Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
10 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Mon, Feb 5, 201843 mins
Life is about to get a whole lot more complicated for bad boy Doctor Hugh: Penny has been gone for a month now, after trading Whyhope for a job in the city, and she's making the most of the lifestyle change, including dating Dr. Toke, an ex-army medic she met at her new hospital, which leaves Hugh less than impressed. Will Hugh play his cards right and win her back before it's too late? Meanwhile, Whyhope Hospital is in chaos with Hugh's dangerously-incompetent new boss Nora Gumbleton at the helm. Matt has disappeared to clear his head, and Charlie is desperately trying to get him to return home; their marriage is in trouble, all because Hugh. Theirs isn't the only relationship being tested: When Hugh's teenage son Ajax and his devoutly religious long-term girlfriend Hayley accidentally have sex, Ajax wants to marry her. After winning the election as Mayor, Hugh's mother Meryl faces a corruption investigation and could lose everything, while his dad Jim is rushed to hospital after he collapses. His life is in danger, and only Hugh can save him. And all the while, Hugh fights with temptation at every turn. The countdown is on. Can he make it to the end of his probation without screwing up again and ruining his career forever?
Episode 2
Mon, Feb 5, 201845 mins
Hugh and the hospital staff use blackmail to get rid of their incompetent boss, Norah. Meanwhile, Penny faces family and romantic dilemmas that will change her future, and Hayley struggles with a guilty conscience over her relationship with Ajax.
Episode 3
Mon, Feb 12, 201846 mins
Penny and Floyd have returned to Whyhope, but the hospital is not how Penny left it. Her office is a hazard zone: moldy sandwiches, a rat trap, miscellaneous files piled high, and things only get worse the further she digs--it seems that she's been peddling Oxycodone out of the clinic, patient samples haven't been sent for testing, and Hugh's now living at the hospital. Things get more complicated when Penny realizes that Nora's still recovering from the lightning strike in the wards and is determined to carry out the insurance scam. But everything's interrupted when they get a call to treat a guy who's been caught under a falling tree and now has Crush Syndrome. He needs a fasciotomy, but as they begin, the power goes out. They continue with the help of torches, but all of this chaos has left Penny seriously wondering whether she made the right decision to return to Whyhope. Eventually she confides in Betty that she's not sure if she'll ever be happy here. Meanwhile, Hugh has a sudden burst of inspiration, and designs a new stent shaped like a helix. But his enthusiasm is quickly deflated when Trevor reminds him that no one will invest in them after the artificial-heart disaster. However things start looking up when Hugh learns that Penny has been given a research grant from Sydney, and they strike a deal to engineer his new stent together. Back at the homestead, Charlie's old sci-fi novel manuscript has come out of the woodworks. Charlie gives it to Matt to read, but he's never been one for sci-fi, and he struggles to get through it. He leaves it with Ajax, and suddenly the whole family is reading it--and quickly recognizing themselves in some of the characters. Meanwhile, Hayley's having a crisis of conscience: The boxes of votes in the shed are filling her with guilt, and having her parents over at the homestead isn't helping. Eventually Hayley can't take it any longer and calls the police to report the missing boxes.
Episode 4
Mon, Feb 12, 201843 mins
Penny and Hugh's worst nightmare comes true when they're called out to the scene of a light plane crash. They quickly discover that there are no survivors, and they're terrified to face the prospect of getting back on their own light plane to fly home, so they sedate each other for the duration of the flight and wake up when they've safely touched down in Whyhope. Meanwhile, Ajax has chosen to do his work experience at the hospital, but is alarmed when the corpses are brought in from the plane crash and stored in the freezer. And that isn't his only brush with death: he later watches one of the patients he looked after suddenly die from sepsis. He struggles to understand how the others can be so commonplace with death and considers whether he could ever have a career at the hospital. Ajax is not the only new face in the clinic; as Dr. Toke, the ex-army medic from Sydney, suddenly shows up. He's followed Penny back to Whyhope, determined to give their relationship a real chance. Hugh's immediately annoyed by him, and perplexed as to why Penny would consider dating a guy like that. So Hugh decides to get the scoop on their relationship from his man on the inside--and Floyd tells him things look serious. At the homestead, Charlie and Matt are being interviewed for an article about the Brewery. But when the reporter arrives, the pressure gets to them and they both become slightly warped versions of themselves--Matt's suddenly a cowboy, and Charlie's an entrepreneurial business woman. However, they soon realize that the young blogger has her eyes on a bigger story, and is using them to get to Meryl. At the Town Hall, an election recount has been called, and Meryl and Rod sit nervously waiting. Finally, the results are in, and Meryl is still the victor. Rod's furious, and winds up having a heart attack. Hugh, Penny and Toke all arrive on the scene, where they discover he's recently had bypass surgery. They bring him back to the hospital, where Hugh unpicks the stitches, opens his chest and performs a cardiac massage, saving his life. But the drama is not yet over: Meryl may have won the election, but Tugger reveals CCTV footage of Hayley calling in to report the uncounted ballot boxes, incriminating them both.
