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Brief synopses for Episodes 16--30

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Now that the early, surviving b/w episodes are available for streaming at "Brollie", here are some brief synopses that exist for Episodes #16 to #30: Episode 16. (30/03/1972) Mark is aghast that Helen must have total recall of losing her baby if she is ever to make a full recovery. Vera is perplexed by a sense of deja vu. Where has she seen Gordon, the new chemist, before? On Good Friday, 31st March, the show was pre-empted by "Telethon '72", in aid of the Royal New South Wales Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. However, as compensation, viewers were promised telethon appearances by celebrities Johnny Lockwood, Pat McDonald, Joe Hasham, Briony Behets and "the entire cast of 'Number 96'". Episode 17. (3/04) Gordon is worried that Vera has recognised him and knows him to be the disgraced, former Doctor Vansard, so he takes action. Episode 18. (4/04) Maggie discovers that Bruce is moonlighting again. This plotline was novelised for ...

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Hi all, As you may recall, my Number 96 Home Page (est. 1996) at members.ozemail.com.au/~lindsay96/ vanished without warning last year, so while I waited for action from my service provider, the most frequently-used elements (such as the episode guide) had to be urgently retrieved from Wayback Machine (because my original HTML files are on a dinosaur computer, and recent updates had been done to the site live). All old "free" webpages had been wiped clean in an overhaul of their system. Thus, I had hastily uploaded this placeholder site on Blogger. I was able to transfer the number96.tv domain name to here instead, plus the year-by-year episode guides. (At least when people typed in the domain name, they had something to view; the 1999 edition of the home page is also archived on Pandora , but that version is long out of date.) Then, while re-creating and improving the old character guide from my retrieved data, my computer crashed... just as I got to "Z" on...