SERIES1 (1994)

Nick is lusting after the new girl, Jodi, but she doesn't seem to be interested. But by the end it looks as though she does kinda like him.

Danielle and Steve are dating.

After Rose prints the lyrics to Jodi's song in the school paper, Deloraine bans the paper. After Nick convinces Rose to print another issue of the now banned paper, the kids are warned and threatened with suspension. They decide to arrange a sit-in type deal to fight for their freedom of speech. They go through with it and Yola and Christina persuade Deloraine and Southgate to listen to what the kids have to say (this was achieved after Christina found some pictures of Deloraine in his youth fighting for his beliefs in the 60s). The kids and administration compromise with eachother and everyone ends up happy (except Con who wanted a soccer team but was not granted one).

Dani and Steve's relationship is rocky and Steve asks Con for help to win Dani back. He ends up dressing up and giving Dani roses on Valentine's day. She then takes him back.

Steve is upset that Dani wants to play soccer because he doesn't want her to get hurt. She's upset with his chauvanist tendencies and their relationship seems on the brink of breaking up. But, Steve sees the error of his ways, apologises to Dani, and then they make up.

Jodi needs an amplifier for her guitarist and so Nick promises he will get her one. He makes a deal with Con that if Con gets Nick an amp, he will score lots of goals. Con gets an amp from some cousin (or uncle?). Jodi makes a recording at the school. Her and Nick are getting closer and a rumour starts that her and Nick are sleeping together. This is due mostly to Con's big mouth. Nick has Con apologise to Jodi and everything works out in the end.

After going to the beach, Nick stays at Jodi's apartment and they sleep together. Nick's parents are upset when he doesn't come home but they end up forgiving him on the condition that they get to meet Jodi. She's scheduled to come over for supper that night, except that she comes over an hour late! Nick's parents aren't upset and everyone seems to like each other.

Christina tells her parents and Marco that she's moving in with Yola.

The A&R man calls Jodi back and says that she's good but they're not sure enough to give her her own record deal. He says that the company wants to send her to Melbourne to play with a rock band. She's unsure at first, but after Irini comes over and talks to her and then convinces her to take the chance, she accepts the offer. Nick is upset at first that she doesn't want him to come with her, but they make up. Nick moves back home and everything's ok with his folks now.

Christina is annoyed that Marco keeps coming over to the flat un-announced, but after a call and some roses, they patch it up also.

To keep them away from welfare and the cops, Yola and Christina let Chaka, Diego, and their little sister, Juanita, stay at their house. At the end, Chaka receives a phone call... it's her dad.

Marco is pestering Christina to pick a wedding day, so she does: it will be in 4 months.

The debate seems pretty even except that Chaka is extrememly nervous and ruins her turn. But miracuously Con makes a brilliant speech and after that it looks like the victory could go either way. Even though they lose the debate, it is a moral victory for all.

The soccer team is unhappy with Christina as coach and Nick is the only one on her side. Nick asks his dad if he would help coach considering he used to be a soccer star in Greece. George says no, and the team gets pretty mad at Nick. Nick's mom, Irini, decides to help Christina and becomes their manager. After a lot of convincing, Irini gets George to agree to coach. Everybody ends up happy.

George and Nick get a call from the police and learn that Irini has been in an accident.

Christina goes over to the Poulos' to talk to George and to tell him that the kids really need him. Con's mom, Helen, also tells George that he can't think of himself as the only one who's lost Irini.

While this is happening, Steve tells Nick that he's heard a rumor (which is actually false) that the other car in the accident was speeding. Nick goes down to the police station and gets so angry with them for not doing their job that he hits one of the officers.

George shapes up and the family seems to be doing much better.

Steve missed an exam with Graham and so Graham schedules the makeup for an afternoon when Steve has rugby practise. He goes and complains to Southgate. Southgate can't agree on a solution so they go and see Deloraine. Deloraine wants them to compromise but Graham won't give in and Steve must sit the exam. Steve grudgingly writes the exam, but after he's proud of himself and so is Dani. Because he no longer can play rugby, he joins the soccer team and everyone welcomes him.

The soccer team needs new jerseys badly after they see their rich opponent practising and also see their nice shiny jerseys. At Ruby's Con sees a guy that can get jerseys for the team. He wants to get them for free so he makes a bet for them over a game of pool. Somehow though, Ruby ends up playing the game and winning! They now have shiny red jersys and win their match with a great shot made by Steve.

