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Reference > The Month That Was... January and February 2004 by Steve

One Year Ago - January and February 2003

There was a big blast from the past for the Kennedys, some adjusting in the Scully household and an illicit affair that threatened to ruin many lives…

 

• Karl receives an unexpected call from Sarah Beaumont, asking for a reference. An unsettled Susan decides to tamper with the reference on the computer before Karl sends it and Sarah gets her revenge by having manure dumped in the Kennedys’ garden

Steph and Max agree to a date but there are various problems and they begin to wonder if it’s worth bothering at all. Steph later goes on a date with Lou’s new barman, Alex

Boyd finds out his friend Daniel is being abused by his father and so invites him to stay at the Hoyland house for a while. Boyd and Daniel get up to a great deal of mischief when they start spying on the Scully bathroom

Harold offers to donate a kidney to Lou as an olive branch and the two friends finally make up, with the operation a complete success

Jack and Nina’s attraction only strengthens when they audition together for Harold’s community theatre play about the warring Ramsay and Robinson families

Darcy plots to keep Dee and Toadie away from each other and causes trouble when he sets things up so he and Dee must spend the night together in a motel

Libby begins to move on when Stuart gives her a ring that Drew had had made for her

Ruby arranges for Harold’s home to be robbed so that she can pay off huge debts that she has accumulated from her secret gambling

Lyn and the Scully family are devastated when Connie suffers a stroke and later dies

Susan returns to work as VCE co-ordinator at Erinsborough High, but finds it difficult to work alongside the new principal, Candace Barkham

 

Five Years Ago - January and February 1999

Repercussions from the 1998 finale saw problems in several relationships and the men of Erinsborough bare all!

• New radio announcer George Caruana joins EdenFM and immediately causes problems for Susan when he claims that Erinsborough High is failing the local children

Sarah saves the life of patient Deidre Kaufmann at the hospital, but is suspended for performing the procedure without proper supervision

Coral arrives in town as Tad goes to court and she later admits that she can’t cope with taking him back yet, so Toadie agrees to let his cousin stay for another few months, leaving Tad feeling unwanted

Phil is attacked by a swarm of wasps in his loft, leaving him depressed, especially with Ruth away

Joel begins physiotherapy with Cluney Webb, but struggles with the realisation that it’ll be a long road to recovery for him

Anne receives a visit from Gary O’Neill, nephew of Lily Madigan, who seems friendly at first, but it soon becomes clear that he is out to contest his aunt’s will

Sarah’s mother, Bess O’Brien, arrives in Ramsay Street to stay with her daughter for a while

The men of Ramsay Street perform the Full Monty, though Harold chickens out at the last minute

Bill and Amy kiss each other for a radio competition to win tickets to visit Anne when she leaves for uni – how will Anne react when she finds out?

 



Ten Years Ago - January and February 1994

Misunderstandings and a tragic accident formed the beginning of a new year in Ramsay Street

 

• Gaby and Annalise are rescued from their crash landing in the bush and the incident causes their fragile friendship to be strengthened

When Rick catches Danni injecting, he believes that she’s a drug addict and word quickly spreads, until she is forced to admit that she is actually diabetic

Wayne’s younger brother Troy arrives in town and immediately tries to set up Wayne with Lauren, a plan that seems to have worked when the pair get closer after a night out

Rick and Cody realise that they fancy each other, though it seems that Cody is hiding something

Annalise is locked in the cellar by an obsessive pub customer, Tim, but Mark manages to free her

Rick and Cody get involved in an illegal drag race with Briggs and Lenny from school, but things got tragically wrong when the car crashes and Briggs dies. Cody is hit especially hard by the incident, feeling that she could have done something to save her friend

Gaby accepts a job offer in Milan and makes plans to leave

• Pam accuses Michael of using drugs, but is embarrassed to realise that the needles actually belonged to diabetic Danni

Please note that dates are based on Australian screenings

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