SERIES 5 (1997)


Episode 93
Summary: The students are busy studying for their HSC's and Bolton in particular is getting very nervous, a fact that is made worse when he hears that Dyson is leaving to go with her son to Queensland. Meanwhile Stassy writes a poem about her life and when Matt doesn't show an interest she shows it to Declan who agrees to put it to music. This gets Matt extremely jealous of Declan and he ends up making threats to him

Meanwhile the Bordinos have a bill for Con's mobile phone and want to return it to the leasing company not knowing that it has been buried in the time capsule! So Kat ropes Charlie into digging it up again to retrieve it. They find though that the phone has gone, someone has stolen it. Charlie has an idea. They ring the phone number and as Kat talks to the guy on the other end Charlie realises that the council workman stood nearbye is the person on the phone and so they get it back.

Bolton is angry with Dyson for leaving and puts up graffiti around the school which hurts Dyson's feelings. Bolton realises the error of his ways and paints it over and thanks Dyson for everything that she has done for him.

Matt reads Stassy's poem and they make up but Matt moves out of the warehouse and into the Bordeno's


Episode 94
Date first shown in UK: Tue Dec 17th 1996
Summary:The hartley students sit their HSC's. Stassy puts her luck in her lucky crystal, but then Bolton steals it while she's sleeping to use it for himself. Declan doesn't turn up for his exams at all because he's busy looking after his sick mum. Ronnie realises what's wrong and arranges for Declan to take an exam even though it has already started.

Meanwhile Con is back from the States acting the big shot and upsetting his dad as usual. katerina gets the hots for him again big time and dumps Charlie, but Con doesn't want to know and after a few plot twists goes to a local hotel where he introduces to Kat and his dad his rather stunning travelling companion. kat gets extremely jealous and that night around the dinner table lets rip into the girl something rotten. Con then tells everyone that the girl is his wife!

Kat makes up (again!) with Charlie


Episode 95
Date first shown in UK: Tue Jan 7th 1997
Summary: End of term parties arrive with the school cancelling the Ball and the students having to arrange their own entertainment. Ronnie feels bad about the cancellation and so arranges a party, but only Declan turns up. Stassy and Katerina get invites to a private school party through Stassy's cousin, Andre. Matt doesn't realise who Stassy's cousin is and gets very jealous, then very drunk and finally marches into the party and punches the bloke out much to everyones disgust.

Meanwhile Katerina and Charlie turn up at the party in a hearse, and Kat goes about chatting up every bloke she can hurting Charlie so much that he finishes their relationship. Bolton meanwhile throws a beach party and for a while it looks like nobody is going to turn up, but in the end it is a great sucess and he lands a job with an entertainment company.

Stassy tells Matt they're over for good. Bolton quits the show :-(

If you listen carefully to the scene in the Shark Pool you can hear Abi Tucker belting out one of her songs!

Kat makes up (again!) with Charlie


Episode 96
Date first shown in UK: Tue Jan 14th 1997
Summary: The episode starts with the Bordenos packing their bags as they're off to Europe on Holiday with Kat. No sign of Effie though. Where did she disappear to? Is she buried in the back garden? I must have missed an episode somewhere! Anyway, Roberto sells the Shark Pool not knowing at the time that it's going to be closed down and turned into a bar.

Charlie leaves home and moves into the warehouse with Stassy, getting Katerina so jealous that she calls off her trip to Europe and moves herself, uninvited, into the warehouse too! This makes Roberto even more mad, and he goes crazy when he finds out Charlie and Kat are going to be living together. Meanwhile the kids (er.. young adults.. they're not baby goats you know)decide to organise a petition to prevent the Shark Pool from closing but find out the hard way that most of the adults are very happy to see it go!

Leo tells Matt that he's closing the ' Pool early for a private function and Matt gets Stassy to gatecrash the function armed with a hidden video camera wherebye she finds that the place is being used for illegal gambling. So, the baby goats have won and the Shark pool stays open. There is a sub plot involving Declan seducing Melanie to get at her dad who is Leo's financial adviser, but it's pretty yucky (she looks about thirteen to me!)so I won't mention it.

Charlie then tells Kat that he doesn't want to live with her, she pretends to Roberto that she doesn't want to live with Charlie and so the Bordenos finally leave for Europe (although still without Kat) This being Heartbreak High we may never see them again!

Stassy makes up (again!) with Matt


Episode 97
Date first shown in UK: Tue Jan 21st 1997
Summary:It's Exam results day and for some a happy occasion while others have to rethink their future. Matt passes with a really high score, while Stassy and Kat fail. Charlie passes with a high mark but not high enough to go on the course he wanted.

Katerina lies about her mark and tells everyone that she once again wants to become a dancer instead of doing her business course, and she freaks when Charlie tells her he is going to resit year twelve. So they split up again!

Meanwhile Declan finds out that his boss is stealing paint from the school and at first he goes along with it, but then realises (with a little help from Mel) that it's wrong and tells Eric so. Eric says he admires someone who can stand up for what he believes is right and then promptly sacks Declan!

