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& 936 |
| AIRDATES |
Original
-- Jul
20/21, 1992
Showcase -- Nov
25/26, 1998 |
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| GUESTS |
Joe Bugner (Ivan Mann)
Brooke
"Mikey" Anderson (Dee Dee Mann)
Faye Fogarty
(Valmai Winters)
Farmer Trantor
(Jon Darling)
Barry Baxter's
voice (Kevin Golsby)
Mystery Caller
(Noel Hodda) |
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| EPISODE
TRIVIA |
This
episode [part 2] was dedicated: In
loving memory of Mark Moroney 1960 - 1992
[Mark, a stage manager on the show, died
in a motorcycle accident] |
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| CREW |
Written by Carol
Williams (part 1) and Sean Nash (part 2)
Produced by Peter
R. Dodds and Robyn Sinclair
Executive Producer
-- James Davern
Directed by Di
Drew
Script Editor --
Margaret Morgan
Story -- Sue
Ellis, Jo Horsburgh, and Andrew Kelly
Production Manager
-- David Watts
Casting Director
-- Libby Sharpe
Casting Assistant
-- Babette Chick
Location Manager
-- Peter Warman
Production
Co-ordinator -- Laura May Alcock
Research &
Technical Advice -- Jenni Wilks
Unit Production
Assistant -- Justine Slater
Publicist -- Linda
Ashby
Script Typist --
Joy Hill
Unit Publicist --
Georgie Brown
Production
Secretary -- Zara Findlay
Script Assistant
-- Margaret Wilson
Veterinary Advisor
-- Robert Zammit
Studio Camera --
Michael Healey, Steven Fisher, and Rod
Finlayson
Location Camera --
Glenn Steer
Lighting -- Paul
Wootten
Technical Director
-- Peter Youngman
Audio Director --
Kerrie Fraser
Boom -- Phil Jones
Dubbing Assistant
-- Neil McIntosh
Videotape -- Nick
Geracitano
Vision Mixer --
Jenny Fulton
Make Up -- Joanne
Stevens
Wardrobe -- Amanda
Bloomfield
Set Dresser --
Doug Kelly
Props Buyer --
Jane Parker
Standby Props --
Andrew Playford
Wrangler -- Gordon
Finney
Staging -- Jools
Depeche-Cradock
Floor Manager --
Andrew Merrifield
Assistant Floor
Manager -- Bryan Rees
Director's
Assistant -- Elizabeth Russell
Unit Co-ordinator
-- Margi Muir
Set Designer --
Jane Wheeler
Art Director --
Steve Muir
Theme Music --
Mike Perjanik
Post Production by
Custom Video Australia
Editor -- Robert
Sneddon |
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| EPISODE
THANKS |
Featherdale
Wildlife Park
Ryde Hospital
Prince of Wales
Children's Hospital
Hugo's bike
supplied by Albion Cycles
The Children's
Hospital, Camperdown (part 2 only)
Medical Gases
Australia (part 2 only)
CIG Health Care
(part 2 only) |
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| Plotlines,
characters, dialogue quotes, hospital name, house
image, show photos, & show-specific details
© JNP Productions. The wording and presentation
of the information on this site and all of the
ACP graphics © 1998/1999 Kitty MacAlpine (unless
otherwise noted). |
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| "Me and My Girl" |
| Bernice drives over a snake while
picking up items for the jumble sale. It
disappears and she thinks it slithered off to
die. Unfortunately it didn't. Darcy is hung over.
Frank is away. Esme is in Rome. Billy's away in
Cairns visiting his grandparents. Everyone is
trying to win tickets to the Barcelona Olympics.
The club has a new temporary chef, Ivan Mann, an
itinerent cook. His daughter, Dee Dee, likes to
entertain the club patrons. Unknown to everyone,
he is a jewel thief on the run and this is why he
and Dee Dee are constantly moving. Terence learns
he's getting a free trip for two to Barcelona,
courtesy of a drug company, but Rosemary
considers it a bribe and nags him into giving the
trip up for the hospital raffle. Mrs. Winters
arrives at the hospital in an obviously demented
state. Harry, Kate, and another nurse manage to
catch her long enough to give a sedative. They
determine that she has a really bad urinary tract
infection. The
hospital staff discover that Mrs. Winters can't
stand up straight and the doctors have no clue
what is causing it. Hugo and Darcy go for a
picnic with Ivan and Dee Dee. Dee Dee and Hugo
have a swimming race. She tries to impress Hugo
by swimming under a log and gets trapped under
it. Ivan manages to lift the heavy log and
resuscitates her. She's coughing but he decides
not to take her to the hospital. Bernice finds
the snake while going through boxes and calls Tom
to take care of it. He's not impressed. They
don't find it so he leaves, with a box to take to
the hospital. Unfortunately, the box contains the
snake and he brings it back to Bernice, thinking
it was a joke. When he finds out it wasn't, he
throws the snake away. A picture of Harry and
Kate taken at the Italian restaurant they went to
the night before gives Harry the clue he needs to
solve the riddle of what's affecting Mrs. Winters
-- she has Pisa Syndrome, a reaction to the
sedative they gave her, and they are able to cure
her immediately.
The raffle draw is
held and Hugo has the winning ticket. He can't
decide who to take so he decides to raffle off
the second ticket. Ivan returns home to find that
Dee Dee is having trouble breathing. He takes her
to the hospital to find out that she is suffering
from secondary drowning. Harry and Kate decide to
get away from town and go camping. Darcy
volunteers Anna to replace Matt Tyler as Valley
Vet. Tom is suspicious of Ivan and goes to talk
to him at the hospital. Ivan agrees to talk to
him after Dee Dee is out of danger. After much
bickering, Kate and Harry reach the camp grounds.
The ground is very muddy and when they stop the
truck, they get bogged down. Harry gets out to
push and gets covered in mud -- Kate stays inside
the truck, safe from mosquitoes and mud. Tom
talks to Ivan about the jewel robbery in Perth 12
years ago. Ivan won't admit to anything but lets
slip an important (and unreleased) piece of
information during their hypothetical discussion
and Tom has to lock him up.
Bernice goes with
Anna to the radio station but spends most of her
time chatting up Barry Baxter -- they make a
date. Darcy disguises her voice and makes a bogus
call in to "Valley Vet". Anna also gets
a disturbing call from a fan. She later gets a
letter, she assumes from the same guy, and thinks
she hears a prowler. She calls Tom to come check
it out. Darcy admits to writing it as a prank.
Ivan breaks out of jail and runs away with Dee
Dee. He leaves the jewels behind, except for a
brooch kept by Dee Dee. He throws that away when
he finds it and Tom, in hot pursuit of them, runs
over it, puncturing a tire. Mr. Trantor comes
upon Kate and Harry and offers to pull them out
with his tractor for a small fee ($100). Harry
refuses but they still can't get themselves out.
When Mr. Trantor returns, Kate decides to pay
him, even when the price has doubled. She falls
into the muck herself. In spite of the bad luck,
bickering, and mud, Kate and Harry decide they
still love each other. Hugo confronts Darcy about
her excessive drinking and partying but she won't
talk to him. The second Olympic ticket is raffled
and Rosemary wins. Barry Baxter stands Bernice
up.
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