| Matt comes across a young pregnant
woman, Tracy Dodds, as she is walking from
Burrigan. He takes her to the hospital where she
is admitted by Harry because of the swelling in
her ankles. Steve is hung up on Harry and Luke is
frustrated by it. Rosemary finds a donkey in her
garden. The donkey bites her after she dresses
its wound. She turns it over to Matt. After some
argument, Matt agrees to let Lucy keep the animal
but they find out it belongs to the Burrigan
Musical Society....Mr. Wells from the Society
comes to claim Oscar. Mrs. Deagher, an actress with the
Society, is hospitalized by Terence, where they
discover she is suffering from mercury poisoning
caused by 20 years of using a facial bleaching
creme. Harry tries to pass Tracy over to Terence
but is forced to keep her as his patient. He
looks down on obstetrics as a specialty (not as
lucrative as cosmetic surgery) until he delivers
Tracy's baby. Tracy's "mother", Meg
Cullen, had shown up before labour was induced
and the hospital staff finds out that Tracy
entered into a contract to "sell" her
baby to Meg, her former employer, in return for
$25,000. After the baby's born, Tracy changes her
mind. The baby boy is born with a club foot and
will require much surgery.
Cookie decides to
hold a 20's-style dinner dance. Steve hopes that
Harry will ask her to go with him. Both Luke and
Steve talk to Matt about their respective
crushes. Meg steals the baby but returns him the
next morning. She isn't charged and Tracy
ultimately gives her the baby, because Meg can
afford the surgery. Meg and Tracy come to a
compromise where the baby will know both of them.
Cookie wants to sell yabby meals at the dinner
dance and contracts Luke to catch the yabbies at
50¢ a head -- Bob isn't happy to be undercut so
he gives Luke bad instructions for catching them.
Esme comes to Luke's rescue and he catches 32. No
one eats them, though, because Lucy, Esme, Bob,
and Matt have named them all. Harry asks a nurse
at the hospital, Sandra Williams, to the dance
and, heartbroken, Steve decides to stay home.
Luke comes back for her, though, bearing a
corsage, and convinces her to go anyway. Their
grand entrance draws appreciative looks and Harry
realizes how pretty Steve is, much to Luke's
chagrin.
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Original
-- Apr
29/30, 1991