A millionaire's yacht goes adrift during a storm and beachcomber Nick Adonidas foresees a fortune in salvage. The yacht is found, but aboard her sits Indian teenager Jesse Jim who says he saw her first, and finders keepers.
Nick Adonidas wants Jesse Jim to be his partner. Jesse's uncle wants him to come home. Jesse just wants to be allowed to make up his own mind. And caught in the middle is Molly Carmody, proprietor of "Molly's Reach" cafe, Nick's landlady and Jesse's friend
The successful beachcomber is the man who gets there first, whether it's picking up logs in a storm .or rescuing a novice sailor in trouble. But what can you co when your chief rival starts using a boat that is jet propelled? Nick Adonidas' rival, Ol' Relic, has done just that, and it is the beginning of what looks like very unfair competition.
An anonymous admirer sends Nick a present in honour of Greek Independence Day. When the present turns out to be a bottle of Greece's famous "Ouao", Nick becomes very independent Indeed, and Jesse Jim is first marooned and then deserted to cope with a pair of unhappy pigs they have somehow inherited during their wanderings.
Nick has always loathed the job of building a log boom even though it's the best way for a beachcomber to run his business. Determined to expand the partnership, Jesse Jim and Hugh Carmody persuade Nick to try just once, and Nick and Jesse set off to make their fortune in logs. Hugh is left at home to look after the office. But Hugh has some ideas of his own about building up the business.
Nick wakes up in "Persephone's" cabin to discover that Hugh has disappeared overboard while he's been asleep. Because the boat is drifting he cannot even be sure where it happened. And so the search for Hugh begins, with Nick and Jesse hunting frantically in one direction while a calm and competent Hugh works his way home in another one.
Jesse Jim and Hugh Carmody set out to learn how to fish for salmon from Swede, an old troller man on the verge of retirement who they hope will let them lease his boat. Back at home Nick Adonidas tries his best to find out what's wrong with Swede's wife. They have been married for forty years and she says she is leaving him .
An old abandoned totem pole lies in the undergrowth on one of the islands near Gibsons Landing. But when someone wants to move it and put it up to decorate the front of a new motel, everyone gets into the act. In the course of the action Jesse comes close to becominq a murderer, and Nick succeeds in setting fire to the "Persephone".
(aka: The Miraculous Clam Digging Machine) A fantastic character named Antoine de Roquefort arrives in town aboard a floating marvel he says is a mechanical clam digger. And Nick is offered the chance - without cost - to make a fortune, no strings attached. Who could resist the chance?
A rash of stolen pleasure boats leaves the police puzzled, but both Nick and Jesse Jim figure they can solve the mystery. The problem, the stolen boats literally disappear in the middle of open water.
An abandoned gravel crusher and a row of concrete silos are an irresistible playground for Hugh and Margaret, especially since their grandmother has warned them not to go there. So they make sure no one knows where they are going, and a very dangerous game begins. (Working Title: "Two Shishkebobs")
The beachcombers take over full operation of the cafe for a day when Molly goes to the city. A bus accident deposits thirty elderly ladies at the door, hungry and tired and totally unprepared for a menu that features Greek lemon soup and shishkebabs.
Among the Coast Indians the potlatch is one of the great traditions - a formal giving of gifts in which a man may give away everything he owns. When Jesse Jim decides to throw a potlatch, Molly gets mad, Nick misses a San Francisco holiday, and Jesse has to capture a bear to start the party.
The foreman of the local booming ground has an unusual hobby - he likes firing people. He's fired so many recently that there's no one left to work for him, so Nick can't sell his logs. The obvious solution is for the beachcombers to fill the gap. But it's not a job with much of a future, even when Hugh gets the foreman's job.
When a business venture goes sour, Nick blames the whole- thing on Relic using the evil eye. He warns the kids that the evil eye is catching, but not soon enough. Margaret discovers she already has it, but she can't find the cure. Then Jesse disappears.
Hugh is in love for the first time. But the girl involved doesn't pay much attention to anyone who doesn't belong to the school's most secret society, the Wharf Rats. Hugh finds that their initiation ceremony is worse than losing the girl, but there is no way of backing out.
Someone is deliberately sabotaging Chuck Howes' logging truck and trying to drive him out of business, and it has to be someone working right beside him. Nick and Jesse volunteer to keep him company on what turns out to be a really dangerous ride down five miles of mountain side.
Electric fences, radar installations, and a harbour full of mines are part of the unreal world created by an old man on his private island. When Hugh steps ashore he thinks it's funny for the first thirty seconds, right up to the moment he finds he's staring into a loaded gun.
Sadie is a lady in her forties. She is also a trapper and guide, and the best shot in the country. She claims to have a map for a gold mine, and she'll share the gold if our friends will help. But who believes in lost gold mines? Nick does, for one.
As the captain of a luxury cruiser, Axel Dashwood makes a good cattle rancher, which is what he really is. He loses a propellor at sea, leaves his family adrift and goes to Nick for help. The only problem is he doesn't remember where he left the cruiser.
Relic has been arrested for log stealing, and no one knows who turned him In. Relic worries about it and Nick worries about it. In fact they worry themselves sick about it, and find themselves.in a makeshift hospital ward set up in Nick's bedroom. And that doesn't make either one of them feel any better.
Molly gets a chance for a quiet holiday looking after a nearby boarding kennel, but the quiet is soon disturbed by the combination of two donkeys, a sheep, an abandoned well and Nick's fear of animals.
The beachcombers stumble onto a unique pair of friends - a wolf with a crippled foot and an old man with a crippled mind. They soon find themselves defending the wolf from a group of bounty hunters and the old man from himself.
The local pool hall becomes the centre of.attention when Jesse and Hugh set up as pool sharks. Nick sets out to show them the error of their ways, but the problem is that he plays lousy pool, and can't resist betting.
Dynamite Jim is a legend - the best black powder man who ever blasted a cliff-face without rattling the teacups in the house on top. And it's his last job, to blast a new water channel for the pulp mill. Only Nick and Jesse know that Dynamite Jim is going to make sure it is the last thing he ever does.
Sea Cavalcade is carnival time in the village. Firemen's water fights, log burling, a long distance swimming race and a demolition derby are all parts of this story of the family at Molly's Reach.
Hugh and Margaret's efforts to provide their grandmother with a surprise birthday breakfast result in a fire which destroys the interior of the Reach. Their alarmingly haphazard (but eventually successful) redecorating efforts provide the framework of the episode
A comically ruthless beachcomber from the Fraser River moves in on the Gibsons' territory. In their efforts to run him off, Nick and the kids inadvertently provoke a 'shooting war' between the invader and Ol' Relic and are forced to intervene to restore peace.
A bush crazy logger, menacing an Injured mother and child with a stolen rifle, Involves Nick and Hugh in a breathless chase through the woods. G
Which village keeps the new fire engine? That's the question to be solved by a boat race Between Reggie Wainwright, representing the upper-crust snobs from down the road, and Ol' Relic, who is hammered into shape by a relentless Nick. The race itself Is a wild, steeplechasing affair that ends in a photo finish with Relic out of gas, but rowing home to victory.
A chance reunion with an old Greek wartime flying buddy forces Nick, on a point of honour, to take up piloting again. Jesse and Molly are his unwilling passengers on a hair-raising trip to the interior.
Margaret and her overly imaginative girlfriend, Tizzy, mistakenly persuade themselves that the local garbage man, Mcloskey, is really a mass murderer with corpses buried all over the inlet. Circumstances persuade Nick and Molly to engage in some amateur sleuthing, which eventually discloses that Mcloskey's "graves" are full of moonshine, which he is peddling in cahoots with his double-crossing crony, Relic
Nick's legs are trapped beneath a monster log on the beach. As the tide rises, the boys fight to extricate Nick, but when brute force fails, imagination succeeds. They fit up Nick with Oesse's mask and snorkel, and then it is Nick's turn to fight panic as the water rises over him and floats the log free.
A logging strike reduces Nick and Hugh to picking rocks for Relic at a dollar an hour. Too late they realize that Relic's using the stones to build his own private reef, and making fat fees from rescuing the boats that go aground on her. The unexpected arrival of the Lt. Governor brings an end to the gravy train, as Relic, Nick and Hugh dynamite the telltale evidence under the very nose of the distinguished gent's incoming yacht.
Nick's pride is at stake when Ol' Relic inveigles Reggie Wainwright to challenge Persephone to a tug of war -- the losing boat to change her name. Relic and Reggie rig the contest, by secretly adding the jet boat's pulling power to Reggie's boat, but Hugh discovers the trick in time to save Persephone's name.
