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It is almost Guy Fawkes Night and in Weld they go crazy for fireworks. Officer Tom is already on Monty's case, insisting that there be no repeat of last year's incident with the fireworks and the surfboard.

After Woody sees George dancing with Tracy and gets the wrong end of the stick, he hands George a bill for forty thousand dollars instead of telling him how he feels. It is left to George to work out what is really going on.

When a car is found at the bottom of a ravine on the road out of town, it turns out to contain the body of Bill's long-lost wife Trina, who everyone thought had left Bill and their family to travel the world. If Trina has been down there all this time, who has been writing the postcards the kids ...

George has a new noisy neighbour: the occupant of the house up the road that he wanted to buy, and the seat of his childhood memories. When it turns out she is keen to sell, George is faced with an opportunity and a dilemma. Meanwhile, Woody takes a shine to the new neighbour, and Shay cannot see...

After months of him saying he is not ready, George has asked Katie out on a date. His chosen venue is an evening at the Weld cinema, but because he booked ahead, Shaun and Brenda knew they were coming. News travels fast in Weld, and everyone is so excited for them that finding a moment's peace to...

The `summer people' have arrived. Every year Weld is overrun by holidaymakers: the waves no longer belong to the locals, and for a few weeks they put away their surfboards and leave the chaos to the invaders. When Woody and George brave the ocean one morning and Woody is hit by a jet ski, it puts...

It is almost a year since the death of George's wife Laura. When it turns out Shay has stolen Laura's ashes from her grandparents and brought them back to New Zealand with her, they come to Weld to retrieve them, and George has to help work out what Laura would really have wanted.

It is the annual cricket match between Weld and their sworn enemies, Stafford, and George has been roped into the team as a ringer despite being banned from cricket in Australia. Also on the team is Mac's disgraced son Robbie.

Everyone is talking about George and Fiona's not-so-secret clinch after the cricket match, and Robbie unsurprisingly moves into attack mode to try to protect his interest in Fiona. Meanwhile, Monty still hasn't forgiven Robbie.

Now they are officially an item, Fiona and George decide to host a dinner party for the whole of Weld, but George doesn't have a big enough table. In fact, they soon realise they may have bitten off a little more than they can chew.

In his desperation to go into catering, Arlo has taken matters into his own hands at school and, much to George's shock and dismay, has given up all his best subjects, including science. Meanwhile, Woody is worried about Tracey's new job at school.

George and Fiona go for a romantic weekend away, but back home in Weld, things are not going according to plan, and George finally gives up and heads home when he hears the fire brigade pay Arlo a visit. Meanwhile, Jan has some surprising news.

The news of Jan's pregnancy threatens to drive a wedge between George and Fiona. Meanwhile, with demand for original paintings by Dennis outstripping supply, Shay comes up with an ingenious solution that might not be strictly legal.

The arrival of George's brother Terry has caused a buzz all over Weld. George is determined to warn everyone not to get too involved with Terry and carried away with Terry's schemes, but will they listen, and is it just jealousy on George's part?

George is convinced that Terry and Big Mac's new restaurant is forever changing the character of the town he has come to love. Meanwhile, Weld receives another very unexpected visitor.

George's article about Terry's restaurant has caused outrage in the town, but George is still worried he will be proven right and that Terry will betray everyone's trust. Most of all he is worried about Hannah, who has been defending Terry since the beginning of their whirlwind romance. Meanwhile...