NEW CHARACTERS : KURT ,
NIKKI , DENNIS , BARNETT .
The Hartley High students have to
move to their new school "Hartley Heights School" . When they arrive
there , they are being called "rejects" and being waterbombed ! Also ,
there seem to be no free lockers for our gang , and in class , Bailey has to go
back to an earlier chapter in the book , because the Hartley Heights students
were 6 chapters behind ! Ryan meets Nikki again at school , after he talked to
her at the streetcorner where she was busking . He wants to go out with her
sometime , and he wants to be her manager . Then Anita is also being locked up
in the girls' toilets , and when Mai is not allowed to share a locker , she
wants revenge ! Drazic isn't complaining about the new school , he thinks it's
"bladers paradise" ! They even have a blade contest this week , it's a
school tradition and it's a race against the clock . But Les Bailey goes to see
the new principal , Barnett , together with his students to solve the problems .
Barnett tells them they'll have to send a representative to the "student
council" , because there the students of Hartley Heights discuss about
school problems . Anita is chosen to be the representative for the Hartley High
students , but when she attends in the council , nobody seems to have respect
for her opinion and those of the other HH students . Mai wants revenge though ,
and she puts glue all over the lockers so nobody can open them anymore ! Barnett
is furious and she wants to let the students pay for the repair costs , if
nobody admits to be the culprit . Mai goes to see the principal and admits she
did it . Barnett can't believe it because she heard she was a bright student at
Hartley High . Ryan & Nikki decide to meet after school and have a drink at
the harbour . Ryan promised Nikki he would help her with Science , but soon
Nikki finds out he doesn't understand much about Science himself , and he only
wanted to go out with her because he likes her a lot ! When Kurt hears about it
, he tells Ryan to stay away from Nikki , and at a rugby game at school , he
tackles Ryan very hard to make that message clear to Ryan . Then the next day ,
Drazic wants to run "The Blade" , although Barnett forbid the contest
after somebody got badly hurt by blading at school , earlier that week . But
Kurt & Dennis decide to let him run the contest , and of course , our Draz
wins and beats the all time record ! The student council decides not to punish
Drazic for breaking Barnett's rules , because he tried to keep up their school
tradition . And from now on , the Hartley High students are being respected at
Hartley Heights , and all problems are solved !
EPISODES 130 -
149 :
Summaries still to be added , please be patient
!
EPISODE
150 :
(5.May'98 , BBC2)
Kurt meets an old friend , Lachlan , who invites him to join his
training group . Lachlan & his mates train really hard to keep fit and
they're also doing a lot of effort in keeping nature clean . They're so fanatic
about it that they accuse the homeless & the poor of destroying the
environment , and they want to get rid of them . Kurt thinks at first Lachlan's
got a point , and in class he mentiones some of Lachlan's ideas , which the
others don't like of course ! Anita asks Kurt if he's serious about it , and she
first doesn't agree with him , but when she meets Lachlan , she thinks he's got
a point . At the Shark Pool , D'Espo tells Drazic he bought the place , and he's
now the new manager & boss . When Mai finds out , she quits her job at the
Shark Pool , because she doesn't want have anything to do with D'Espo anymore ,
after what happened at the warehouse . Drazic hates D'Espo's new ideas in
changing the place and raising the prizes , but because D'Espo will pay him a
part of the profit (D'Espo still ows him some money for that stereo he stole
from Drazic ), he keeps doing his job . Nikki isn't having much success lately
with busking , and Ryan decides to help her by raising some money at school for
making a videoclip . He can borrow the camera from school , and after they
raised enough money , Nikki is ready to do the clip . Mai , as director , thinks
the city suburbs are an appropriate place for the clip , so the whole gang moves
there with all their stuff , and they make the "All my love" videoclip
. Later in class , Mr.Albers thinks it's a real masterpiece , and they're all
very talented ! At training , Kurt thinks Lachlan is being too agressive , and
after Lachlan beats up some guy on the street , he decides to leave his training
program . Meanwhile D'Espo has to admit to Drazic that he was wrong in raising
all the prizes at the Shark Pool , because all the customers left , so he
decides to turn the prizes as they were before ! Finally , after school ,
Lachlan apologizes to Kurt for acting so agressively , and he tells Kurt he's
always welcome back at the training center .
EPISODE
151 :
(19.May'98 , BBC2)
Lachlan & Anita find out the clubhouse of the training center
has been trashed by someone with graffiti all over it . Lachlan immediately
knows the poor people from the suburbs did it , and he wants to punish them for
it by bringing them a visit and beating them up . Anita tells him he shouldn't
start a fight , and that they only did it because they were driven away by him
and his mates . But Lachlan doesn't think so and together with his gang , he
will trash their place . Nikki got a phonecall from Ice Records , and she's
invited for a meeting with the boss , who obviously liked the video ! She's so
happy about it , and she hopes she will finaly get her big break now . When she
arrives at Ice Records , the boss doesn't recognizes her and asks her where Mai
is . He tells her she's a great singer , but that he's more interested in the
maker of the video right now , because he needs a new director . Back at school
, Nikki is furious and she tells Mai about it , she hopes she's satisfied now by
"spoiling" her chance to break through . Mai is astonished about it ,
but on the other hand she's very happy of course , and she meets the boss of Ice
herself . She gets offered the job , and at school she asks Mr.Albers what she
should decide : stay and do her HSC , or rather take the chance and go work at
Ice. He thinks it's a great opportunity for her and she can do the HSC still
afterwarts when things shouldn't work out after all . Mai decides to take the
chance , and Mr.Albers also tells his class that he got a new job offered at a
theatre , and he's leaving too . So Mai leaves Hartley Heights , and all her
friends wish her all the best on her "goodbye"party at Shark Pool .