Sadie's trap-line is confiscated by the game warden. Nick, Molly and the kids try to reshape her for life in town but her bush-bred innocence and her frontiers' woman approach get her in trouble, first at the booming grounds where she tangles with the men, then at the Reach where misguided efforts to make her into a waitress provoke a knockdown, drag-out brawl. In self-defence, the town gangs up on the Game Warden, and Sadie's trap-line is restored fifty miles up the coast.
Relic goes down with the ship - a derelict that sinks on him as he tries to salvage. her. The fateful evidence is found by Nick and Jesse who involve Molly and the kids in a prolonged funeral rites, while down below, the 'corpse' is wildly hammering for attention as the oxygen in his air pocket runs out. Discovered at last, he and the boat are hauled to safety; Relic proves an ungrateful Lazarus.
A sailing accident strands Margaret and her friend Tizzy on an isolated beach Where Tizzy reveals that she is a diabetic and can go into a coma unless Margaret gets help. After a long exhausting swim to the nearest cottage, Margaret finds it deserted and has to use her wits to make a powerless radio and a gasless motor boat effect a rescue.
A sweet little old lady wrongly suspects Jesse of stealing her diamonds. Eventually realizing her error, she involves Nick and Margaret in a wild goose chase to the Gibsons garbage dump where, in his efforts to retrieve the missing diamonds, Nick winds up with a flower pot firmly wedged on his head - a helpless passenger as Margaret navigates Jesse's runaway car down the mountainous roads on a wild ride home.
The arrival in Gibsons of a nubile "nature child" of nineteen wreaks havoc in the Reach when, one by one, Hugh, Dessex, and Nick all succumb to her charms. Did scores and new grudges are aired in the boxing ring.
Nick and Hugh spot one of the hairy monsters, and enlist everyone but Jesse, the amused skeptic, to hunt it down with Sadie's help. While Relic sells "Sasquatch Tours" to thrill-seeking tourists, our intrepid hunters litter the bush with pits and snares -and then are all snared, netted and undone when the fearsome beast attacks their camp! They rally and run the monster to a cliff, where it makes a death-defying leap to the sea, and flees - driving Persephone! It is Jesse - in cahoots with Relic on the whole hoax.
Nick and Co. underbid Relic on a delivery job, and Relic gets even by causing them to deliver the wrong cargo - several hundred pounds of fuxn~ance bricks, which they painstakingly carry up several hundred stairs before the shipper discovers their error! Then Relic moves in and undertakes to bring the whole load down by pulley - but his engineering is faulty, and when the bricks go down, Relic flies up. Bricks and Relic end up in the sea, to be rescued by Nick and the kids.
When a rebellious and misguidedly romantic Molly tries to elope with Mcloskey, she is dragged home by the kids. There Nick, encouraged by the widow McPhee, subjects the runaway lovers to a series of courtship rituals, which dampen everyone's ardor; the harassed bride bolts from the altar. But since the reception's all paid for, Nick insists they hold it anyway.
The long summer ferry line-ups prompt Nick to set up a private service for well-to-do summer residents, sponsored by a formidable lady judge. Snapped cables, seasickness, a sudden storm and a sand bar bring the venture to a hapless conclusion; the barge full of cars is stranded and while Nick delivers his disgruntled customers to shore, the Coast Guard, prompted by Relic, spirits away the cars.
Kim is a waif from the ports of the middle east, a street_urchin who jumps ship in Vancouver and beguiles Margaret into helping him flee from "the wicked Captain". Living by their wits in the streets of Vancouver, they elude the frantic family for a couple of days; Kim is returned to the "evil Captain", who turns out to be his grandfather. Margaret sees this as a betrayal, and is inconsolable. She is also unaware that Kim has already jumped ship again and is conning his way to Gibsons to catch up with Nick, "his father".
Relic's father, a ferocious old Welsh coal miner, descends on Gibsons unannounced, and sets out to make a success of his ne'er-do-well son by taking over Molly's Reach and Adonidas and Associates. Ol' Da's unprincipled methods make Relic look like a Boy Scout by comparison. Finally, at Relic's instigation, the old man is bested by Nick in a contest of strength, but the beating Ol' Da takes moves Relic to a rare and generous act of family loyalty.
Mcloskey starts an epidemic of Bathtub Fever in Gibsons, arranging "secret Partnerships" with half the town, and thereby ensuring healthy profits for himself by selling second-hand tubs from his junkyard. When the ruse is uncovered, Mcloskey bluffs his way out of it by arranging a competition for 'big prize money'. Relic accidentally demolishes all the tubs - no competition, no prize, and he and Mcloskey split the loot.
A soul-stirring belief in Love comics triggers Nick to invent a romantic fantasy about a Vancouver belly dancer for Margaret's benefit. To Nick's amazement and confusion, the kids import the belly-dancer to Gibsons and a bewildered Nick is faced with a fantasy come to life. The dancer, who is in on the joke, has a terrified Nick almost at the altar before she relents^making a broken-hearted and suitably tragic exit for Margaret's benefit.
A winter storm strands Nick and Relic on a remote shore, without boats, and they are forced to try their luck as roommates in a broken-down old cabin with predictably dreadful results.
Mcloskey, the irrepressible Irishman, gets onto a scheme for fiddling the insurance company by insuring a boat he means to sink. He suckers an unwitting Nick into his fraudulent endeavors, and the two of them strive heroically (and criminally) to sink the old scow, despite the insistent intervention of well-meaning friends, who keep "saving" her.
Gus Calhoun, 9, city-bred, and full of the doubtful wisdom of the streets, makes his debut in, this episode, and promptly clashes head-on with Relic. Nick's cash box goes missing - Angus inadvertently took it, but circumstances point to Relic, who feigns amnesia while stalking the boy to discover the whereabouts of the missing money. An exciting boat chase unravels the mystery.
Jesse is beguiled by the harum-scarum antics of the crew of "The Swell", and decides to sign on, abandoning Molly's Reach and Nick's Salvage for a change of pace aboard this madcap tug-cum-freighter. An incredulous Molly spearheads a series of efforts to bring Jesse to his senses before she and the family realize they must let him go his own way.
While attempting to help a young ladyrestore her abandoned sawmill, Nick, Hugh and Margaret fall victims to the whimsies of a cruelly capricious 'ghost'. Eventually, the young lady's eccentric Uncle Bo, long believed dead, is discovered to be the culprit -- or is he ...?
Out of gas, with a damaged boat and an injured leg, Col. Spranklin fights to save his own life and Margaret's when they are caught in the middle of a war of practical jokes being waged between Nick and Relic.
Relic mistakes an elderly beekeeper's cargo of "liquid gold" for the real thing. He battles Persephone for possession of the gold, and finds himself overwhelmed by a swarming hive of honey bees. It's up to Nick and Hugh to rescue the bees from their tree-top perch.
Gus Calhoun's natural animosity towards Relic accelerates into furious rivalry as the two slug it out in a fierce air-sea battle between their radio-controlled giant model planes, with each determined to be 'king o' the skies'.
A ruthless imposter masquerades as Relic, with an identical jet-boat. Relic is blamed for a series of increasingly impudent crimes until Gus and Margaret finger the Imposter, and the two jet-boats clash head-on in a ferocious dog-fight to the death.
Relic betrays his brother beachcombers by going to work as the Boom Inspector - a position designed to eliminate floating logs and therefore the beachcombers' livelihood, from Howe Sound. He nearly runs them all out of business before Nick out-foxes him.
Hughie gets a new girl friend, but antagonism between her rich parents and the gang at Molly's Reach involves the young pair in a sailboat race that nearly wrecks their romance.
Gus Calhoun and Relic are at it again, this time vying for undersea treasure by fishing with magnets. Their rivalry literally blows up in their faces when what they think is a treasure chest turns out to be an explosive mine.
Prompted by Gus, Margaret develops the fantasy that she is adopted. Preoccupation with the imminent Beachcombers' Ball prevents Molly and Nick from realizing what she is up to, until she confronts Nick with the accusation that he is her real father. Molly persuades her it is untrue by finally revealing the real story of her parents' death in a boating accident.
The Brotherhood of Unaffiliated Beachcombers sponsors the annual Christmas cruise to carry "Santa" Nick and his sleigh to the kids on the outlying islands. When an accident puts Relic in the Santa Claus suit, events get wildly out of hand.
Is Hughie a man? Or just the 'kid' Nick and Relic believe him to be? His struggle to salvage a monster log decides the issue.
Three renegade schoolgirls in revolt against their school's old-fashioned ways involve Margaret in a madcap scheme to kidnap Nick. It is up to their games mistress to teach them that the ends do not justify the means.
Gibson's has its first bank robbery In fifty years, and the loot ends up right in Nick's lap. Half the town gets into this game of "Money, money, who's got the money" before the robbery is solved.
A government yacht with visiting royalty aboard triggers an adventure for Nick and the kids at Molly's Reach, which threatens to end in heartbreak for Margaret's friend, old Col. Spranklin.
