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Bill Ashley
	*Season Appears:* 1985 - 1986 The man behind Amanda Morrell's disappearance, after she overhears him plotting illegal development work at Woombai.
Colonel Bainbridge
	*Season Appears:* 1985 The two faces of Colonel Jerrad Bainbridge, Vietnam veteran. Colonel Bainbridge takes offence to the publication of Barney Adams' war diaries and ends up in a mental institution. While on day release, he turns up at Fiona's apartment in Irene Fisher's boarding house and threatens Fiona that he's going to kill her, as it was she who had the diaries published following Barney's death. At the last minute, though, Bainbridge turns the gun on himself. Colonel Bainbridge was also credited initially as Colonel Wainwright - although there were clear cases of dubbing on-screen where characters' mouths said 'Wainwright', but their voices said 'Bainbridge'. The reason for this has never been established.
Mr. Bates
	*Season Appears:* 1982 David Palmer's boss at Southern Freight, who delights in winding David up and giving him a hard time.
Mrs. Boyle
	*Season Appears:* 1986 Mrs. Boyle runs the nursing home 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 to the nursing home. Mrs. Boyle treats her harshly - but she meets her death at Caroline's hands after trying to throw Caroline from the top of a tall building, only for Caroline to overpower her and push her off.
Moya Brinkley
	*Season Appears:* 1986 - 1987 When Wayne was 17-years-old, he had a fling with Moya Brinkley which resulted in the birth of a son. Wayne turned to Patricia, who paid Moya off to avoid bringing shame on the Hamilton name. Ten years later, Patricia - now Alison Carr - turns to Moya again when she wants to trick Wayne into thinking that Tick McCarthy is his son: she pays Moya to pretend to be Tick's mother.
Richard Crampton
	*Season Appears:* 1985 Richard is the father of Leigh Palmer's baby son, Shane - not that he accepted this initially, arranging for Leigh to be gang-raped so that he can't be identified as the father. After Leigh moves to Melbourne, he decides he wants to be Shane's father after all, so he uses Neil Duffy to try and buy his son from Leigh. When this fails, Crampton hires a hitman, Nick Stafford, to go after Leigh. Crampton ends up dying at Stafford's hands after David has already fired a shot at him.
Neil Duffy
	*Season Appears:* 1985 Neil is used by Richard Crampton - the father of Leigh Palmer's baby son, Shane - to try and hand Shane over to him. Richard agrees to help - until he learns that after Leigh fell pregnant, Neil arranged for her to be gang-raped so that he couldn't be identified as the father. Neil is in David Palmer's truck when it explodes, having been boobytrapped by one of Richard's henchmen.
Gloria Dutton
	*Season Appears:* 1985 The woman paid by Ross Newman to kidnap Beryl's baby son, Robert, and look after him until Beryl pays a ransom. Unfortunately, by the time Beryl does pay up, Gloria has grown attached to Robert and refuses to hand him back to Ross. It's only when she's diagnosed with a terminal illness that she places Robert - in a basket - on the front step outside Beryl's house and then kills herself.
Kathleen Elliott
	*Season Appears:* 1984 Robin Elliott's wife follows Robin to Sydney after she's released from prison for a crime that Robin committed. Vowing revenge, she determines to break up the relationship that has developed between Robin and Jill O'Donnel. Her revenge takes a dramatic turn when she drives her car straight at Jill, apparently aiming to kill her. Robin pushes Jill out of the way, though, and takes the full force of the impact - a force that leaves him in a coma. Kathleen is arrested.
Gary Evans
	*Season Appears:* 1985 After discovering that he's identical to Wayne Hamilton in every conceivable way, Gary Evans takes Wayne's place in the Hamilton family when Wayne disappears thinking he's murdered Bob 'Mitch' Mitchell. Gary lives the life of luxury to its fullest, but, wanting more, he tries to trick Katie O'Brien to transferring funds out of the Hamilton business accounts and into his own. He also has a fling with Caroline Morrell - but when things between them turn nasty, Caroline pulls out a gun and shoots - only to then discover that it's Wayne she's shot, upon his return to clear his name. Gary is subsequently arrested.
Lucy Ferguson
	*Season Appears:* 1984 Eleven-year-old Lucy Ferguson comes into Patricia's life after Patricia expresses an interest in donating funds to the children's home in which Lucy is living. The two get along famously - Patricia tells Jim O'Brien that Lucy reminds her of how she was as a child - but things sour after Lucy picks up Fee O'Donnel and takes her outside onto the verandah at Tookak without telling anybody. As Patricia is the victim of a stalker at the time, she over-reacts when she finds Lucy outside and slaps her around the face. Lucy returns to the children's home and Patricia is told her help is no longer required.
Nat Fisher
	*Season Appears:* 1984 Nat Fisher was married to Irene Fisher. Both were doctors. They had a son, Todd, and when he fell ill as a child, Irene treated him with non-conventional medicine, much to Nat's horror. A rift was caused between them, they split up and Irene gave up practising medicine. By the 1980s, Nat Fisher is living with Karen Fox.
