Jess Campbell

First Appearance: Episode 670
Last Appearance: Episode 720

Key Storylines:
Rod and Jessica Campbell's daughter is a spirited teenager who has grown used to living with just her father and their housekeeper, Doris Hudson, following the death of her mother several years earlier. When Rod starts seeing Beryl Palmer, Jess is less than happy, and she and Doris scheme to keep them apart. Doris admits to Jess that she has strong feelings for Rod, and Jess organises a romantic meal for the two of them. She initially thinks it's a success, but she then discovers that Rod slept with Doris after getting drunk and then, out of guilt, tried to sack her. Jess is horrified at her father's behaviour.

When Rod is offered a job for six months in Western Australia, he assumes Jess will go with him. Jess, though, makes it clear that she wants to stay in Melbourne - where her friends are - to finish her schooling and go to university. Rod asks Spider - his father-law - to look after his house and Spider tells Jess that she can stay in the house with him. Jess doesn't stay in Melbourne for very much longer, though: she feels guilty after beginning an affair with the married Tim Palmer - and when his wife, Donna, finds out and subsequently miscarries the child she's carrying, Jess realises that Tim really does feel more for Donna than he does for her. She decides to go and live with her father and let Tim and Donna get their marriage back on track.

Rod Campbell

First Appearance: Episode 659
Last Appearance: Episode 703

Key Storylines:
Rod Campbell was married to Spider Webb's eldest daughter, Jessica. Jessica gave birth to a son - Barry - and a daughter - Jess - and Rod thought they were a happy family until Jessica died at an unexpectedly young age and he then discovered that she'd spent their life savings on a boyfriend that he'd known nothing about. Barry found out the truth and tried to persuade Rod to tell Jess, but he refused, not wanting to taint Jess's memory of her mother. Barry was furious with his father and, after a blazing row, he left home. Rod was left to bring up Jess with the help of a housekeeper he hired, Doris Hudson.

In late-1985, Spider introduces Rod to Beryl Palmer. The two of them start seeing each other, but the relationship is subject to frequent arguments and misunderstandings - a number of which, Rod later discovers, have been engineered by Jess and Doris. Despite this, he asks Beryl to marry him and she says a tentative 'yes'. After yet another row with her, though, Rod gets drunk and ends up sleeping with Doris. He's horrified when Doris later tells him that she loves him. He tries to let her down gently, but it's no good: Doris grows increasingly jealous of Beryl to the extent that she almost smothers Beryl's baby son, Robert. She's subsequently arrested and agrees to undergo psychiatric treatment. Rod is offered a six-month job in Western Australia and he asks Beryl to go with him. She refuses, though - and Jess also makes it clear that she doesn't want to leave her friends. She only joins him after things go wrong for her in Melbourne.

Luke Carlyle

First Appearance: Episode 425
Last Appearance: Episode 501

Key Storylines:
Luke is a close friend of Jeff O'Brien, and he flees to Melbourne from Perth after Jeff pays his fare. Luke is desperate to escape his father's clutches: Roger Carlyle has tried to mould Luke into something that he doesn't want to be, and the boy has been sent to law school even though he really doesn't want to be a lawyer. The O'Briens put him up, but his father discovers where he is and comes after him, scheming to put Mike O'Brien out of business in revenge for him harbouring his son. As a compromise, Luke goes to work for Roger for a while, but he uses his knowledge of his father's business tactics to lose him a lot of money on a deal. Roger quickly works out that Luke was behind the failure of the deal and, giving up on trying to get him to come home, subsequently tells his son that he can have what he wants: his freedom. Roger returns to Perth and Luke takes a job as a file clerk.

In his personal life, he becomes friends with Jill O'Donnel, but he can't cope when he learns that she used to be a prostitute. He also helps Katie O'Brien deal with her feelings for Terry Hansen - although he eventually has to admit to Katie that he actually loves her. Sadly, his feelings aren't requited. When Patricia offers Luke a job in her new company, he's surprised, but he accepts, and he uses some ruthless business methods which see him progress quickly. He discovers to his horror, however, that Patricia's company is being financed by his father, and, furious at being deceived, he gets his revenge by embezzling the company's entire funds. At the same time, he tries to help Jeff recover from alcoholism, but his efforts backfire: when Jeff turns up at Luke's apartment one night, he and Luke fight over a bottle of scotch, and Jeff ends up hitting Luke over the head with it. Luke falls and hits his head, and he dies from his injuries.

Roger Carlyle

First Appearance: Episode 424
Last Appearance: Episode 663

Key Storylines:
Roger is a middle-aged businessman who is attracted to teenage girls: Heather O'Brien worked for him in Perth until Roger started showing signs of interest in her teenage daughter, Katie, and she and her family subsequently moved to Melbourne. Roger tries to do what's best for his son, Luke, giving him the finest education and financing him through law school. He's furious, however, when Luke flees Perth, telling his father that he doesn't want anything to do with him. He tracks the boy down to the O'Briens' and tries to make him see sense. Luke refuses to return home, though, and Roger is furious with the O'Briens for taking his side; he takes revenge on them by putting Mike O'Brien out of business. He tries other tactics to get Luke to come home, but when Luke causes him to lose a lot of money on a business deal, he tells the boy that he can stand on his own two feet from now on, and he returns to Perth, leaving Luke in Melbourne.