Nick and Mcloskey salt a gold mine to tempt Relic and are caught in a local gold rush when Relic turns up with the genuine article.
Nick goes acourting but it is Hughie who takes the rap when the young lady turns out to have two great big brothers and a father with a shotgun and oldfashioned ideas about marriage.
Margaret's pen pal has tried to keep her mongoloid brother a secret. The secret explodes in her face and both girls learn something about how dangerous lies can be.
Jesse is on his way through Gibson's Landing to a wild weekend in a Vancouver gambling club. But Molly gets wind of his plans and decides to teach him that money does not necessarily buy fun.
Nick and the kids are condemned to Ma Calhoun's cooking when Molly goes on a trip, and ends up on Vancouver's skidroad.
A chance exploration of a fish packer creates unexpected danger for Hughie, his girlfriend Francesca, and Margaret when the packer sails with the three kids as reluctant stowaways
The Irish Rovers are to give a concert in Gibsons Landing. Jimmy Ferguson falls in love with the beachcombing life - and resigns from the Rovers! With only hours to go, and the whole town turning out for the concert, Nick volunteers to sing in Jimmy's place, with hilarious and surprising results.
The "clowns" are Mcloskey and slow-witted Ceece Neville, keeping a precarious footing as they leap fromlog to log on their newly acquired booming grounds. Relic seems likely to swindle them and their partner, Jesse Jim, out of the whole operation until Nick lends a hand. The comedy features lots of booming-ground action with the boats and the logs.
Relic believes McLoskey fell overboard and died because he refused to tow him in over a matter of $50, and the locals begin pretending Relic doesn't even exist.
Margaret and Gus go into business selling oysters. Their first harvest goes into circulation; then, they discover that the oysters are contaminated. A wild game of Oyster, Oyster, Who's Got the Oyster? evolves as the poisonous shellfish pass from Nick to Mcloskey to Molly to Relic, and threaten to end up in the stew pot at the Reach as the "Special of the Day".
While Hugh and Jesse are diving, Ol' Relic pinches Persephone, then claims her as salvage on a trumped-up technicality. It's up to Hugh and Jesse to beat the old pirate at his own game.
It's Halloween at the Reach and Gus Calhoun's mischievous spirit gets out of hand. He starts yarning hard-luck stories to a child welfare officer. But the lady, Miss Eldritch, displays remarkable powers, and before she's through with Gus, he is either bewitched or bamboozled - into owning up to his lies.
Gus Calhoun succumbs to temptation and pinches a yachting cap from the sporting goods store. As if his guilty conscience wasn't enough, he's cauaht and blackmailed by Ol' Relic, and learns the hard way crime doesn't pay.
A weird swordfisherman from down east and his ghostly companion engage with Nick and Jesse and Jesse's grandad, a shaman, in a battle of magical powers for possession of a prize log.
Margaret topples over a cliff while pursuing a fugitive on the run from the law. She and Nick engage in a deadly battle-of-wills with the man, who is also a mountain climber and the only one who might rescue Margaret from her precarious toe-hold on the precipice above the ocean.
Hugh's at an age where he needs a pad of his own. His determination to get it causes a game of "Musical Rooms" that turns the Reach upside down, and nearly brings the walls tumbling down when Jesse Jim, moves back in too, with a stereo set even bigger - and louder than Hugh's.
While bringing home the Christmas tree, Nick and the gang from Molly's Reach become innocently embroiled in illicit whiskey-making operations at a logging camp, and end up spending a good part of Christmas Eve in the local jail.
Hughie and family befriend a young Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to locate his father's old fishboat, confiscated during World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were ignominiously stripped of their belongings and shipped inland as "enemy aliens". They run head-on into entrenched prejudice from a completely unexpected quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-beloved friends. Finding the old fishboat and the effort to get it water-borne again form the action of this moving two-part episode.
While diving for antique glass bottles, Jesse Jim takes a foolish risk and is swept out to sea on a dangerous, fast-moving tide. His frightening struggle for survival and the massive search for him give a fascinating insight into West Coast Search and Rescue procedures.
Hugh and Jesse are featured in the adventuresome story as they battle perverse tides and rocky shores to tow a motley lot of equipment to Jesse's new booming-grounds.
Nick and Molly have a wonderful surprise for Margaret- a bike! Trouble is, Nick and Molly don't know much about current fashions in bikes, instead of a ten-speed racer, they buy her a great balloon-tired antique that makes her a virtual laughing-stock among her pals. Afraid of hurting Molly's feelings, Margaret tries ways of her own to get rid of the ugly duckling, and, in the process, learns something about conformity - when it's good and when being different isn't so bad.
Relic is ailing, and Nick's efforts to play Good Samaritan end up stranding him aboard a driting raft with the feverish, delirious Relic. To save themselves, each is forced to face and conquer his deepest fear.
It's Gus Calhoun's birthday. His gift is a fishing rod, but he must follow a trail of clues laid by Hughie. One 'mystery' clue leads Gus and Margaret on an increasingly dangerous and sinister hunt to find a strange and mysterious treasure at the end.
In Molly's absence, Nick and Gus Calhoun turn the Reach into a Greek bistro, and all but put the place out of business when they make the mistake of taking on union-minded Ol' Relic as bus-boy-cum-waiter.
A light plane crashes on a remote mountainside with Jesse Jim and one of Nick's oldest upcoast buddies aboard. Nick must choose between sitting tight with two badly injured men, or making the desperate rescue attempt with all odds against him.
Introduces Charlene Aleck as Sara, Jesse's six-year-old sister. She is unceremoniously presented at the Reach by Grandpa Jim and Uncle Louie. Troubles follow swiftly as the family attempts to adjust to the new youngest child, and Sara tries to solve matters on her own, making a pal out of Ol' Relic in the process.
Margaret and Nick mistakenly imagine a love affair between Ol' Relic and Sadie, a lady trapper from upcoast whose notion of romance goes no farther than skinnin' her next coyote. Relic nearly gets skinned himself when an indignant Sadie takes after him with her rifle.
It's the Gibsons Annual Salmon Derby and Sara has her heart set on winning the third prize for kids - a cowboy suit. Relic and Mcloskey hatch an elaborate hoax to ensure first prize for themselves - and take the innocent Sara along to witness their fraudulent "catch."
A bargeload of heavy construction machinery goes adrift in a storm. Relic and Margaret are trapped thereon, and Nick's every effort to rescue them threatens to bring tons of equipment showering down on the helpless pair.
The idyllic existence of thirty-eight goats is threatened when their peaceful island home becomes the site for a new highway. Ecology-minded Margaret enlists Mcloskey's help to save Goat Island, and before they're through the whole town is up in arms and Nick finds himself the unwilling goatherd.
Persephone is swamped by heavy seas that turn the cabin upside down and leave her immobilized. Nick, Jesse and Hugh fight to keep her from being wrecked on the rocks. The exertion proves too much for Nick, who collapses from exposure; it's up to the boys to try to save both Nick and the boat.
Sara's innocent determination to crack Relic's tough shell is the driving force in this touching comedy about the battle of wits between the little girl and the 'meanest man in town'. And who's the meanest man? Ol' Relic, of course.
Self-styled "progressive" elements in Jesse Jim's former home on the Seahost Reserve are making trouble for the wise old chief. The old man, with an assist from Nick, conspires to teach the troublemakers a gentle lesson by nominating Jesse as Acting Chief. The sudden appearance of a cow in the kitchen of Molly's Reach is only the beginning of the troubles that ensue.
Gus Calhoun has his heart set on a chemistry set- one that will make invisible ink. Nick promises to get It for him, and then leads Gus on a merry chase from store to store up the Sunshine Coast. The chase becomes a near-disaster when Nick's determination to find something better nearly breaks Gus's heart.
Christmas is coming and little Sara is sick. In the mind of the feverish six-year-old Santa Claus becomes confused with the Great Shaman, who comes like a sinister Angel of Death, driving a sled and dog team. Hilarious complications ensue when Nick masquerades as the Shaman, complete with dog sled and team, to prove to the stricken Sara that he's not coming to carry her away.
Good Samaritans Nick and Jesse attempt to rescue an old curmudgeon who's determined, despite ill health, to sail his decrepit vessel to the South Seas. In the course of nursing the cantankerous old man back to health Nick discovers hers been the old fellow's unwitting nemesis for yearsi In fact, the Old Man mistankenly supposes Nick is the devil--come to thwart his glorious scheme.
Relic and Mcloskey are at it again-- this time with an illegal get-rich-quick scheme for dynamiting fish. It's known as "The Games Island Lure". They deliberately involve Nick in their rascally plot, and he's up to his ears in explosives before he catches on.