Lachlan and his gang go to the poor , and there they find Kurt & Anita who
try to stop them from trashing the place . Lachlan tells Kurt to step aside , or
he will have to beat him also ; Kurt tells him he'd take the risk , and so
Lachlan punches his "friend" . When Lachlan's mates see her
"leader" is gone nuts , they leave the place and Lachlan stays alone .
So the problem's solved , the poor don't have to be afraid of Lachlan anymore ,
and everyone's happy !
EPISODE
152 :
(26.May'98 , BBC2)
Nikki tells Anita that she doesn't want to spend more time with Kurt
for a while , because lately he's always with her amost every evening . So she
asks Anita if she could tell Kurt they have a "girls"night , and she's
not free to go out this evening . A new teacher , Mr.Delaine , and his son Lee
arrive at Hartley Heights , to replace Mr.Albers . Lee wants to fit in with the
guys , so he asks Drazic & Dennis if they couldn't be mates . Drazic tells
him that's only possible if he passes a sort of "initiation test" .
Lee agrees to do it , and he will smoke a cigarette in front of the principal's
eyes ! He gets on detention , and afterwarts his dad tells him he'd rather not
do such a stupid "dare" game anymore . But the next day , Drazic tells
him he didn't pass the test , and he has to do a second one . Dennis made a big
drawing of Barnett , and he has to hang it up somewhere the whole school could
see it and laugh at Barnett . Lee tells him he has got a great idea , he will
hang it up at the top of the school tower ! So he climbs up , being watched by
the whole school , and Drazic & Dennis amuse themselves ! At the top , he
hangs up the drawing , and Barnett asks him to come down immediately . But when
Lee looks down to her , he suddenly freezes and he can't move himself .
Mr.Delaine arrives and tells Lee to hang on , and he saves his son from falling
down . At home , he's very angry about his son for doing such an idiot and
dangerous stunt . Lee apologizes to him , and tells him it won't happen again.
The next day , Kurt has invited Nikki for a special dinner at the warehouse ,
and after dinner , he gives Nikki a ring he bought for her . Nikki tells him
it's beautiful , but she can't accept it , because their relationship is over .
Kurt doesn't understand , but Nikki tells him it's not his fault , it's just she
doesn't feel the same way about him anymore . Later at school , Nikki tells
Anita she broke up with Kurt , but she feels miserable now for hurting Kurt's
feelings . Kurt stayed at home , and he drinks up all the alcohol there's left
at the warehouse . After school , Nikki visits him and she finds him very drunk
, but Kurt tells her to get lost . At the Shark Pool , Ryan doesn't want to be
ordered around by Draz anymore , and he tells D'Espo he'd better treat them
equal , or he'll quit . D'Espo tells him he'll promote him to "Special
Functions Manager" , and he can organize a girls' party at the poolhall .
Ryan agrees of course , but later on the party turns out to be a birthday party
for a bunch of kids , and Ryan expected girls of his age of course ! He even has
to dress him like a clown and do some acrobatic stunts for the kids , because
Drazic takes care of the food & drinks allready . Afterwarts , D'Espo tells
him he did a great job , but Ryan throws a cake in D'Espo's face and tells him
he definately quits his job now ! Kurt meets Nikki at school , and apologizes
for being so rude , and tells her they still could be friends . Finaly , when
Lee arrives at school , Drazic asks him to play some basketball , so Lee could
be a part of the group like he always wanted .
EPISODE
153 :
(02.June'98 , BBC2)
Sarah came back from the country , without Kat , and Ryan is very
glad to see her . She stays at a small apartment , because she wants to be
responsible for herself , and she returns to Hartley Heights to do her HSC . In
the evening , Drazic & Kurt are really bored alone at the warehouse
,(without Mai ordering them around!) and they decide to search for some chicks
at the Shark Pool . There they meet a nice looking girl , called Penny , who
happens to be free at the moment , and they arrange a date for the next evening
, where they'll watch a movie together at the warehouse . The next day at school
, Lee is trying to be friendly to Nikki & Anita , and when he hears that
Nikki's looking for a car , he tells her he can get her a real bargain at the
car market where his mum works . So the two girls go to the car market , and
they soon find out the prices are much higher than they expected ! But there's
this small red car Nikki likes a lot , and the price is about 1500$ . She has
only got 1000$ , and they ask Lee if he couldn't arrange it for her to reduce
the price with 500$ . Lee thinks it's no problem , and the next day he tells
them his mum agreed about the price . But when Anita & Nikki want to buy the
car for 1000$ , Lee's mum tells them she's sorry and she can't sell it for that
kind of price ,and also , Lee never even told her about it ! Later at school ,
the girls are angry with Lee of course , but he tries to explain them he
"just got the price wrong ". At the warehouse , Drazic & Kurt are
having dinner with Penny , and later on they'll all watch a Mel Gibson movie .
Drazic wants to get rid of Kurt , because he wants Penny for his own , but Kurt
also wants Penny ! The two guys even toss about who gets her , but when Penny
heard them , Drazic explains they just tossed about who has to do the dishes .
After the movie's finished , Kurt says he goes to sleep , and unfortunately for
Draz , Penny wants to leave also because she has to work early in the morning .
But before she leaves , she tells Draz he can meet her again tomorrow at Shark
Pool . The next day , Penny meets Kurt after school , and she also proposes him
to meet her at Shark Pool that night . So the two boys get dressed , both saying
to each other they have to meet a girl at the movies , because Penny told them
not to tell about their dates . That night , Penny isn't showing up at the Shark
Pool , and they both know they have been dobbed in ! When they return home ,
they even find a weird "present" from Penny : it's a big piece of meat
hanging their with a note on , telling she doesn't want to go out with guys who
treat a girl like meat ! Sarah tells Ryan about the problems she has with her
new housekeeper , who beats his wife all the time , and after telling Mr.Delaine
about it ,she's convinced enough to move out and search for a new place .
