Overview
The first season premiered on August 26, 2008. The season finale aired March 24, 2009. Season one's storylines included:
- Julie and Dave's 25th wedding anniversary
- Rachel and Nathan & Sammy moving back home
- Ben moving in with Carbo and getting a new flatmate, Mel
- An amateur porn video of Rachel and Daniel released
- Ben and Mel sleeping together and eventually dating
- Rachel's pregnancy and subsequent abortion
- Carbo and Chrissy's forbidden relationship
- Ted moving on from late wife Louise
- They discovery that Julie is pregnant
The second season premiered on June 30, 2009. The season finale aired November 24, 2009. Season two's storylines included:
- Julie's pregnancy and the birth of baby Ruby
- Ben's heart problems
- Dave meeting his birth mother Chel
- Rachel's romance with sparky, Jake Barton
- Chrissy's crush on Dave and her departure
- Nathan's infidelity and gambling problems
- Ben and Mel's engagement and marriage
- Dave's vasectomy
- Sammy leaving Nathan
The third season premiered on June 29, 2010. The season finale aired November 16, 2010. Season three's storylines included:
- Dave meeting his biological father, Tom Jennings
- Nathan and Sammy's separation and her subsequent departure
- Rachel's jealousy of baby sister Ruby
- Nathan donating a kidney to HIV-positive grandmother Chel
- Rachel's new job
- Ben and Mel's fertility troubles
- Carbo meeting a girl, Retta
- Julie making friends with Hamish, who develops a crush on her
- The Rafters meeting their Tom's grandson, Coby
- Mel's death
- Ben and Nathan's holiday around Australia
The fourth season premiered on February 8, 2011. The season finale aired March 20, 2012. Season four's storylines included:
- The return of Ben and Nathan
- Coby's artistic flare and his outing as an artist by Rachel
- The finalisation of Nathan and Sammy's divorce
- Rachel's departure to New York
- Carbo and Retta's secret marriage
- The development of a friendship between Julie and Donna
- Bree's arrival & her romance with Jake and departure
- Ben's relationship with Donna's daughter Emma
- The introduction of Matt, the half-brother of Dave
- Ruby's disappearance
- Ted's new lease on life and becoming a mentor to Cooper
- Nathan's departure
The fifth season premiered on April 17, 2012. The season finale aired April 16, 2013. Season five's storylines included:
- The introductions of sparky, Frankie Calasso and Julie's boss Adam Goodman
- Coby and Frankie's tumultuous relationship
- The reappearance of Jake's father Jim and his subsequent death
- The demise of Ben and Emma's relationship
- Dave's drunken kiss with Frankie and his marriage troubles
- Retta's pregnancy and miscarriage
- Jakes's departure to New York
- Ted's dementia diagnosis
- The fire in the Rafter household and its aftermath
- Emma moving in with Carbo and Retta
- The arrest of Coby after his assault upon Duncan, Donna's boyfriend
- Nathan's remarriage to Saskia and the birth of their son Edward
- The brief return of Nathan and Ben
- Julie and Dave's 30th wedding anniversary
The sixth season premiered on April 23, 2013. Season six's storylines includes:
- The arrival of new sparky Buzz Graham
- Ted's reunion with ex-lover Eleanor McCormack
- Nathan's permanent return with Edward
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