While all this is going on Stassy has a visit from her dad who reminds her that they had an agreement that if she failed her exams then she would move back home and resume her old lifestyle. This breaks her heart as she is torn between Matt and her family. Matt however decides that he is going to take a year off before going to University and loads up his car with his stuff and goes around to see Stassy that he is going and wants her to come with him. She says yes!

Katerina fails her dancing audition and after Aunty Magda lets on that she knows that Kat had failed her exams she decides she should start telling the truth about what she wants and realises that she isn't a failure, it's just that she doesn't know what she wants out of life yet

So, Matt and Stassy leave the show driving into the sunset. Katerina, Declan and Charlie are to resit their Hse's, which means at least some cast are returning for the new series, and Declan gets his old job at the Shark Pool back

Kat makes up (again!) with Charlie


Episode 98
Date first shown in UK: Tue Jan 28th 1997
Summary:Well we get to meet a hell of a lot of new characters and I wear myself out trying to update all my pages with all the new information so if you're reading this you should drop me a line and say "Top Ho old man, what a jolly spiffing job you're doing, Splendid"!

Anyway, Charlie wants to buy a car off Leo but Declan advises him not to do it, because anything Leo deals with is dodgy, Charlie listens to new boy Ryan instead and after Leo tries to scam him he agrees to buy the car provided some work is done on it first. Leo gives Charlie a job in the Shark Pool in order to pay for it and charges him 200 a month plus interest. Charlie was smart a couple of episodes ago, now he's dumb! Declan is strangely jealous of Ryan and Charlie getting on well.

Ryan has been living with his dad, but has been kicked out. We find out later that he has failed his HSC and his mum wants him to resit the school year but he refuses and storms out and crashes out at the warehouse. Declan meanwhile is being thrown out of his appartement and Charlie asks him to move in to the warehouse with him and Kat.

Anita and Mel find a wallet on the beach and return it to the owner with Anita hoping to get a reward. What she gets instead is the police on her doorstep accusing her and Mel of stealing some money from it. It turns out the money was stolen by the owners grandaughter but it takes a long time for anyone to realise what is going on. Except me, I knew she was bad from the start :-)

Now then, when Charlie picks up his car he finds that it doesn't work anywhere near as good as it did the previous day and that the stereo has been swapped for an inferior model, so Ryan, Kat and Charlie steal Leo's car in order to swap back the stereo and other bits that aren't in Charlies car anymore. Ryan also gets the car clamped in order to try to get 400 Dollars from Leo.

So, in the end we get a knowing look from Leo and it's obvious that he knows that the baby goats have pulled a scam on him, but he doesn't seem to mind so in a future episode we can expect big pay back time! Ryan moves back to his mums and agrees to go to school and re-sit his HSC's

Tina Bursill who plays Ryan and Anita's mum has appeared in HH before when she played Trish Ferro the reporter that tried to stitch up Danni when she was doing her work experience.


Episode 99
Date first shown in UK:Tue Feb.4th 1997
Summary:Ok, Brief summary, I'll do the proper one tomorrow. Hartley High gets a new principle and he's sure one tough cookie! He cracks down on dicipline and gives Mel the job of student liason officer which basicaly means she has to grass on her friends, which she does getting her best friend Anita a detention for wearing makeup. New (to us)student Drazic causes all sorts of problems

Kat is becoming impossible to both work and live with as she is becoming extremely bossy, ordering Charlie and Declan around all the time. She sets up work rostas and starts putting notices around the flat. The lads get their revenge by labelling absolutely everything in sight and Katerina backs down, even giving up her managerial role at The Shark Pool and spreading her wage rise around the three of them.

Mel gives up her role as the Student Liason officer and makes friends with Anita once again. Ryan saves Drazic's life when he stops him from being run over by a bus. (Actualy Drazic is going to add some much needed friction to the show so I hope they don't mellow him out one little bit!) (Hey he even swears!!!) and the Principle refuses to take Ronnie's advice and change his policy on discipline so we should get some fireworks at last.


Episode 100
Date first shown in UK: Tue Feb.11th 1997
Summary:Hartley High goes through a heatwave and everybody snaps at each other. Principle Bailey goes beserk when he finds Declan and Ryan playing basketball during a free period and sends letters to their parents warning them of the consequences, only he doesn't realise Declan has no father and that his mother is ill. Ryan's mum doesn't take it lightly and storms into school and gives the principle a bit of a roasting.

Drazic tries to chat up Kat and for a while she is interested especially when he gets hold of a fan that she can use to cool herself down. Charlie is very jealous and spends most of the episode shouting at the pair of them. Then they find out that Drazic has stole the fan from the school and Charlie has to sneak it back in. Kat tells Drazic to get stuffed.

