrawal symptoms.
2Little Voices - Part 2Ross and Yvonne McLean, a prosperous but childless couple in their forties are finally forced to accept that they cannot produce children.
3Grace And Favour - Part 1Rex Munro and Clarrie King maintain a feud, which began with their fathers, by quarrelling over an access road running through Rex's property. The feud excalates into violence.
4Grace And Favour - Part 2A lonely, elderly woman and a bereaved and lonely young truckie form a friendship based on mutual interests. Molly sparks off a one-woman campaign against battery farming.
5Breaking Point - Part 1Billy Perkins suffers from incurable and advanced emphysema, as a result of many years of heavy smoking. Unable to cope with the fear of a slow and lingering death, Billy commits suicide.
6Breaking Point - Part 2Vicky's feelings for Terence are exposed as she becomes so unhappy with the confirmation of the romance between Terence and Marta.
7Just Another Patient - Part 1Des Ward, an ex-professional cricketer, whose career has been ruined by a shooting accident, returns to the Valley. Des is dragged out of his self pity and depression by Frank.
8Just Another Patient - Part 2Terence Elliott is recovering from his heart attack, but is becomming increasingly irritated at the over-protective manner of his friends and colleagues.
9Truth And Consequences - Part 1A newborn baby needs a blood transfusion but Simon is mystified when neither mother nor father's blood group is compatible.
10Truth And Consequences - Part 2Nigel Fairbairn, a city-bred locum arrives to help Simon during Terence's convalescence, and is seconded to help fight a bush fire which breaks out in the Valley bringing death in its wake.
11Who Cares - Part 1An aimless teenage boy dies unexpectedly on the operatingtable. Simon and Nigel's careers are at stake until Terence performs an autopsy.
12Who Cares - Part 2A gang of cattle-duffers in the Valley involve many of the locals who succumb to the lure of cheap, freshly killed beef.
13September Song - Part 1Kath has been caught up in rearing her grandchildren and running her son's household since her daughter-in-law died. Until she meets a retired solicitor, and realises she has her own life to lead.
14September Song - Part 2Councillor Muldoon attempts to close down the Wandin Valley caravan park. Malcolm, a Wandin Valley farmer, is seriously injured and Terence and Simon have to amputate his leg.
15The Reckoning - Part 1Hilary Randall is totally unprepared when her husband Graham suffers a stroke. Faced with a mountain of bills, and terrified that Graham may need constant care, Hilary is at first unable to cope.
16The Reckoning - Part 2Marta and Terence decide to marry. Complications arise when a mystery man, linked with Marta's past in Hungary, arrives in the Valley.
17The Winds Of Change - Part 1Gale-force winds wreak havoc in Wandin Valley. Fallen trees and power wires leave several people injured. The whole town pulls together during the emergency.
18The Winds Of Change - Part 2Bela, the hero of Marta's student days and her first love, arrives in Wandin Valley. Marta hides Bela at her house as he is an illegal immigrant and forces her to lie to Terence.
19Love And Glory - Part 1A group of nine year old boys find some gelignite and decide to make a bomb. The explosion comes sooner than expected and the badly injured boys are trapped in an over-turned bus.
20Love And Glory - Part 2Marta is torn between her shared dreams with Bela and her future plans with Terence. Dramatically Marta leaves with Bela to continue their work together in the underground movement in Hungary.
21Life Wasn't Meant To Be Easy - Part 1A young mother and recent widow, seems to be managing so well, running the drought-stricken farm and raising her two children. Pam is refused credit and her brave front begins to crumble.
22Life Wasn't Meant To Be Easy - Part 2Terence succumbs to depression and self-pity over Marta. However, he is instrumental in preventing Pam from destroying her own life and that of the children.
23Another Man's Poison - Part 1A farmer's carelessness with pesticides puts a little girl's life at risk and kills Molly's dog.
24Another Man's Poison - Part 2Molly is suspicious of an old man until the old drover becomes Brendan's patient.
25Hair Of The Dog - Part 1The erratic behaviour of a 16 year old girl is a mystery for Dr Elliott until he learns that his young patient is an alcoholic.
26Hair Of The Dog - Part 2Brendan Jones' favourite patient, Mrs Coote, becomes attached to a labrador.
27See Ya - Part 1A young boy is in danger of losing the sight in his eye as a result of a minor injury. A corneal transplant operation in the Sydney Eye Hospital seems to be his only hope.
28See Ya - Part 2Terence Elliott supports Dorothy Edgar in her intention to die with dignity, and to find some purpose in her death by donating her eyes to the Eye Bank.
