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Episode Guide
Season One
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Making Tracks
Season 1 Episode 1
The Australian Express, the region's first stagecoach line,
heads out on its first run. Attempting to put the coach line out of
business, the local bushrangers meet their match in Kate, Maggie, and
Paddy.
- Disney Channel air date: November 4, 1983
- Videotape volume: 1
- Written by: Peter Kinlock and Graham Foreman
- Directed by: George Miller
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers, Tony
Blackett as "Backer" Bowman
- Guest starring: Barry Lovett - Harry Cotter, James
Healey - Eddie Wallace, Alfred Sandor - Captain, Francis
Bell - Toby, Peter Corbett - Scraggs, David Slingsby -
Colless
Horses for Courses
Season 1 Episode 2
Maggie stirs up trouble when she requests government troops clear up
the outlaw situation. Con, Jack, and Ben are attacked by bushrangers
while driving a special string of horses to the way station while "Backer"
Bowman pays Kate and Maggie a visit.
- Disney Channel air date: November 4, 1983
- Videotape volume: 1
- Written by: Gwenda Marsh
- Directed by: Frank Arnold
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers, Tony
Blackett as "Backer" Bowman
- Guest starring: Reg Evans - Fred Finnegan, Michael
Petrovitch - Sergeant
Love Before a Fall
Season 1 Episode 3
Life at the remote stagecoach station is complicated by the arrival of
a mysterious adventurer. Stolen gold, outlaw bushrangers, and the
stranger's shady past add up to trouble for the men and women of the
Australian Express.
- Disney Channel air date: December 7, 1983
- Videotape volume: 2
- Written by: Sarah Crawford
- Directed by: Di Drew
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers
- Special guest star: John Waters as Cameron
- Guest starring: Tony Blackett - "Backer" Bowman, Tim
Hughes - Hennessy, Joanna Lockwoood - Madelaine
A Few Surprises
Season 1 Episode 4
Just as an important aristocratic visitor books passage on the
fledgling stage line, Jack contracts a deadly fever that can only be cured
by a primitive native potion.
- Disney Channel air date: December 21, 1983
- Videotape volume: 2
- Written by: Michael Joshua
- Directed by: Frank Arnold
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers
- Guest starring: Tony Blackett - "Backer" Bowman,
Simon Chilvers - Lord Rivers, Max Meldrum - Mr. Philips,
Jennifer West - Mrs. Phillips, Harry Lawrence - Harry,
Robert Giltinan - Anderson, Garry Weston - Stable Keeper,
Ernest Butchard - Inn Keeper
The Scrub Bulls
Season 1 Episode 5
With the initial success of their fledgling stagecoach line, Jack and
Con decide to expand their operation. However, a land dispute pits
Jack against a stubborn local squatter.
- Disney Channel air date: January 4, 1984
- Videotape volume: 3
- Written by: Denise Morgan
- Directed by: Chris Thomson
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers
- Guest starring: Susan Leith - Mrs. Drummond, Tony Barry
- Mr. Drummond, Beth Buchanan - Bessie, Anthony Martin - "Wacka",
Bernie Ledger - "Blue", Marcus Corrigan-Travis - Meth,
Peter Hernfield - Digger
Bang the Big Drum
Season 1 Episode 6
Maggie learns a terrible secret about her missing husband. The
news has a devastating effect of both Maggie's plans for a new life in
Australia, as well as on her impressionable young daughter.
- Disney Channel air date: January 18, 1984
- Videotape volume: 3
- Written by: Michael Joshua
- Directed by: Michael Jenkins
- Special guest star: Graham Kennedy as Walker the "Hawker"
- Guest starring: David Bradshaw - Sergeant, Bevan Wilson
- Pratt, Jane Ahlquist - Mrs. Brady, Ray Kelly - Aborigine
Gold Fever
Season 1 Episode 7
Gold fever sweeps the outpost of Five Mile Creek, bringing excitement
and new-found wealth to the settlers, and also a deadly confrontation with
nugget-hungry bushrangers.