Marco gets his promotion except that it means that he will be moving to Perth. He has it all arranged for him and Christina to move right away. Christina seems to accept at first, but she doesn't want to leave Hartley especially after all the work she's done with the kids. Marco doesn't seem to respect her career or choices, and this makes it clear to Christina that she doesn't want to go. She tells Marco this and also tells him that the wedding is off. He does not take it too well.

Every girl is ga-ga over the new drama and english teacher, Mr. North, including Yola. She is continually asking him to go out with her, but his eye seems to be on Christina.

George and Stella argue over the sanctity of marriage; she tells him she left her husband. As George finds it unforgiveable that a woman could leave her husband, he refused to listen to her, to hear her reasons, and just urges Stella to find another job.

Rose gets flirty with her teacher, Mr North, giving him a short story to read. She tries to give him a shoulder rub down too but he declines.

Nick and Effie are disappointed that Stella is gone, and refuse to eat George's breakfast.

The kids in North's class are doing animals. Rivers, appropriately enough, is an ape. Con is a dog who 'pees' on Bolton. Rose is a very friendly cat, who rubs herself against North's leg, to his embarrassment. He brings it up later to Christine and Yola, who don't take Rose's efforts seriously.

The theme in North's class is Witchcraft, and they are to act out The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Parts are handed out and Rose asks to play Abigail (who falls in  love with an older man, Proctor). She suggests North should play John Proctor. "If you were there, I wouldn't even have to act" she tells him. The next scene, Rose watches North surfing, then talks to him on the beach. She gets him to admit she's attractive. North later tells Christine, Yola, and Graham at dinner that night, and they notify him that he's gotten himself in a bit of a mess. So the next day, after class, North and Rose meet at the beach. He tells Rose about how he once taught at a small school (in the outback I think) and got involved with a student. It ruined his marriage and nearly cost him his job. So, no more of that, thank you very much. She appreciates his honesty and plants a fat kiss on his cheek with a cheerful "see ya".

Stella shows up at the Poulos door, to give something to Effie. George invites her in, after apologizing for not listening to her. He eventually asks her to return, and she agrees.

Rivers and Steve have devised a clever way to clean up the school yard: they put pictures of Deloraine up above a couple of basketball hoops and the school kids basically clean up the yard by throwing the rubbish through the hoops.

Last scene: Stella is playing in the street with Steve and Effie, watched over by a smiling George Poulos.

Synopsis by Richard DS in Toronto

Hartley's new couples: Mr. North and Christina /Peter and Chaka

Rose makes lots of inuendos to Christina that Phil North likes younger women and that Christina is not his type. Christina asks Phil if there was/is anything between Rose and Phil and he says no, that all he did was make a comment to Rose that she was pretty, so she must have just blown it out of proportion. Rose keeps making comments and spying on Christina and Phil. Finally Phil admits that at his old school he had an affair with a 17 year old girl/student. Christina is extremely angry and hurt and breaks it off with him. He asks Deloraine for a transfer and then he is gone. Christina and Rose patch things up.

Chaka's family is moving to Darwin and at first she decides that she is going to stay and continue at Hartley. Con even suggests that she could move in with his family. But after realising that she really doesn't know her father, she decides to move to Darwin also. Peter and Chaka say their good-byes.

Yola and Southgate get locked in a little room during the dance by Con, Nick and Steve. Southgate tells Yola that things aren't going well with his wife and daughter.

Jodi wants to sing with the group that's playing for the dance. Con talks to their manager and she says sure just as long as she can be alone with Nick. After Jodi performs she catches the manager and Nick. She's mad at first but forgives him after Con explains the situation.

Rose and Jack are going out, but Rose's father and cousins want them to break up because Rose is Lebanese and Jack is Vietnamese. Her cousins even go as far as to beat Jack up, but they still stay together. After talking with her dad, he seems willing to accept the relationship but he still is unhappy. By the end of the episode though, Jack and Rose have slept together.

On a break at school Kat wants to show her friends that she isn't afraid of Southgate.She throws a piece of paper on the schoolyard when SG sees it. Sg tells Kat that she has to pick it up. Kat isn't doing as Sg says. Sg is mad and says to Kat that she is going to clean the hole schoolyard instead. When Kat later come to Sg lesson she has a basket of paper. She throws all the paper on Sg desk. Sg takes out Kat in the corridor and shake her badly. Kat starts to cry. What Sg didn't know was that Con filmed the hole thing.