Billie Fletcher
	*Season Appears:* 1986 - 1987 Billie meets Doug Fletcher while he's working in America. After he has returned to Australia to be with Caroline, Billie turns up on their doorstep in Melbourne and reveals that she and Doug are married, following an evening's drunken revels! She causes trouble for Doug and Caroline for a few weeks until she then admits that she lied and that she and Doug aren't married at all - at which point, she leaves them in peace.
Jodie Frazer
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Andy Green had a fling with Jodie Frazer - and is shocked when he sees her again in 1987 and discovers that she has a baby daughter. The truth eventually emerges that he is the father. When Jodie decides she can't cope with looking after her daughter - Madonna - Andy takes on the role of father figure.
Helen Green
	*Season Appears:* 1983 - 1984 Andy Green's mother. She had a fling with Roland Armstrong (Barbara's husband) in the 1960s, which resulted in the birth of a son - but she also had a fling with the young Stephen Morrell at about the same time, and tricked him into thinking Andy was his. The truth emerges eighteen years later, and Helen dies soon afterwards, whiel drunk, although whether she killed herself or died accidentally is never clear.
Warren Hansen
	*Season Appears:* 1983 Warren Hansen cautions his wife, Enid, about saying anything that could give the game away about their adopted son, Terry, really being Fiona's son, but he's too late, and he and Enid have to face up to the truth coming out after 30 years.
Victor Hardy
	*Season Appears:* 1982 - 1984 The father of Lynn Hardy, who's horrified at almost everything she's done - sleeping with Kevin, falling pregnant to Kevin, marrying Kevin, moving out with Kevin... Married to Muriel, the couple often looks after Kevin and Lynn's son, Davey or Beryl's young son, Robert.
Frannie Henderson
	*Season Appears:* 1985 The mother of Leigh and Tim Palmer, Frannie was married to David Palmer's late brother, Ray - but it was an affair with David that resulted in Leigh's birth.
Nikki Holland
	*Season Appears:* 1984 When Kevin Palmer is working in El Abib, he's caught up in fighting that surrounds the Australian Embassy. A colleague to whom he's become really close, Sharon Holland, is killed. Kevin returns to Australia and is shocked when Sharon appears to turn up at the Palmer house - only it transpires that the attractive young woman is actually Sharon's twin sister, Nikki. Kevin seeks comfort from Nikki, but Nikki makes it clear that they can only be friends; it was Sharon he loved.
Barry Hudson
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Barry was married to Pamela Hudson; together, they had son, Greg, and daughter, Sarah. After Pamela was sent to prison, Barry divorced her and married second wife, Phyllis.
Phyllis Hudson
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Phyllis Hudson raised Barry Hudson's children by Pamela Hudson, Greg and Sarah, after Pamela was sent to prison. Somewhat of a snob, Phyllis is horrified when Alison Carr pays the Hudsons a visit, gets to know Greg and Sarah and invites them to go and live with her in Sydney.
Cassie Hunt
	*Season Appears:* 1986 Cassie is the daughter of Maggie Hunt, who becomes Gordon's housekeeper after he moves into Seabreeze Towers. She becomes very fond of Gordon after the three of them spend a lot of time together.
Isabella
	*Season Appears:* 1983 - 1987 Charlie Bartlett is almost inseparable from her dog, Isabella. After the first Isabella is killed by Judge at David's house in Sunbury, Charlie is inconsolable - until Alison buys her a new puppy, to which Charlie gives the same name.
Donna Jackson/Palmer
	*Season Appears:* 1985 - 1986 Donna Jackson is Brett Keegan's girlfriend - but when she tells him that she's pregnant, he doesn't want to know. Tim Palmer steps in and tells Donna that he'll take care of her - and they end up marrying. Sadly, Donna goes into labour early and her son is still-born - and when she then catches Tim showing interest in Jess Campbell, she tells him that their marriage isn't going to work. She moves away, but she and Tim write to each other and eventually agree to try again.
Angel Jones
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Janice Reid develops an unlikely friendship with biker, Angel Jones. There's a hint of romance between them, but when Janice discovers that Angel already has a daughter that he doesn't see very often, she implores him to get to know the girl better. Angel takes Janice's advice and leaves Sydney to go and be with her.
Stuart Kingsford
	*Season Appears:* 1985 Completely oblivious to his daughter, Tracy's, trouble-making tendencies, Stuart Kingsford defends her to the hilt - until Beryl steps in and makes him see that Tracy isn't the angel he thought. Impressed by Beryl, Kingsford asks her to dinner - but she declines.
Sean O'Donnel
	*Season Appears:* 1984 Brian O'Donnel's Irish father turns up in Australia following his son's death at the hands of the IRA. Having learnt that Jill is pregnant, he assumes that Brian is the child's father and he asks Jill to go and live in Ireland and raise her baby there. It takes Jill a long time to admit the truth: that she was raped and that the child is Terry Hansen's.
