Barney Adams

First Appearance: Episode 511
Last Appearance: Episode 532

Key Storylines:
Barney was Bob 'Mitch' Mitchell's Sergeant in the army in Vietnam, and Mitch tracks Barney down after he's released from prison in late-1984: he looks upon Barney as a hero. Barney is delighted to see Mitch again as well, but he quickly realises that Mitch has become very unstable, and he has to warn him repeatedly about his behaviour. He eventually washes his hands of Mitch after Mitch effectively kidnaps Amanda and holds her at Barney's shack in the middle of nowhere for several days.

Meanwhile, Barney meets Fiona Thompson, and there's an immediate connection. After they've known each other for only a few weeks, Barney proposes to her, and he's ecstatic when she accepts. However, the happiness is short-lived: firstly, there's tension after Fiona discovers that Barney was part of a gang of army men who killed a group of peasants in Vietnam without any real provocation; and then, while Barney and Fiona are at David Palmer's country house at a party for Patricia, a bomb goes off, and Barney is seriously injured. He's rushed to hospital, where surgeons start operating, but he dies when his heart gives out.

Gayle Andrews

First Appearance: Episode 141
Last Appearance: Episode 195

Key Storylines:
Rosie Andrews' granddaughter was abandoned by both her parents: her mother walked out and married another man, who paid Gayle's father, Barry, to look after her. When Gayle turned 17, the money stopped and Barry Andrews also deserted his daughter. Gayle became involved with no-hoper men, and is facing a charge of petty theft when Rosie finds her. Rosie takes her under her wing, though, and Gayle changes into a positive young woman. Barbara Armstrong also helps Gayle, and when she sees how much the girl enjoys working in the country, she arranges a job for her doing just that. Gayle moves away to take up her new post.

Prue Armstrong

First Appearance: Episode 62
Last Appearance: Episode 103

Key Storylines:
The niece of Barbara Armstrong, Prue latches onto John Palmer and is then used by Patricia to persuade John to return to Sydney from Woombai, and also to persuade him to take a job at Ramberg Industries. John dumps Prue after he becomes fed up with her put-downs about his family and the way she tries to turn him into a snob.

Roland Armstrong

First Appearance: Episode 588
Last Appearance: Episode 639

Key Storylines:
Roland Armstrong was married to Barbara Morrell for over twenty years until, in 1982, she learnt that he'd died of a heart attack while on business in America. In reality, Roland had witnessed a crime syndicate execution and had to be put into a witness protection programme for his own safety; he couldn't even say goodbye to the wife and family he loved. He spent his time travelling around America and Europe under a new identity until, in 1985, he bumps into Samantha Morrell in Venice. At the same time, he develops pneumonia, and the next thing he knows, Barbara has turned up and is taking him back to Australia.

He moves into a bedsit at Irene and Fiona's boarding house, where he has to start trying to come to terms with the fact that he woman he still loves is now married to Gordon Hamilton. However, he vows to win her back. He also has to come to terms with the fact that he has a son - Andy Green - that he knew nothing about. After he receives a telephone call claiming to be from the crime syndicate that he testified against, Irene arranges for Roland to move to David Palmer's country house in Sunbury, Melbourne, where he'll be safer, but they then find out that the call was a hoax arranged by Wayne and Andy in order to keep Roland away from Barbara. Roland returns to Sydney, hopeful that he and Barbara still have a chance. He and Gordon end up forcing her to choose, and to Roland's disappointment, she realises that she has to stay with Gordon.

Roland accepts this and decides to start getting on with his life. Because Barbara used the money she thought she'd inherited on his death to invest in Gordon's company, Roland finds himself on the company's Board. He also manages to make things up with Andy - who had turned against him for running out on him and his mother, Helen - and he starts to develop feelings for his landlady, Irene Fisher. A relationship develops between them quickly and Roland proposes marriage - a proposal Irene accepts. However, everything changes after Roland and Barbara's son, Simon, returns to Australia after some time overseas: Roland learns to his horror that Simon had been working in London as a gigolo - and had picked up Irene while she had been studying in the city. Unable to cope with his son and his fiancée having slept together, and Simon's refusal to give up this line of work, Roland decides he can't marry Irene and he heads off to Hong Kong to see his daughter, Wendy. After a few months, he bumps into Barbara, who has left Gordon following the car accident with Alison and Caroline in which he lost his memory and thought he was still married to Patricia. Now that neither of them has any ties, he and Barbara decide to try again.

Wendy Armstrong

First Appearance: Episode 183
Last Appearance: Episode 216

Key Storylines:
The daughter of Barbara Armstrong and her late husband, Roland, returns to Australia in early-1983 after a couple of years in the US, where she worked as a successful photographer. She patches up her previously-rocky relationship with her mother, and when Barbara leaves Sydney for a while to recuperate from her brain surgery, Wendy goes with her.