Isabella
Charlie's beloved dog, Isabella (pictured above,
with John Palmer and Charlie), is killed by Judge, a criminal
who Brett Keegan comes into contact with in late-1985. Isabella
has the run of David's country house in Sunbury, but when Judge
breaks in to get at Brett, she gets in the way, so he gets rid
of her. (Episode 670, 1985)
Colonel Bainbridge
Colonel Gerrard Bainbridge suffers a breakdown
following the publication by Fiona of Barney Adams' diaries,
in which Barney reveals how the Colonel was the leader of a
gang of army soldiers who killed a group of peasants in Vietnam
without any provocation. The Colonel is unable to live down
the shame, and he blames Fiona for the psychological problems
he suffers as a result of her having the diaries published.
While on short-term release from the home where he's being treated,
he escapes from the care of his son, Chris, and goes and digs
up a gun that he's kept buried in the garden of the former Bainbridge
home. He then heads to Fiona and Irene's boarding house and
holds Fiona at gunpoint. Chris manages to intervene, though,
and, in complete despair, the Colonel turns the gun on himself.
(Episode 682, 1985)
Mike O'Brien
After the O'Briens leave Melbourne and moves up
to Brisbane, Mike sets up a small building company. However,
while unwell following a bout of the 'flu, he loses his balance
at work and is taken to hospital. Tests reveal a clot on his
brain, and the doctors announce that it's inoperable. Mike dies
towards the end of 1985. (Episode 684, 1985)
Mrs. Burns
Eve Burns (pictured above left, with Fiona) is
due to have open-heart surgery, but is concerned about the welfare
of her blind daughter, Kelly, while she's in hospital. Irene
Fisher persuades Fiona to let Kelly stay with her while Mrs.
Burns has the operation and recovers. Sadly, though, Mrs. Burns
dies during surgery. (Episode 692, 1985)
Leigh Palmer
Leigh Palmer is on trial for kidnapping Beryl
and David's baby son, Robert, when she commits suicide by escaping
from the police officers escorting her out of the courthouse
and running towards a truck that's heading down the road. The
truck hits her full-on and she dies shortly afterwards. She
takes this desperate course of action after realising she faces
up to ten years in jail. She had tried to persuade her boyfriend,
Adam Tate, not to wait for her, but he'd insisted that he would,
much to her despair; and she had worried about the fact that
her own baby son, Shane, would grow up with a mother who was
in prison. It all became too much for the twenty-year-old. (Episode
699, 1986)
Amanda Morrell
Amanda Morrell is kidnapped by Bill Ashley after
she overhears him plotting to defraud the residents of Woombai
over the building of an abattoir. Both Amanda and Bill Ashley
disappear - but several months later, Samantha Morrell spots
Ashley working at the side of a road. She and Caroline pay him
to reveal what happened to Amanda - and he tells them, to their
horror, that she's become a drug addict and prostitute. Caroline
tries to trace her, visiting a brothel and a house occupied
by junkies, but all her hopes come to nothing: she's heartbroken
when she learns that Amanda had died a few weeks earlier. She
subsequently identifies her daughter's body in a grim Melbourne
morgue. (Episode 706, 1986)
James Hamilton
After James Hamilton proposes to Alison Carr -
and she accepts - he returns to Quilpie to sort out his business
interests. A few weeks later, a stunned Alison learns that he's
been killed in an accident, having gone bush one day. Upon travelling
to Quilpie to attend his funeral, she's furious to learn that
he actually died after falling from a ferris wheel
while trying to impress another woman. (Episode 729, 1986)
Micky Pratt
Micky Pratt and Ned Parker hold Janice Reid, May
Walters and Neville Curtis hostage at the mansion following
Ned's escape from jail. Micky's partner, Les, had also attempted
to escape but was killed in the process. On the day of his funeral,
Micky hails a cab to take some flowers to the cemetery. As she
crosses the road, following the cab's departure, she's upset
and tearful and doesn't notice a car heading straight towards
her. The driver stops, but on seeing Micky lying at the side
of the road, not moving, he speeds off. Micky is later pronounced
dead. (Episode 758, 1986)
Bill Todd
Bill Todd, in prison for the murder of Sam Selmar,
is stabbed by a home-made weapon during a fight with other prisoners.
He dies from his injuries. (Episode 783, 1986)
Ruby Hawkins
Ruby Hawkins is Craig Maxwell's mother. She gave
Craig up when he was born because she didn't want him, and he
was put into foster care, going to live with a woman called
Maisie. When she died, Craig went to stay with Maisie's
sister, Jean Hopkins, and her husband, Colin. It takes Craig
a while before he learns that Ruby is his real mother, and he's
only just started getting to know her when he discovers her
dead body in a park. He immediately finds himself in the frame
for murder - but it's actually Colin Hopkins who killed Ruby,
to stop her extorting money from him. (Episode 836, 1986)
Mrs. Boyle
Mrs. Boyle runs the Bowden Nursing Home in Melbourne
that Wayne buys from a bad-debt list. When he wants to convince
everyone that Caroline is insane, he arranges for her to be
kidnapped and taken here. Caroline refuses to give in to the
harsh treatment meted out to her by Mrs. Boyle and her nurses,
and when Craig - who lands himself a job as a gardener here
- starts to sniff around her room, Mrs. Boyle decides on a tough
course of action: making it look as though Caroline has committed
suicide. She and a nurse drive Caroline to an abandoned factory,
where she tries to force Caroline off the roof. Caroline manages
to overpower her, however, and it's Mrs. Boyle who falls to
her death. (Episode 862, 1986)
Kevin Jones
Kevin Jones is a real patient at the
Bowden Nursing Home. His mental problems lead him to believe
he's a doctor - and Mrs. Boyle doesn't discourage him from these
delusions. Caroline believes him initially when he tells her
that he'll be able to help her escape - but it soon becomes
clear that he's more interested in her than in getting
her out of the home. Caroline stores up tranquiliser pills she's
given by Mrs. Boyle and tricks Kevin into taking them while
he's in her room. Once he's passed out, she attempts to escape
- but is captured by Mrs. Boyle and taken to the factory (see
entry above). Kevin is left unconscious in Caroline's room,
where he's discovered by Doug and Craig. They take him to the
country house, but after they leave him alone he takes an overdose
of pills for headaches he's been suffering and is found by Debbie
Halliday lying dead on the lounge room floor. (Episode 862,
1986)
Ginny Doyle
Wayne gets horrendously drunk after losing in
quick succession his money, Tick and his father (Gordon announced
that he was moving to Melbourne, following his engagement to
Beryl). Alison makes things even worse for Wayne by taunting
him about the fact that he has to go to an escort agency to
find a woman to accompany him to a party being held at Charlie's
gym. Feeling utterly humiliated, Wayne jumps into his car and
races off while heavily under the influence. Fiona asks Glen
to go after him, and Ginny Doyle goes along as well. A high-speed
car chase ensues, but it ends in tragedy when Glen rounds a
corner to find Wayne's car stopped in the road in front of him.
Glen swerves to avoid hitting it, and his car rolls down a bank.
The car is an open-topped model, and Ginny is thrown out and
killed instantly. (Episode 887, 1987)
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