Season 5
40 episodes · Jun 23, 1997
An entirely new school, new staff and new students keep the tensions running high and bring in even more trouble to the Hartley hallways this year.
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S5E1Episode 131
Jun 23, 199745mThe Heartly high students are getting a hard time from the Heartly heights students and one of them plays a crule prank on Anita.
S5E2Episode 132
Jun 25, 199744mKurt is embarrased by hais alchoholic father.Leo Fine is sent to jail and Melanie Blacks dad takes over at the sharkpool.
S5E3Episode 133
Jun 30, 199743mThe newest addition to the teaching staff at Hartley Heights High School, Gerard Albers, is an eccentric and flamboyant bohemian from Spain, who is as at home on the touch football field as he is in the classroom.
S5E4Episode 134
Jul 2, 199745mWhen Les confiscates a Penthouse magazine from Drazic in class, he has no idea what the consequences will be. Drazic takes revenge by sticking a centrefold on one of Les' Biology teaching aids.
S5E5Episode 135
Jul 7, 199744mNew kid Andrew arrives at Hartley. Although he has Muscular Dystrophy and is in a wheelchair, he is determined to be treated like a normal teenager.
S5E6Episode 136
Jul 9, 199744mMelanie and Andrew seem happy together but as opposition to their relationship mounts, Melanie starts having second thoughts.
S5E7Episode 137
Jul 14, 199745mAlbers decides to teach a history class with a twist when he asks the class to put Arthur Phillip on trial. Was Arthur Phillip a good man or did he knowingly attempt to carry out genocide on the Aboriginal people?
S5E8Episode 138
Jul 16, 199745mAnita and Ryan are not coping well with the 4am wake up calls from baby James. Jeff feels bad - he came here to help the kids through the HSC but he seems to be making things harder for them.
S5E9Episode 139
Jul 21, 199743mAnita and Ryan are enjoying life without parental supervision until Kath Livingstone, the new housekeeper, arrives with her daughter Sarah.
S5E10Episode 140
Jul 23, 199744mNikki is furious when Kurt continuously puts his love for the environment ahead of her. However, he reveals the cause of his fanaticism: a seal at the Aquarium is on the brink of death because it swallowed a plastic bag.
S5E11Episode 141
Jul 28, 199744mWhen Sarah helps Anita and Drazic discover the internet, she inadvertently gets them both into trouble. Anita is wooed by a man calling himself DJ Byron but when she agrees to meet him she puts herself in a dangerous situation. Drazic has a run in with customs when he tries to order CD's to sell to his school mates. Both learn a tough lesson! While Nikki is filming Mai performing as a human sculpture in the local mall they film a pickpocket working the audience. They take the tape to class and the class debates what action to take. Embarrassed when Barry turns up to footy practice drunk, Kurt sacks his dad as coach and takes over himself. Not everyone is pleased—Ryan quits the team. However it seems that there may be more behind Ryan's departure — Kurt and Nikki are now an item and Ryan refuses to believe that he's lost Nikki just yet.
S5E12Episode 142
Jul 30, 199746mRyan, still smarting over Kurt and Nikki's blossoming relationship, is staying away from the football team. However, Barry manages to persuade him to rejoin for an inter-school competition.
S5E13Episode 143
Aug 4, 199744mAfter putting Kurt in hospital, Ryan finds he is being ostracised. Feeling sorry for himself, he wags school and meets Mario,, who offers him a way out of his depression - and so, Ryan begins his trip into the drug culture.
S5E14Episode 144
Aug 6, 199744mNow well and truly entrenched in the world of drugs, Ryan is at the point where his speed is costing him more than he can afford. Desperate for more drugs, Ryan begins to steal, first from Anita and then from the school. Anita discovers Ryan with stolen goods — now she is left with the task of making him see sense. When Albers sets a project focusing on personal histories, Sarah sets on a trail to find out about her father. However, she may not be pleased with what she finds out. Kurt's return to school brings back memories of his accident, and he is concerned that nobody knew how to cope. He convinces Di to run a voluntary basic first aid course, but Kurt has trouble convincing the other boys to participate. It is not until he reveals his secret weapon that the boys finally come around.
S5E15Episode 145
Aug 11, 199745mWhen Ryan is late for class again, and hasn't done his major assignment, Barnett hauls him over the coals. Ryan refuses to be helped by her or anyone and walks out before he can be suspended from school.
S5E16Episode 146
Aug 13, 199745mSarah enlists Anita's help to find her father but Kath makes it very clear that they'll receive no assistance from her.
S5E17Episode 147
Aug 18, 199744mWhile busking, Nikki meets Luda, a recording artist who wants to record one of her songs.
