SNOWY RIVER: THE McGREGOR SAGA
EPISODE SUMMERIES - SERIES 3
33. A SEA OF TROUBLES
Danni's horse Nellie becomes ill, then other horses at Langara start to become ill, also other people's horses are becoming ill. The government want to buy a man's land and he blames Matt. Colin tells Danni about their mother and that she had a book of tonic's for all different things and had one for horses. Danni makes up tonic from book, it is too late for Nellie and she has to be put down, but it works for the other horses.
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34. ROUGH PASSAGE
Rob and Michael are taking the old printing machine to Blane's Ravene then picking up a new printing machine for the Printery. The cart gets stuck in the mud, they get out to push it - a spoke falls off. Later on when it gets stuck again but when Rob tries to move it the cart falls and Rob's leg in stuck underneath. Meanwhile, Matt asks Colin to help him move a tree stump, they are having trouble moving the bottom bit, Colin mentions dynamite as a joke, but Matt goes off and comes back with some dynamite which they try but it still doesn't work. Rob manages to get his leg out with the help of Michael, when they get to Blane's Ravene they have a bit of trouble with the man they are getting the new machine from, but it all works out alright in the end.
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35. THE GRAND WEDDING
Matt tells Colin he and Kathleen are getting married the next day and wants him to perform the cermony. While Matt is out on horse he comes across a man badly injured who has fallen down a cliff, he ends up staying with him all night. Montana Hale arrives in town. The next morning everyone is wondering were Matt is, it gets to the time of the wedding, everyone is waiting in the church but still no sign of Matt. Matt and the man are rescued by a relative of the man's. It is now dark, Matt gets to the church to find Kathleen sitting in there on her own. Everyone else comes back to the church and the wedding goes ahead.
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36. MONTANA TERRITORY
Kathleen and Michael move their stuff into Langara. Colin and Emily decide to move out of Langara and move into the rooms at the back of the general store. In town there is a shooting competition which Colin is judging. It gets down to the last 2 - Montana and another man - Montana wins and gets a horse donated by Matt. Later on in the stables the man that lost the competition knocks Montana over the head and takes the horse. Montana wants to go looking for him, Kathleen takes her to Langara to get Matt's help but none of the men are there so Kathleen and Montana go off on their own looking for him. When Matt, Colin and Rob get back and find out about it they go off after them aswell. They all end up having to spend a night out in the open. The next day Montana and Kathleen get into some trouble when they come across the man who is with 3 other men, they see Montana and Kathleen and starting shooting at them. Matt, Colin and Rob turn up in time and save them.
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37. HIGH COUNTRY JUSTICE
Rob and Michael come across a dead girl, her father is holding her and crying, her 2 brothers have gone off after a coloured man who they say shot her. The brothers and the father want to kill the man, but Rob stops them, the coloured man is put into the cell in town. The brothers and father turn up outside the cell and want him out so they can kill him, but Matt stops them saying the troupers are on there way and they will deal with him. The coloured man won't say what happened, Colin tries to talk to him, they move the man to the church so the girls family won't know where he is. Colin stays with the man in the church, but Michael is seen heading to the church and the brothers and father guess the man is there and go to the church demanding to see him. The truth comes out, the coloured man was seeing the girl, one of the brothers saw them together and tried to shoot the man but the girl stepped in front of him and got shot instead.
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38. THE QUESTION OF DANNI
About Danni and want she wants to do with her life, Matt wants her to send her to an Academy for Ladies, but Danni doesn't want to go. She goes off into the bush on her own and spends a night in a cabin. Nobody knows where she has gone except Michael. It ends up with her staying at Langara.
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39. THE PRODIGAL FATHER - PART ONE
Seamus O'Neil turns up in town, Kathleen's first husband and Michael's father who they thought had died 8 years ago. Matt asks Colin about how is marriage to Kathleen is seen through the church, Colin has to find out from his superiors. Michael is spending time with his father. Emily is ill from drinking water from the creek which is bad. Colin gets news that Seamus has applied to have Kathleen's marriage to Matt annulled.
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40. THE PRODIGAL FATHER - PART TWO
Kathleen is staying in a room in town. Michael is angry and goes to where he used to live which is now Montana place, he kicks down some extension work and a bit falls down on top of him, he is alright. Matt and Rob find out a man has been channelling all the water to his property, then wants to sell it to the poeple in town, poeple in town are angry, why should they have to pay for the water. Matt goes to blow the dam up where the water is, Seamus follows and ends up getting killed in the explosion.
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41. FIRE BOY
Rob comes across a boy about 8 years old in the bush on his own, he won't talk. Matt and Rob later find a place burnt down and 2 dead bodies who are the boy's parents. The boy has a penknife with the name Josh engraved on it so they take it his name is Josh. Emily and Colin are looking after Josh, he is told about his parents but he still won't talk. Emily want's to adopt Josh, but Colin isn't so sure, and especially after finding Josh pouring lamp oil over the floor in the church. Different fires keep starting at homes around town, people think Josh started them. A woman and man turn up from the authorites to take Josh, but the truth comes out and Josh starts talking, the fires were starting because of the lamp oil, before being sold it had been stored in barrels which had saltpetre in before and therefore causing explosions when used in the lamps. The authorites let Josh stay with Colin and Emily.