Mr.Delaine tells her she can stay at the Delaine's house , and Sarah thinks
that's a good idea ; so from now on , Lee will be able to keep Sarah company at
his house !
EPISODE
154 :
(16.June'98 , BBC2)
Kurt tries to convince Anita to do something about her condition ,
since she's always feeling tired lately . So she agrees that Kurt will be her
personal trainer . During training , another guy , Tod , tries to help her and
give her advice , but Kurt tells him to get lost . In class , Nat tells the
students they're having an IQ test in the afternoon ; it's an anonymous test ,
and it will not influence the HSC marks . After doing the test , Nat takes the
papers with him at home , and there he talks about the results with Jill . But
Lee couldn't help from hearing their conversation too , and after his parents
left the room , he looks at the results , which are normally strictly
confidential . The next day at school , Lee goes telling everyone that some
idiot scored very low at his IQ test , and he gives everyone a tip when Draz
comes along . Lee also insults Drazic , and they start a fight , but Kurt &
Ryan are ready to keep those two apart ! Now everybody knows however that Drazic
scored very low at his test , and soon also Barnett hears from it . Barnett ,
who suggested Drazic to do something in engineering before , now calls Drazic in
her office and tells him he'd better not take any more extra subjects for the
moment . Drazic is very upset by the whole thing , and now even thinks of
dropping out of school ! But his friends at the Shark Pool try to convince him
he doesn't need those stupid IQ tests , he'll succeed without it . And after
D'Epso introduced him to a guy who's producing sporting goods , Drazic believes
he can design his own new blades , no matter what result he had on the test .
Nat asks his son Lee to apologize to Drazic , and so he does , but Drazic tells
him to get lost . Kurt is training again with Anita , and Tod is there too .
When Kurt asks him to leave again , Tod wants to test Kurt to proove he's fitter
than him . Tod wins , but he didn't want to upset Kurt and he invites Kurt &
Anita to go kayaking with him . The next morning , Kurt arrives early and he
& Tod decide to start already without waiting for Nite . When they finish ,
they find Anita waiting there at the lake , and she tells the guys it's time for
school now , and she doesn't need them anymore for training , she'll train
herself from now on . Barnett finaly changed her mind , after Nikki spoke to her
, and tells Drazic that if he really wants to do engineering , he can . But
Drazic tells her he will be successful without going to university , and he
prooves it to her by showing what a great blader he is !
EPISODE
155 :
(07.July '98 , BBC2)
Kurt is training again with Rob for the kayaking championships . So
far , everything is working perfectly , and the two are confident to win the
race . At school , Nikki is complaining about the fast food at school , and she
wants to get rid of it , and sell more healthy food herself . Barnett thinks
it's worth trying and so the next lunchbreak , there are no more hotdogs or
meatpies available when Draz asks for it . He has to buy a salad sandwiche , and
when he starts eating it , he thinks it tastes so bad that he almost can't
breathe anymore ! After school , Draz & Dennis go to the Shark Pool to get
some "real" food there , and when D'Espo finds out about it , he
thinks he could sell his food at school himself . And it's a success , many
pupils buy his food , but Nikki tells Barnett about it , and they get kicked out
of school property . But Draz has got an idea : if they can't sell it ON school
property , they'll have to sell it through the school gate , from outside school
. Nikki is furious , and Barnett even calls the cops , who now complain about
the fact that D'Espo doesn't have a license to sell his food on the streets .
Sarah has got the hots for Ryan , but she doesn't know how to tell him . When
Lee finds out , he thinks he can help her with that . They have to write a
letter for school , so Sarah writes a letter to Ryan , but she doesn't write
down his name , but another one . Lee sees that , and he changes the name into
Ryan , so he can put it into Ryan's locker at school . Ryan finds the letter ,
and later on he even reads it out loud in class . Sarah is now angry with Lee ,
but when Lee tells Ryan about the whole thing , Ryan immediately goes over to
Sarah's house . There he asks Sarah out , but she thinks he's only doing it out
of pity and she refuses the offer . Anita asks Rob to come to the Shark Pool ,
because she likes him and they could get to know each other better . But Rob
tells her at Shark Pool he's gay , and they couldn't be a couple . Anita is
shocked and tells Kurt later on he doesn't have to be jalous , because Rob's gay
. Now Kurt doesn't want to go to the training anymore , and he sort of insults
Rob in class for being dishonnest with him . But Anita thinks Kurt is acting
stupid and he should go on with the race , and so Kurt turns up at the
championships . They win the race , and Kurt apologizes to Rob . Lee still wants
to bring Ryan & Sarah together , so he asks Sarah in the evening to dress up
a bit for some pictures . Outside , she finds out Ryan is waiting for her in a
beautiful oldtimer , because he wanted to have a special first date with her .
Sarah is very happy , and Lee finally can take some nice pictures of the two
lovebirds !
(Pics are in the Hartley Picture Zone , Series 6
!)
EPISODE
156 :
(14.July '98 , BBC2)
Mr.Pat Gregory , another teacher of Hartley Heights and a good old
friend of Mr.Delaine is visiting the Delaines . Lee doesn't like him at all ,
because Pat's always comparing him with his dead brother Simon , who was a good
student in Pat's class . At school , Lee wants to get even with Pat , and when
Lee finds out some students are selling car parts in the schoolyard , he gets an
idea . He starts taking off the rear mirrors of Pat's car , and later on some
other parts too . Pat is furious of course , and he wants to know who did it ,
but Barnett doesn't want to involve the police .But Lee gives Pat a tip , and
tells him there's a "market" going on at school . Ryan wants to take
out Sarah for a dance in a new disco in town . But Sarah can't dance , and she's
to shy to tell Ryan . D'Espo wants to learn Sarah how to dance , and he closes
the Shark Pool early to dance with Sarah alone . Ryan visits the Delaines , and
finds out Sarah isn't there doing schoolwork , so he goes to the Shark Pool .
