Rafferty's Rules

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  E1Security

  Feb 9, 1990· 46m

  Michael sees the law from another perspective after he becomes the key witness in Flicker's prosecution against an arsonist.

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  E2That Old Black Magic

  Feb 16, 1990· 45m

  Michael begins to wonder if someone is trying to put a spell on him after a number of suspicious run-ins with a member of a religious commune.

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  E3The Plague

  Feb 23, 1990· 46m

  Lisa confronts the prejudices of society when she defends a man with AIDS who has committed an armed robbery in order to ensure his wife's future following his death.

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  E4In For a Penny

  Mar 2, 1990· 45m

  Michael is drawn into the world of a struggling young family after he witnesses a woman being hit by a car.

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  E5Out of Line

  Mar 9, 1990· 45m

  Lisa finds herself at odds with her colleagues when she defends an anti-nuclear activist whose family and the police are determined to have detained for his own safety.

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  E6One for Us

  Mar 16, 1990· 45m

  Rafferty decides to expose a Chilean military attaché following charges for torturing political dissidents in Chile.

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  E7Politburo

  Mar 23, 1990· 46m

  Flicker is horrified after he discovers just what conditions are faced by those in the police cells awaiting trial.

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  E8One Consideration With Another

  Mar 30, 1990· 45m

  Racial tensions erupt when two Asian men are accused of murder, while Michael questions his capacity as a magistrate after an act of leniency has dire consequences.

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  E9Home

  Apr 6, 1990· 46m

  Flicker and Lisa find themselves dealing with a particularly challenging court case when a girl alleges that she was raped by her father four years earlier.

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  E10The Book of Love

  Apr 13, 1990· 44m

  Lisa defends a singer who has beaten his wife, but her personal involvement in the case is made more difficult when he brings a gun into the courthouse.

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  E11On the Barricades

  Apr 20, 1990· 46m

  Michael revisits his past as a university radical and conscientious objector when he is forced to decide the fate of a man who he once protested alongside.

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  E12Funny Peculiar

  Apr 27, 1990· 45m

  Flicker confronts his own prejudices when he prosecutes a case involving the assault of a female impersonator; however, it is Michael who finds himself at the centre of a controversy after the verdict is given.

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  E13Whatever Gets You Through the Night

  May 4, 1990· 45m

  Lisa is drawn into an organisation known as Life Force after a man is arrested for break and enter and assault.

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  E14Whistling in the Dark

  May 11, 1990· 46m

  Flicker finds himself wandering into a murky world of corruption when he prosecutes a case against a police officer who has broken the law and where the key witness is a serial whistleblower.

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  E15Blood, Sweat and Paycheques

  May 18, 1990· 44m

  Fulvio and Sandra's marriage comes close to breaking point after Sandra is arrested for shoplifting.

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  E16Home Again Kathleen

  May 25, 1990· 45m

  Michael, Flicker and Lisa are dragged into a murky political world when they discover that the conflict between the British and the Irish is alive and well in Sydney.

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  E17Driven to It

  Jun 1, 1990· 45m

  An act of vandalism by the member of an animal rights group leaves Michael becoming emotionally involved with the accused's mother.

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  E18A Fair Day's Work

  Jun 8, 1990· 44m

  A man seeks Lisa's help when he is sacked after complaining about the work conditions; however, she soon finds herself defending him when he assaults his former boss.

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  E19Lies

  Jun 15, 1990· 44m

  Lisa is drawn to an attractive young lawyer; however, she is forced into an ethical dilemma when his personal life unravels.

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  E20Consciousness Raising

  Jun 22, 1990· 44m

  The feminist movement comes to the courthouse when a prominent feminist runs a group of pigs through the shop of a man accused of sexual harassment.

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  E21Free of Passion

  Jun 29, 1990· 45m

  Flicker finds himself at the crossroads of a major life decision after he falls in love with a young female Constable, but his excitement at finding new love may see him lose it all.

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  E22Many Happy Returns

  Jul 6, 1990· 46m

  A convicted criminal whose ex-wife is about to marry a police officer comes before the court accused of assault.

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  E23In Custody

  Jul 13, 1990· 46m

  Lisa assists a young woman whose boyfriend has been arrested; however, she is horrified when she learns that he has been detained without charge and suspects that the police are fitting him up because he is Aboriginal.