Ryan gets in a fight and the police bring him home causing his mum to ground both him and Anita. Anita thinks this is unfair and walks out of the family home leaving mum upset. Ryan appologises to Anita she goes home and they all make up and live happily ever after (well it was sort of like that!)(ok, not much)

Declan meanwhile gets in another row with the principle and gets suspended but walks out instead. Ronnie explains why Declan is touchy about his parents and Mr Bailey finds Declan to appologise and asks him to come back to school. The next day Declan is back in school but it's not to come back, it's to say goodbye as he is quitting for good.


Episode 101
Date first shown in UK: Thur.13 Feb 1997
Summary:Declan gets a job working in a hospital after Mrs Scheppers has put a good word in for him. At first he doesn't get on very well but after he gets to know one of the patients (Mrs Brannigan) he starts to settle into it better. In school the art class start to do life drawing and all of a sudden all the boys want to sign up for the class after they have seen the model. Katerina gets really jealous at the thought of Charlie eyeing up this other woman and tries to make him jealous by going out. They spend the rest of the episode shouting at each other, as per usual! Principle Bailey doesn't like the class using a nude woman and pulls the lessons.

The girls at school are really disappointed and try to organise a protest in which they are going to walk into class and take their clothes off. All's going well until they realise that they are giving the boys exactly what they want and so they call it off. Meanwhile Ryan starts dating the model but she throws him out of her flat when he gets possesive. At the hospital declan gets attached to Mrs Brannigan and is distraught when she dies because it reminds him of his mother.

Declan decides to keep working at the hospital. Kat and Charlie make up and Ryan gets back in Sophies good books although she leaves town anyway. Bailey decides to let the art class continue but the model is a big fat bloke not a young babe!


Episode 102
Date first shown in UK: Fri.14th Feb 1997
Summary:Anita and Ryan get a surprise visitor when their dad turns up at school. Anita is pleased but Ryan doesn't like having him around. After a while Anita starts to resent him and Ryan starts to like him. Anita thinks that her dad is paying loads of attention to Ryan and doesn't care about her.

Declan has to work nights and asks Mel to cover his shifts at the Shark Pool and she agrees but Kat turns tyrannical as an employer and puts her to work cleaning the toilets and floors which she does as she doesn't realise that Declan doesn't do it. Meanwhile drazic steals Charlies car and races around the carpark coming to a stop when he crashes into the principles car. Charlie has a fit and after first trying to replace the broken taillight he grasses Drazic to Bailey. Drazic goes mental and a fight breaks out with Bailey intervening and putting Drazic on probation telling him that he must leave Charlie alone.

Mel discovers the truth about what Kat has been putting her through and gets her revenge by sticking Katerinas name on a list of people who are going to clean the beach at the weekend. Anita makes amends with her dad who also offers Ryan a partnership in the family business. The show ends with a shot of Kat picking up dog muck and everyone having a laugh at her expense.


Episode 103
Date first shown in UK:Sat 15th Feb 1997
Summary:Mel trys to make friends by asking people to the cinema but the only person who'll go is Kat and that's after Mel agrees to pay. When they come out of the cinema they're firm friends and Mel decides under a little pressure to hold a party. Mel and Kat then go on a spending spree using credit cards and Kat persuades Mel to spend more and more of her non exsistant money.

Ryans father meanwhile asks his son for a decision on whether they are going to become partners in the business and Ryan says yes even though he feels that he's just begining to settle down at Hartley. Afterwards it transpires that his father needs to mortgage some property that was left to Ryan by his grandfather and Ryan feels that his father is only interested in the land after all. In the end he signs the papers to mortgage the land but not those that will make him a partner in the business, he's going to stay at school

Mel has her party and at first it's a success but then Drazic gatecrashes and a fight breaks out between Drazic and Charlie resulting in Mels dads videocamera getting smashed. The next day she tries to get it fixed before her dad finds out but it's no go and she has to confess everything to her dad who takes the credit cards off of her. Mel falls out with Kat, blaming her for what happened.

Declan and Charlie try to outsmart Drazic at volleyball and although they get inflicted some severe defeats Charlie is really pleased as he manages to score one point off of his enemy!


Episode 104
Date first shown in UK:Sun 16th Feb 1997
Summary:New student Mai makes a big entrance to Hartley after being brought to school by the police who had caught her making an animal rights protest in the city.Ryan is instantly besotted with the girl and Mel tries to make friends only to be told to get lost.

Meanwhile Mel starts up a school newspaper and asks for volunteers to help produce it. Mai has to deal with Drazic's racism and gives back as good as she gets by agreeing with him and making him look stupid, although it's not exactly hard to make Drazic look stupid! Mai then joins the newspaper.

Katerina instantly falls out with Mai, who then starts asking Charlie questions about their relationship after fooling Charlie into believing that she wants to be Kat's friend. When the newspaper is finally published everyone realises that Mai has rewriten all the articles so that the teachers and students are accused of racism and the Katerina interview is just a personal attack. Ryan is still besotted with Mai.

Meanwhile Declan is offered a place at a nursing college but after freezing at a roadside accident decides that he doesn't have what it takes to become a nurse. Mrs Scheppers tells him a few home truths about the job and after thinking it over Declan decides to leave for the nursing college after all.