29Warning Signs - Part 1Frank's new offsider, Constable Perry Nolan, arrives in Wandin Valley.
30Warning Signs - Part 2Tragedy strikes the Marsh family as a result of a road accident. Councillor Muldoon finds himself the target of local hostility as the accident occurs on the notoriously dangerous crossroads.
31No More Mr Nice Guy - Part 1A housewife's neglect of home and family could have serious repercussions for her eldest son, Nicky, when Simon discovers he has diabetes.
32No More Mr Nice Guy - Part 2Perry Nolan, Frank's newoff-sider, quickly begins to fall out of favour with the locals, with the exception of Judy Loveday.
33Fruit Of The Vine - Part 1Vicky's life is in danger when she is threatened by the young schizophrenic owner of a dog she has been treating. The arrival of a salesman changes the lives of Judy, Cookie and Esme.
34Fruit Of The Vine - Part 2Terence's grapes are ready for harvest and everyone turns out to help pick them before bunch rot sets in.
35A Woman's Place - Part 1A shy teenage girl breaks away from the confines of her narrow minded fanatical father when she learns that she is an epileptic.
36A Woman's Place - Part 2The new matron Maggie Sloan arrives at Wandin Valley Hospital. Nursing staff and doctors are torn between admiration, irritation and fear at her methods.
37Still Life - Part 1Terence is forced to re-examine traditional medicine when an artist convinces him that she has cured her cancer with a special diet.
38Still Life - Part 2The mysterious death of the Wandin Valley "rainmaker" results in an anti gun campaign for Molly Jones. A shock result in the council elections ends in a vote recount.
39Lost Weekend - Part 1Terence Elliott and Vicky Dean find themselves stranded overnight in a backwater town. Their sojourn in Magnolia Vale is not what friends and relatives in Wandin Valley imagine.
40Lost Weekend - Part 2When hospitalised, Bert Griffith's cantankerous behaviour poses problems for the nursing staff, but his mystery ailment proves a real headache for the doctors.
41The Wandin Valley Connection - Part 1Shane Peters, a nine year old boy who has been the recipient of innovative surgery to his knee is in danger of never walking again due to his over-indulgent mother.
42The Wandin Valley Connection - Part 2Brendan's infatuation with an old F.J. Holden has repercussions when he is confronted by geriatric gangsters after the long-lost loot they expect to find hidden in the car.
43The Sentimental Bloke - Part 1Bob Hatfield's wife Daisy has cancer of the liver and whilst she accepts the fact of her impending death, Bob refuses to believe that Daisy is terminally ill.
44The Sentimental Bloke - Part 2Bob and Daisy's daughter, Doreen, who has been living in Burrigan, returns to the Valley to prepare for her wedding day.
45A Lady's Choice - Part 1When a young woman is raped by a travelling salesman, she has a hard time convincing her husband and the town folk that the attack was unprovoked.
46A Lady's Choice - Part 2Bob Hatfield is living the life of a recluse since his wife, Daisy, died. Bob has lost any desire to look after himself or the house. Life doesn't have the same purpose without Daisy.
47Bushlore - Part 1Dave Patterson, an unemployed farm worker, fears the loss of his four children to the authorities and takes to the road with them.
48Bushlore - Part 2Wandin Valley school is threatened because of declining attendance numbers.
49Kicking The Habit - Part 1Pam Foley has been finding it difficult to rebuild her life and has become totally dependent on valium and as she attempts a withdrawal from the habit, she is totally unprepared for the consequences.
50Kicking The Habit - Part 2Yet another homeless stray captures Molly's heart and, although the dog is in need of medical attention, she attempts, unsuccessfully, to keep its presence a secret from Brendan.
51Never Count Yer Chooks - Part 1A young farmer nurses her father who has a serious illness. When he dies, it seems she has no rights to the property in favour of her city-dwelling brothers.
52Never Count Yer Chooks - Part 2Shirley takes up smoking again to lose weight. Matron Sloan wins a trip to Vegas for ten days.
53All Fired Up - Part 1Captain of the volunteer bushfire brigade and a strict disciplinarian, is made to realise his methods do not always achieve results. But redeems himself when a major bushfire breaks out.
54All Fired Up - Part 2A young girl's devotion to her pony, prompts Vicky Dean to risk her life at the height of the fire to release the animal from captivity. It is a long and frightening day for all.
55Raking Over The Ashes - Part 1The source of an outbreak of gastro enteritis is traced back to an electrical fault in the freezer at the club.
