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- An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.
- When his mentor is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, a killer-for-hire is forced into action. His mission: kill three members of Britain's elite Special Air Service responsible for his sons' deaths.
- The adventures of the girls in the Saddle Club.
- In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
- Policing in a small rural town, popular in its day.
- Inspired by true events, HEALING is a story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit - in the most unlikely place for the most unlikely men.
- Jack would rather play an imaginary game of war alone, then hangout with his neighbour Lily... but a surprise attack changes everything.
- Two-channel video projection - train car on a railway line passes through a landscape in silence.
- When two riderless horses return to their stables, the Matlock police start a search for the honeymoon couple who hired them. They uncover more than they expected.
- When William Morgan escapes from prison a farm he heads for Matlock seeking the aid of a friend, but his friend's wife informs him that her husband has been jailed, and it is the fault of Det Sgt. Maddern. She supplies him with a rifle and he flees to the rangers.
- An aboriginal knacker's worker, Humphrey, who is always seen with a bag in his hand is branded as a 'bogey-man' by local kids, and parents are alarmed by rumor's that he makes children 'disappear'. When a child does go missing, he stands accused of throwing him in the 'çrunch-munch' machine at work, and some townspeople reach hysteria. The Matlock police embark on a search for the missing child in the storm-water drains beneath the local abattoirs.
- Matlock police become involved with a domestic problem, racial trouble and personal tragedy when an itinerant Aboriginal worker returns to his wife Betty and son Marty after several years of chasing work, and a half-cast woman who, through ignorance, had mistreated her child and thereby provoked the bigots in the community to burn her house down.
- A couple with marital problems take a holiday in the bush and disaster strikes.
- A sniper is loose in Matlock and he has murder on his mind - or does he? After shooting holes in his neighbor's water tank, a gunman takes to the river in his canoe, pursued by Sen. Det. York and Const. Hogan.
- Dingoes are attacking the flocks of Eagle Run, a sheep station just out side Matlock. But the wild dogs aren't the only killers loose in the rangers.
- Jill Perry, Sen Det. York's current girlfriend, pays no heed to the advice of the police in her efforts to convert the Matlock towns people into accepting an ex-convict into their town.
- When the Matlock police investigate a robbery and fatal bashing, they uncover the secret double life of a young businessman who has a mistress.
- A chance involvement in a minor crime leads Jimmy Wade, who turned to stealing to support his deserted mother, and his friends into a nightmare situation ending in violence and death.
- Matlock police have a problem on their hands when a young boy is struck down by a car driven by a mentally disturbed youth, and the child's mother refuses police access to her house.
- Sustaining heavy injuries after a trail bike accident, Sen. Const. Gary Hogan is held to ransom by an eccentric rabbit-er.
- Three drunken youths force a young girl, Lynda Wilson, into their car a knifepoint and trigger off an explosive situation that involves Det. Alan Curtis personally. Her father, Charles Wilson, talks her out of telling the police about the assault in order to save the embarrassment of appearing in court. He doesn't realise his information is vital to the police, who believes the same youths are also responsible for bashing Constable. Young. Library books found at the scene of the attack provide a vital clue in tracking down yobbos.
- Lee Gibson is convinced that bad luck follows him about and that he can never win - but this time he is determined to do or die when he carries out an armed robbery.
- When a dead body is found in an old shack it leads to the uncovering of some crooked deals by senior members of the Matlock police.
- A rich stranger, Ben Peterson, arouses the curiosity of the Matlock police, which turns to hatred when he is suspected of a violent sex crime. The battered, molested body of teenager Doreen Henderson is found in the bush and police discover that Peterson was the last person to see her alive.
- Ron Grey, an ex-Spitfire pilot embarks on a dubious mission as a courier to gain some quick money, because he only has a few years of active life lift - he is a chronic diabetic who keeps coma and semi-blindness at bay with insulin shots. While flying a light aircraft with his girlfriend Betty Holmes, the plane strikes trouble and they have to crash land in the Candowie Rangers. When the plane is found by a police search party, they discover that Gray and Holmes both fled into the bush.
- Lack of understanding by the townspeople of bindi towards a commune leads to a case of arson.