Mel decides she likes working with Mai even though she doesn't trust her. (Along with everyone else in school!!) So the newspaper goes ahead although with more supervision from staff. Declan has a leaving party and as Ryan tries to talk to Mai she gives him the brush off


Episode 105
Date first shown in UK:Tue 18th march 1997
Summary:Anita runs into trouble when she takes direct action against fur-wearing; Bailey's choice for the school beach-volleyball team causes Ryan and Drazic to come to blows; and Katerina looks for a new flatmate for the warehouse. .
Episode 106
Date first shown in UK:Tue 25th march 1997
Summary:Anita starts to suspect that Drazic has a problem with his reading and starts questioning various people about it after he becomes more and more disruptive in class whenever he has to read. Ryan starts to get very possesive about her because he hates Drazic.

Meanwhile Ryan starts a rumour that Mai is gay after she turns him down for a date. Charlie goes through Mai's things while cleaning the flat and thinks he finds proof and so the rumour is soon spread all over school

While this is going on the class is set a geography project but they're not allowed to have their usual partners. Anita gets Drazic and Mel gets Mai. This allows Anita to start to actually like Drazic and as she gets to know him her suspicions abut his reading is confirmed. Meanwhile Mel is really pissed off when Mae scores a much higher mark than her.

Drazic agrees to be tested and finds he has a mild form of Dyslexia. Ryan appologises for starting the rumour that Mai is gay but although she forgives him (just) she still doesn't want anything to do with guy.

Anita agrees to go out with Drazic on a date and when they get back they end up snogging and, embarrased, he leaves!


Episode 107
Date first shown in UK:Tue 1st April 1997
Summary:Anita and Drazic go out on a date and Mel covers for them because Ryan hates Drazic and is protective of Anita. In fact Ryan is a bit of a dick really about everything!!! So anyway Drazic takes Anita to his favourite place to look at some snakes.

Bailey finds out that Mai is only doing four subjects for her Hsc when she should be doing five and so he pressures her into doing a geography exam because she says she has done the subject previously. Mai is fuming and sits in the exam room but does nothing. Later when Bailey is going mental she proves she has done the subject before by answering questions on it.

Meanwhile Charlie finds a baby on the warehouse doorstep with a note from the mother saying she'll be back soon. With Kat's help he attempts to look after the little mite but in the end it becomes too much and Kat gets Hilary to help and offer advise. She says she'll have to talk to the authorities but Charlie convinces her to at least wait and hear what the mother has to say. Kat traces the mother to an old school friend and everything works out well in the end (Doh!!) but it leaves serious questions over the future of Kat and Charlie's relationship because they obviously want different things. Get ready for Charlie to be written out soon!!

Anita is fed up with everyone's attitude to her and Drazic and when she enters the class she just walks straight over to him and kisses him in front of everyone!

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Episode 108
Date first shown in UK:Tue 8th April 1997
Summary:Ryan's mate Warren comes to stay as he has football trials. Warren has a crush on Anita from their childhood. Drazic and Anita get closer and Draz tries to drive a wedge between Anita and Melanie.

Kat shows that she has the hots for Warren and really annoys Charlie who has doubts about where their relationship is going. He believes that she doesn't respect his feelings at all and after a confrontation Katerina tries to call Charlie's bluff by moving into Melanie's in the hope that Charlie will beg for her return. He doesn't

Warren confesses to Ryan that he's taking steroids to boost his performance. Ryan tries to convince him of the dangers but he won't listen. Then at dinner when Anita has Drazic over Warren gets all leary and things start to get out of hand. Drazic leaves and goes to the Shark Pool where Warren and Ryan turn up! Warren punches Drazic.

Warren appologises to everybody for his behaviour and gets forgiven. Later he tells Ryan that he has been drug tested at the footy trials and so will never know if he would have been good enough.

Charlie and Katerina break up! (wow! haven't written that for a while!)


Episode 109
Date first shown in UK:Tue 15th April 1997
Summary:Bailey decides that the school newspaper is to be shut down as it's a waste of school resources. Mai decides that she should take positive action to convince Bailey of the newspaper's worth and drags Mel into her scheme.

Ronnie decides that they will read Shakespeare only they have to do it orally. Anita says why don't they act it out in front of class and teams herself up with Drazic to do a reading. Drazic hates the idea but goes along with it to be closer to Anita.

Mai and Mel miss the bus to their interview and so hitch a lift instead. The guy turns out to be a complete psycho driving a stolen car and takes the girls out to a deserted industrial complex, where they manage to make their escape. Melanie eventually goes to the police and they are informed that the guy crashed the car and is dead. Bailey gives them a fortnights detention and they write about their experience as therapy

When Ronnie gets Bailey to hear what the girls have written about their experiences he agrees to let them carry on with the school newspaper.


Episode 110
Date first shown in UK:Tue 22nd April 1997
Summary:Drazic continues to infuence Anita and starts her smoking and shoplifting. While in the middle of commiting a crime Anita almost gets caught but Drazic intervenes and is caught instead.