There he finds Sarah and D'Espo dancing together , and without saying anything ,
he leaves . The next day , he asks D'Espo what's going on , and although D'Espo
tells him the truth , he doesn't believe him . Nikki & Anita hate to see a
new centerfold poster at the bus stop , they think it's sexist how they use the
female body to sell things . Kurt & Dennis also stop by , and they of course
like it ! Dennis even puts a copy of that poster on his locker at school , but
Nikki quickly rips it off . The two girls even want to take it further and they
start spraying paint all over the poster at the bus stop , so the girl on it
isn't naked anymore ! Kurt thinks they're overreacting and he takes away their
spray can , just as the police arrives . At school , Barnett doesn't believe
Kurt would do such a thing , but Kurt doesn't betray the girls , and he has to
clean up the poster ! Lee buys a car part in a shop , and he also asks a receipt
for it . Then , at school , he asks Drazic to sell the part for him , and they
would split the profit . Just as Drazic sells the part , Mr.Gregory sees it ,
and he catches Draz to go with him . he also calls the police , but Barnett
wants to work things out in her office . Mr.Gregory accuses Drazic for selling
stolen car parts at school , but then Lee arrives with the receipt in his hands
, so the policemen see that the part isn't stolen after all . Pat is furious at
Lee for making a fool out of him , and because Barnett also wouldn't believe him
, he leaves the school for good . So Lee's plan worked , and Drazic tells him he
might fit in with the group now for this "stunt" . Barnett needs a
representative for the school in a debate about feminism , and surprisingly for
everyone she chooses Kurt , because of the whole poster affair ! Ryan goes to
the Shark Pool because Sarah asked him to meet her there , and there's a cool
western party going on there , where everyone is dancing ! Now Sarah teaches
Ryan how to dance on the country music , and everything is back to normal
between those two !
EPISODE
157 :
(21.July '98 , BBC2)
Lee is still being confronted with his "perfect" brother
Simon who died in an accident . At home , Nat also wants him to move to another
school , and Lee is so upset about it all that he decides to quit school . Nat
is furious , but Lee stays at home , no matter what his dad tells him . The next
day , Lee has to clean up the garden and he decides to burn the old books of his
brother too . Nat comes home and immediately freaks out and stops the fire . Now
they both have a big argument and Lee decides to leave the house . In the
evening , Kurt and Anita go to see a movie together , and when they arrive at
the warehouse later , Drazic is waiting there and seems not to happy with the
whole thing , he still has feelings for Anita . And the day after , they also go
to see another movie together , and because both are so dressed up , Drazic
knows now they are serious about their date and they maybe have something
together . The next morning , he asks Kurt about what happened the other night ,
and Kurt just tells him he went to Anita's house afterwarts . Draz is very
jalous , and when he sees the two kissing each other at school , he starts
kicking the lockers and everything what's in his way ! He has a chat with Anita
afterwarts at the beach ,he tells her that they both know where they stand now ,
and it's OK to see other people . In class , Barnett offers the students the
possibility to participa te to the stock market , in a simulation , and the
student who makes the highest profit by the end of the week , gets an A mark .
Soon most students make too much loss and drop out , but Ryan and Nikki seem to
be doing very well ! Ryan makes such a profit that when D'Espo hears about it ,
he asks Ryan advice about his shares . Ryan gives him some good advice , and
D'Espo gives him free sandwiches in exchange . Nikki likes Dennis' new bike and
when she hears he's selling it , she wants to buy it . But the price is 350$
,and she only has 200$ . So she decides to invest her money in shares of
"Ryan's company" , for real , hoping she will make enough profit to
buy the bike . But unfortunately , that company lost a lot of money later on ,
and the shares dropped a lot , so she looses all her money . In class , Ryan
made most profit with his shares and gets an A mark , because he transferred his
money soon enough to the company Nikki was in before . Lee still isn't home ,
and he thinks of getting on a boat and sailing to Port Villa . he told Sarah
about his plans , and she told Nat about it . Nat finds his son at the harbour ,
they sort things out , and they return home together .
EPISODE
158 :
(04.August '98 , BBC2)
Barnett gets a complaint from a old aged woman that two boys of
Hartley Heights almost ran her off the street , and she can guess those boys
were Drazic & Dennis . After that , more negative complaints reach the
school about other school members , and Barnett tells her senior students that
they'd better watch out next time to avoid more trouble ! She also wants one of
the students to do a public speech about school spirit , and Mr.Delaine thinks
Anita is best suited for that job . But Anita doesn't want to at first , but
because everyone thinks she's the best , she agrees . Meanwhile Nikki hears
about the financial problems of a fellow student , Tascha . Her mother can't
speak english very well , and she gets very little paid for her job . Nikki
wants to help and goes to talk to the boss of the company her mother works for .
She tells him he'd better pay her more or she goes to talk to the authorities .
But the next day , Tascha isn't at school , and Nikki goes to her house and
finds out her mum lost her job because of her . Now Tascha can't go to school ,
and she has to find a job or they end up in the streets . Sarah asks Ryan what
he'd like to change about her , and Ryan thinks her nose is a bit odd . Sarah
hates to hear that , and she desperately asks Drazic what to do about it . He
thinks she should get her a nose ring , and so she does ! The next day , when
Ryan sees her with it , he hates it but he lies to hear that he does like it .
