Seasons & episodes

Despite wanting a quiet farewell, an impromptu party begins for Anne. Dione is furious with Joel. Anne surprises Bill at the train station - he is stunned to learn that she has chosen to come and live with him.

Lou bets $1000 on the cricket match. A ball injures Steph, and Simone and Paul go on their date.

Tad is emotionally blackmailed into providing an alibi for Felicity, and Joe gives Michelle a pep talk about bullies.

Drew and Libby realise everyone wants to be involved in their wedding plans. Joe decides to get to the bottom of the mystery caller. Meanwhile, Susan is faced with the difficult situation of disciplining Michelle after she broke Cecile's arm.

Michelle confides in Joel about her problems at school. Lyn loses her temper at work when a parent talks about the 'awful Michelle Scully'. Meanwhile, Steph, Toadie and Lance see Joel is carrying a wounded heart after being dumped by Dione.

Lance sees Joel is miserable, despite his denials and suggests he call Dione. Teresa is anxious when she runs into Trevor and Steph offers to go to Lance's TAFE ball as a favour.

Karl and Libby remain at loggerheads over Karl's comments about the wedding. Meanwhile, Toadie is unimpressed when Geri is asked to do her gossip column during his radio show.

Fed up with having no help around the house, Lyn goes on strike. Meanwhile, Tad is over the moon - he begins hanging out with Simone after Paul dumps her and he is optimistic about finding his natural mother.

Lyn attempts to mend the widening rift between Joe and Felicity over the Rocket tickets. Meanwhile, Teresa accidentally injures Daniel.

Tension mounts in the Scully household. Lance is in turmoil over an appropriate suit to wear to the ball. Meanwhile, Teresa becomes confused after a surprise visit from Brendan.

Teresa's confusion about Brendan worsens. Relations are strained in the Scully house and Lance is concerned that Steph isn't taking their date seriously.

Lance rips his pants at the ball. An off-the-cuff remark by Libby to Geri about wanting to get married to Drew right away leads Drew to question her intentions. Meanwhile, Tad confuses Simone when he avoids kissing her.

Tad's secret is revealed. Geri proposes a cash-for-comments scam at the station. Toadie and Lance have a new-found respect for Harold. Meanwhile, Tad finally confronts Rachel - he is sure she is his mother.

Toadie tries to chat up some backpackers. Connie and Henry impose a slide night on the Scullys. Flick is giving Tad his final 'practice' kiss before Simone gets back and they are sprung by Joe.

Lyn learns from Ivan's wife Katrina that he has left town avoiding his creditors. Joe is disappointed in Flick's continuous lies, despite her attempts to tell Joe she and Tad are just friends. Flick and Tad decide to tell Joe they are an item, as a joke. Tess and Brendan spend an impromptu day together and Tess finds she enjoyed herself. Later a goodbye kiss turns passionate.

Relations between Teresa and Brendan are improving rapidly, leading Steph and Libby to voice their disapproval. When Susan and Libby decide to try their hand at quilt-making, it soon turns into disaster when Libby spills water on the quilt.

While Lance and Steph plan a swim, they become involved in a fight with some local larrikins. Lance puts his new-found judo skills into practice. Drew tells Lance he seems to have gotten over Amy since he has been hanging out with Steph, but Lance protests they are just good friends. Drew disbelieves. Lyn approaches Geri about potential radio 'plugs' when she hears on-air comments about her rival salon. Geri suggests she would be more than happy to broadcast favourable comments - for a price.

After initially refusing involvement in Geri's 'services for comments' scam, Lyn begrudgingly offers her some free hair treatments when she hears Geri plugging her competition on-air. Tad's kissing lessons from Felicity are put to the test when Simone returns from holidays. Later, Joe spots Tad and Simone kissing on the street, and thinking Tad and Felicity are an item, asks him to fess up. How will Tad get out of this one?

Tad and Flick's scam is threatened when Tad is made to confess to Joe that he is two-timing Felicity. Joe tries to maintain his sham of leaving for work everyday, despite the fact he has no job. He is embarrassed when Connie and Henry put a deposit on a computer for the girls, expecting him to pay the balance. Later, Joe learns he has got a job, but his cover is blown when a sub-contractor arrives on his doorstep demanding payment for work.

Connie and Henry are shocked and disturbed to learn about Joe's financial difficulties. Lance becomes concerned about Toadie's scam to let out the spare room to the backpacker trade. When the gorgeous Adrienne arrives and plays on Toadie's infatuation, matters become worse as Toadie offers a discount on the rent. Brendan and Tess enjoy a spontaneous intimate dinner together and afterwards, when his car won't start, Tess offers Brendan the couch to stay overnight. This is strange yet familiar territory - spending the night under the same roof.

Joel arrives home to discover No. 30 has become a backpacker's hostel and is not pleased - however, given the dire rent situation, he reluctantly agrees. Toadie is hurt when Adrienne leaves without paying rent and has taken Steph's hairdryer. It's a close call when Lou arrives to collect the rent and finds a strange backpacker in the house, but the boys tell him he is friend of Joel's from overseas. Geri denies she is involved in a radio kickbacks scheme, despite the fact she is driving a zippy new sports car. When Libby learns of this, she vows to put an end to Geri's conniving ways.

Tad and Felicity argue - he is dissatisfied with her attempts to win him Simone back and threatens to come clean to Joe about their 'pretend' relationship. Felicity begs him not to - Joe would kill her if he found out she had lied to him again. Their argument is cut short by a call from the adoption agency, informing Tad they have located his real mother. Geri is set to get her comeuppance when Libby and Toadie expose her.

Michelle still battles the friendship war at school with Cecile, despite Felicity promising to keep an eye on her. In an impressive 'showdown' with Cecile, Michelle stands her ground and wins a new friend - Bianca. Libby catches Geri out when Lyn admits she provided Geri with free services for positive on-air comments about her business. When Libby takes a photograph of Geri and her broken-down car, to accompany her story, Geri is forced to admit defeat.

Felicity is racked with guilt after Joe finally withdraws from her almost completely. Paul arrives home to some surprises - Felicity is in Tad's arms, but it's not what it looks like and Paul sees Felicity is upset over the problems with Joe. Paul discovers Tad was dating Simone and now Felicity, the love of his life is dating an older boy - Sean. Along with all this, Tad kissed Felicity - it's all too much to take in.