Ryan speaks up during class and says he prefers strong minded women. Mai and Mel decide to put him to the test and so Mai ask's to be asked out so that she can prove that Ryan is a hypocrite. While going through with the test she finds that she actually likes the guy!

Bailey meanwhile has bought a new computer but can't get it to work. He enlists Charlies help but refuses to let Charlie contact the original supplier to find out more information on why it has gone wrong. After many hours work the hard drive crashes and it turns out that Les has been using pirated software!

Anita hands herself into the police but Drazic is infuriated and tells her that he only went out with her because he was bored! Ryan finds out about the article that Mai was going to publish on him, is infuriated, Mai feels guilty, appologises, and they decide to go out together!

We actually see that there is more than one teacher this episode! yay!!!!


Episode 111
Date first shown in UK:Tue 29th April 1997
Summary:It's Anita and Drazic's day in court on the shoplifting charges. Mai wants to get to know Ryan better and so cooks him a meal, and Hartley enters an inter school quiz competition with the chance of appearing on television, which obviously gets Katerina interested!

Anita gets let off with the charges against her on the condition that she stays away from Drazic who, after a heartfelt plea from priciple Bailey, is also let off with a caution and community service. We also find out Drazic's first name...... Bogdon!!!!, Don't ask me if that's how you spell it, but it was repeated several times!

Meanwhile Mai cooks Ryan dinner and after an entertaining evening he comes down with food poisoning, making Mai confess that she bought the chinese food at alocal takeaway!

Charlie and Mel lose Anita in the school competition because of her court appearance and choose Ryan to take part instead, much to the disgust and annoyance of Katerina! When Ryan also becomes ill they have no choice but to humbly ask Katerina to be a part of the team. She agrees on the condition that they take her answers seriously. The competition goes all the way to the last question were Kat answers correctly winning it for Hartley. Once outside Charlie and Mel ask her how she knew the answer to the question and when she tells them it becomes obvious that she didn't have the right question at all but in her confusion got it right anyway!


Episode 112
Date first shown in UK:Tue 6th May 1997
Summary:Drazic starts his community service and becomes a lollipop man, and Katerina falls for her dance instructor.

Katerina becomes attracted to her dance instructor making Charlie jealous, although he is just concerned for her well being as the instructor is a lot older than she is. And it turns out that Charlie is right as the instructor is married with a little kid.

Meanwhile Mai asks Ryan if she can spend the night at his place. Ryan instantly thinks that she wants to sleep with him and makes the neccesary preparations. (and what WAS he going to do with the baby oil!!!)(no don't answer, I already know!) Mai makes it clear that sleeping with him is not on the agenda.

Drazic is a hit as a Lollipop man but takes a lot of stick when people find out, especially from Mel who constantly winds him up to get revenge for the way he's been treating Anita. Finally Mel realises that he's been treating her badly in order to put her off him, because he thinks he's bad for her. Ahhh!


Episode 113
Date first shown in UK:Tue 13th May 1997
Summary:Ryan is threatened with expulsion because he hasn't been doing any work. Bailey gives him one last chance, he must hand all outstanding work in by Friday! Ryan begs Mel for help and, because she still has a crush on him she agrees to help. However Ryan knows she has a crush on him and is just using her to get the work done! At first everything goes well and Ronnie is pleased to see Ryan doing well at last, but Ryan takes advantage of Mel once too often and when she catches him at the Shark Pool when he's supposed to be at home doing his maths assignment she sabotages his science paper so that Bailey knows the truth.

Meanwhile Charlie has a problem at the Shark Pool with a troublesome waiter. When he finally sacks him he takes on Anita as a replacement not knowing that Katerina has already asked Mai to do the job. Katerina comes up with the solution, they must work for a week on a trial basis and whoever does the job the best get's the job! In the end they fight so much that neither of them gets the job!

Drazic does community service at the local swimming pool and after having a hard time taking a womens aeorobics class which he thought would be full of young babes in swimming costumes, but is full of, ahem, older ladies, he calls one of them an old bag and is told to clear off. On his way out he goes to the rescue of a young boy that is drowning and becomes a hero, getting the job back in the process. Bailey is impressed and arranges for Drazic to be on the front page of the local paper but when they check into his background they find that he doesn't have the necessary qualifications to work in the swimming pool in the first place and so Bailey makes him resign

Katerina solves the crisis at the shark pool and cheers up Drazic at the same time by giving him the waiters job


Episode 114
Date first shown in UK:Tue 20th May 1997
Summary:Mellanie, still reeling from the way she was treated by Ryan goes through an identity crisis and re-invents herself as a Courtney Love wannaby. Principle Bailey is not very understanding and threatens to expell her, but new teacher, Jay, a bit of a spiritual new age kinda hippy guy, takes time to find out what's wrong and mel finally breaks down and opens up with her problems.

Meanwhile Jay's daughter, Aurora, is enrolled at the school and captivates the guys with her beauty. She straight away takes a shine to Charlie who at first resists but later succumbs to her charms!