Every year hundreds of unwanted dogs and cats are "dumped" in the Gibsons area-- turned loose to forage and eventually starve or be eaten by bigger game. Among them is a splendid German Shepherd which Hugh is determined to save from starvation and the threat of the Conservation Officer's gun. Hughie's single-handed battle to bring the half-wild dog back to civilization provides an exciting and dramatic episode with a startling climax.
The unlikely victim of Margaret's first crush is none other than Jesse Jim, seen in a new heroic light by the starry-eyed girl. Jesse wants none of it, but Nick is determined to ease Margaret out of her infatuation with clever psychology. His methods lead poor Jesse into a bundle of ridiculous situations before the situation is resolved.
Hughie tries to save a bunch of arrogant Sunday sailors from a nasty accident with their boat, and suddenly finds himself facing possible charges for theft and assault. Hughie's only hope lies in persuading a young Dutch immigrant boy to testify for him--but the boy works for the boat owners and will certainly lose his job if he speaks out.
To atone for forgetting Margaret's grade-school graduation, Hugh makes a silly promise - he'll buy Margaret a one-hundred dollar gift! It's the beginning of a hundred-dollar misunderstanding that threatens to break Hugh's bank account and Margaret's heart before they straighten it out.
Hughie has flunked his university entrance exams, and cannot share the festive mood of the Reach when his great-uncle, Sam Carmody, is welcomed back after an absence of many years. The stories of Sam's worldly success, his millions, his business empire, only aggravate an already despondent Hughie, until he learns the strange secret of Sam's success.
The Sunshine Coast in summer is strewn with young hitchhikers; their example is hard for Sara to resist, despite repeated warnings by the family. When Sara does take a ride from a stranger, their encounter grows into a strange friendship with wildly unforeseen consequences.
Nick's promoter cousin takes on the uphill task of turning Ol' Relic into a TV Celebrity with a hair-raising boat stunt that parodies the heart-stopping displays of motorcycle daredevils.
The curse of the Vikings threatens Nick when both police and clergy conspire to prevent him from giving an old Norseman the Viking funeral Nick promised him. A comedy of conflicting values high-lighted by a car chase involving the police, the hearse, and Mcloskey's rattletrap truck.
An old girlfriend of Nick's collapses from a heart attack while on an errand of mercy at a deserted logging site. Nick fights to save her life as medical help battles its way to the rescue.
Relic tricks Nick into an all-out wrestling contest with a gigantic so-called Turk named Abdul. It's Nick's brains against Abdul's brawn in this lighthearted free-for-all.
Jesse retires to the mountains on a spirit fast to seek his true self. Nick comes along for the ride --a bumpy one on a pair of packhorses -- and gets more than he bargained for when a marauding bear leaves Nick and Jesse to face the danger of real starvation.
Hugh is on a supposedly solitary hunting expedition when a bullet zings by his earl The hunter is actually a friend, but so troubled by his determination to prove his manhood that he endangers both their lives.
Hugh, Margaret and Sara are stranded overnight In a haunted house. A stranger who spies on them from the surrounding bush enters their lives with frightening impact, determined to drive them out before they can discover the old house's strange secret.
Relic jumps aboard the government gravy train when the politicians make an ill-advised bid to bureau-cratize beachcombing. Nick takes on the provincial government in his effort to preserve the independence of his way of life.
A half-forgotten war canoe is repaired and made to race again for Jesse's little Seahost band and their old Chief. When the tiny band can't muster a full crew, Nick is 'captured' as a slave and set to work with a paddle.
It's a whale--it's a seal--no by George, it's a genuine sea serpent and old is out to record its existence for science. Relic and Mcloskey are also in hot pursuit of the monster--for profit! What nobody knows is that Nick and the gang from the Reach determine to make the Colonel's dream come true by rigging their own sea.
Against Nick's better judgment, Jesse dynamites a log to dislodge it. He sets in motion a chain of events which results in Nick and Jesse both getting pinned below logs, with no one but little Sara to try and help when a brush fire begins advancing on the two trapped beachcombers.
The Georgia Strait - seventeen long, cold miles of churning ocean. It killed Margaret's mother, father, and grandfather; all her life, it's been waiting for her. Her bid to swim these ferocious waters provides the action in a tense and thrilling drama.
A deadhead is a partially submerged log capable of impaling and sinking unsuspecting boats. Nick and Margaret spot such a log, but are unable to flag it. When the deadhead wrecks Ceece Neville's boat, and poor old Ceece is hospitalized, Margaret conducts her own vendetta on the killer log, with Relic providing unexpected complications.
Nick has not spoken with his father in thirty years. Suddenly, the old man arrives in Gibsons to mend a quarrel that reveals some startling secrets about Nick's war-torn boyhood in Greece, to which the old man now demands that Nick return to resume his disrupted family life.
Jesse falls afoul of a jealous bridegroom, and has to run for his life. Disguised in Molly's clothes, he is hurried by Nick and Hughie to the supposed safety of a lonely forest cabin, which turns out to be the honeymoon hideaway where the lonely bride waits for her rampaging groom!
Mandrake the Magician comes to Gibsons to put on a show, complete with his mysterious Egyptian sarcophagus--which makes people disappear forever into the underworld. When Relic scoffs at the magic coffin, Sara wishes him to disappear, and he does It's up to Mandrake to make him materialize.
Hugh and Nick endeavor to evict Relic and his evil-smelling houseboat infavor of a pair of gorgeous girls and their gorgeous boat. Hugh calls it 'upgrading the marina', but Margaret calls it downright immoral, and the fun begins when she enlists her young art class to 'redecorate' the houseboat - with eye-popping results!
Margaret is in full rebellion against the uselessness of learning French. A chance meeting with a young sailor provides her with a frightening lesson in the usefulness of a second language when Nick must perform emergency surgery aboard Persephone to try to save the dying sailor's life, and noone understand him to learn what is the matter.
An old grudge harbored by an emblttered Indian woman threatens to remove little Sara and destroy the happiness of the family at Molly's Reach
Nick co-stars with two periscopes atop Canada's only atomic submarine. A zany adventure of war games and UFO's, secret maneouvers and a neurotic computer, in control of atomic weapons aimed straight at Persephone.
Gordon Pinsent returns to the Beachcombers in the role of the demonic Newfoundland wizard who tests his powers against Jesse Jim's Great Grandad, the Shaman. This time, the Hexman partners up with Ol' Relic; the consequences for Nick and Jesse are terrifying.
Relic falls heir to estates and titles in his native Wales, but there's a catch; to inherit, he must prove himself worthy of becoming 'Queen's Champion and Knight Master of the Bardic Harp'. So it's onto the jousting field for Relic, encumbered with homemade armour, astride a makeshift horse. His saintly patient tutor Owens and Nick and the Reach family strive to convert the sow's ear into a silk purse fit for a Queen; when they succeed they're in for a surprise no one could foresee.
A baby is lost, a hungry cougar is on the prowl, and little Sara seems to offer the only phope of rescue in this gripping outdoor adventure.
Hughie is in love and won't take 'no' for an answer. His girlfriend Ginger is a gifted singer-guitarist with a budding career which she's not eager to abandon In favour of marriage. But Hughie commandeers Nick, Jesse, Molly and most of the villiage to help-him launch a whirlwind courtship designed to sweep Ginger straight to the altar before she can say 'do-re-mi'.
A shapely addition to the Gibsons constabulary arrives in the form of Constable Samantha Jones. No sooner has she joined the force than she's up to her epaulettes in mystery; somebody steals a two-ton statue from the public square - overnight!. For once Relic escapes suspicion; he's the only one in town who liked the big bronze effigy of a little known Indian fighter who looked exactly like him! The question in everybody's mind is not merely who stole it, but how!
Old Moses Charlie knows more than he tells when he delegates Jesse to search for the rare golden hemlock needles deep in the forest near the legendary Valley of Headless Men. Circumstances conspire mysteriously to send Nick in Jesse's place on an eerie and fascinating adventure.
Nick and Relic match wits to determine which is the 'King of the Beachcombers'. Relic gets the edge by sending a terrified McLoskey aloft in a hang-glider to be his 'eye In the sky' log spotter. A little boy, his lost dog and some spectacular hang gliding footage highlight this high flying comedy.
A lazy outing becomes a frightening ordeal for Nick and Samantha when Persephone runs aground and capsizes - pinning Samantha beneath the hull. Nick commandeers help from Relic and together they struggle to free Samantha before the rising tide that will float Persephone off drowns her.
Nick and the Reach family discover that Relic is in agony from a toothache, but scared to go to the dentist. When they undertake to get him there forcibly, Relic flees in panic and leads them on a wild goose chase that ends in near disaster for himself and his faithful friend, Sara Jim.
A ship with an evil history sails out of the past. Its new owners tempt Relic and McLoskey with what seems easy money for a night's work. But Sara senses danger, and involves herself and Nick in a nightmarish adventure that involves the ghosts of old-time rum-runners, drug-smuggling, and a hidden bomb which threatens to blow them all to Davey Jones' locker.