- Disney Channel air date: February 1, 1984
- Videotape volume: 4
- Written by: Peter Kinlock and Graham Foreman
- Directed by: Kevin J. Dobson
- Featuring: Jonathan Frakes as Adam Scott
- Guest starring: David Bradshaw - Trooper sergeant, Paul
Mason - Reverend Powell, Jonathan Sweet - Collinson, John
Sheerin - Mr. Barton, Kate Turner - Annabel, Shauna
O'Grady - Elizabeth
Annie
Season 1 Episode 8
The hardships of childbirth in the outback surface when Maggie must
serve as midwife during an emergency delivery, while coping with her
fugitive husband's sudden arrival at Five Mile Creek.
- Disney Channel air date: February 15, 1984
- Videotape volume: 4
- Written by: Greg Millin
- Directed by: Brendan Maher
- Guest starring: Cheryl Walton - Annie Curruthers, Hugh
Keays-Byrne - Bill Curruthers, Philippa Baker - Mrs. Curtis,
Martin Harris - Publican
Home and Away
Season 1 Episode 9
The hardy settlers at the remote stagecoach way station begin to sink
permanent roots in the isolated region - although Maggie has to decide to
return to America or remain in Australia to help Kate run The Haven.
Jack's first gold shipment is stolen - threatening the future of the
Australian Express.
- Disney Channel air date: March 7, 1984
- Videotape volume: 5
- Written by: Michael Joshua
- Directed by: David Stevens
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers and Ray Barrett
as Harry
- Guest starring: Chris Haywood - McCrea, Jon Blake -
Trooper Wilson, Peter Whitford - Mr. Anderson, Warwick Moss
- Frome, John Grant - Rigby, Martin Harris - Innkeeper
The Awakening
Season 1 Episode 10
Kate brings her gentle kindness to a family of aborigines who are in
dire need of medical attention.
- Disney Channel air date: March 21, 1984
- Videotape volume: 5
- Written by: Denise Morgan
- Directed by: Frank Arnold
- Guest starring: Jeff Ashby - Swenson, Victoria Battese
- Mrs. Barton, Marilyn Allen - Mrs. Willis, John Stone -
Curly, Peter Fisher - Slim
The Prize
Season 1 Episode 11
A wild free-for-all ensues when business partners Con and Jack step
into the boxing ring to win an important contract for the Australian
Express stagecoach line.
- Disney Channel air date: April 4, 1984
- Videotape volume: 6
- Written by: Sarah Crawford
- Directed by: Kevin J. Dobson
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers and Mike Preston
as Boz Deagon
- Guest starring: Brandon Burke - Harold Ashley, David
Ravenswood - Reg Bostock, Pat Bishop - Muriel Bostock,
Sally Cahill - Mrs. Ashley
Tricks of the Trade
Season 1 Episode 12
Bushrangers threaten a shipment of currency headed for the bank, and
Kate faces an even greater crisis: young Sam's foster parents
arrive, intent on taking him away. When Kate is told that she must
be married to adopt him, a surprising proposal comes from an unlikely
source.
- Disney Channel air date: April 18, 1984
- Videotape volume: 6
- Written by: Gwenda Marsh
- Directed by: Gary Conway
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers
- Guest starring: Tony Blackett - Bowman, Gerard Kennedy
- Mr. O'Bannion, Melissa Jaffer - Mrs. O'Bannion, Lewis
Fitzgerald - Nigel, Rob Steele - Mr. Hawkins, Robin
Stewart - Scale, David Bracks - Wilson, Jo Woodward -
Burton
Thanksgiving
Season 1 Episode 13
Now a widow, Maggie tries to make the best of the situation. It's
Thanksgiving and she plans a special holiday dinner for her friends at
Five Mile Creek way station, but a disagreement between Jack and Con
threatens to ruin the celebration.
- Disney Channel air date: May 2, 1984
- Videotape volume: 7
- Written by: Sarah Crawford
- Directed by: Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Featuring: Peter Carroll as Mr. Withers
- Guest starring: Peter Sumner - Lucas Morgan, John Ley
- Toby Ferguson, Phillip de Carle - Butcher
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