Ryan and Mai want to queue overnight for tickets to a concert but as Ryan is still grounded it takes Anita to persuade their mother to let them go. The condition being that Anita gets to go to the gig too which puts Mai's nose right out of joint. The two girls constantly argue until Ryan goes off to get tickets from a tout because he believes that they're so far back in the queue that they won't get any legally. The next day he is astonished to find that Anita and Mai are now the best of friends and that Mai would rather go to the gig with Anita.


Episode 115
Summary:Ryan's world is turned on its head when he has a car accident. He and Mai survive the accident intact, but Anita is seriously injured and left in a coma. Ryan is plunged into a world of guilt and recrimination, not only is he facing criminal charges, but he also has to face the fact that Anita may die as a result of his actions. Melanie is also hitting the depths of a personal crisis. She has decided to leave Hartley High to join Jay in the pursuit of happiness and meaning in life. Melanie's dad Tony not only tries to dissuade his daughter from joining Jay, but he is also determined to get Jay drummed out of his job for good! As Charlie grows closer to Aurora he is convinced that he has met his perfect match. However, all may not be as it seems, and Charlie is devastated when he sees Aurora in a passionate clinch with another man.
Episode 116
Summary:When Les decides to hold night classes at Hartley High, he has no idea just how disruptive they will be. First, he bans Ryan and his mates from playing basketball in the yard after school and then he gains Mai's wrath when he cancels the school newspaper because he needs the room. Ryan decides that the only way to oppose Les is by calling a school strike. Mai is not impressed, nor is she sure that Ryan is calling the strike for the right reasons or that it will even work?

At the warehouse, things are characteristically fraught. Katerina has invited Drazic to stay over and Charlie is furious. He thinks Drazic is the slobbish embodiment of the flatmate from hell. Mai and Katerina think otherwise; as far as they are concerned, Drazic is charm itself. Anita is now almost fully recovered from the accident, and cannot wait to get home from hospital. But Hilary is reluctant to let her daughter re-assume her independence. This makes Anita all the more determined and there is a clash of wills.


Episode 117
Summary:Drazic wrestles with a burglar and rips off his balaclava. When the boys' statements to the police vary radically, the detective decides one of them must be involved. Drazic can either continue to protect his friend or clear himself and Charlie.

Melanie's father surprises her. She's off to Paris for 6 months as an exchange student. She leaves at the end of the week! Melanie is initially unsure, but everyone else's enthusiasm convinces her.

The Blood Bank is visiting Hartley High. Anita, having recently been in hospital, and Mai both think it's a great cause and set about rounding up volunteers. Ryan has had a life long phobia about needles but not wishing to have Mai think he's a wimp, is conned into donating. When his phobia catches up with him, Ryan is backed into a corner - either confess his fear to Mai or overcome it.


Episode 118
Summary:Charlie is worried when he notices that Anita is eating very little and vomiting after every meal. Reluctantly, he takes the problem to Hilary and the two decide to take action. Hilary admits Antia to hospital in order to shock her into eating properly again but will it work ... and will Anita be able to forgive Charlie for his interferance?

Ryan is getting restless, he has been going out with Mai for ages now, but she seems reluctant to commit to the next obvious step in their relationship: she will not go to bed with him. Acting on Charlie's advice, Ryan decides to romance Mai. Sparing no expense, he hires a room in a classy hotel and puts on a special night for his beloved. Ryan is sure this will have the desired effect.

Drazic is stunned when Katerina befriends the overweight class clown, Ox. In Drazic's opinion, Ox is the lowest of the low: fat and lousy at sport with a big mouth. But the more Ox takes from Drazic, the more Katerina likes him. Katerina discovers that Ox has a great sense of humour. For every jibe Drazic directs at Ox, Ox has a cleverer riposte right back. As Ox becomes aware of Katerina's growing warmth towards him, he tries to press the relationship further.


Episode 119
Summary:New student Omar arrives at Hartley, Les welcomes the boy, but makes it clear that trouble makers are not tolerated at the school. Omar assures Les that he just wants to study in peace. However, Omar gets off to a rocky start when he argues angrily with Ronnie in class. Things get even worse in the yard, when friction builds between Omar, Drazic and Charlie. It looks like his time at Hartley will be marred by confrontations.

Charlie is becoming very attracted to Anita, but he doesn't know how to tell her. A bad situation gets worse when Charlie is asked to 'buddy' Omar during his first few days at Hartley High. Things are fine until Charlie begins to suspect that Omar is making a play for Anita, and when Anita falls for Omar, Charlie can't contain his jealousy.

As difficult as things are at school, they are worse at the Warehouse. Not only is Mai trying to come to terms with her break up with Ryan, but Katerina and Drazic are on a collision course. Drazic has bought an electric guitar, and insists on practising on full volume at the warehouse.


