Chris Bainbridge

First Appearance: Episode 551
Last Appearance: Episode 688

Key Storylines:
After Fiona arranges for Barney Adams' Vietnam diaries to be published, Chris turns up in Sydney and starts tormenting her - firstly in secret, by sending her a dead spider and by arranging for manure to be dumped outside the boarding house - but he then reveals to her that he's after her because the publication of the diaries has led to his father having a breakdown; his father - Colonel Bainbridge - was Barney's commanding officer in Vietnam, and what was revealed in Barney's diaries about that time had been too much for him. Chris ends up stalking Fiona through the woods at Woombai, threatening to kill her, and is only halted when Stephen Morrell runs him down with his jeep.

Chris undergoes psychiatric care and, upon his release, starts working at a hostel called Crossley House. Several months later, he goes to see Fiona to apologise to her for trying to kill her. She agrees to give him a second chance. Chris then begins seeing Samantha Morrell, but things sour between them - and with Fiona as well - after Fiona takes in an illegal Vietnamese immigrant, Nguyen Hung: Chris can't bring himself to like the boy. Everything changes, though, after Chris ends up saving Hung's life after he's bitten by a funnelweb spider, and he agrees to try to be more tolerant of the boy.

Colonel Bainbridge is given day release from the psychiatric home where he's being treated for his reaction to the publication of Barney's diaries, and he turns up at Fiona's: he blames her for his condition. Chris spends time with his father to try and get him to calm down, but it's no good: the Colonel's feelings about the way his life has changed are too strong. He eventually ends up pulling a gun on Fiona, threatening to kill her. However, at the last minute, he turns the gun on himself and commits suicide. After the funeral, Chris moves away to take care of his mother.

Laura Banning

First Appearance: Episode 794
Last Appearance: Episode 808

Key Storylines:
Laura is using the services of David's new limousine venture, 'Home in Style', when a misunderstanding causes Craig nearly to attack her. Laura vows to sue David - but backs down when David agrees to have dinner with her. She takes an immediate interest in him, and it isn't long before a full-blown relationship develops. Laura wants to help David improve himself, and she buys him some smart clothes and arranges for him to attend a course on business management.

The relationship begins to deteriorate, however, when Laura meets Caroline - who David has taken on as a driver - and discovers that she's been in prison. Worrying that Caroline is too much of an influence on David, Laura tries to force him to exile her from the company. Her plan backfires, however, and David turns on her, warning her that he won't step over people in order to make a success of things. He then marches her back to her car, at which point she warns him that if she goes, she won't be coming back. David retorts that that's fine by him, and that is the last he sees of her.

Shelley Barton

First Appearance: Episode 360
Last Appearance: Episode 381

Key Storylines:
Tony Parker meets 17-year-old Shelley at Woombai and is attracted to her instantly. Shelley agrees to go out with him, even though it is John Palmer that she really fancies - and despite knowing that she'd incur the wrath of her father if he discovered that she was going out with an ex-crim. When the Bartons' home burns down in a bush fire in early-1984, they move into a tent in the grounds at Woombai. Stan Barton, Shelley's father, plans to move the family to Sydney, but then decides to head out further into the country, to Shelley's despair. She decides to stow away in David's truck when he, the other Palmers and Tony head to Sydney for Alice Parker's trial. She sneaks into the flat at the back of Dural, but is disappointed that Tony isn't keen on going raging. She goes out without him and meets some other kids who invite her to come and live in their squat, much to Tony's fury.

Desmond Bourke

First Appearance: Episode 598
Last Appearance: Episode 611

Key Storylines:
Desmond Bourke is a chemist with psychic abilities who reads about Amanda Morrell's disappearance in the newspaper and travels up to Woombai to offer his assistance in finding her. He doesn't succeed, but he does manage to stop Samantha Morrell being killed by Bill Ashley - who it turns out had kidnapped Amanda - and, back in Sydney, he helps Samantha expose Eloise Treece, who claims to be another psychic who is in contact with Amanda - as a fake; Eloise had been playing on Caroline's hopes that her daughter was still alive and Caroline had been paying her large sums of money.

Alan Brandon

First Appearance: Episode 506
Last Appearance: Episode 556

Key Storylines:
Alan is Karen Fox's son, born after she had an affair with his father, George, when she was only 17. As far as Alan is concerned, Karen tried to pressure George into marrying her, but as he wouldn't leave his wife, she was stuck with a kid she didn't want, she had no partner and so she would have adopted him out, only George wouldn't let her and took him away from her. Alan grew up with his father and with his father's wife, Fay, who hated him. When his father died, he left both of them a lot of money. Fay's attitude towards him unfortunately became even worse.