Fishing with handlines was a common practice during the Depression, and Tom Hawkins was the last, and the best, of the the Gibsons handliners. How he's a fugitive from the old-folk's home where his mercenary sister Hetty keeps him virtually a prisoner. Tom enlists the help of Nick and the Reach family to escape his sister's clutches and return to the life he loves on the sea.
A mystery crime wave strikes Gibsons. The constables are baffled as the cat burglar strikes repeatedly, with no clues save the imprints of 'teeny-tiny fingerprints and great big feet'. Maybe it's a Sasquatch and his accomplice a ruthless midget? Relic advocates vigilante action; Margaret makes a laughing stock of the constables with her articles in the local paper, and the thief tries to hang the rap on poor half-witted Ceece Neville.
A fluke radio signal launches Nick and Margaret on a comical misadventure as they fight to rescue a sinking houseboat and its addlepated owners. Guided only by the signal, they must find the houseboat before it sinks.
Jo-Jo is a gifted but eccentric painter who is terrified by human contact. Police business obliges Samantha to visit his ramshackle hideaway, where Jo-Jo traps her in the flooding hold of his barge. Rescue efforts by Nick and Relic complicate matters further, and all three become the victims of Jo-Jo's innocent but deadly efforts to hold the outside world at bay.
Old Moses and his little Seahost band have worked hard to coax the salmon back to their old spawning grounds on the reserve. Now the're here, it looks like even the Fisheries Officer can't save the run from destruction by a road crew intent on completing a bridge across the salmon run. Moses creates a political incident which threatens to put Jesse Jim in jail, in an attempt to grease the slow-moving wheels of bureaucracy.
A certain famous chain-smoking politician from Quebec is reported to be in Gibsons on a fishing holiday. Nick spots trouble in the shape of a suspicious stranger, Trapp. When no one listens to Nick's warnings of impending assassination, Nick snatches the Premier. But wait... what's this... the Premier is actually Relic in disguise, and the 'assassin' is a Special Branch Officer from Ottawa on a mission to guard the real Premier.
The firewind is blowing down the coast, wreaking havoc in the tall timber, and there's an arsonist on the loose--but who? Nick, Jesse and Hugh untangle the mystery of the firebug while battling the very blaze he set.
Guest star Rene Simard is the focus of attention when Nick and Jesse pursue the vacationing singer up and down the Sunshine coast, determined to sell him a song and become instant celebrities
Nick embarks on a high flying scheme to convert a crumbling slum into Gibsons first after hours coffee house... and discovers that Relic is his landlord
Relic meets his match in a twelve year old tough named Pat O'Gorman. Young Pat seems destined for the wrong side of the lay until Nick and Molly intervene.
A stolen boom of logs is the hotly contested prize for which Relic, McLoskey, Nick and Ceece Neville compete. A comedy of misunderstandings with a truly 'explosive' ending.
A collector engages Relic and McLoskey to rob the Seahost graveyard, but they arouse a guardian spirit, the Singing Death Man, who takes fearful revenge against Relic. Chief Moses offers to intervene with the spirit on Relic's behalf, but first they must find and return the loot - an ancient cross
Relic accuses Nick of getting soft. Attempting to refute the accusation, Nick ends up adrift on a log and blind. His efforts to find his way back to safety forms the substance of this perilous adventure.
Relic and McLoskey con Nick and Jesse into transporting a cargo of volatile dynamite. A sudden storm threatens to blow the Persephone to smithereens, with all hands aboard.
Two old prospectors lead Nick, Jesse and Pat O'Gorman a merry chase for several thousand dollars worth of hotly contested highgrade gold ore
Both Nick and Relic, are injured in the bush, and there's no one but little Sara to tend their wounds, try to get them out and fend off a marauding bear. Guests: Gibsons' 1st and 2nd Brownie Pack
To help Molly lose weight, Nick and the rest of the family go on a fitness kick which Relic does his utmost to sabotage - with devastating results to himself
A dangerous accident aboard Persephone and a near-fatal fire are among the consequences when Pat O'Gorman sets out to make a fast buck - using money that doesn't belong to him.
Constable John leads Nick on a calamitous search for a non-existant arsonist. The Constable's dedication to duty is only exceeded by his ruinous ill luck
Young Pat O'Gorman dreams of becoming a flier. His dreams become nightmares when he finds himself airborne in a Cessna 185 - with Ol' Relic sharing the dual controls. Nick and the Cessna's pilot must try and bring them safely back down
Do you believe Relic is in love? Neither do Nick and Molly but they have a tough time uncovering the hidden motives behind his blundering but determined courtship of the spinster schoolmarm, Gladys Peachum.
A famous authoress involves Nick in some hair raising hi-jinks as she works out the plot of her next best seller/
Jesse Jim falls in love with a frightened young Indian girl who has retreated from reality after being victimized by a gang of young toughs. Nick and Jesse attempt to help the girl - but almost lose her when she tries to purify her spirit with a seven mile swim through icy waters.
A pair of extortionists meet their match when they 'kidnap' Persephone and the Jet Boat and demand exorbitant ransom money from Nick and Relic.
Margaret battles 'the heartbreak of cellulitis' and the charms of her rival Lola Cross to win the heart of a no-account bum named Ace, who thinks he's 1980's answer to Elvis Presley.
Alone in the bush, Sadie has an accident while trapping, Nick and Molly's well intentioned efforts to fly Sadie out for medical help form the basis for a hair-raising adventure
A romantic interest develops between Margaret and her friend, Hans, who is teaching her to windsurf.
Constable John is passed over for promotion once again and is forced to partner Corporal Norman Brewster who is rapidly establishing himself as the least liked newcomer to Gibsons. He manages to fine, warn or write out a ticket for most of the town before his first week is over. When his enept police dog Henry fails his Dog Corp exams and runs away the new Corporal reveals himself as human after all and finds he does need friends in his new home.
A hospitalized old man confesses an old secret to Constable John about a hidden chest of money. John & Nick recover the old chest, which turns out to contain a vast amount of money. They are forced to take turns guarding the loot and their friendship undergoes a severe strain as John begins to suspect Nick of succumbing to the temptations of this huge pile of cash. In fact, John should be worrying about Relic who is lurking around waiting for his turn to nab the loot and run.
Jesse is romantically inclined towards a pretty girl who gave him a lift and asks Nick for advice on how to court her. Unfortunately, Nick's expertise doesn't seem to be helping Nick in his own pursuit of romance with an attractive widow.
Sadie is determined to stay in her backwoods cabin despite the efiulLi of her sister to bring her back to civilization. The two sisters resolve to settle the matter by competing in a series of logging events. Nick referees the competition and the surprising outcome convinces Sadie that she and her sister aren't so different after all.
Nick and Jesse decide to expand their financial horizons and go into the fertilizer business. Nick is convinced that fertilizer is the fuel of the future and that there is a fortune literally lying in the fields . just waiting to be picked up. Jesse is dubious but Relic, as always, is eager for anything that can make some money fast. He sets out to undermine Nick's business venture and grab the profit for himself.
A barge loaded with tanks full of lethal Chlorine gas runs aground on a sand bar near Gibsons. The resultant leak threatens the town and Nick and Jesse risk their lives in a daring attempt to repair the leak.
Madam Benoit has chosen Molly's Reach as one of the restaurants to be featured in her new cooking show. Molly receives coaching, direction and image polishing for her big debut on television but when the cameras roll she's petrified into silence. To save the show Nick cooks the first apple pie of his career while receiving instructions from Molly through a small earphone.
Jesse's ancient Model A has been sitting in Ace Repairs for over a month waiting for a part that nobody makes any more. The lack of transportation sends Nick into Vancouver on a car buying expedition and into a mad impetuous affair with an exotic Ferrari. The car causes Nick a good deal of aggravation and Jesse insists that he should drive it. Constable Norman gives Nick a ticket every time he gets the thing into third gear and the car eats gas and money. Nick in the end returns to his senses and gives thought to some more practical means of transportation.
Nick is having a difficult time drumming up enthusiasm for the holiday season. Everywhere he turns he sees rampant commercialism, sour faces, depression and materialistic greed. Single handedly he battles the forces of gloom and promotes the true spirit of Christmas. Meanwhile Relic is selling Christmas trees at.an outrageous prices, Molly is up to her elbows in dishwashing, Margaret doesn't want to spend Christmas with the family and Sara has made copies of her Christmas list so she gets all she wants
Nick offers to help Constable John when he takes his five-member boy troop of Young Men In Action into the bush for two days so they can win their survival badges. A series of mishaps to John turn the outing into a genuine survival exercise and before they get back, the boys have been forced to face up to the more serious aspects of trust, teamwork and sharing.