Episode 120
Summary:Drawn by the promise of easy money and glamorous lifestyle, Katerina buys into a pyramid scheme, selling health food products. At first, everything goes well for the budding entrepreneur, however, when it comes time to pay up, suddenly her customers realise they have no money. In desperation, Katerina seizes upon her last chance - she will sell the health food products through the Shark Pool. Will it work? What will Leo Fine think about the Shark Pool selling health foods?

At the Scheppers' house, things are tense. Charlie is finding it more and more difficult to live with Anita. It's not that he doesn't like her, in fact, just the opposite is true. Charlie is falling in love with his house-mate but doesn't know how to tell her. He finally manages to blurt out his true feelings and things are looking rosy for the lovers, until they realise they will have to tell Hilary about their affair. How will Hilary feel about Charlie living in her house and going out with her daughter.

When Les announces that the Science class will be disecting a live rat, Drazic is horrified. He cannot believe that any animal deserves to die in the name of 2 unit Biology. When he receives one of his regular detentions after school, Drazic decides to free the rat from the empty science classroom.


Episode 121
Summary:Anita is shocked to discover Hilary dating a man much younger than herself. She lets both Hilary and Tim know in no uncertain terms that she disapproves.

Charlie unwittingly finds himself in the firing line when he reveals to Anita that he knew about the relationship much earlier but didn't tell her. Mai and Katerina are chosen to do work experience at a high profile gallery. Mai, with her sights set on a career in the industry, desperately tries to make a good impression but it is Katerina who endears herself to renowned art world figure, Michael McCarthy.

Sick of seeing Ryan and Drazic at each other's throats, Les sets them a task designed to get them to co-operate with each other.


Episode 122
Summary:It looks as if Drazic will be plucked from obscurity when he is spotted by a talent scout from an international blade skating team . But the path to fame and fortune is fraught with difficulties for Drazic. First, he has to prove he is good enough to be a member of the team - no easy task when he is up against some of the best bladers in the country. And even if Drazic does pass the test, will he be able to submit to the discipline and conformity required to be part of a team?

Melanie has a surprise in store for everyone when she unexpectedly returns from France and has to move in with the Scheppers. Ryan is convinced that Melanie has come back to Australia because she is still infatuated and wants to start a relationship with him. As usual, Ryan has got it wrong.

When Mai and the others want a common room for the senior students, trouble cannot be far away. At first, Les opposes the idea of such a potentially dangerous and ill- disciplined hang-out for the year 12 Hartley students, but eventually he backs down. Les will let the kids have their room, provided they clean it up, paint it and furnish it themselves. Also, and most importantly, the students are to be responsible for any misbehaviour in the room.


Episode 123
Summary:Melanie discovers and takes a liking to a homeless woman which causes problems with her father, and Drazic finds out that being part of the international roller blading team is not as great as he thought it would be. Melanie's parent's wedding anniversary prompts her to reminisce about her mother who died three years ago. Her feelings of loss are exacerbated when she is unable to communicate them to her father. When she discovers Grace, a homeless woman living in the school grounds, Melanie is drawn to her - subconsciously there is a hope that Grace will fill the void left by her mother.

Drazic discovers being part of the roller blading promotions team is not all it's cracked up to be, however, quitting the team will cost him. Katerina and Charlie learn a hard lesson when their squabbles over a television set force Mai to take action.


Episode 124
Summary:The council issues Charlie with an ultimatum - either he moves his car from the Scheppers footpath or they will tow it away. Charlie's problem is that the car doesn't work and he can't afford to fix it! Salvation comes from an unlikely source when Drazic offers to fix the car free of charge. Of course, Drazic has an ulterior motive - fixing the car gives him the perfect excuse to spend time close to Anita - will this be his way back into her heart?

When Ronnie gets violently mugged on her way to school, she decides it's high time the girls of Hartley High were offered self defence training. The girls are excited about the idea ... until they meet their instructor.

At Hartley High, Les and Ryan find themselves unlikely allies in the struggle to have a pedestrian crossing put out the front of the school. After trying the legal method to no avail, Les decides to take the law into his own hands. Ryan joins the one man protest and soon student and Principal are languishing in the lock-up of Hartley Police Station. However they win their fight and a new crossing is finally installed


Episode 125
Summary:The senior students go on a 40 famine except for Mel who's doctor wont let her because she is so skinny. Drazic wasn't going to bother but when he finds Anita is going to be there he decides to take part. This annoys Charlie. Anita still hasn't told Charlie that they are no longer an item and that she loves Draz. Katerina wasn't going to bother also but when she tries on a little black dress for a party it splits and she decides the famine would be a good way to lose weight.

During the famine Ronnie catches Katerina cheating but lets her off and Drazic arranges a powercut so that he and Anita can sneak off together. When Charlie investigates the reason behind the powercut he interrupts Anita and Drazic kissing and is heartbroken

Meanwhile Mel and Mai look after the sharkpool and organise an end of famine party for the rest of the students. Mai has to "babysit" a friends dog and after it eats a customer's burger they get a visit from the health inspector. Mel breaks down crying in front of the guy and he takes pity and ends up looking after the dog by taking it for a walk!!