In late-1984, when Karen calls and asks to see him, Alan is intrigued - and when he discovers that it's his money that she's after, he makes her jump through hoops to get it. A real ladies' man, Alan is attracted to Jill O'Donnel - until he discovers that she has a kid - and Amanda Morrell - although he really only goes after her to annoy Bob 'Mitch' Mitchell, after the two men have a run-in after Mitch warns Alan off her. He then turns his attentions to Katie O'Brien, but is annoyed when she keeps pushing him away every time he wants to take things further.

Everything changes for Alan when he's seriously injured in the bomb explosion at David Palmer's country house, after a wheelchair being used by Patricia Palmer is boobytrapped. Alan is left paralysed from the waist down and is told he'll never walk again. To his surprise, as he lies in his hospital bed, feeling bitter towards the whole world, Jill proposes to him. Alan, however, turns her down and instead asks Karen to arrange for him to be transferred to a private hospital where Jill won't find him. Over the next three months, he gradually begins to learn to walk again, returning to mainstream life when he makes an entrance at his mother's wedding to Wayne Hamilton. His time in rehabilitation gives him a new, more-positive and less-cynical outlook on life, and he displays signs of affection towards Jill when he sees her - although he's also very intrigued when he meets Leigh Palmer.

Determined to make a normal life for himself again, and egged-on by Leigh, Alan tries his hardest to learn to walk once more. However, after an argument with Leigh, he topples over and does even more damage to his back as a result. This further trauma leaves him confined to bed permanently. Unable to cope with the thought of having to spend his whole life in that condition, he pleads with his nurse, Cheri Nolan, to help him die, after he learns that she's performed acts of euthanasia on other sufferers. Cheri refuses, pointing out that he still has a lot to live for - Jill still loves him, for example. Alan is determined to end his pain, however, and when he spots some needles and some vials of morphine lying around in Cheri's medical bag, he uses them to commit suicide.

Owen Brooke

First Appearance: Episode 777
Last Appearance: Episode 842

Key Storylines:
Bushwalker and wildlife expert, Owen Brooke, turns up at the mansion when he's looking for a room in which to run a class and slide-show on bushcraft. When he meets Janice, he's smitten immediately by her strength and ability to stand up for herself; she's similar in that respect to his mother. He finds himself falling for her, and he invites her to a ball that his mother is holding at the Brooke residence. Janice accepts. Shortly before the event, Owen asks Janice to marry him, and he's delighted when she agrees. Unfortunately, events at the ball go horribly wrong when May - for whom Owen managed to swing an invitation - recognises his mother as Connie Hogg, a former prostitute.

Devastated by this revelation, Owen moves out of the Brooke house and into a room at the mansion. He and Janice start spending more time together, but they gradually begin to argue. Owen is delighted when Gordon offers him a job as curator at a nature reserve being opened at Woombai - but after he and Janice go on a walk in the surrounding bush, in which the two of them fight almost constantly, Owen realises reluctantly that they're not suited, and he calls the wedding off - at exactly the same time as Janice also decides their relationship is doomed. Owen moves into a small dwelling in the grounds at Woombai to focus on his new position.

Owen throws himself into developing the reserve and is devastated when Wayne pulls the plug on the idea. He heads to Dural to protest to Gordon, but bumps into Wayne in the driveway; Wayne orders Owen to pack his bags and leave and to steer clear of mentioning the reserve to anyone, otherwise Janice will wish she'd never met him. Owen gives in meekly and disappears.

Darren Brooks

First Appearance: Episode 215
Last Appearance: Episode 232

Key Storylines:
Darren used to hang out at the drop-in centre bought by Rob and Angela Keegan to turn into a coffee shop. He continues to hang around the place, and when Angela is nice to him he starts trying to be near her more often. He lies to her and breaks some of her crockery in order to convince her that she needs him around to protect her. Darren's lies are eventually exposed after Angela hires his mother to redecorate for her, and it transpires that mother and son don't get along because Darren thinks his mother spends too much time working and pays little attention to him. A row results in Darren staying with Rob and Angela for a while, but when his mother is offered a job in Singapore, Darren relucantly agrees to go with her.

Kelly Burns

First Appearance: Episode 687
Last Appearance: Episode 724

Key Storylines:
Kelly Burns is 22 years old and blind. When her mother has to go into hospital for an operation, Kelly faces being on her own for the first time in her life. Irene Fisher - Mrs. Burns' doctor - asks Fiona if she'll take Kelly in, and Fiona agrees. Kelly initially finds her very patronising, but the two of them soon come to an understanding. Fiona helps Kelly deal with her mother's death when her operation fails.

When Andy Green meets Kelly, he is intrigued by how independent she is - and it isn't long before they kiss. The two spend a lot of time together, but when Andy lands a job as the DJ on a cruise ship for six-weeks, Kelly fears that they'll be split up. To her relief, she is able to get a job on the same ship, as a singer, and the two of them head off happily. Sadly, things don't work out, and when Andy returns to Melbourne at the end of the cruise, that's the last contact Kelly has with him.