Relic, ever spying on Nick, discovers that Nick and Jesse have found some ancient Indian artifacts. Relic goes snooping on the site and the ground gives way, leaving him entombed in an old abandoned longhouse. In the meantime Nick is trying to persuade the band Chief to dig up the artifacts for the band members. The Chief is not to be persuaded and orders the ground covered over. Relic is found buried in the hole, ungrateful and demanding to the end.
A visitor to Gibson's Landing, Harv Haywood, decides to sail around the world single handed and Nick feels obliged to teach Harv the rudiments of sailing before he embarks on his journey. Not a soul in town thinks he'll make it out of the harbour since he's already sunk Ol' Relic's boat three times, destroyed a fancy new restaurant, caused a monumental traffic jam and kept the emergency ward at the hospital hopping. Undaunted, Nick is determined to teach his dangerous pupil to sail.
Relic wins a ride in a hot air balloon as first prize at the local fair and although somewhat petrified, is too cheap to turn down something free. Confusion at the launch site, the wrong cord pulled and the wrong knot untied combine to produce an unscheduled liftoff with Relic and two ungrateful passengers, Nick and Sara
Not the Salmon Derby, nor the annual parade snares Nick into participation. No, it's the great Bicycle Race this time and it was really his fault as he boasted that he rode in the prestigious Tour de France. But to everyone's surprise, Nick keeps up with them.
With all the passion, courage and dedication of her age, Margaret is determined to stop the highways construction crews cutting down a particularly historic tree that is growing in the path of their right-of-way. In her quest for support she appeals to Dr. David Suzuki who is visiting the area in search of a small arbutus tree which he plans to dwarf like the famous Bonsi enthusiasts of Japan. Such an achievement is called a Tray Tree. Although Margaret loses her quest she accept's Suzuki's offer of the arbutus.
The inevitable was bound to happen - Nick and Relic both lay claim to a log at the same time. Neither will leave the log and each attach lines. Each is determined to win the log and in the end they both lose.
Sara, like any other little girl, loves to dress up, especially when she visits Granny Edwards. In a shed filled with Indian masks, rattles and ceremonial robes she is intrigued by a little cedar box, called a Soul Snatcher. When she returns home, Relic steals the smoked salmon Granny Edwards gave her so she steals his soul with the box. Relic goes to hospital and Sara is helped out of a very difficult situation with the ministrations of an Indian Shaman.
Sara hurts her finger while building a raft for herself and Nick takes over the construction. It's a beautiful raft and Sara christens it Barbie. Nick forbids her to sai it alone so Pat O'Gorman invites himself along. The two of them set off and soon run into difficulty, they are blown off course and lost. In the end it is little Sara who proves the most responsible and Pat learns he's not as clever as he thought he was.
Sara inherits the gift of divining water from her grandmother. Suddenly she is very much in demand. Nick insists she should find water for people without being paid, but Relic talks her into using her gift for more worldly goods. In the end, Sara loses her gift and learns a lesson.
Nick leaves The Reach when he feels responsible for a fire in Molly's stove. Molly then rents his room to Relic, a decision she wishes she'd never made.
It could have happened on Halloween. It also could have been a mid-sunnier madness. Who would have beleved a potion so strong, that McLoskey and Relic, even Molly and Constable John, would bum into personalities which reflected their darkest sides. Did Constable John really grow all that hair? Did Molly step from the pages of a book she had been reading? And what of Relic and McLoskey, who together started it all by meddling with forces beyond their control?
A contest to grow the largest vegetable for the fall fair produces some gigantic squash and enormous fun as the Beachcomber family try to outdo each other with their secret gardening skills. Constable John and Corporal Noman Brewster have their jobs cut out for them as they try and find Nick's stolen vegetable. A wild chase through the streets of Gibson has everyone on the trail of the zucchini snatcher.
Every year, Nick and Veronica are crowned the "royal couple" at Gibson's annual Beachcomber's ball. But Nick loses his heart to a beautiful newcomer and decides to take her to the ball instead. He almost loses more than his heart as the jealous and volatile Veronica decides to take matters into her own hands. With the help of Relic, she decides to teach the "Greek Casanova pig" a royal lesson.
Nick, Jesse and Relic witness a small two-engine plane crash on a nearby mountain. A typical day of beachcombing turns into a struggle for survival when in a race against time to find the survivors, a series of mysterious events almost turns the search into a tragedy. A briefcase full of jewels is the only clue that remains.
It's an unusual day in Gibson's to find Constable John and Relic both wanting to get married to the same girl. But then it's not every day that Nick Adonidas', Uncle Theo, comes over from Greece looking for a husband for his youngest daughter. His unorthodox methods and boundless energy causes Molly and Nick some concern. To Constable John's dismay and to everyone's surprize, Uncle Theo settles on Relic as the best prospect and the bridegroom prepares to leave for Greece.
When Jack O'Gorman gets really fired up about the local political situation in Gibson's, Nick decides that the town needs a new Mayor. If Jack runs as a candidate in the upcoming election, Nick will be his campaign manager. Relic sees a way to turn a profit and enlists the help of Ceece Neville to make sure that Jack wins, using whatever means available.
The Roberts Creek Girls Baseball Team has once again won the championship. "Pretty good for girls" smirks Corporal Norman Brewster. "Oh yeah?" replies their captain, and the regulars of Molly's Reach find themselves challenged to a baseball game. It looks hopeless as Nick tries to round up enough players to form a team. All is not lost, even after Jack O'Gorman loses his position as team manager, Constable John loses his heart to a player on the opposite team, and Corporal Brewster loses his patience
Nick and Jesse offer to do some fishing for an old timer to help him save his boat. But their best intentions go awry when they are robbed of their profits by pirates on the epen waters and must return empty-handed. Up and down the coast other fishermen are suffering the same misfortune at the hands of these modern day pirates. Who are they and how do they know when to strike?
Everyone's life is affected when a stranger coses to Molly's Reach one dark and stormy night. When the stranger brings out his deck of Tarot cards, everyone is interested in having their future read; but a series of coincidences and strange events start coming true. Nobody is more spooked than Relic, who driven by his greed finds himself in an awkward and dangerous situation. Only Sara can interpret the tarot cards and find him.
Has Dallas fever hit Gibsons? Sure looks like it when Relic begins negotiating $100,000 deals for a plot of land he owns. Never mind that its only 234 square inches somewhere in the Yukon, if a pipeline is going to run through it then he intends to become rich.
Nothing less than a hit on the head would cause Nick to miss a romantic date. When the lady in question phones the Reach the next morning to find out why Nick stood her up, everyone has reason for concern, especially after Constable John and Jesse find Nick's jacket floating in the water...Everyone knows Nick can't swim
Heartbroken and resigned to his fate, Constable John prepares to leave Gibsons when he hears of his promotion and transfer. But the folks at Molly's Reach wont give up so easily. Led by Nick and with the unexpected help of a mad trapper they tryi.and prove to the force how much Gibsons needs its favorite R.C.M.P. Officer.
Are wedding bells ringing in Gibsons? For Relic. When an old acquaintance cf Relic's arrives in Gibsons, she enlists the help of Nick to make a dream come true; she wants to marry Relic. And Sal has Relic over a barrel. If he refuses she will repossess the one thing most precious to him in all the world—the Jetboat. What choice does he have?
Nick decides to join the Big Brothers organization and takes on a Little Brother. After a few false starts and some highly skeptical remarks from his friends, he finally works out a suitable arrangement with young David Murchison. The only problem is that their interests are quite different. Tnings finally come to a head when Nick and his Little Brother are forced to go on a camping trip with Jesse, Constable John, and Pat O'Gorman. They all discover a mutual respect for each others interests and points of view.
Molly discovers that she still has alot to learn about living and enjoying life, and it takes an old lady to show her how. Starring the mother and daughter acting team of Micki Maunsell and Sydney Ralph this story tells of the struggle between mother and daughter to each do what they feel is right. Molly gets caught up in the old lady's fight for freedom and the right to live her final years any way she wants
Nick, Jesse and Constable John get the surprize of their lives when they hear Ace and his friends rehearsing a rock song that he composed himself. "Kid I'm gonna make you a star", says Nick, and offers to work as his manager. The glamour of the music business soon wears off as reality and hard work set in. Ace really has some talent and it is a difficult decision to know which road to travel.
It is a shocking start to the new season of the Beachcombers when Nick annonces his decision to leave for Greece. And he doesn't know when he's coming back! To make matters worse, a car crashes into the front of Molly's Reach, demolishing the cafe Now Molly is faced with the difficult decision of whether she should sell the Reach or rebuild.
Relic refusing a job? Is this a new Relic? Impossible. Yet when Relic comes back from a crash course in Vancouver, his personality has undergone a dramatic change.