Drazic now thinks he can also make Ryan change his looks for Sarah , and he
tells him that Sarah thinks he has a rather boring hairstyle . So later on ,
Ryan walks into the Shark Pool with red strings in his hair ! Drazic loves it
that his plan worked , but Sarah hates his new looks ! Nikki asks the boss to
give Tascha's mum her old job back , and he agrees if Nikki would leave him
alone now . So Tachsa comes back to school , and she'll study hard now to get a
better job in the future ! Sarah finds out that Ryan hates her nose ring , and
he finds out that she doesn't like the red color in his hair neither , so they
both turn their look like before . Anita has to do the speech , and first , she
has a lot of stagefright , but then , when Dennis tries to make fun of her , she
gives a fantastic speech about school spirit , and so she recovers the good name
of Hartley Heights School ! Well done Anita !!!
EPISODE
159 :
(25.August '98 , BBC2)
Barnett introduces a new ID system at school ; the students will get
their own ID card and they should use the card each time they come into the
classroom , in an ID reader . Drazic & Dennis thinks the new system sucks ,
and they want to find a way to manipulate it . Dennis gives Drazic his ID card ,
so Drazic can also use Dennis'card when he goes to class , in exchange for a few
$ ,so nobody will find out afterwarts Dennis actually went to the beach for a
free afternoon ! And Drazic makes even more money when also other students pay
him for using their ID cards so they can have a free period . Nat wants Lee to
go out sometime , and he asks Ryan if he couldn't take him out . Ryan agrees and
decides to take Lee to a football game , if Nat is paying for it . Nat pays Ryan
, and when Lee finds out , he thinks it's pathetic his father would actually pay
somebody to take him out . But Ryan convinces Lee to go to the football game
after all , and they leave in the evening . They even get into a fight at the
stadium , and when they finaly arrive home , Lee tells his dad he got the most
exiting evening of his life ! Anita & Sarah got their provisional driver's
licence , and need a driving instructor . Ryan refuses , but Kurt agrees to do
the job . But soon he finds out the two girls are terrible drivers and he tells
them to get another instructor . But the next day , he gets himself into a small
car accident , and has to admit to Anita that girls aren't worse drivers after
all . Nikki wants to lend some books from the school library , but gets refused
because she still needs to return another book first . Then Barnett forbids her
to use the computers , and Nikki is so angry that she rips off the new ID reader
in class . Now the whole ID system is down , and Barnett finaly decides to stop
using it at Hartley Heights , which the students appreciate a lot !
EPISODE
160 :
(01.September'98 , BBC2)
Nat wants two students to act a play in class ,
and Kurt & Sarah agree to do it . There is a kissing scene involved though ,
which they both act so real , that Anita & Ryan get very jalous . Drazic
gets offered work experience , by washing cars and helping with the repairwork ,
at the firm where Jill works . The next day , they do some commercials for the
cars , and Jill has to do them normally , but she's so nervous for the camera
they have to look for somebody else to do the job . Drazic is willing to help ,
and he seems to be a natural in doing commercials , so he can do all of them !
He's of course very proud , but he wants to get paid for it too , if the sailes
of cars would rise . Nikki wants to protest against duckshooting , and she asks
Lee if he would like to come too . Lee agrees and together they go to see the
hunters and ask to stop the cruelty against nature . Afterwarts Nikki is so
trilled they actually kept a few ducks alive by their protest ,that she thanks
Lee by kissing him ! Lee thinks she has fallen in love with him , and he asks
her later to go out with her to a concert . But Nikki makes it clear to him that
she doesn't want anything more with him , that she was just glad he helped her
today . In class , the students have to do the play again , and Kurt & Sarah
decide to do another scene , without the kissing . But that scene is such a
disaster , that Nat asks them to do the first scene again , and so Ryan &
Anita have to face the kissing scene a second time ! But finaly , at the
warehouse , Anita & Sarah solve the problems between themselves and Kurt
& Ryan , by making them apologize to each other .
EPISODE
161 :
(08.September , BBC2)
Ryan & Sarah's relationship is better than ever , and Sarah
wants to sleep with Ryan for the first time . Because she never did it before
she wants to make it very special . The problem is to find a nice place where
they can sleep together , and Sarah thinks the Delaines' wouldn't mind and asks
them if she could bring a friend home tonight . Mr.Delaine thinks she ment a
girl , and he's very surprised to see Ryan and he understands they'll sleep
together in his house . Lee knows his father wouldn't let that happen and soon
Nat talks to Sarah about it . He thinks it's nor the time nor the place for
Sarah to spend the night with Ryan , and Ryan has to leave . Sarah is angry at
Nat , and the two have to find another solution the next day . Finally , they
decide they can hire a motelroom , and so they're happy again . Drazic gets the
opportunity to do some more commercials for the cars where he does his work
experience job , because the first ones where a huge success . When D'Espo finds
out about it , he thinks he should be Drazic's manager , because after all he
becomes a TV-star . Drazic agrees with D'Espo , and the next day they go to see
Jill (Mrs.Delaine works in the car market) to talk about Drazic's future . After
a discussion with D'Espo , she agrees he can keep his share of the sales ,
because there has been a huge rise in car sales since Drazic did the commercials
. Then , the new commercials are being filmed , and D'Espo keeps an eye on
everything . Drazic changes the script a bit , because he thinks it's more
"him" . When both Drazic & D'Espo start to have big discussions in
changing the original script too much , Jill sacks Drazic for the job and they
have to return home without any money ! Anita doesn't like it that Kurt has
plans for them every evening , and she tells him she's busy doing homework and
stuff . Kurt thinks she's lying and he follows her to see what she's really
doing in the evening . He sees her getting out of a car , with a man sitting in
front , who thanks her when she leaves . Kurt immediately goes to the man and
tells him to stay away from his girlfriend . The man laughs at him and tells him
to get lost . But Kurt doesn't think so and he hits the man in the face . The
next day , Anita says to Kurt he's crazy , the man he hit was her teacher from
the driving school , and she makes him clear he'd better have more confidence in
her when he wants to stay her boyfriend .