S5E18Episode 148
Aug 20, 199746mSince Mai and Drazic had a close nocturnal encounter, things in the warehouse have been somewhat tense. As the new arrival, Kurt feels that maybe he's the problem.
S5E19Episode 149
Aug 25, 199744mWhen JJ, a prisoner on day release, begins working at the school, he runs into some prejudice from the kids. All that is, except Sarah who, upon talking to JJ, realises they have a lot in common and quickly begins to fall in love.
S5E20Episode 150
Aug 27, 199744mDespite her mothers objections and threats, Sarah continues her relationship with JJ.
S5E21Episode 151
Sep 1, 199744mDeciding to refocus his life on getting back in shape, Kurt has a chance meeting with Lachlan, an old friend who is now running a fitness club that is dedicated to cleaning up the environment.
S5E22Episode 152
Sep 3, 199745mKurt and Lachlan discover Skye and her friends camping in the park and try to move them on. Things heat up when Lachlan and Anita later find Lachlan's club house has been vandalised.
S5E23Episode 153
Sep 8, 199745mLee Delaine has two strikes against him: he's the newest student at Hartley Heights and to make matters worse, his father is the school's new Humanities teacher.
S5E24Episode 154
Sep 10, 199744mSarah is back at Hartley having finally left home and returned to the city. She has rented a flat, but the landlord keeps trying to chat her up as well as beating his wife.
S5E25Episode 155
Sep 15, 199745mWhen Drazic throws himself into trying to design a new type of skate, Di suggests he consider a career in industrial design.
S5E26Episode 156
Sep 19, 199745mBelieving she's on a date with Paul, Anita is taken aback when he recoils from her attempt to kiss him. When she presses him for an explanation, Paul reveals to her that he is gay.
S5E27Episode 157
Sep 22, 199744mPat Gregory, an old friend of Nat Delane, takes up a teaching post at Hartley, but soon runs into trouble with Lee who is still having difficulty fitting in.
S5E28Episode 158
Sep 24, 199745mWith his parents waiting for him to choose a new school to attend, Lee shocks them by announcing he is not going to change schools - he's dropping out.
S5E29Episode 159
Sep 29, 199744mNikki turns moral crusader when she learns that the mother of her friend Tasha is being exploited by her boss. Nikki takes it upon herself to demand he pay his workers a fair wage but her meddling only causes more problems.
S5E30Episode 160
Oct 1, 199745mDi informs the students that the school has installed a card-swipe system as part of an "efficiency measure". Among other things, the cards record attendance, a system Drazic is quick to capitalise on.
S5E31Episode 161
Oct 6, 199745mIn a well intentioned effort to help Sarah overcome her inhibitions, Ryan volunteers her to perform a play in front of the class. Seeing a chance to help Kurt explore his sensitive side, Anita nominates him to be her partner.
S5E32Episode 162
Oct 8, 199745mWanting to take her relationship with Ryan further, Sarah asks Nat and Jill if she can have a friend stay the night. They are quick to agree, unaware she means Ryan, and the evening is awkward for everyone involved.
S5E33Episode 163
Oct 13, 199745mAfter Anita spends the night with Kurt at the shed, Drazic doesn't appreciate Kurt rubbing his nose in their relationship and asks Ryan to move out.
S5E34Episode 164
Oct 15, 199745mWith a virtual Cold War existing at the shed between Kurt and Ryan, Kurt conspires with their realtor to orchestrate a scheme to break their lease by getting evicted.
S5E35Episode 165
Oct 20, 199744mNikki's behaviour grows more erratic. She has missed two days of school and when she returns, wet from being in a fountain where she was talking to a cherub, Lee becomes concerned for her welfare.
S5E36Episode 166
Oct 22, 199745mKurt takes up the cause of helping find a mate for Wally the sea turtle. With charitable donations hard to come by, Kurt accepts help from D'espo who comes up with a racy promotion for a dance night at the Shark Pool.
S5E37Episode 167
Oct 27, 199744mAfter a humbling defeat on the tennis court at the hand of a visiting tennis ace, Kurt takes a personal interest in Bonnie Coyne but her intense training schedule - and demanding mother - keep the pair apart.
S5E38Episode 168
Oct 29, 199745mTo mark Ryan's move into the shed, Sarah gives him a clock that is family heirloom. Needing money to buy a bed, Ryan turns down Sarah's offer of a loan and then takes Drazic's suggestion that he pawn the clock.
S5E39Episode 169
Nov 3, 199744mA radio contest for a state-of-the-art sound system catches Drazic's ear. "The Wheelie Challenge" is an endurance challenge that has the competitors riding a Ferris wheel.
S5E40Episode 170 (Season finale)
Nov 5, 199744mKurt's sudden disruptive behaviour escalates until he assaults Mr Delaine in the corridor and is suspended from school.