Kat tinks of going to the police and Con gives her the videotape. What Con didn't know was that he could be in danger Because he filmed whitout permission. When Con find's out about that he wants the tape back but Kat keeps it. Finally Kat desides that she should give the tape back to con and she does.

Thanks to Jenny Larsson for this summary! :-)

Nick and Dani are working at a greenhouse for work experience credits and they get stuck with an old kermudgen of a boss. On off hours both Dani and Nick are becoming distant with Steve and Jody. Steve is more interested in playing pool with a girl from the place he's working for and Con always has Jody running around to try and make some sort of recording (she ends up singing a jingle for a clothing detergent). Then their boss has a heart attack and Nick and Dani save his life by giving him CPR. He thanks them by changing his attitude and giving them a rose plant that he breeded and called "passion" after them (he thinks they're a couple). Dani and Nick kiss a couple of times but never make it certain how they feel. Jody apologises to Nick and they seem to patch things up, but Nick and Dani seem as though they still need to resolve what happened.

Steve knows something's up with Dani and tells Nick that he thinks that she might be seeing someone else. Nick doesn't want to really get involved and focuses on Jodi. But Dani is confused and her and Nick decide to sort of still see each other on the side.

There's a power struggle between Katerina and Nick at home, but Stella and George are deciding to let them figure things out for themselves.

Kat, Steve, Rivers, and Bolton want to enter a rollerblading contest as an official team but Southgate won't allow it. Then a masked roller blader starts blading though the halls, knocking people over and putting graffiti on the walls. No one is able to catch him. Southgate decides to plan a blading exhibition to see if the masked blader shows up. He does, and this time Southgate catches him. It turns out it was Bolton. He reveals to Southgate that when he's under pressure he gets really nervous and so he didn't want to be on the blading team. Southgate changes his mind and lets Bolton wear the mask and enters the team into the competition. With everyone's encouragement, by his last try, Bolton has the confidence to blade without the mask.

Jack gets accepted at a select school for smart kids and after some doubts, he decides to leave Hartley and take the opportunity.

Jodi's producer wants Con out of the way so that he can hit on her and persuade her to let him be her new manager. Con leaves the studio because the producer says that Jodi gets nervous around Con. Jodi gets upset because the producer says that Con doesn't really care about her. They both find out the truth and Jodi accepts Con back as manager.

Stella and George confess they have feelings for each other. Nick seems happy enough for his dad, but Katerina doesn't seem too happy at all.

Steve punches Nick in school because of his relationship with Danielle.

Con and Nick are on the outs because Jodi seems a lot closer to Con and Nick isn't too happy about that. But, Jodi and Danielle work out their differences so Con and Nick patch things up. Danielle tries out for a spot as an aerobics instructor at the local gym, but she doesn't get the job.

Peter makes a bet with Steve that he can beat him on the next history exam. Peter doesn't want to study so Katerina and him go to the school on the weekend to break in and steal a copy of the exam. Peter almost gets caught when Southgate turns up. Katerina doesn't cheat but she figures Peter has when he's done the test early. But, turns out Peter stole the wrong exam and so he failed the test. Peter and Kat seem to be a couple.

Nick and Rose have been shoosed to be "schoolpolices". They are supposed to wear schooluniform and tell Southgate everything that the students are doing wrong. Southgate doesn't want Nick to be a schoolpolice. He's trying all kind of things to make Nick quit but nothing works. Sg thinks that it's annoying when Con talks in his mobiletelephone. Sg tells Nick to say to Con that he can't have his phone at school. Nick tells Con but Con won't listen. Sg takes Cons phone. When Greta call Con Sg answer and says that he is Con. Greta is saying some very private things that she and Con could do. Sg tells Con that he can't have his phone back. When Con is seeing Greta that night he founds out that she has a daughter, Heather. He don't care about it.

There is a girl on Hartley that is having stomach pains after having unprotected sex with a guy. She talks to Yola about it. Yola thinks that she has somekind of sickness. When Yola talks to Ms Milano about it they thinks that there should be a condommashines on the schooltoilets. Sg is ofcourse against it. Sg tells Nick that Con can have his phone back if Nick votes no for the condommashine at the schoolmeeting with teachers, perents and schoolpolices. Nick quit as a schoolpolice and votes yes for the condommashine. The people on the schoolmeeting were positive to the condommashine. On the next day at heartley Sg shows a letter from the comunity to Yola and Ms Milano. The letter said that Heartley didn't have the permission to buy the condommashine. Yola and Ms Milano asks Ruby if she would like to have a condommashine on one of her toilets. Ruby was positive to that.