EPISODE
162 :
(29.September'98 , BBC2)
Hartley Heights High is playing a basketball
tournament against other schools . Now , the next match is coming up and the
winner gets a place into the semi-finals . Most of the boys attend to the team :
Drazic , Kurt , Ryan and Dennis certainly want to win that match . Anita will
film the whole match with her videocamera , so they all could see the match
again afterwarts . Then the match begins , and first everything goes well for
Hartley , but everyone is playing so individually , especially Draz and Kurt .
Kurt is standing free most of the time , while Drazic doesn't give him the ball
but does it all by himself . Kurt is very angry , the Hartley team starts losing
, and he insults an opponent . This causes a fight between the two , and someone
hits Kurt in the back . Soon everybody is fighting each other , and Barnett
tries to stop the chaos on the field . The next day , there has been send a
complaint to Hartley from one of the parents of the other school , that their
son got hurt during the match , and they want to press charges for it . The
police comes interrogating all the Hartley players , to find out who did it ,
but after that they still haven't found the offender . Barnett tells the boys
they're very lucky to get away with it so easily , and she doesn't want to see
such behaviour anymore . In the Shark Pool , D'Espo tells about the new
"skirmish" game he wants to try out , and he asks if anyone feels
interested to join him . It's a survival game where two teams shoot with paint
at each other , and the team who first takes the flag of the opponents wins .
Ryan , Lee , Nat (Lee's father) , Dennis and D'Espo are ready to be a team , and
together they are going to play against other boys from Hartley . When they
arrive at the playing field , deep into the woods , they start searching for the
ennemies . Nat , the leader , explains them their tactics , but soon , they get
attacked and D'Espo gets hit first .Ryan , who has been given the job to search
for the flag , is also attacked and out of the game . Our team is now down to 3
men , and Lee doesn't want to listen to his father's tactics anymore , but tries
a fast attack for the flag himself . Thanks to Dennis , he can reach for the
flag and so Nat's team wins the game ! The next day , when Anita finds out that
Drazic's the one that hit Kurt during the match , she knows Drazic is still very
jalous , and she wants to keep it quiet , but Kurt immediately wants to show the
tape to Barnett . Anita tells Drazic about it , and Drazic asks her not to let
him bring the tape , because otherwise he could be charged for assault and maybe
end up in prison ! (Drazic's still on probation) So Anita wipes off the piece
where Drazic hit Kurt , and when Kurt plays the tape to Barnett , there's
nothing on it . Kurt is angry with Anita for helping out Drazic , and later at
the warehouse he wants to hit Drazic , because Draz tells him that Anita is more
faithful to him and he can trust her .
EPISODE
163 :
(06.October'98 , BBC2)
Anita is volunteering to help in a home for handicapped kids , after
Barnett asked the students if anyone's interested. The next morning , she goes
to the home , and she soon makes some new friends . One of them , Mark , is
suffering from the Down-syndrom , but he's actually very friendly to Anita , and
he asks her if she will come back the next day ,because most of the volunteers
don't . So Anita does go back , and there she sees Dennis leaving the home . She
asks Mark about it , and Mark tells her Dennis is his brother and he just stept
by to give him some money from his parents . Later , when Anita goes for a walk
with Mark , a couple of boys from Hartley Heights come across and one of them ,
Rick , asks Anita why she hangs out with such a looser . He keeps insulting Rick
, and although Dennis is there too , he doesn't defend his brother . At school ,
Anita asks Dennis why he didn't stand up for his brother , and Dennis tells her
he's actually shamed of him . Because he also knows the Down-syndrom is
heritable , there was a chance he also could get the syndrom , and he doesn't
want to be reminded of that all the time . Kurt is not so happy at the warehouse
because he always has to do the housekeeping by himself , Drazic's always to
lazy to do something . He goes to see someone from the agency from which they
rent the warehouse , and he asks for advice how to get Drazic out of there . The
advicer tells him they're both in the contract , so that's impossible , except
when there would be a breach of contract . The man tells he'll help him to cause
the contract get broken . When they would break the house rules 3 times , they
both would be out of the warehouse , and so the first time Kurt
"forgot" to pay the rent and the second time Kurt makes too much noise
on purpose . Now they only have one chance left to keep the warehouse , but Kurt
changes his mind to cooperate with the man the third time , because Drazic finds
out the agency is already preparing to let the warehouse the next month to
somebody else , and they both would be on the street . And so , when the man
comes complaining for the third time , Kurt makes him look like a fool , and
they can keap the warehouse . Lee wants to be more popular and he especially
wants to impress a certain girl . Ryan gives him the advice to give a party at
his house , and so , he does . At the party , he wants to get to know the girl
better , but then her boyfriend turns up , and Lee's back alone . Outside , he
finds Nikki , and he tells her his story . Nikki tries to comfort him and she
kisses Lee !!! Also , at the party , Dennis turns up with his brother , first
everyone is surprised about it , but then Drazic and the others welcome his
brother , and they have a great party.