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42. BLIND FAITH
Matt is blinded by an explosion down a mine when Matt, Colin and Rob are recusing men from the mine. Colin blames himself for what happened as Matt asked him to turn out a lamp and Colin didn't respond in time. Pads are put over Matt's eyes, the doctor says to wait so many weeks then try taking them off, but when they do Matt still can't see. Josh want's to learn to ride a horse, but Colin won't show him yet, he says he's too young. Even though Matt can't see he still takes Josh out on a horse and Josh is sitting in front of him and telling in what's in front. But, a snake upsets the horse and it goes bolting off, Matt falls off then Josh falls off. Josh can't see Matt but runs back to Langara, Matt is wondering around on his own looking for Josh. Colin, Rob, Kathleen and Michael go looking for Matt. Kathleen and Colin find Matt, Colin has a go at Matt for taking Josh out like and then walks off. Kathleen takes Matt to the church and they find Colin sitting in there, Kathleen leaves Matt to talk to him alone. Colin is upset and Matt asks him what is wrong, Colin then reveals to Matt the truth about his mother's accident. Matt gets his sight back, and Colin changes his mind about teaching Josh to ride.
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43. SHOSHONI DREAMING
Sam Taylor, who is an American is shot in the shoulder, he says he was shot by a man watching Montana. Montana's horses are poisoned, then later the barn is set on fire - Sam is found putting out the fire. When Rob is at Montana's place looking for her someone shoots at him, he isn't injured though. It turns out Sam Taylor has been doing all these things, he is getting back at Montana, he says Montana killed his father back in America.
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44. THE TRIAL OF HETTI LEWIS
This continues from the last episode. Montana's real name turns out to be Hetti Lewis, she confesses to the murder and there is trial in Patterson's Ridge. However, the truth comes out during the trial, it was her grandfather that shot Sam Taylor's father and she was protecting him.
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45. TOY SOLDIERS
There is an army doing shooting practice on Langara's Land. Michael and Josh comes across them, Michael tries out shooting. Later on Josh take a gun from there. Emily and Josh have been staying at Langara, Colin returns from doing some church work, he gives Emily perfume. The next morning Josh has gone off on his own to take the gun back, when Michael wakes up and finds he has gone he tells the others. Matt, Colin, and Emily go looking for him. But, the army are shooting canons in the area, Josh gets scared and hides, Colin gets them to stop shooting the canons, and Matt and Emily find Josh, and no one was hurt.
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46. A MID-WINTER NIGHT'S DREAM
It is raining very hard, Danni is struggling to move a cow out of mud, a man comes along and helps Danni. He says his name is Tuck, he stays at Langara for a few days. He helps out with things around Langara like chopping the wood. He also helps Colin with fixing the roof. Danni takes a liking to him.
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47. IN DUTY BOUND
Matt, Kathleen, Rob, Emily, Josh, and Montana go to Melbourne to go to a ball. Josh runs out of the hotel and follows a man, there are 3 men chasing this man, the man gives Josh a letter and says the Prince is in danger. First the others think it is the Prince of Wales in danger, but it turns out to be the Prince of Russia who is also staying at the hotel. Emily and Josh go back home before the ball. Matt and others devise and plan to catch who it is trying to get at the Prince of Russia which involves Rob dressing up and pretending to be the Prince.
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48. THE LION AND THE LAMB
Colin and Danni come across a group of Chinese labourers who have been put off work and are in a poor state, the people in the town help them out. Amongst them is a pregnant woman who is not married, she stays with Colin and Emily. A church official is in town and doesn't agree with what Colin is doing regarding the pregnant women and when he does a shortened Sunday service so the people can help out the labourers. Colin could be dismissed as a minister. The woman goes into labour and the church official helps out with the birth. In the end the offical decides not to report Colin and he can stay as a minister.
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49. BROKEN HEARTS
There is all different stalls around the town selling stuff to raise money for the church funds. Kathleen and Matt win a romantic night a the Railway Hotel. Josh sees a dog like the one he used to have and thinks it is his and takes it, but it belongs to another boy. Colin and Emily decide to buy a dog for Josh, Josh names the dog Patch. Kathleen and Matt keep getting interrupted at the hotel and don't seem to be spending much time alone. Patch the dog goes running off, Josh follows, the dog is by the river, Josh is trying to get it and nearly falls in, Emily is looking for Josh, she finds him and ends up falling in the river herself. Later on Emily gets a chicken out of the oven, puts it on the table and goes out the room, Patch jumps up on the table and starts eating it. Next you see just the chicken bones left, Patch asleep, Colin, Emily and Josh eating an apple.
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50. DELIVERANCE
Kathleen and James are travelling to see a friend of James, there is a bad storm, the wagon falls down a cliff and the horse runs off. Kathleen and James are stuck down the cliff out in the open during heavy rain, James is injured. Rob and Montana are out in the bush together, they spend a night in a cabin. Matt, Colin and Michael go searching for Kathleen and James, they find them, but James dies.
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51. A NEW LIFE - PART ONE
A friend of Emily's - Rachel, turns up to visit her with her baby. Rachel has left her husband as he beats her. Her husband turns up in town wanting them back, but she won't go. The McGregors and everyone in town stands by her, but he threatens that if she doen't go back to him, he will come back and ruin the town.
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52. A NEW LIFE - PART TWO
Things are going wrong in the town - no trains or coaches, no food coming in, the hotel has been taken over by Rachel's husband. He comes back and demands Rachel and his son back otherwise he will take over everything in the town and ruin it, he has also taken over the bank. But, Matt comes up with a plan to outwit him, this works and eventually he leaves town having lost his wife and son. Rachel leaves to start a new job and life somewhere else. Emily tells Colin she is pregnant and he is overjoyed.
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