Episode 5
Mon, Feb 19, 201848 mins
Meryl enlists the help of Penny's barrister sister Celia, but Penny's relationship with her kleptomaniac sister has always been slightly strained, and Penny's not thrilled when she suddenly shows up on her doorstep. Celia quickly makes herself at home, including inviting all the staff to dinner, and winds up sleeping with Ken. At the hospital, Hugh gets a call out to a farm where a woman is stuck in a hay baler. They bring her into the hospital, and Hugh attempts to diagnose her, but she's unconscious and her friend speaks no English. They operate and remove her spleen, but it doesn't work; she's still deteriorating. However, they soon figure out that her friend is speaking Danish, and Betty's able to translate, leading them to discover she's got a fishbone stuck in her lungs. Meanwhile, there's a new detective in town, Darren, who's been brought on to investigate the corruption case. Both Meryl and Hayley are prepped by Celia and interviewed. It goes well, but Darren's out for blood, and Meryl soon suspects that he intends to raid the homestead. She quickly calls Matt and Charlie for help and gets them to destroy a whole lot of documents--giving the pair a glimpse into just how corrupt she really is. Things go further south when Hayley confesses to Celia, and she is no longer able to represent her. Sensing that Hayley is a liability for their defense, Celia strongly advises Meryl to throw her under the bus. Meryl considers it, but concludes that family is more important, and makes a deal to step down as Mayor in exchange for dropping the investigation. Darren agrees, but Meryl's got one last trick up her sleeve, and she enlists Hugh's help to make it look like she's had a heart attack.
Episode 6
Mon, Feb 19, 201843 mins
Penny faces with a tough decision when the father of one of her regular patients, a 16-year-old boy with Down Syndrome, is in a car accident. When the father is put in an induced coma, Penny decides to take the boy in until he recovers. Meanwhile, things are getting serious between Dr. Toke and Penny, as he arranges one outlandish date after another. But now Penny's got both Floyd and Max in tow, putting a dampener on their romantic nights out. Back at the hospital, Hugh isn't taking their relationship well, and gives Penny an ultimatum: get rid of Toke and they could be together. But she's got only 24 hours to make her decision. It's made even more complicated when Toke decides to propose to Penny. But Penny's realistic; can he ever really see himself living in Whyhope? Eventually, Toke realizes that she's too ingrained in the town for their relationship to work, and he leaves to work on a Mercy ship. Charlie gets into strife at her school when she takes her class for an impromptu excursion, and winds up getting the kids caught in a storm. It's the final straw in a long line of alternate teaching methods, and the principal fires her. Things get worse when she goes to his house to beg for her job back, and walks in on him dressed as a baby. Charlie's convinced she's out of a job, but Meryl intervenes, and forces the principal to hold a panel to deliberate. When they vote for Charlie to keep her job, the principal is furious and quits on the spot, allowing Meryl to push Charlie's name through as Acting Principal.
Episode 7
Mon, Feb 26, 201847 mins
The Annual Miss Whyhope pageant is in full swing and Meryl's doing everything she can to make sure Hayley takes home the crown. But as the new principal, Charlie's in charge, and she's decided to implement a few modern changes to the traditional events. Instead of tea parties and float parades, the contestants now face barrel runs and skeet shooting. Meryl's not pleased by Charlie's approach - Hayley's been preparing for the competition for years. Meanwhile, Ajax has been left in charge of wedding preparations, and he's conflicted when Hugh tells him he's too young to get married. His cold feet aren't helped by a sudden realisation - might he have feelings for another girl in the pageant? Back at the hospital, things are heating up between Hugh and Penny as they make plans to go on a proper date. But it's not going to be as easy as they thought, and Hugh first has to deal with an emergency call to a woman's house - one of her kids is having an asthma attack. They're finally about to go on their date when Penny remembers Hugh's fortnightly drug test, and everything is put on hold when it comes back positive. Ajax has decided he can't marry Hayley if he has feelings for another girl, and convinced he's doing the right thing, he tells her and they break up. Hugh's shocked - he never meant for them to break up, he just wanted to stop the wedding. And that's not his only problem - he can't work out why the drug test came back positive. Eventually both he and Penny put it together - the woman's house used to be a meth lab, and the exposure has caused both the kid's asthma attack and Hugh's positive test. He and Penny agree to go on a replacement date, but the damage has already been done. Hugh's convinced that she'll always see him as the bad guy - and maybe she's right.
Episode 8
Mon, Feb 26, 201845 mins
When the homestead gets struck by tree thieves, Matt and Ajax are determined to catch them red-handed. But when Jim suddenly collapses, Hugh discovers he hasn't been doing his dialysis and it's had serious consequences on his health--he needs a kidney transplant. Penny organises a home dialysis machine, but it gets a bit much for Jim. The family are all tested, and despite being broken up with Ajax, Hayley wants to be tested too. Things get complicated when she's the only one to come back a match, but she insists she'll donate. Meanwhile, Charlie's novel has found a cult online following, but her 15 seconds of fame are tainted when she gets trolled online. Against advice, she starts replying to the anonymous reviewers. She also finds herself dealing with a crazy fan who keeps leaving her weird gifts. Things escalate when they discover she's been camping out on their property, but Charlie decides not to press charges. Instead, they talk about her new novel, and Charlie finds a cure for her writer's block. Back at the hospital, Hugh goes ahead with the final tests for Hayley, only to discover that scans show that she was born with only one kidney. Back to square one, Penny questions Hugh--he has tested himself, right? Hugh argues against the idea but eventually relents and gets tested, but then he gets a call saying that a kidney has become available in Queensland. Jim needs to get on a plane fast, but they can't find him; he's out with Matt chasing the tree thief. Hugh finally finds him but it's too late--the kidney has gone to someone else. But all is not yet lost for Jim: Hugh reveals he came back a match.
Episode 9
Mon, Mar 5, 201848 mins
As Hugh prepares for the operation to donate his kidney to his father, Jim finds receiving extra attention from the family difficult. Hugh's estranged wife arrives from Las Vegas and creates chaos for Penny and Hugh's family. Charlie and Matt teach Hayley a lesson about love, lust, and the need to forgive Ajax.
Episode 10
Mon, Mar 5, 201848 mins
Penny is heartbroken when Hugh makes a series of disastrous choices about his marriage and career; love is in the air on Hayley and Ajax's wedding day.