While all this is going on Ryan gets a job at a marina owned by a friend of his mums. It soon becomes obvious that the womans interest in Ryan is more than just as a friend and when he tells her to stop touching him she says she's the boss and will do what she wants at which point he quits. At first Hilary thinks Ryan is just misinterpreting the signals but later she says she is proud of him.

At the end of famine party Ronnie sings to the students, Drazic kisses Anita in front of everyone much to the disgust of Ryan and, back home, Charlie packs his bags.


Episode 126
Summary:Anita and Drazic are back together but Hilary is adamant the relationship can't happen! When Anita threatens to leave home Hilary decides to confront Drazic, reminding him that their relationship violates his probation. Will Hilary's actions drive a wedge between her and Anita or is a compromise to be found?

In the aftermath of the break up Charlie announces that he is moving out of the Scheppers. He seems to be emotionally stable, but Melanie becomes suspicious of his state of mind when he turns up to school tired and unkempt and generally acting strangely.

Mai, estranged from her family, is stunned when her father, who lives in Hong Kong, turns up unannounced. Katerina convinces her that family is important and Mai agrees to meet with him. Will she be disappointed once again?


Episode 127
Summary:Charlie and Mel fall in love and then fall out again after Mel gets a worse result in a science test than Charlie. Anita falls out with Drazic after he takes the piss out of a blind man, he agrees to try walking around with a pair of blacked out sunglasses to see what it must be like to be blind and finds that a lot of people are less than charitable to him. Kat takes secret photos of Ryan in the shower and sells them around the school and when Ryan finds out he gets mad and then gets even. He sends an advert into a "meat market" swinging magazine using Katerina's name and she gets some very interesting offers from people coming up to her in the shark pool. Very funny episode at times!!!!
Episode 128
Summary:Bailey decides that several of the class need extra help with mathematics in order to pass their hsc and introduces them to their new teacher. He proves to be a bit of a dictator and especially picks on Katerina who despite trying really hard seems to be able to do nothing right. Finally during one class Ryan speaks up in support of Kat and the teacher goes mad throwing the rest of the class out of the room and assaulting Ryan. Bailey sacks him!

Ronnie organises mock job interviews for the class and pairs Anita and Charlie together and films the ongoing interview. It becomes very clear that Charlie has still to get over the breakdown of his relationship with Anita as he uses the interview to question her loyalty and questions whether she could be trusted to not move onto something better if it should come along. When it's Anita's turn she uses the same process to tell Charlie it's over for good but that she would really like to remain friends even though she would understand if he hated her.

Meanwhile Mai finds herself attracted to a rollerblader known as "the Wizzard" and gets Drazic to teach her to blade. Drazic agrees provided Mai does his homework. While out blading the Wizzard notices Mai and they start chatting but Mai is disappointed to find that despite the guys looks he has nothing between the ears and nothing to say about anything! Not exactly much different to all the other male characters on this show of course, but there you go!!


Episode 129
Summary:Hmm, okay this is a bit vague because I was badly distracted and puking up a lot at the same time! Sorry!! (I was ill and it's not easy playing gigs with my band while throwing up I can tell you!!!!)

Anita and Drazic decide that they want to live together and start looking for a flat while saving money. Drazic provides most of the cash by doing "jobs" for Leo. Anita finally realises that Drazic is commiting crimes to get the money and tells him that if he continues then it's over between them, and so, at the last minute, Drazic pulls out of doing a job, making Leo mad, resulting in Drazic punching him!

The police are on to Leo and he does a disappearing act leaving the future of the shark pool in doubt.

That's all I can remember right now, I'll have to re-write it at some other date. (probably!)


Episode 129
Summary:After inspection it's found that the school buildings are in a dangerous state and are to be closed. The pupils will be moved to a nearby school. They have different reactions with Mel trying to find an old pupil who's life has been changed by being at Hartley while Ryan and Drazic pull some outrageous stunts on Bailey as they no longer fear expulsion, detentions or other disciplinary measures.

Meanwhile Anita and Mai go in for gorilla-grams to try to earn some money, and while at first they go okay it's not long before they're in a threatening situation with some guys trying to make them strip out of their costumes. Anita pulls out her can of "mace" and does her best "Dirty Harry" impression and gets them out of trouble.

Katerina meanwhile realises she still loves Charlie and tells him so in the hope of a reconcilliation but he gets aggresive and Kat decides that it has to be an all or nothing thing for her and so decides to leave Sydney and persue her life elsewhere. Charlie at first tries to rebuild a friendship between them but after Kat says it's not enough he finds himself thinking of her all the time. Later as Kat sits on the bus that will take her away Charlie leaps in front of the bus and declares his love for Katerina and they both leave the series together (ahhhh!)(cute actually!)

At the end of school party Anita and Mai perform their Gorilla act to Ronnie to thank her for being such a good teacher and friend, and Ryan and Drazic find out that Bailey is transferring to the new school with them and so will be able to punish them for their recent stunts! And so a HUGE chapter in Heartbreak High closes with the closure of the old building and the loss of some major characters.



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