'You chose a bad time to get hit on the head, step on a nail and get gas in your eyes', quips Relic to a bandaged, bruised and bed-ridden Nick. Nick would be the first to agree as a whirlpool series of events occur outside his bedroom and Constable John ends up almost marrying a snake charming belly dancer.
Trapped in a cage and swinging from a tree, it doesn't take Nick long to figure out that something "strange" has happened to Jake but it takes them longer to figure out how to escape and get Jake back to Gibsons where his Aunt Sal is planning a surprise birthday party for him.
The peninsula is ravaged by forest fires, although there has been no lightning and campfires have been banned. Arson is suspected and an out-of-work logger is apprehended. Yet, after he is taken into protective custody, new fires continue to break out. Can our friends stop the surprising culprit?
A very low Nick is facing his 50th birthday and not looking forward to it. He decides to make a journey by horseback up a mountain to visit an old Indian chief. The symbolic struggle up and down the mountain culminates in an expression of joy when Nick discovers that he still has plenty of zest for life in him.
A sudden an unexplained rash of boat sinking cause panic in Gibsons. Old Rosh Palmer believes it is Medusa and says he is going to catch her and collect the reward. But what or who is Medusa, and just how dangerous is she?
Gibsons becomes a mini Perto Vallarta as a school fundraiser gets Nick and Jesse involved in an exciting parasailing adventure. In the midst of this comes Venetia Amberly, a slightly scatty painter who sets her sights on Nick. Nick and Jesse's bad luck (and Relic's greed) gets Relic in on the parasailing, and Venetia's shennannigans add spice to an already colorfl week-end.
Jesse in a body cast? Laurel wearing a whiplash collar? Relic on crutches? Nick leads them all into court to get to the bottom of a bizarre series of events and chain reactions that lead to some thirty-nine separate lawsuits. The question is .... who was at fault? Guests: Stephen E. Miller, Garwin Sanford, Alex Bruhanski, Joseph Gallagher, and Zinta Williams
An argument over Laurel's auto mechanics course gets out of hand and Jesse moves back into the Reach with Nick. Using the expert advice of Pamela Pears, a visiting author who writes about marriage problems, Nick tries to get his two friends back together. However, a stolen houseboat and fire complicate matters. Guests: Suzanna Hunt as Pamela
Nick concocts a "sting" to help a young couple get even with Relic for a swindle which has left them holding the deed to a decrepid mussel ranch. Nick's pal, the famous restauranteur Umberto Menghi joins the team to make Relic forget unloading such a valuable piece of property. Guests: Umberto Menghi, Crystal Fralick-LeBlanc and Todd Duckworth
When an insistent bank official arrives to seize the Persephone because of an outstanding loan payment, a desperate Nick, accompanied by Pat O'Gorman takes off in the boat to buy some time. Relic and the banker take up the chase, aided by a relctant Con. John, with the dangeros game of hide and seek through the narrow channels leading to a firey explosion which threatens disaster for all concerned. Guests: Lorne Kennedy as Morton Stanley; Ed Mitchell as Charlie
When Reggie Gatwick shows up in Gibsons, Relic proves to be twice the trouble he usually is. Reggie is Relic's identical look-alike. When the two meet and trade places, they cause pandemonium in each other's environment. Picture Relic at a posh executive cocktail party.... Guests: Michael Bianchin
Valdy plays an eccentric inventor/musician named Halibut Stu who is on a mission to foil the Russian whaling fleet. Stu is pursed, however, by two unco-ordinated men in dark suits who have other plans for him. Nick and John wind up running interference for their old friend while Relic, as usual, has devised a way to make a profit on the situation. A warm comedy-adventure spiced with some vintage Valdy. Guests: Bob Metcalfe as Short Suit; Ryan Stiles as Tall Suit; Valdy as Halibut Stu
Nick and Pat O'Gorman test themselves against the perils of Crown Mountain. What starts out as a carefree outing to pick up a school credit for Pat, turns into a life threatening experience. Pat is trying to prove that he is a man, and Nick is trying to prove that he can repeat the conquests of his youth.
Nick, Constable John and Jesse see a spaceship land and decide to investigate it. Jesse decided discretion is the batter part of valour but Nick and John continue to get involved. Their curiosity leads them to an experience they will never forget and that no one else will believe.
A woman arrives in Gibsons looking for a boat and operator to hire. She chooses the Persephone and Nick Adonidas, who is reluctant but then agrees when she tells him she is searching for her husband who is missing among the coastal islands. The expedition is complicated by Nick's falling in love, then discovering the woman deceived and tricked him. The Persephone is rammed by a mysterious vessel in the dark and Nick finds himself in the middle of a struggle over logging rights. Guests: Anna Hagen
What happens when a policeman with a passion for the board game "Clue" finds himself in the middle of a mystery with enough clues and suspects for a dozen games? John solves the mystery of Captain Chutney's disappearance, but not before he chases a few red herrings and finds himself in something of a pickle.
An Indian activist lawyer who successflly sued the Alberta government for a parcel of Indian land, is hired by the Sechelt Band to do them a similar service. Forty-seven percent of the beautiful waterfront property between Langdale and Gibsons is Indian land and the lease is up. Jesse is caught in a moral dilemma. He has friends who live along the waterfront who are going to be evicted. Worse, Molly's Reach is on lease land. Pressured by people he loves and by responsibility to his band, the righting of this wrong is a painful and confusing experience for him. Guests: Margo Kane, Kelvin Bonneau, Buffalo Child, and Dwight McFee
Relic has a new money-making scheme which involves offering local tours to visitors. When a marginally royal couple appear and express an interest, Relic borrows a small ferry and coerces Sal and Ceece into assisting him. The ferry runs aground and the troupe becomes stranded on an Island, to the delight of the regal English couple. Relic is not delighted and is desperate to escape, but is surprised by the explosive conclusion to this adventure. Guests: Kareen Zebroff as Lady Pamela; Dermot Hennelly as Lord Roger
Sal is envious when Molly's romantic novel, written as a hobby project, becomes a best seller. Nick, Jesse and Larel have to fill in at the Reach while Molly attends to her new career. A big surprise awaits. Peter Jeffries, a wealthy former suitor, reads the book and comes courting aboard his private yacht. He proceeds to pressure Molly into marriage. Life in Gibsons will never be the same again if Molly says "I do". Guests: Brian Downey as Milo; Wally Marsh as Peter; Marlane O'Brien as Pearl; Otto Lowy
Relic winds up managing Molly's Reach as the locals try to prevent the sale and bulldozing of their favourite hangout. Little does Nick and Jesse realize that Relic has ulterior motives. After all, with Constable John in the kitchen, what can go wrong?
When Tommy's best friend moves away, he finds a good natured substitute in the form of a stray dog named Harry. But the boy's joy is short lived when a combination of events involving Jesse, Constable John, Nick and Relic result in the necessity for the distraught Tommy to turn Harry over to the SPCA. Guests: Sheelah Megill, Penny Fuller and Aristotle
A retired Saskatchewan farmer finds an old diary from the Klondike which speaks of sunken treasure off Gibsons, so he packs up his pick-up with antique diving gear and heads off to recover the gold, despite his wife's protests. With Relic and Pat's help he heads off into water deeper than he's ever seen, and sinks deeper than he expects. The spirits of the long dead prospectors almost grapple him to a watery grave, but with Nick's help, he is rescued. The treasure finally brought to the surface is not what was expected. Guests: Barney O'Sullivan and Betty Phillips
While Laurel, Sara and Tommy are left on their own to enter a float in the parade, Constable John's "Hosers" take on the local volunteer fire department in a knock-down, drag-out water soccer match during Gibson's exciting Sea Cavalcade celebrations. The contest turns into a high stakes grudge match when Relic shows up as a substitute for one of the fireman. Guests: Bill Croft as Fire Captain; Christopher Gaze as Sid.
With Nick's help, Pat O'Gorman builds a homemade raceboat, the "Loud and Proud". In an effort to impress a pretty girl he finds himself in a high stakes race against Relic and his Jetboat. And Relic gives no quarter. Guests: William Samples as Art
A travelling opera company abandons its impressario and his young daughter aboard a gigantic opera barge. Rescued by Nick and Jesse, the discouraged manager is caught between the schemes of Relic to destroy the barge and claim the insrance, and Nick's plans to reschedle the concert tour along the Sunshine Coast. Guests: Walter Kaasa as Arthur Slocum and Christianne Hirt as Amanda Slocum
Looking for ways to capitalize on Gibsons' tourist trade, Pat sets up a pedicab business but soon finds himself in competition with his friend Graham Blake. Nick backs Pat; Relic is Graham's silent partner; and a fare-war ensues. Finally, a contest is staged to determine the best "pedal pusher" and Nick and Relic wind up in a neck-in-neck race to the finish line. Guests: Sheila Moore, Jonathon Pallone, Greg Bennett, Laurie O'Byrne.
