Beth McKinley was a fictional character in the long-running Australian police drama Blue Heelers and joined the cast in 1996 playing the mother of new Probationary Constable, Dash McKinley. Beth had 9 children and was widowed when Dash was just 2. Beth was very well known in Mount Thomas, and very knowledgeable about everything to do with the town and its inhabitants. (On more than one occasion Sargent Croyden told Dash he didn't want to hear any of her mothers gossip in the station, yet other times the stories she had heard from her mother came in helpful when looking for suspects) She was a member of local Mount Thomas women's groups and got along with everyone in Mount Thomas. She was killed in season 6 in a car accident, this made Dash consider her future and she resigned from the force
Portrayed by Pauline Terry-Bietz, 1996 - 1999
Read more about this topic: List Of Recurring Blue Heelers Characters
Famous quotes containing the words beth and/or mckinley:
“Where beth they biforen us weren,”
—Unknown. Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? (L. 1)
“Major [William] McKinley visited me. He is on a stumping tour.... I criticized the bloody-shirt course of the canvass. It seems to me to be bad “politics,” and of no use.... It is a stale issue. An increasing number of people are interested in good relations with the South.... Two ways are open to succeed in the South: 1. A division of the white voters. 2. Education of the ignorant. Bloody-shirt utterances prevent division.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)