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First Appearance: Episode 552
Last Appearance: Episode 746
Key Storylines:
Tim is Leigh Palmer's younger brother. He grew up in Ceedum,
a small town near Queensland, with his mother, Frannie,
and her second husband, George; her first husband, Ray
- Tim's father and David Palmer's brother - died. After
Leigh fell pregnant to a local farmboy, Richard, he made
it clear that he didn't want anything more to do with
her. She then threatened to tell everyone that the baby
was his, but he arranged for her to be gang-raped so that
no one could pin the pregnancy on him. In revenge, Leigh
cut the brake cable of Richard's car, but Tim, who was
keeping lookout, was spotted and the blame was pinned
on him. He was subsequently committed to a Youth Detention
Centre for a year.
In late-1984, Tim follows Leigh down to Sunbury, near
Melbourne, where she's staying with David at his house
in the country. He unwittingly becomes involved in Leigh's
plot to convince Beryl that her baby son, Robert, isn't
Robert at all. He also becomes good friends with Mike
and Heather O'Brien, who are still grieving for their
own son, Jeff. Mike almost treats Tim as a surrogate Jeff,
until Tim realises what's going on. When he meets Leanne
Watson, Tim is immediately smitten. Following a number
of run-ins with David, he runs away with Leanne after
she decides to flee from her own problems with Tracy Kingsford;
however, while on the run, he falls ill and has to be
taken to hospital. Upon his release, he calls Mike and
Heather - who have moved to Brisbane - and agrees to go
and stay with them. He departs on a sad note, though,
as Leanne decides to stay in Melbourne, and he falls out
with Leigh after finding out that she'd done her utmost
to try to get Leanne out of his life.
A few months later, Beryl and Leigh turn up in Brisbane,
and to Tim's shock, Leigh admits that the baby he helped
convince Beryl wasn't hers, was. He decides to
return to Melbourne for a while, and while there meets
a girl called Donna Jackson. Donna is Brett Keegan's girlfriend
- but when she tells Brett that she's pregnant to him,
he makes it clear that he doesn't want to know. Tim is
angry at Brett, but his caring nature shows through, and
he soon proposes to Donna that the two of them
marry. Donna is initially slightly wary, but she soon
says 'yes', and she and Tim head off to stay with her
parents in Ararat where they wed.
Tim returns to Melbourne with his new wife after Leigh
is put on trial for kidnapping Robert. However, when he
and Donna arrive, they're shocked to learn that Leigh
is dead, having thrown herself under the wheels of a truck.
While dealing with Leigh's death, Tim meets Jess Campbell.
Despite being married, he finds himself attracted to her
- and although she tries to put him off because of Donna,
their feelings for each other become too much. Tim is
horrified when Donna goes into labour early and gives
birth to a still-born son. He's shocked when she tells
him subsequently that she knows he's been having an affair
with Jess and that, now that she's not pregnant, there's
nothing to stop him and Jess from getting together.
Things go from bad to worse when, after a series of run-ins
over how they live their lives, Donna admits to Tim that
she only married him because of the baby and that, now
that there is no baby, they're only tying each
other down. She decides to move away to Bendigo to stay
with a girlfriend. She and Tim keep writing, though, and
Tim later confides in Caroline that the two of them say
more to each other in their letters than they ever did
face-to-face. After several weeks, Donna suggests to Tim
that, if he was to go and live in Bendigo as well, there
might be a good chance for them to get back together.
Tim decides to go for it, and he leaves Melbourne for
good.
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First Appearance: Episode 277
Last Appearance: Episode 384
Key Storylines:
Alice is the mother of Tony Parker. Her husband, Joe,
is a career criminal with a violent streak and the love
of a drink. Alice tried for years to keep her family together,
but Tony ended up in jail, her other son, Dennis, ended
up in a home and her daughter, Shirley, couldn't stand
the way Joe treated his wife so she went to live with
Alice's sister. Alice eventually makes the decision to
leave her husband in late-1983 and Tony tries to help
her, but when Joe starts hanging around again, David Palmer
offers assistance and she and Tony move in with the Palmers.
Tony frames Joe and he goes to prison, but he escapes
and comes after his wife and the Palmers, catching up
with them at Woombai, where he threatens to shoot them
all. After Terry Hansen walks in and distracts the gunman,
Alice grabs her husband's rifle and proceeds to pump four
bullets into him. Joe later dies, and Alice finds herself
accused of murder. She stands trial in early-1984 but
is cleared following a passionate speech on her behalf
by David. She and Tony move away from Melbourne to start
a new life.
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