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& 880 |
| AIRDATES |
 Original
-- Nov
18/19, 1991
Showcase -- Sep
8/9, 1998 |
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| GUESTS |
Helen O'Connor
(Rebecca Mills)
Alan Hopgood (Tom
O'Connell - a farmer)
Anthony Wong
(Winston Yip)
Julia Stone (Kylie
Tomms)
Laurie Butler
(Herb Munro)
Fay Butcher (Joan
Dempster - a patient at the clinic)
Paul Jones (Barry
Smith - another farmer) |
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| EPISODE
TRIVIA |
| [note from the
peanut gallery] Hepatitis A is the lowest
level of hepatitis virus there is; it's
very infectious while it's active but is
not chronic and doesn't linger in your
system forever so extraordinary
precautions are not needed later on in
your life; however, it's not a fun
ailment to have -- take it from one who
knows :-( |
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characters, dialogue quotes, hospital name, house
image, show photos, & show-specific details
© JNP Productions. The wording and presentation
of the information on this site and all of the
ACP graphics © 1998/1999 Kitty MacAlpine (unless
otherwise noted). |
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| "Deep Water" |
| Terence rearends a woman's car when
she stops suddenly. Lucy is 10 weeks pregnant --
she and Matt agree not tell anyone until she is
12 weeks but she can't help herself. People are
getting sick all over the Valley -- throat
infections, eye infections, hay fever, gastric
problems, dermatitis, etc. -- and start blaming
the local CSIRO station for their ailments. The
CSIRO station is doing research to reduce the
rabbit popluation in Australia. Harry is very popular with
Kylie, a young patient at the hospital. Rosemary
is not feeling well. Luke and Kate move into a
new flat. Frank is away on course. Winston Yip,
an acupuncturist, arrives in town. He and Kate
spend a lot of time together and Harry is
jealous. Animals are sick and dying all over the
Valley and Matt can't find out what's wrong. The
woman Terence rearended, Rebecca Mills, turns out
to be a geneticist from the CSIRO. Rosemary is
very sick and the doctors think there may be a
hepatitis A outbreak. Rebecca
confronts Darcy about a pamphlet she wrote, in
spite of the fact that Darcy is on the side of
the CSIRO.
Kate and Winston
kiss. The farmers meet at the Lodge and a fight
breaks out when one of the farmers pushes Darcy
and Luke takes a swing at him. Rebecca is too shy
to speak up to the farmers. Esme is worried about
the questionnaires that several people in the
Valley have been getting -- she thinks it's
something bad about her but later thinks that
Terence is to be knighted. She finally learns the
truth -- she's being given the Medal of the Order
of Australia for services to the community.
The farmers leave
sheep carcasses outside the CSIRO in protest.
Rebecca takes soil and water samples from each of
the farmers' property and discovers that many of
the dams and the town water supply are
contaminated with blue-green algae, caused by the
farmers using super phosphates over the years.
The town will have to truck in water, bomb the
dams with copper sulfate, and flush them out to
clear out the toxins. Luke and Darcy kiss.
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