EPISODE
164 :
(13.October '98 , BBC2)
Nikki is very tensed at school , and everyone doesn't understand her
weird behaviour . She's always missing classes more and more , and when she
comes to school in wet clothes the next morning , she has to see Barnett in her
office . Nikki tells her everythings OK , but Nikki keeps missing classes the
next days . She always goes to the park every morning , to the fountain where a
statue draws her attention . Nikki thinks the statue is talking to her and
telling her what to do . When Lee finds out , he brings her to his home , and
Nikki asks him if she can stay there for the night , because she can't be alone
at night . The next morning , Lee wants to keep Nikki in his room till his
parents are gone , but Nikki herself comes out of his room and Mr.Delaine is
furious ! He asks Lee why he slept with Nikki , but Lee tries to explain to him
they didn't sleep together and Nikki needs help . First Nat doesn't believe his
son , but then when Nikki gets in panic , he agrees she needs professional help
, and they take her to a psychiatric home . There Nikki blames Lee for putting
her there , but the doctors tell him he did the right thing and they're going to
give her medication . Kurt finds out Anita has still a photo of Drazic sitting
in her purse , and he asks her to to take it away . Later , Drazic finds the
photo in little pieces , and at school he asks Anita why she did that . Anita
tells Drazic that Kurt told her to do that , but she feels sorry . (she still
feels something for Drazic !) Kurt wants to take a new picture of Anita &
him , and so Anita has to put the new picture in her purse . Later , at the
Shark Pool , Anita gets a swimming-suit from Kurt , and he tells her they could
go camping and swimming for the whole weekend . Anita doesn't want to actually ,
but because Kurt's her boyfriend , she agrees to it . Drazic heard their
conversation and he asks Anita if she really wants to go camping with Kurt this
weekend , but Anita answers it's none of his business . The next day , just
before they would leave for the weekend together , Anita tells Kurt she doesn't
want to go . Kurt furiously takes her bags out of the car and he tells her it's
over between them !
EPISODE
165 :
(03.November '98 , BBC2 )
Kurt wants to raise some money for a good cause
, he wants to help a male turtle who's on his own , by buying him a female
turtle . The others think he's nuts and they aren't very likely to give him some
donations . D'Espo though , wants to organize a striptease party at the Shark
Pool , so the money for the tickets can be used for Kurt's good cause . But the
costs for getting a striptease dancer and the share D'Espo wants for organizing
the party seem higher as Kurt thought , which leaves almost nothing for Kurt's
turtle . Nikki is back from the psychiatric institution , and she seemes healed
. Lee is still very protective for her , and he always wants to hang out with
her . She doesn't like him to be around all the time , and she tells him to go
away . Back in class , she asks everyone to treat her as before , and Drazic
& Dennis seem to have no problem with that . Harold , the aged friend of
Ryan from the elderly home , wants to leave the home . Ryan and Sarah are
prepared to help him with that , and together they let him escape , because Ryan
also thinks he's fit enough to live on his own . They ask Drazic if Harold can
stay at the warehouse , and because Draz was just looking for a flatmate , he
agrees . Later on , Drazic finds out that Harold is always forgetting stuff ,
he's always asking the same questions several times . Also , Harold doesn't know
where he is sometimes , and so he turns up at school , where he tells Ryan and
Drazic he's going to do a concert at the Esplanade .( Harold's a saxophonist )
After school , when Ryan doesn't find Harold back at the warehouse , he gets
worried and he goes to look for him . He finds Harold still at the Esplanade ,
searching for the concert hall . Ryan tells him that the hall he played in isn't
there anymore for a long time , and together they go home . Drazic tells Ryan it
would be better that Harold returned to the elderly home , because he can't
watch out for him all the time . Sarah shares Drazic's opinion , and Ryan &
Harold return to the home , where he's being told Harold in fact is an
Alzheimer-patient . It even could become worse when he gets older , and Ryan has
to say Harold goodbye . It's the big night for the striptease party , and a lot
of people turn up at the Shark Pool . Then , an Arabic girl comes on stage , and
starts undressing herself . D'Espo doesn't understand who it could be , but
Anita finds out very quickly , it's Kurt himself dressed like a girl ! They all
have a good time , Kurt gets his money , and at the end we can see two turtles
happily together !!!
EPISODE
166 :
(10.November , BBC2)
A new student , "Bonnie" is arriving at Hartley Heights
School . She's the daughter of a famous Australian tennis player and she's also
training hard for the finals . Her mother makes her training program very hard ,
and she doesn't give Bonnie the time to go on dates or hang out after school ,
the only thing that counts is tennis ! When she wants to train on the tennis
court at school , Kurt and his mates are playing soccer on it , and she tells
them to leave . Kurt doesn't want to , and she tells him they could play for it
: Bonnie wins with 3-0 and Kurt has to leave the field . Later at school , Kurt
wants to know more about her , and she tells him he can go with her to the
training . There , Bonnie's mother tells Kurt to stay away from Bonnie , because
she has to concentrate for the finals . Meanwhile Drazic got a two-weeks
detention from Barnett for insulting her twice in class . But Barnett offers him
a proposal : or he sits out his detention for two weeks , or he can fix
Barnett's car . Of course he prefers the "fixing the car" option , and
while fixing the car , he finds a love letter for the principal from a friend in
London . He tells Dennis about it , and together they decide to copy the letter
and sell it for 10 Dollars to the students ! But when he finds out that
Barnett's heart is broken because her friend just broke up with her , he decides
to put the letter back and destroy the photocopies . Ryan is visiting the
Delaine's very frequently , to see Sarah , and Mr.Delaine tells Sarah they'd
better find another place to stay the whole day , because he and his wife don't
want them there all the time . Ryan tries to make it up by cooking them a meal ,
but he knows it's better for them to look for their own place to stay . Back at
school then , Bonnie asks Kurt out on a date , but he tells her he's busy . When
she finds out her mother spoke to Kurt about her relationship , she's furious
and she leaves training . And so , at the end , she and Kurt go out for a walk
and to the movies . Drazic agrees that Ryan can stay at the warehouse now , so
he and Sarah now can have more privacy without being disturbed by the Delaines ,
and after all he now doesn't have to pay the rent on his own anymore !