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  E24Lost Empires

  Jul 20, 1990· 44m

  Lisa fights to save an Indian couple who are facing deportation, only to discover that the collapse of the British Empire means that they have no real home to go back to.

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  E25The Sea, the Sea

  Jul 27, 1990· 44m

  Michael and Flicker befriend the beachcomber and poet, Snowy White; however, their admiration is crushed when it begins to appear that Snowy may be guilty of murder.

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  E26Up, Up and Away

  Aug 3, 1990· 46m

  Lisa is charmed by a client accused of appropriating money from elderly women; however, Michael and Flicker cause conflict when they question her judgement.

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  E27Punch Ups

  Aug 10, 1990· 44m

  A prominent radio host has been charged with brawling. Michael is faced with the consequences of his judgements when he sentences a man accused of assault, only to later learn that the man's employer has sacked him.

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  E28Best and Brightest

  Aug 17, 1990· 44m

  Michael is reunited with an old classmate in the lead-up to a school reunion; however, he is left wondering if they've come very far at all since the schoolyard.

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  E29Unaccompanied Bark

  Aug 24, 1990· 45m

  An elderly journalist is arrested for shoplifting.

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  E30GuiltyFinale

  Aug 31, 1990· 46m

  Michael is consumed by guilt after he hits a man with his car; however he starts to wonder if maybe there are deeper issues at play when he seeks guidance on how to deal with his feelings.

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  E1Nine Tenths of the Law

  Feb 4, 1989· 45m

  Michael wrestles with the concept of possession after the discovery of Aboriginal remains creates a conflict of ownership between the state and the Indigenous community.

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  E2Freedom

  Feb 11, 1989· 46m

  Michael is caught between a rock and a hard place when he is forced to decide the fate of a young boy whose doctors believe is sick, but whose parents are refusing further tests on religious grounds.

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  E3Those Who Can

  Feb 18, 1989· 47m

  Fulvio learns that his teacher and idol isn't quite the perfect magistrate that he thought after he takes over when Michael falls ill.

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  E4Sense of Duty

  Feb 25, 1989· 46m

  The courthouse becomes the centre of the fallout from a Secret Intelligence Agency training exercise.

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  E5One for the Road

  Mar 10, 1989· 46m

  Gibson faces his past after a series of alcohol-related prosecutions force him to confront the reasons he gave up drinking.

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  E6Confessions

  Mar 17, 1989· 46m

  A series of sexual assaults has consequences for the courthouse when the police fit up suspects and Paulyne is attacked in her own home.

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  E7Horse Play

  Mar 24, 1989· 46m

  Pauline finds that her personal life is mirroring her professional life when her former lover Gavin reappears and announces that he is getting married, just as she is defending a woman who refuses to accept that her marriage is over.

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  E8Truth's a Dog

  Mar 31, 1989· 46m

  Paulyne accuses an insurance company of racism when they report a Lebanese man to the police after he claims his precious rings were stolen just days after taking out a policy.

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  E9The Great Divide

  Apr 7, 1989· 45m

  Michael, Paulyne and Gibson find their ethics challenged when they deal with a man accused of raping his wife; however, it soon becomes apparent to all that the case is far more sinister than they ever could have imagined.

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  E10Quanity of Mercy

  Apr 14, 1989· 46m

  Rafferty is confronted with the limitations of the law when it comes to dispensing justice.

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  E11Peace of Mind

  Apr 21, 1989· 46m

  The courthouse finds itself becoming caught up in the deadly web of a cult. Michael is shocked when he goes on an early morning run and discovers the body of a young woman washed up on the beach.

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  E12Thursday the Twelfth

  Apr 28, 1989· 45m

  Michael takes responsibility for a foreign woman after she shows up on his doorstep.

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  E13Friends and Neighbours

  May 5, 1989· 46m

  A heatwave frays tempers at the courthouse when everyone arrives at work to find the air-conditioning broken.

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  E14The Fleet's In

  May 12, 1989· 46m

  The personal and the professional converge for Flicker when the anti-nuclear group his son is involved in begins protesting the arrival of nuclear warships.

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  E15Family

  May 19, 1989· 46m

  Rafferty's 6-year-old son goes missing.

