Adam Tate

First Appearance: Episode 611
Last Appearance: Episode 716

Key Storylines:
Adam Tate is Charlie Bartlett's son by her third husband, Eric Tate. Adam hadn't seen Charlie since he was a small child, and he had always been led to believe by his father that Charlie had been a bad mother and had run out on him and his younger sister, Sally. He and Charlie come into contact while Adam - a police officer - is involved in protecting Leigh Palmer from Richard Crampton. Adam initially refuses to get to know Charlie, but Sally persuades him to give her a chance, and Leigh produces court records from his parents' divorce which show that it had actually been Eric who had driven Charlie away. Having agreed to get to know her, Adam - and Sally - move in with her at David's house at Sunbury.

Adam is devastated when his partner in the police force is shot dead while the two of them are dealing with an incident one night. The event leads him to lose his confidence - which in turn leads to him being transferred to desk duties - and it subsequently makes him reconsider his whole career in the force. Charlie, Spider Webb and others all do their best to help him regain his confidence, with varying degrees of success, and he decides to stay with the police.

When Alison Carr is trying to prove that Jeff O'Brien - and not Patricia - murdered Luke Carlyle, she enlists Adam's help to track down witnesses who could testify that Jeff could have done it. Adam also becomes involved when Leigh goes on the run after admitting to kidnapping Beryl's baby son, Robert; and he finds himself caught up with Brett Keegan and Leigh when Brett gets into trouble with a crook named Judge, over some gambling debts he's run up. Through all of this, and despite everything she's done, Adam begins to fall in love with Leigh. The two of them are enjoying a romantic picnic one day when Leigh is knocked over the edge of a cliff by Adam's car, the brake not having been engaged properly. To Adam's horror, Leigh is washed out to sea and is declared dead when her body can't be found. However, Adam quickly grows suspicious when various clues suggest that Leigh is really in Sydney - and he flies up there and finds her alive.

Adam declares his love for her to Leigh, but she tells him that it's hopeless because, if she's found to be alive, she's going to be put on trial for the kidnapping and sent to jail for ten years. Adam promises that he'll wait for her. It's no good, though: the next thing he knows, Leigh has turned herself into the police just to prevent him from the agony of waiting for her for all that time. Leigh is held in Fairlea Prison and Adam goes to visit her a couple of times until Leigh bans any more visitors. She goes on trial but, to Adam's horror, at the end of the first day she escapes from her police escort and runs towards a truck that's heading down the road. She commits suicide to save her friends and family from any more pain. Adam is left devastated.

Unable to decide what to do with his life following Leigh's death, Adam eventually decides to go travelling. Charlie tries to talk him into seeing Europe, but Adam chooses a more adventurous option: cycling in Inner Mongolia! As they say a sad goodbye to each other, Charlie tells her son that she hopes spending time with people his own age will help him forget Leigh so that, when he comes back, he'll be able to settle down and begin with a new career.

Sally Tate

First Appearance: Episode 617
Last Appearance: Episode 710

Key Storylines:
Sally is the daughter of Charlie Bartlett and Eric Tate. She's Adam Tate's younger sister. She's studying Art Conservation at university in Melbourne when her mother comes back on the scene. Sally is generally fairly quiet, but she finds she shares a number of interests with Tom Chaplin, the English teacher that Charlie is seeing, and they start visiting exhibitions and art galleries together. During a visit to the beach in Sydney, they find themselves alone, and they kiss passionately. Sally feels immensely guilty as a result, and decides the only way she can resolve the situation in her own mind is by fleeing to Melbourne.

Scott Thompson

First Appearance: Episode 34
Last Appearance: Episode 451

Key Storylines:
The politician Fiona met during her days as a prostitute. She had his baby, but the child died after three days. Scott comes back into Fiona's life in 1982, but they split up when Scott can't handle Fiona still keeping in touch with some contacts from her past. He returns to her life briefly in 1983, after Jill turns to him when she decides to terminate her pregnancy. However, after Matt Kennedy persuades her to keep the child, Scott disappears from Fiona's life again. When Terry Hansen stands trial for kidnapping Jill's daughter, Fee, in 1984, Scott is called upon to testify that Jill used to be a prostitute. Both Fiona and Jill express their disgust at him.

Bill Todd

First Appearance: Episode 1
Last Appearance: Episode 48

Key Storylines:
Bill works with John Palmer at Sam Selmar's warehouse. After John has a 'vision' which causes him to drop a box of expensive goods that both men are lifting, Bill and John find themselves given the sack. Bill later returns to the warehouse to plead for his job back. When Selmar refuses, Bill sees red, picks up a crowbar lying nearby and lashes out. Selmar dies of the injury.