A few weeks later, Patricia Morrell calls him because she needs a backer in the new company that she's setting up. Roger agrees to provide the finance if she gives jobs to Mike - so that he can build him up and then destroy him, in revenge for taking Luke's side previously - and to Luke himself, so that he gets a taste for business. The plan works well until Luke discovers the plan and, in revenge, embezzles the company's funds. He's then murdered, and Patricia is arrested as the main suspect. Furious, Roger first sends a hitman after her, and when that attempt on her life fails, he enlists Dr. Ross Newman to kill her. His attempts fail as well, though, much to Roger's fury. He then learns that Patricia has fled to Brazil, and he effectively gives up on her and resumes his life in Perth.

Several months later, Roger receives a call from a businesswoman named Alison Carr. She invites him to invest in the Hamilton company, and, knowing that it's struggling, he buys a 49% share. He heads to Sydney to meet Alison and is intrigued by her. He hires one of his men to look into her background and learns that she emerged suddenly from a clinic in Brazil; the same clinic that Patricia had gone into. Putting two and two together, he warns Alison that he's going to get her for Luke's murder. Before he can do anything, though, he meets his death at the hands of Leo Walsh: Leo thinks he's protecting Samantha Morrell from Roger after Roger had shown an unhealthy interest in her. He later protests that he didn't mean to kill Roger, but he does bring to an end the vendetta that Roger had against Patricia.

Tom Chaplin

First Appearance: Episode 680
Last Appearance: Episode 711

Key Storylines:
A cultured teacher of English, Tom Chaplin meets Charlie Bartlett when he's a customer at the restaurant in Melbourne where she's working incognito (wearing a blonde wig and large glasses) to prove to her son, Adam, that she can hold down a proper job. Tom immediately finds himself intrigued by the woman he insists on calling 'Charlotte' and he and Charlie quickly start spending time together, attending classical concerts and visiting art exhibitions. Tom is shocked and disappointed, however, when, after they've been seeing each other for a few weeks, Charlie reveals that she's actually wearing a wig and that she doesn't wear glasses normally, either. He takes a few days to come to terms with the fact that she's been lying to him, but eventually decides that he likes the person underneath too much not to see her again. He's put off slightly, though, by Charlie's desire to parade him around at all the social functions she attends.

While in Sydney, Tom meets Charlie's daughter, Sally, and it becomes clear to him that the two of them have a lot more in common than he and Charlie do. They visit exhibitions and galleries together and, while alone during a trip to the beach one day, they end up kissing. Unfortunately, Sally feels hugely guilty for playing around with her mother's man, and she decides to flee from Sydney back to Melbourne. Charlie discovers the extent of the affection between Tom and Sally and she confronts Tom about it. He finds himself unable to deny that he wants to see Sally again - and he decides that it would be best if he, too, went back to Melbourne.

Lisa Cook

First Appearance: Episode 323
Last Appearance: Episode 348

Key Storylines:
Lisa is Terry Hansen's ex-girlfriend. She hasn't seen him for six years when John Palmer gets in touch with her and tells her that Terry has had an accident and has been asking for her. The fashion designer, who is beginning to make a name for herself, reluctantly agrees to go and see Terry, but it is John she falls in love with this time around - not that she tells Terry that. When Terry finds out, he tries to win Lisa back, but she tells him that they've both changed too much. Lisa is shocked when John tells her that Terry is a rapist, but she feels sympathy for him, not anger; John is appalled at her attitude, but Lisa is equally appalled at his childishness, and decides she can't stay with him.

Over the next few years, Lisa works closely with Charlie on a number of fashion collections and is referred to many times, although she is never seen on-screen again.

Neville Curtis

First Appearance: Episode 742
Last Appearance: Episode 970

Key Storylines:
Fiona and May knew Englishman, Neville Curtis, during the War, and they're excited when they receive a letter to say he's returning to Australia for a visit. However, it is his son, also called Neville, who turns up. He is in Australia to learn how to become a jackaroo, but before he begins his training he spends some time at the mansion with Fiona, May and Janice Reid. Unfortunately, he turns out to be rather accident-prone. Neville is caught-up in the siege at the mansion along with May and Janice, and is almost gassed with them.

There's a surprise for Neville when he overhears Janice talking to Fiona and saying that she's in love with him. Neville is shocked because he already has a fiancée, Celia, back in England. He has to let Janice down gently - and decides that to avoid any awkwardness between them, it would be best if he left Sydney early and headed off to start his jackaroo training. Before he goes, though, he tells Janice that, if he hadn't met Celia first, then who knows what might have happened. Sadly, Celia is killed in a car accident. Eighteen months after leaving Janice, Neville returns to Sydney and asks her to marry him. She accepts happily.