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  E16Crispin's Day

  May 26, 1989· 44m

  The Bard comes into the courtroom when an elderly man reciting Shakespeare is arrested for busking without a licence.

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  E17Mum's the Word

  Jun 2, 1989· 45m

  Michael's hopes of reuniting with his estranged wife are dashed when Joanne reveals that she has come to visit to end their relationship, and then their son falls ill.

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  E18Brief Candles

  Jun 9, 1989· 45m

  An unexpected tragedy forces Paulyne to re-evaluate her life; meanwhile she struggles to remain objective while defending a man accused of manslaughter over the death of a pedestrian.

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  E19The Deep End

  Jun 16, 1989· 45m

  New Legal Aid solicitor Lisa Blake starts work at the courthouse; however, she soon finds herself coming into conflict with Michael when she grandstands in the courtroom, then fails to fully prepare a case in mitigation for a defendant.

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  E20A Matter of Circumstances

  Jun 23, 1989· 46m

  A journalist sets out to prove that corruption exists in Rafferty's court.

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  E21Waifs and Strays

  Jun 30, 1989· 45m

  Lisa continues to have problems settling in, with her abrasive nature putting Michael offside.

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  E22The Beast

  Jul 7, 1989· 46m

  Lisa begins to wonder whether evil does exist when she defends a sociopath.

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  E23Systems

  Jul 14, 1989· 46m

  The entire courthouse struggles to cope when Michael is forced to decide whether a man accused of murder has a case to answer.

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  E24Those Who Can't

  Jul 21, 1989· 46m

  Lisa defends a young man who seems to be heading for the same life of crime as his father once did, but she refuses to believe Ray Brown's claims that the father's intentions are anything but honourable.

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  E25Blood Relations

  Jul 28, 1989· 46m

  Michael's world is turned upside down after learning that he has a twenty-two year old daughter from a previous relationship.

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  E26Star Quality

  Aug 4, 1989· 45m

  Flicker's prosecution against a young policeman who has broken the law is complicated when he begins to recognise that something even more suspicious is going on.

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  E27Private Lives

  Aug 11, 1989· 45m

  More than one life is on the line after a former children's television performer is charged with propositioning young boys for sex in the changing rooms of a local swimming pool.

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  E28You Can Never Tell

  Aug 18, 1989· 45m

  A criminal nicknamed 'The Hairy Bandit' is causing havoc and the courthouse is feeling the impact.

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  E29The Affair That Never Was

  Aug 25, 1989· 45m

  Michael's divorce from Joanne officially comes through, just as former Public Solicitor Paulyne Gray reappears in his life after a six month absence.

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  E30Curtains for RingoFinale

  Sep 1, 1989· 46m

  Michael considers his attitudes towards both politics and rural life after his cousin comes to the city, having now been elected to Parliament and holding very different opinions to Michael.

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  E1Time Out

  Mar 12, 1988· 45m

  Work pressures get to much for Paulyne and a love affair seems the answer.

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  E2To the Whistle

  Mar 19, 1988· 45m

  Flicker's replacement finds he has to play it by Rafferty's rules.

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  E3Make My Day

  Mar 26, 1988· 47m

  Double standards are apparent in a case that comes before Rafferty.

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  E4Kids

  Apr 2, 1988· 47m

  Rafferty confronts painful parallels at home when his kids arrive out of the blue.

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  E5Dark Side of the Moon

  Apr 9, 1988· 44m

  There is an uneasy atmosphere around Rafferty's court when Flicker returns.

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  E6Suspicious Minds

  Apr 16, 1988· 46m

  Rafferty's court is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious thief in Rafferty's office.

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  E7Solidarity

  Apr 23, 1988· 44m

  Rafferty is confronted by a case involving vandalism on a building site.

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  E8Prejudice and Pride

  Apr 30, 1988· 46m

  Rafferty gets involved in a case of racial prejudice.

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  E9Out of the Past

  May 7, 1988· 46m

  Rafferty is confronted by the past when his older brother visits him.

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  E10The Hit

  May 14, 1988· 46m

  The police are called in to protect Rafferty when he starts receiving threats.

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  E11Freedom of ChoiceFinale

  May 21, 1988· 44m

  Rafferty, embroiled in what local papers call "the punk drug squatters assault case", faces a housing crisis of his own and deals with the by-products of a cashless society: credit card junkies.

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