It's John who finds Selmar, but when the police arrive, he panics and runs. Unfortunately, he's spotted and is assumed to be the main suspect - much to Bill's relief. Meanwhile, Bill marries John's sister, Susan - but after guilt begins to get the better of him, and other people realise he's the murderer, he confesses and turns himself over to the police. After his case goes to trial, he's found guilty and sent to jail. Four years after his sentence, he's involved in a disturbance at the jail. He's hurt in the fracas and later dies of his injuries.

Colin Turner

First Appearance: Episode 608
Last Appearance: Episode 651

Key Storylines:
Colin Turner is the son of Jenny Turner's first husband, Ralph, and his first wife; Jenny was his second wife. Jenny is stepmother to Colin and his sister, Denise. Colin has kept secret for several years the fact that, as a young boy, he was responsible for his father's death, after letting the handbrake off on a tractor that then rolled over his father and killed him. Colin is at university in Sydney when Jenny learns that he's attempted to commit suicide. She and Stephen bring him back to Woombai, but because he wants to try to forget killing his father, he refuses to return to the Turner farm. Stephen agrees that he and Jenny can move into the Woombai homestead, and, while there, Colin becomes friends with Andy Green. His guilt about his father's death continues to overwhelm him, though, and he almost attempts to commit suicide again. Andy talks him out of it, but there's still a hairy moment when Colin accidentally slips down the face of the cliff that he was going to jump from. Fortunately, Andy rescues him and Colin realises he doesn't want to die. The guilt over his father comes to a head when an accident leads to a large tree falling on top of him, Stephen and another worker at Woombai. Colin is unharmed, but Stephen forces him to get a tractor and use it to drag the tree out of the way. Colin manages to do this, and he later breaks down as he admits to Jenny that he killed Ralph. Jenny assures him that it was an accident and that she doesn't blame him.

When Denise turns up at Woombai for Stephen and Jenny's engagement party, she teases Colin about the fact that he doesn't have a girlfriend. Colin is upset, but when Caroline places a friendly hand on his arm, he's intrigued. He confides in her that he's always had trouble getting close to girls, and Caroline chooses to help him by offering to sleep with him. Colin accepts her offer, but still finds himself unable to perform on the night. It's only when he meets a guy in a bar while he's drowning his sorrows over Caroline that he realises it isn't women that he's most comfortable around... In the days after Stephen and Jenny's wedding, Colin admits this to them, and he's relieved when they accept the news without any problem. Shocked to then learn that his mother has Hodgkin's Disease, Colin heads off to New Zealand with her, Stephen and Denise for a long holiday.

Jenny Turner/Morrell

First Appearance: Episode 572
Last Appearance: Episode 651

Key Storylines:
Jenny owns a property adjoining Woombai, and when she meets Woombai's resident manager, Stephen Morrell, there's an attraction. The two of them start seeing each other, but when Stephen's first wife, Caroline Morrell, comes back on the scene, there's instant competition and Jenny soon finds Caroline warning her off. Jenny wins out, though, and Stephen asks her to marry him. Jenny says 'yes'. Her life isn't without its problems: her first husband was killed in a tractor accident several years earlier and his son - Jenny's stepson - Colin tries to commit suicide while at university. Jenny and Stephen bring him back to Woombai, where he befriends Andy Green and begins to settle down. An accident with a falling tree forces Colin to admit to Jenny that he was responsible for the tractor accident that killed his father all those years ago. Jenny also has to cope with Colin's sixteen-year-old sister, Denise, who, upon turning up at Woombai for Jenny and Stephen's engagement party, throws herself at Wayne. There are more-serious repercussions when Denise is nearly attacked by a rapist - who she initially thinks is Wayne - but it turns out to be Wayne who saves her when the attacker strikes a second time.

Shortly after the engagement party, Denise and Stephen marry. They honeymoon at Dural, but while they're there, Jenny learns - via subtle hints from Caroline - that all is not well with Colin. She summons him to Dural, where he admits that it's guys he's interested in, not women. Jenny assures him that she and Stephen just want him to be happy. She suffers further problems when she starts feeling unwell, and Dr. Irene Fisher has to run tests to determine what's wrong with her. She diagnoses Hodgkin's Disease, much to Jenny's shock. She and Stephen decide to make the most of the time they have left together, and the two of them - together with Colin and Denise - head off for a long holiday in New Zealand.