- Investigations of a large scale hijacking operation from transport trucks leads to a small time criminal 'Buttercup' Sands. At his home, shared with his de facto wife Edie, the police discover an autistic child, Monty who is confined to his room by a leg rope. His mother tells police it is the only way she can control him. The child also has a crippled leg which the mother believes is due to the child's autism, but a chiropractor, Tony Carboni, is convinced there is a spinal complaint later, the boy runs away and inadvertently helps police stumble on a vital clue when they have to rescue him from an abandoned mine shaft.
- A raid on a two-up school in the bush results in the discovery that someone is making illicit moonshine in Matlock. Investigations lead the police to a payroll robbery and the strange relationships between two fathers and their sons.
- 21-year-old Roy and 18-year-old Liz leave Melbourne looking for excitement. They are a violent couple. They find there way to Matlock where they are involved in a hit-and-run, murder, Robbery and kidnapping.
- 15-year-old Jill Evans has fallen in love with Det. Snr. Sgt. Vick Madden because she sees him as a direct contrast to her father. she corners Madden in the Matlock police station, rips open her blouse and throws her arms around his neck, and at that moment they are discovered. Jill accuses Madden of seducing her and claims he is the father of her unborn child, but Madden later manages to clear his name.
- The Matlock police find themselves personally involved in a wave of violent robberies when Const. Hogan's younger brother becomes an unwilling disciple of a religious fanatic.
- Matlock police are short on leads when a security guard is callously murdered during a $15,000, until unexpected help comes from a mentally handicapped child.
- A woman's skeleton is found buried at the bottom of the garden of Dr. Bedi's new house, and a post-mortem examination reveals the woman had been killed over 30 years ago. Sgt. Vic Madden finds his loyalties tested by an old friend, John Wilson, whom he suspects could be linked with the murder.
- When salesman Frank Ross finds himself in serious financial difficulties, he takes an illegal way out and starts an unexpected chain of events that bring surprise to the Matlock police.
- The Christmas festivities of the police and several families are marred by pranksters, a scrooge, and the violence of a distraught husband.
- An elderly lady is caught in the middle of a police investigation into robbery and embezzlement.
- When ex-convict Alec McKenzie returns home, the Matlock police look upon him as a possible suspect for a robbery. this is the least of Alec's worries. In the next 36 hours he uncovers jealousy and hate which puts pressure on him until he can't contain it no longer, resulting in violence.
- Deacon Gallegar thinks a wild orgy is taking place by the river. Wally Struthers meets Gallegar's daughter Kathy who collapses after having to much to home brew - Wally thinks she is dead and puts her in the boot of his car, causing police to suspect a murder. A bandit planning a robbery unknowingly meets up with Sen. Det. York while they are both traveling to Matlock. All this plus a runaway tractor causes bedlam at the Matlock police station.
- When a top Australian pop group comes to Matlock, the police have their hands full coping with robbery, groupies and drug pushing.
- The show is in town and the Matlock police play cat and mouse with two likable con-men.
- Elusive Billy 'Truckie' Ross, always two steps ahead of the police in his petty criminal dealings, is faced with downfall when his family gets in on the act.
- After a party, Det. Alan Curtis is accused of drunkenness and criminal neglect, resulting in the serious injury of a child, when he shifts her at the scene of a car accident.
- Ex-speedway driver Bernie Smith becomes involved with local hot-rodders doing up their cars, and the Matlock Police take an interest when they investigate stolen car parts. Bernie's love of his car is straining his marriage, and their neighbour Georgina Cooper is becoming increasingly paranoid about the Smiths. Events reach crisis point when local youths steal Bernie's car, Georgina Cooper tries to electrocute Judy Smith, and Bernie is caught breaking into a garage that he had been sacked from earlier.
- In the middle of the camping season, Matlock police run up against an irate father and an officious American Army officer - and some surprising result.
- When a callous farmer, Geoff Mitchell, who thinks more of his shotgun than he does of his wife, chases a trespasser off his property, it sets off a chain of events that culminate in a fatal shooting.
- The owner of a once prosperous horse stud resort to buying stolen cattle to make ends meet. dealing with the cattle duffers leads to attempted rape and death.
- A feud between a share farmer and the land owner ends in tragedy when the land owner pushes the people around him too far.
- Three young women fall victim to a sexual pervert and are assaulted. The prime suspect is a 17-year-old boy who has grown up in almost complete isolation in a remote area of Matlock.