Blue Heelers

- Season 1

(1994)

New constable Maggie Doyle arrives in Mt. Thomas. She is faced with not only rampant chauvinism but the fact that she will be stationed with her ex-boyfriend, Constable Wayne Patterson, who has recently moved there with his wife Roz.

The Heelers investigate the theft of a harvester on the eve of its repossession by bailiffs. Meanwhile, Nick investigates why a mysterious woman is rifling through a dead man's possessions and Wayne attends his first autopsy.

Roz has bought herself a new car so she can start a mobile salon but the added workload results in her falling behind with her cleaning duties at the station. With help from Nell, Tom finally contracts the work out to a local widow.

Wayne are Roz are celebrating her new business when the phone rings - there's been a burglary at the antique store, the latest in a spate of local break-ins. With PJ occupied with a "girlfriend," Wayne is forced to stand guard all night.

The annual Mt Thomas Cup brings an array of colourful characters to Mt. Thomas. Maggie is accompanied during her shift by Sgt Noel Harrison, a stickler for the finer points of the law.

It is a busy Sunday in Mt Thomas that sees Tom turn marriage counsellor while the discovery of an abandoned child raises painful memories for Nick.

The Heelers investigate a serious road traffic accident and PJ tries to avert trouble between two warring neighbours.

Having received a job offer in Melbourne, Roz asks Wayne to consider applying for a transfer. Soon after, Wayne is shot while attempting to assist the occupants of an apparently disabled car.

A curious mother uncovers information from her daughter Kym's diary that suggests a drug dealer is operating near the school. Meanwhile, Wayne returns to work after the shooting but is very tense. Is he ready to be back at work?

It's Police Week in Mt Thomas and the station's doors are thrown open to the public. Maggie and Wayne investigate a harassment complaint by an elderly farmer. Roz applies for the general support officer's job at the station.

While the Heelers are searching for the mother of a baby found abandoned at the railway station, the child is abducted from the hospital. Roz has a rough first day as the station's new administration officer.

When the wife of a prominent solicitor is arrested for shoplifting, Tom puts his reputation on the line to help a friend. Nick solves two problems when he helps out an arthritic farmer who has been keeping his son out of school.

PJ teams up with the Special Response Force and his old friend Senior Sergeant Col Monroe to investigate a series of aggravated burglaries in Mount Thomas.

No one is more surprised than Chris when her supposedly dead ex-husband climbs through her bedroom window in the middle of the night, mere hours after she identified his body in the morgue. ANZAC Day keeps the team hopping.

The fate of a five-year-old boy hangs in the balance due to a maze of untruths after it is reported he has been abducted by his father.

Wayne is accused of theft and his future at the station hangs in the balance when Internal Affairs is called in to investigate.

Residents protest when a convicted child killer released on early parole returns home to Mt. Thomas, an event that could have serious consequences for the town.

PJ meets his match when an old flame comes to town to investigate a series of cattle thefts. When accused of theft, a young woman accuses her boss of sexual harassment.

Wayne's attempts to serve a warrant are complicated when his target evades him by fleeing up a tree.

Wayne's sporting hero, Big Don Danites, returns with his wife to her hometown of Mt. Thomas, but as a violent drunk he finds it hard to live up to his reputation.

Nick is destined to lose another relationship when the woman he is seeing is implicated in a hit-and-run. The Heelers are taken aback when the prowler they are searching for presents himself at the station.

Maggie has a formal complaint filed against her after she and Wayne lock up a drunken, underage teen overnight in the cells. Nick picks up a new patrol car.

Maggie's reputation is put on the line when she arrests her boyfriend's boss, a police-friendly MP, for drunken driving. Her father then comes to Mt. Thomas to help sort it out - by whatever means necessary.

Tom assigns Roz to help out at the one-man Widgeree station where Senior Constable Alan McCubbin is running behind on his paperwork. Roz makes an excuse so as not to have to return after being subjected to Alan's inappropriate advances.

Bill Mason arrives in Mt Thomas hoping to follow up leads relating to the disappearance of his son, Paul, four years earlier.

When the local magistrate comes to town for the day, the Heelers are less than enthusiastic about spending their time in court. None more-so than Maggie who's got butterflies in anticipation of her first day in court.

Sally Lewis is found dead in a shared house where suspicion falls on her room-mates, including her sister Heather, who may have been involved in her death. The team also reunite one of the room-mates with his estranged father.

Bill Todd is making a fortune by selling inferior carcasses as quality meat - but Inspector Faulkner insists that any action be postponed until after his launch of the local Safety House Scheme, of which Bill is a prominent supporter.

A young man found loitering outside a woman's home, and later suspected of breaking in, is subsequently found brutally beaten in his room at the Imperial.

After an eventful night where wealthy rural resident Moira Field shoots and kills an intruder, and following her suspension from her job, Roz decides to leave Wayne and return home to Melbourne.

PJ recognises a man brought into the station under suspicion of drunk driving as the suspect acquitted in a Melbourne rape case two years prior. PJ is still convinced of the man's guilt.

Feuding elderly siblings make life hell for the Heelers. The angry brother accuses the owner of an antique store of receiving stolen goods after his sister sells a chest of drawers without his knowledge.

Nick and Maggie investigate unexplained mishaps in a retiree's home whilst Wayne goes on the search for who is breaking into people's houses without stealing anything.

A travelling prostitute is found robbed and beaten in the motel room she is working out of. The Heelers' investigation leads them to high-profile suspect.

Adam falls for Maggie but as rumours about a budding relationship begin to circulate around the station, Maggie makes it clear there will never be anything between them.

P.J. and Tom are caught in the middle of a contentious local land dispute between P.J.'s ex-girlfriend Hilary Edmunds's uncle Stan Horvath and Geoff Lovett who is claiming adverse possession of the land.

The Heelers investigate the disappearance of Joanne Foster as she made her way to work.

Tom is puzzled when he sees Father Leary talking to two con artists who are selling herbal remedies to the locals. In a subsequent encounter at the Imperial, Tom finds that Leary has become distant and rude.

A drug raid based on a tip-off goes wrong when the drug manufacturers get wind of the raid. With their joint operation blown, the coppers from Mt Thomas and St Davids point accusing fingers at one another.

When a carpet shop is ram-raided and a body goes missing from a funeral parlour, Tom believes it is more antics from the B&S Ball revellers who are running amok in the town.

PJ does some checking when a young security guard blames a small-time criminal for a series of burglaries. Meanwhile, a young woman comes into the station highly distressed after being robbed of company funds.

Nick is unwittingly involved in a murder investigation that could spell the end of his career when a rowdy drunk that Nick took home is found dead the next day. PJ's mother gives him some relationship advice in hopes he will get married.

Tensions are running high as renovations are underway in the Mt. Thomas station when two Aborigines arrive in town, and Tom is accused of racial prejudice.

A major car accident shatters the lives of several Mt Thomas families. Killed in the collision are three teenagers and Tom's wife, Nell, whose car the impaired teenagers collided with. Tom's daughter, Susan, is the lone survivor.

Maggie's boyfriend is suspected of being on the take when a horse racing ring-in is discovered. Maggie's hopes of being promoted into the detective ranks is derailed by the appearance of a rival from St Davids.