EPISODE
167 :
(17.November'98 , BBC2)
Bonnie gets offered a contract from her mother for a tennis career ,
and she asks Kurt to read it for her . Also , in class , Mr.Delaine asks her to
read a piece from a book , but she tells him she has an appointment with one of
her sponsors , so she asks permission to leave his class . Now Kurt understands
what's her problem : she can't read ! When he asks her about it , she gets angry
and she runs aways . Kurt goes to Bonnie's mother and informs her about her
daughter's problem . But she tells him there will be plenty of time later when
she's a tennis superstar to learn how to read . Sarah gives Ryan an expensive
present , an antique clock , so he could always think of her when he gets up in
the morning . Ryan ,now staying at the warehouse with Drazic , hasn't got any
money left to buy him a new bed , so Drazic proposes him to sell the clock and
give it in pledge in a store . After all , in that way , he can buy a new bed
now , and buy the clock back after a month , when he has the money for it . When
Sarah sees Ryan's new furniture , she asks him where he got the money and where
the clock is . Ryan tells her the clock's safe , but later on Sarah asks Lee to
check out what's really going on . So when they find out the truth , they want
to teach Ryan a lesson by "stealing" the receipt and buying the clock
in the store themselves .When Ryan goes after the clock , because Sarah asked
him to ,the clock's gone of course , and back at the warehouse he has to tell
her the truth , and then Lee turns up with the clock in his hands . At school ,
they're learning about the human excretory system in biology class , and the
students have to do a urine test . The next day , when everyone brings his
bottle to class , Drazic doen't know that Dennis spoiled his botlle to make it
look like Drazic has got a disease when they test it in class , because Drazic
picked on him very much lately . Drazic gets really worried when Barnett tells
him to go see a doctor , and he becomes very "un-Drazic" in class by
telling everyone they should be happy they can learn and he likes being at
school !!! (who'd ever thought that Drazic would say such a thing !) But when he
went to the doctor , he knows that everything is fine of course , and Dennis
tells him how he made him look like a fool . Drazic apologizes to Dennis for
giving him such a hard time lately , and the two make up . Finally Bonnie
decides to drop tennis and go back to school to learn how to read , thanks to
Kurt , she saw the importance of it .
EPISODE
168 :
(January 18 , NED3)
CHARACTER LEAVES :
NIKKI
The local park , where Ryan & Anita used to play when
they were kids , is about to be removed . A company wants to build a big
apartment block there . Anita thinks they should react to that and launch a
protest against the building project . Ryan agrees , and together they ask
somebody they know from the Hartley Council , to help them . Drazic hears about
a competition on the radio , in which you can win a stereo set , and because his
old one is broke , he decides to participate . At the pier , he meets Kurt , who
also wants to join the competition . So they both end up with each other in the
contest , together with another girl . They have to sit in a Ferris wheel , and
the one who stays up there last , wins a new stereo set ! Nikki and Lee will do
their politics assignment together , and Nikki comes up with a really
professional work . But when Lee finds out that she just copied her work from a
quotation in a book , and tells his dad about it in a certain way , Nat asks
Nikki to rewrite her assignment , or he'll have to fail her . Nikki however ,
who already has to little time to keep up with all the other subjects , refuses
to rewrite her work . The company manager pays Ryan a visit at school , and asks
him about his protest against the project . He convinces Ryan that his company
will make the place look even better , and give up the protest , against the
will of Anita of course . Later , the council decides to go on with the project
, but also that there have to be build 50 more houses , so the park will be
fully demolished ! Anita is very angry at Ryan and the lady from the council ,
but Ryan tells her it's all 'bout the money and there was no way to stop the
project. Drazic and Kurt win the competition together , because they got out of
the Ferris wheel at the same time . Also , they decide to stop arguing about
Anita , and they are both very happy with their new stereo set ! Finaly , Nikki
decides to leave school , because she can't keep up with all the work anymore .
Lee tells her he's going to miss her , and after she tells him what a sweet guy
he is , she leaves .
EPISODE
169:
(01.December , BBC2)
Kurt is acting very weird lately , always very agressive at school .
Later on , in class , it almost ends up in a fight between Ryan and him ,
because he was insulting Sarah . Mr.Delaine tells him to leave the classroom ,
and outside he asks Kurt what the hell he was trying to proove there in class .
Kurt tells Nat that he doesn't understand his problem , and he punches him in
the face . Therefore , Kurt gets suspended till further notice . Barnett also
informs the department about the incident and the next day 2 cops are arriving
at Hartley Heights to investigate it . They also have a chat with Kurt , and
they tell him he even could be charged for assault . At the warehouse , Drazic
and Ryan don't know what to eat , there's nothing much left in the frich , just
some leftovers . Ryan decides they could throw some dices for it : when it's
even , they go eat something in the Shark Pool , when it's odd , they stay at
home and eat there . It turns out even , so they go to the poolroom ; there
Drazic shows Ryan a little trick to get some money by forcing one of the
videogames there , and soon many Dollar coins fall out into Drazic's hands ! And
their game continues at school ; they play with the dices , when it's even ,
they should tell the truth , when it's odd , they should lie . First , it turns
out to work and it's funny , but later on Drazic forces Ryan to tell Sarah the
truth about her new parfume (and he hates it!!!) , and Drazic has to lie against
Anita and has to tell her she's not better than the other girls ! Anita is very
upset and tells Drazic he just blew up his last chance with her , but Drazic
tries to tell her it's just a game . So now both Ryan and Drazic have caused
problems with the persons they love ! Lee's mother Jill gives him a new jacket ,
but Lee thinks it looks stupid . When he comes to school dressed with it ,
everybody laughs at him for being such a "mother's child". When his
mother also wants him to go to a party with her dressed in a tuxedo , he tells
her he won't were any of her stuff anymore , and decide which clothes he wears
himself . The next day , Kurt is coming back to school to see Mr.Delaine , and
tells him why he hit him . It's because everybody forgot it's his 18.Birthday ,
he didn't even got a card from his mother or father ! Mr.Delaine now understands
he's so angry and tells him he'll drop all charges against him , but he has to
try being less agressive . And so , in the Shark Pool , he gets a small birthday
cake from Dennis and things work out , except for the fact that Kurt tells him
he won't come back to school , but he will look for a job instead !