56Raking Over The Ashes - Part 2Jack Dead, Shirley's ex-husband and Vicky's father, pays a visit to the Valley. Vicky discovers that her father is not perfect and it enhances her relationship with Shirley.
57A Good Cause - Part 1In the aftermath of the bushfires a charred corpse is found.
58A Good Cause - Part 2Cookie arranges a fund-raising benefit for people like the Bellamys who won't accept charity and insist on returning to live in the burnt out remains that was once their home.
59Positive Steps - Part 1A ballerina with a promising career develops MS and returns to the Valley to share a house with her brother. When she breaks her ankle her independence is threatened.
60Positive Steps - Part 2The daughter of a wealthy grazier, decides to set up a gliding club in Wandin Valley. She has Simon's interest and support, whereas Molly is convinced the gliders are the death of her chooks.
61Kith And Kin - Part 1Vicky and Simon spend a day together in Sydney where romance and harmony replace their usual bickering.
62Kith And Kin - Part 2Esme is horrified to discover that her birth was never registered. Molly, however, learns the secret of Esme's birth whilst delving into old newspapers found under the lino at the Jones' farm.
63Running Away - Part 1Gabrielle's unexpected arrival triggers off major changes in the lives of the Gilroys.
64Running Away - Part 2An awkwardness has now entered Vicky and Simon's relationship so when Brendan and Molly go off to Adelaide for a holiday Vicky moves into the Jones' Farm.
65My Son, My Son - Part 1The local football hero is seriously injured and suffers a 'brain death' after a car accident.
66My Son, My Son - Part 2A young wife involved in a car accident has an emergency Caesarean and rejects her baby boy and has no recollection of the accident or the birth. An old friend of Simon's comes to the Valley.
67Tipping The Balance - Part 1Wandin Valley's post mistress has discovered she has a thyroid condition and needs hospitalisation for tests and possibly an operation. The townspeople rally together to save the Post Office.
68Tipping The Balance - Part 2Simon's ex-fiancee, Sally, has moved into the flat to stay and it looks to Vicky as though Simon and Sally have serious plans for the future.
69Pioneering Spirit - Part 1Whilst on a midnight raid to acquire equipment, a young boy has a bad accident and is in danger of bleeding to death.
70Pioneering Spirit - Part 2A middle aged truck driver is forced to stay in Wandin Valley when he pulls the muscles in his leg, but his condition worsens when he contracts malaria.
71Taking The Plunge - Part 1Controversy develops at the hospital as Brendan and Matron disagree on whether or not Brett's mother should stay with her son.
72Taking The Plunge - Part 2Now that Simon's friend Sally has gone back to Sydney, Vicky goes slightly overboard trying to impress Simon. It all results in a marriage proposal in a dingy roadside diner.
73Spellbound - Part 1Matron Sloan and Nurse Loveday are seriously injured by a man who is affected by the moon.
74Spellbound - Part 2Arnold Mortimer has arrived in town for a complete rest from his job as computer programmer but his visit goes from bad to worse.
75Promises, Promises - Part 1Councillor Muldoon books his hall to a rock band called "The Gas Chamber" for a young people's dance, little knowing that they are a punk band, not a quiet trio as he hadimagined.
76Promises, Promises - Part 2Vicky and Simon's wedding plans seem to be causing a rift with friends and family.
77From This Day On - Part 1 (Simon & Vicky's Wedding)Simon and Vicky's wedding, for which the whole town has been waiting, looks as though it could be delayed when both, unbeknown to each other, are called away to emergencies, just before the ceremony.
78From This Day On - Part 2 (Simon & Vicky's Wedding)Vicki is called to attend a horse gored by a bull on the morning of her wedding. She finally arrives at the church in the back of Bob's ute.
79Got It Made - Part 1Terrence is caught up in a dangerous situation with no hope in sight.
80Got It Made - Part 2A fire in the hospital kitchen caused by outdated equipment, leads to emergency measures being taken to feed the patients and Cookie's help is enlisted.
81Have I Got A Deal For You - Part 1Terrence becomes a potential husband for a match-maker's daughter. A smooth-talking antiques dealer ingratiates himself into Esme's life.
82Have I Got A Deal For You - Part 2Cookie becomes suspicious of Roger, the antique dealer, his motives are assumed to be merely jealousy, but eventually it becomes clear that Roger's intentions are sinister.
83Wednesday's Child - Part 1Only days after her fifteenth birthday, it is confirmed that Gabe is pregnant.
84Wednesday's Child - Part 2Simon and Vicky, sneaking back to Wandin Valley after their honeymoon.