Holly's Heroes

- Season 1

(2005)

Holly McKenzie has just moved from New Zealand to Australia with her parents. Holly lives for basketball and looks forward to being one of the best players for the town's famed junior basketball team, the Rams.

Holly's new team-mates are pumped as they gather for their first practice session.

Holly is keen to lift the team's standard. She dreams of making the Outlaws every bit as good as her old New Zealand team, the Waka. But what Holly considers an easy training session, the Outlaws call torture.

When the Outlaws challenge Holly's belief that she's their captain and elect Nick instead, she takes it hard and nearly calls off her team party.

With the first game of the season only a day away, the Outlaws are feeling excited.

When the Rams and Outlaws are forced to work together for the competitive Year Nine social studies excursion, they try to put their differences aside.

As the Outlaws nervously prepare to play against the Rams, Jacinta reveals a talent for shooting three-pointers and joins the team.

Eager to make money, Johnno organises a two-on-two, Jungle Ball tournament and rigs the draw so that he and Ralph will win third prize.

As the Rams' annual movie marathon looms, Nick's aggressiveness threatens his friendship with Holly, whilst Jacinta is annoyed at Joel's sudden interest in her best friend.

The Outlaws travel to Wombat Springs to play their first game with Max as their coach. Despite Ralph's forebodings about the Wombats' unfair advantages, like springy rings on their home court, Holly is optimistic.

When Johnno takes Emily to her ballet class, he thinks he has found a major basketball talent in the shape of leaping Hamish Moore.

The Outlaws nervously face their last pre-finals game, without Holly, while she faces detention with Nick, Sean Berger, and Trish, Joel and Scubi. Berger taunts Nick about his past, while on court things begin badly for the Outlaws.

As the Grand Final between the Outlaws and the Rams draws closer, tensions build. When Johnno's efforts to restore Ralph's self-confidence backfire, Ralph decides it's best if he doesn't play, but then something unexpected happens.

The Outlaws' joy at being invited to the Pan Pacific Championships is short-lived when Peterson uses Max's absence to hijack the team.

The revamped Outlaws arrive in New Zealand to play Holly's old team, the Waka, and Holly is excited to see old friends.

The Outlaws play a fierce match against the Waka, and Joel makes an overdue confession. Meanwhile, Franco is jealous when Jacinta challenges Anatoly, a good-looking Russian boy, to a chess match, not realising that he's a chess prodigy.

Trish is determined to secure a basketball scholarship, but as she's not playing for the best team in Woolich, her chances are fading fast.

Johnno and Ralph go on strike when Alan Peterson's hard-line coaching methods prove too much and more Rams are invited to training.

The annual hunt for Mr Finnegan, a legendary fish, turns into a battle of the sexes following a chauvinistic remark from Johnno.

The Outlaws welcome visiting US team the Comets, whilst Joel directs his newfound interest in film making towards a legendary local shipwreck.

Emily organizes a trivia night fund-raiser, whilst Johnno and Ralph take on the babysitting job from hell.

When the Council decides to sell Max's boat shed, the Outlaws organise a petition and march on the Mayor's office.

When the Waka arrive for their return match, Holly finds herself at a crossroad when she learns that she's under consideration to join the NZ Under-16 National Squad.

The Outlaws plan to make the school dance a night to remember, but Holly is mortified, as she can't dance.

Trish and Holly attend an Intensive Training Camp, which could lead to a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. Meanwhile the discovery of an old film prompts Max to tell Joel of his love for Lucy, Joel and Jacinta's grandma.

As Holly and her parents prepare to return to New Zealand, the Outlaws band together which leads to a surprise underwater discovery.