
The following are summaries of guest roles that I've seen Brett in.
A COUNTRY PRACTICE
A long while before turning up as nurse Michael Langley, Brett appeared as a 17 year old called Barry Hall. He gets a 15 year old girl pregnant and ends up in agruments with her father who isn't at all happy about it. Barry agrees to do the right thing and marry her.
THE FLYING DOCTORS
Before turning up as Dr. David Ratcliffe, Brett appeared in an episode called "The Hometown Hero" in which he plays Trevor Neilson. Trevor is up in a plane with his brother Colin who is the pilot. Colin passes out and Trevor doesn't know how to fly the plane, so he gets help from the Flying Doctors base. After spending some time in hospital Colin discharges himself and thinks he is alright and they both go up in the plane again, but the same thing happens and Trevor has the land the plane again with the help from the Flying Doctors. Turns out Colin has a problem with his eye and inner ear and has to go and see a specialist.
COL'N CARPENTER
This is a comedy show about 3 people who live in the same house - Colin, Michael and Linda. Linda is a nurse, Brett plays Sam Chandler who is a patient who has injured his leg and has had to have stitches. Michael went out to get the washing in from the line but it was gone and they think someone has stolen the washing. As soon as Linda sees Sam she takes a liking to him until she finds a jacket in the cupboard next to the bed the same as one of Colin's and thinks Sam is the washing thief. Colin goes to the hospital pretending to be visiting the man in the next bed, Linda accuses Sam of being a thief, he says he isn't, that his job is a chicken sexer which the others find quite amusing. It turns out the jacket belongs to the man in the next bed, and the washing was never stolen in the first place, Michael later finds it still in the washing machine. Sam and Linda go out on a date.
SNOWY
This is a different programme from Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. Snowy is a 13 part drama series set in the 1950's about the Snowy river mountain scheme, and is mainly about a family who run a hotel and 3 Germans who come to Australia to do with the scheme. Brett plays a guest character in episode 2 - "Mick's Cafe", he plays Englishman Gordon King who is to do with the plans for the scheme and is staying at the hotel. Gordon takes a liking to Kate who is the daughter of the family running the hotel, she agrees to go on a date with him, they go to the cinema. When they get back to the hotel Gordon tries to kiss Kate but she slaps him round the face and runs upstairs crying, you don't see him again. Snowy also stars Rebecca Gibney, Annie Jones, Lucy Bell, and Bernard Curry.
G.P.
G.P. is a medical drama about a doctor's surgery and the people who work there. Brett played Danny Tanner, brother of Dr. Nicola Tanner, he turns up to stay with her for a while, he is in 3 episodes, but then later returns for another 2 episodes. Of the first 3 I have only seen 1 of them, that episode is called "Three's A Crowd", in that episode Danny finds out he has baby daughter when he is called to the hospital to sign papers for the baby to have an operation, the mother is at another hospital but will be transferred to that one, the mother wants to give the baby up for adoption but Danny doesn't want that and wants to keep the baby himself, but in the end the mother decides to keep the baby.
The other 2 episodes are a two-part story called "Dark Lottery", Danny returns to see his sister, he starts working on doing paving at the back of the surgery, but he starts acting very strangely, he thinks everyone is after him and that cameras are everywhere watching him, he thinks the hospital are operating a baby swapping racket and says the baby that was operated on wasn't his. It comes out that Danny is suffering from schizophrenia, he eventually agrees to get help.
MURDER CALL
Brett appears in an episode called "Black Friday." A man in a gorilla suit is found dead at a zoo. Brett plays the zoo's PR man Kim Kouros, he has a son Michael who he is bringing up on his own. Kim Kouros takes Michael to see the detectives as Michael had seen the man in the gorilla suit at the zoo, and his teacher. Det. Vance questions the teacher, but he says he hasn't seen the man before. After talking to the press a female who works with Kim is murdered. The dectectives question another man, but then they suspect Kim Kouros, a long list of calls was made from the female to Kim's home, and when Det. Hayden goes to see Kim he has a big collection of knifes, one of which matches the description of the murder weapon. He is taken to the station to be questioned further. Kim says the reason the female kept calling him was because she got the wrong idea after a party and wouldn't leave him alone. It turns out that Michael took the knife to the zoo, and when he saw his teacher he took it off him, and it was the teacher who was murderer.
ALL SAINTS
This a medical drama. Brett appears in an episode called "Happy Death Day" playing Bryan Taylor. Bryan Taylor turns up at the hospital to commit suicide, he has Huntington's disease and has taken an overdose of a slow releasing drug which will cause cardiac arrest. He say he wants to die, he watched his brother die of the illness and doesn't want to go through it himself or put his family through it again. When he goes into cardiac arrest he doesn't want to be resusitated. The staff try to get him to change his mind but he won't, he says he has made up his mind he wants to die. But, at the last minute just before he goes into arrest he changes his mind and the staff manage to save his life.