Summary by Jenny Larsson

Ms. Milano is in love with a guy named mack. Mack lives in Indonesia 9 months a year. he wants Ms Milano to come whit him but she is not sure if she wants to.

Greta is avoiding Con. She says that she has much work. Greta asks Con if he could take care of Heather. When Con is coming on the evening to watch Heather Greta says to Heather that Con is her uncle!!! Con is mad at Greta and break up with her.

Summary by Jenny Larsson

Mack is helping Jodie, Rivers and Steve to find a place. He finds somekind of house. The house looks like a mess. Jodie don't want to live there but after a wild steve and Rivers have persuaded her to. Jodie, Steve and Rivers are having a party there everybody are helping them to renovate their house. Ms Milano is telling her students that she is moving to Indonesia with Mack. When the students are finished with the house they sing a song to Ms Milano.

Summary by Jenny Larsson

Nick breaks up with Danielle cause he wants to get back with Jodi. Danielle and Jodi patch their friendship up and Jodi does seem to want to get back together with Nick also.

Steve's parents have split. When he goes and asks his dad for money to pay for rent for the warehouse (that he has moved into with Jodi and Rivers) his dad lets out that Steve was adopted. At first Steve is really angry/confused, but after he sees that his parents truly love him, he patches things up with them.

Stella's mom in Greece found a job for her at a school there. Stella decides it is the best thing to do, but Katerina doesn't. She feels quite happy staying at the warehouse with Rivers. But after seeing Rivers kissing Danielle only because Kat wouldn't sleep with him, she realises he isn't worth it. So, Stella and Kat are off to Greece. But, Rivers comes to say good-bye to Kat and they do the whole teary good-bye thing.

After hearing Nick tell Rose how much he loves Jodi, she decides to get back with Nick.

Dani and Steve realise that they seem to be better as friends than as a couple

Hartely welcomes Christina's replacement, Sam Robinson. From the moment she comes into the school yard on her motorcycle, everyone knows they will be in for a change. Rivers makes trouble for her, but you can tell that he likes her. Southgate also has a little crush on her, which makes a laugh for Yola.

Rivers makes trouble for Sam and Deloraine catches him. Deloraine insists that Rivers was sexually harassing Sam and has him suspended indefinitely. Sam is upset and trys to get Rivers to come back to school. He won't, and instead she brings his assignments home for him and they become closer.

Helen gets hired to cater a party for a rich woman and all her snobby friends. Despite a food fight and Con being chased by the hostess, Steve enjoyed the evening by getting to know the daughter, Lucy, quite well. They decide to start dating and even Dani is happy for Steve.

Again Sam tries to get Rivers to come back to school after Deloraine agrees that it will be ok. Rivers wants to drive up north with his dad, so rather than bringing on another fight, Sam gives him a map and tells of her bad experience when she ran away. It seems pretty clear though that Rivers will head back to school.

Nick gets interested in boxing after getting lucky by winning a sparring match. Southgate sees his potential and is willing to help Nick train. But Roberto and Helen say no until Nick asks his dad.

Steve cooks one of Helen's secret recipes for Lucy when she comes over to the warehouse for dinner. It's a success!

Steve notices that for a few days a car has been following him. It turns out to be his birth mother. They make a date to meet eachother and all seems to go well. Steve still feels a little strange about the whole thing though.

Rocco offers Con a job at the Shark Pool but then gives it to Jodi. Eventually she finds this out and tells Rocco that if he doesn't give Con a job then she's quitting. So, Rocco lets them share the job as manager.

Peter takes Sam's bike to fix it without her knowing it. She's furious. But then she sees what a great job he did on the bike so she takes him for a spin. When they get back to her place and find out they're all alone, emotions take over with Sam and Rivers passionately kissing.

Yola and Joe finally find some time alone together. Steve and Jodi have a party and Lucy invites a snobby old boyfriend. The cops come because of a complaint and they search Con's pockets and find something that looks like speed or cocaine. They charge Con but everyone knows he's innocent so they try to find out who planted the drugs on him. They find out it was the snobby friend Alex and make him confess. He does and Con is off the hook.