Joe Parker
	*Season Appears:* 1983 Career criminal, Joe Parker, puts his family through hell. He terrorises his wife, Alice, and when he thinks she's having an affair with David Palmer he vows to kill them both. Things come to a head in a confrontation at Woombai in which Joe is killed by bullets from his own rifle, fired by Alice.
Ned Parker
	*Season Appears:* 1986 Ned Parker escaped from prison in a jailbreak attempt with his mate, Les. Les was unfortunately killed in the process, and so Ned goes on the run with Les's partner, Micky Pratt. They discover the mansion, and hide out there, holding Janice Reid, May Walters and Neville Curtis hostage. After Micky is killed in a hit-and-run incident, Ned becomes increasingly unstable and it takes a rescue attempt by Alison Carr and Glen Young to bring him out into the open, where he's arrested by the police.
Alan Pascoe
	*Season Appears:* 1982 - 1986 When Gordon discovers that Wayne has been embezzling from the stud, he replaces his son as manager, with Alan Pascoe. Alan later takes on responsibilities at Woombai. He remains very loyal to Gordon and faces down attempts by Alison Car to get rid of him.
Duncan Phipps
	*Season Appears:* 1985 - 1986 James Hamilton's associate in the mines at Quilpie tries to frame James for the death of one of their mates in a mining accident. Fortunately, Barbara Hamilton discovers evidence that incriminates Duncan over the death.
Plan C
	*Season Appears:* 1982 - 1983 Maybe not a character in the normal sense, but the kitten presented to Jill Taylor by Wayne does have her fair amount of time in the spotlight!
Frank Porter
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Frank lives in a block of flats in Melbourne. When Craig Maxwell and Debbie Halliday move in next door to him, he quickly begins to believe Debbie is the daughter that was taken away from him when she was a little girl. He ends up kidnapping Debbie and threatening to kill her - but, at the last minute, turns the gun on himself.
Micky Pratt
	*Season Appears:* 1986 Along with Ned Parker, Micky Pratt holds Janice Reid, May Walters and Neville Curtis hostage at the mansion, following Ned's escape from jail. Micky is killed when she walks out into the road and doesn't spot a car heading towards her.
Ron Pryor
	*Season Appears:* 1986 - 1987 Ron Pryor becomes Wayne's right-hand man, often carrying out dirty work on Wayne's behalf or digging out incriminating information that Wayne can use in the battles with his enemies.
Shirley Ryan
	*Season Appears:* 1984 Shirley Ryan runs the children's home at which Beryl works for a period and from where she snatches her own baby, Robert, after no one will believe that he's the baby that was so cruelly taken from her.
Bill Sanders
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Bill Sanders runs Sanders Air Charter from an airfield in Melbourne. He employs Debbie Halliday to look after his office and then, when he's looking to expand, goes into business with Doug Fletcher. The two of them employ Gordon Hamilton to take a strategic lead.
James Sheppard
	*Season Appears:* 1982 James had affairs with both Fiona and Patricia in the 1960s. He comes back into their lives just before his death, and leaves both women a considerable inheritance in his will.
Eric Tate
	*Season Appears:* 1985 One of Charlie Bartlett's previous husbands, Eric Tate is the father of their children, Adam and Sally. After he and Charlie - who he refers to by her real first name, Agatha - split up when the children were young, he spent years telling them what a bad woman she was. He fights bitterly to stop them seeing her again, but finally has to accept that they're adults and have every right to get to know their mother.
Eloise Treece
	*Season Appears:* 1985 When Caroline Morrell is trying to track down her missing daughter, Amanda, she hires psychic, Eloise Treece - not knowing that Eloise is a fraud playing on Carolines fears and insecurities. Eloise is exposed by real psychic, Desmond Bourke.
Denise Turner
	*Season Appears:* 1985 Jenny Turner's daughter throws herself at Wayne Hamilton - but then has to face the consequences of her flirty behaviour after she's attacked while out alone one night near Woombai. She points the finger at Wayne, but it turns out to be a Woombai local who was behind the attack. When Jenny is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she, Denise, her brother, Colin, and Jenny's new husband, Stephen Morrell, head off for a long holiday in New Zealand.
Leo Walsh
	*Season Appears:* 1985 Leo Walsh has a learning difficulty - although he is essentially a very kind person at heart. He lives at Crossley House and works with Chris Bainbridge. When he meets Samantha Morrell, he's attracted to her and determines to protect her; it is this that leads him to murder Roger Carlyle when he believes Roger is making advances towards Samantha. Leo also hids Nguyen Hung in a shed at Crossley House - but he leaves the boy in danger after he locks the shed, is then arrested and Hung is bitten by a spider.
Michelle White
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Michelle is a friend of Debbie Halliday's. She's very shy and nervous and and is frequently the victim of taunts and bullying at college. When she meets Craig Maxwell, she's smitten - and she determines to take him away from Debbie. Her plan backfires, though, when she reveals to Craig accidentally that she's been trying to get him for herself.
Bernie Young
	*Season Appears:* 1987 Glen Young's father launches a vicious attack on Wayne following Glen's death, accusing him of making sure Glen and Susan could never be happy together because of Wayne's own selfish motives.