When Constable John finds twin baby girls in a basket in the back of his police cruiser, he enlists Nick and Jesse's help to find the mother. But also looking for the young woman is her troubled husband. Guests: Twyla-Dawn Vokins, Dale Walters
After suffering a heart attack and recuperating in hospital, Nick tries to return to his normal activities only to find all his friends trying to do too much for him. To prove he has recovered, Nick puts on a show of strength and almost does himself in. Guests: David Glyn-Jones, Donna Peerless
A disturbed young woman claiming she is Nick's abandoned daughter arrives in Gibsons looking for her father. Guests: Beatrice Boepple as Carla; Donna Peerless
On top of a rash of break-ins, Constable John is stuck with Corporal Dan Fellows looking over his shoulder. The handsome know-it-all is more interested in getting his picture taken for the RCMP's public relations campaign, and seems to be having his way with Gerri Dayton, the photographer, until the thief steals her cameras. Guests: Cameron Gordon, Frances Flanagan, Caroline Woodside, Pauline Maitland, Lloyd Berry, Ronnie Dunn.
Jesse, Laurel and Tommy move into the Reach after Molly re-marries and leaves the Gibsons. Jesse generously offers to rent the house-boat to Pat and Jack O'Gorman, but old Jack refuses this charity. The resulting conflict between Jack and Pat threatens to destroy their relationship.
Alekos, a young Greek man, arrives on Nick's doorstep, hoping for help to find his grandfather. While Alekos is enthusiastic and charming, he and Nick eventually have a difference of opinion and Alekos disappears. After his departure it is learnt the authorities are looking for a Greek ship-jumper. Nick and Sara attempt to save Alekos from deportation while Relic tries to profit from helping the immigration officer find his man. Guests: Xen as Alekos; Kevin McNulty as McNab
When Nick attempts to help three tourists with their ailing boat he accidentally discovers they are smuggling drugs. The smugglers steal the Persephone and leave Nick marooned on a small island. Will Relic put aside differences and help Nick escape, retrieve the Persephone and bring the offenders to justice? Guests: Gary Chalk as Phil; Jeff Irvine as Richard; Lucinda Nielsen as Clare
Nick and Jesse come across "The Dragon," a storm-battered Chinese junk, and rescue the Captain and his crew of three. Constable John and a Canadian Coast Guard officer suspect the motives of the Chinese sailors, but it is Relic who unwittingly uncovers the newcomers' secret quest. Guests: Tong Lung as Danny Chin; Han-Sheng Tsai as Chong Lin; Allanah Ong as Lin; Pat Lee as Ming; Stephen Chang as Wah; Gigi Wong, John Noda.
Donna-Lee Douglas is a new kid in town and she enlists the aid of the locals to open a teen nightclub. Sal is vehemently opposed, particularly when she discovers the Roberts Creek bikers are planning on making an appearance. Guests: William B. Davis as Dave Douglas; Gordon McIntosh as Biker; Sheila Moore as Mayor Tingsley; Elena Kirschner
The women of Gibsons are being victimized by a purse-snatcher on wheels and Constable John decides to fight fire with fire. Unfortunately, John's bicycle riding acumen is no match for the robber, and John is compelled to try another means of catching the purse-snatcher. Guests: Lisa Yates, Margot Pinvidic
Sal has organized an exhibition race between the all-woman crew of the Pauline Johnson, and the Kanaka, a new design with an all-male crew. Relic is suspicious of Sal's interest and discovers an intriguing secret and does his best to scuttle the Pauline Johnson under Sal's approving eye. Guests: Merrilyn Gann as Anna; Dale Wilson as Kydaka skipper; Pam Barnsley as Joan
Pat and Graham take up diving and discover a large wreck, which they hope to salvage. While investigating the old ship, Graham becomes trapped in the hull by a piece of shifting equipment. With his oxygen supply depleted, Graham's only hope for survival is the quick and heroic action of his best friend.
The idea of married life appeals to Con. John and with Nick's encoragement, he places a personal ad in the local newspaper. He is unprepared for the enthusiatic response, which inevitably goes to his head. But John's heart is stolen by a woman who would just as soon have John's head on a platter.
Pat and Graham have discovered the illicit joys of alcohol. They leave a party with Sara and Elaine for a spin around Keats Island in a borrowed boat. The inevitable happens; they hit a dead-head, the boat sinks, Sara is unconscious, and no one knows where they are. Guests: Sheryl Anne Wheaton as Elaine; Walter Learning as Jesse's Teacher; Jeff Schultz as Dave; Kristin Eriksen as Shannon; Cam Chaichan as Teen.
A religious cult has set up camp on an island near Gibsons. Pat O'Gorman disappears from visiting friends in Vancouver, only to re-appear in the clutches of the cult. Pat's mind has apparently been wiped clean. Graham too evinces an unhealthy attraction to the cult, and there is ostensible nothing at all their friends at the Reach can do about it. Guests: Jillian Fargey as Keana; Page Fletcher as Jaff; Douglas Miller as Pol; Roman Podhora as Haffen
This hour-long episode commemorating the Fifteenth Anniversary of THE BEACHCOMBERS was shot almost entirely on location in Greece. Nick and Jesse go to Greece at the behest of Lucas, and old friend of Nick's. Unbeknowst to Nick and Jesse, Relic has surreptitiously been brought over by Lucas' life-long enemy. Even Constable John is in the contry. After Nick is re-united with his first love (who is also Lucas' daughter), it appears that Nick will elect to forget Gibsons and live happily ever after in his homeland.
Gibsons is transformed into a film set for Molly's latest novel, "Logjams of Passion", as all the regulars take on the persona from the book. Only just in time does Nick bring everybody to their senses before the zealous producer destroys the town--including the Reach, the Persephone, and the Chuckchee.
Inspired by a documentary on Mother Teresa, Sara is moved to bring an iracscible "bag lady", Didee, home to live at the Reach. Jesse, Nick, and Laurel are torn between Sara's goodheartedness and their desire to be relieved of Didee's unusual lifestyle.
After fifteen years of petty bickering between Nick and Relic, they finally go too far and the community demands an end to it. As a consequence to particularly messy quarrel, Nick and Relic are ordered to do twenty hours of community service - together. They are forced to accept this reality after painting themselves into opposite corners of the community hall.
Jesse has had it! He feels that after 15 years he deserves more respect from Nick than jst being treated as a 'hired hand'. Nick is baffled, particularly when Jesse disssolves the partnership. Can Nick make amends before Jesse joins forces with Relic?
Nick and John help the old complainer, Duffy Bingham, locate his son Lorrie whom he has not seen in twenty years. The eventual reunion is strained because Lorrie is still clinging to the 60's ideals. Although Mo, Lorrie's long-suffering wife, is not taken by her cantankerous father-in-law, a tentative bond is created and Lorrie starts to show signs of growing up.
Relic, Nick, Jesse, and John go off to view some property that Relic is trying to sell John. Althogh no one is seriously hurt when the brakes to the police cruiser fail on a treacheros logging road, Relic suffers a slight concussion that has him believing he is six years old, that he is back in Whales, and the Nick is his father.
A young couple, fleeing the madness of the Christmas season, is forced to have their baby in the isolated cabin of Doug McCoy. Because the child is premature, it becomes apparent that only a miracle can help the young woman and child. And a miracle does happen....in the unlikely guise of Relic.
Jesse wins a contest for which the first prize is a freezer full of beef. He discovers, however, that the beef in question is still very much alive. As Jesse and his friends try to figure a painless way to slaughter the animal, Sara schemes to save the cow
A young runaway computer hacker makes some interesting discoveries by which Relic profits. The hacker, although young, is not as jejune as Relic thinks; our young hacker also has a profit motive
Jack O'Gorman is thrown into a prickly situation with Pat when he inherits a warehouse full of memorabilia and junk from an old friend. Jack wishes to keep the place as it is --as a reminder of the past--but Pat wants his grandfather to sell and put the money toward the boat of Pat's dreams.
Jenny Haldstrom, a local water skiing champion, suffers a devastating accident that may well leave her permanently paralyzed. The citizens of Gibsons rally round, but the misplaced guilt of Pat and Graham threaten to destroy their relatrionship with each other, and with Jenny
Wade Sheffield, a charming musician, sails into Gibsons and into Sara's life. There is something about him, though, that Nick dislikes. When the local bank is robbed, Nick's bad feelings intensify. however, convincing John (and especially Sara) proves to be another matter entirely.
When Relic unkowingly absconds with John's "to do" list, he sets up an unforeseen chain of events which culminates in John's apparent disintergration as an officer of the law. Feeling he has nothing left to lose, John sears to track down and finally do away with the hapless Relic.
Nick becomes a hero after rescuing a famous sailor
Galvanized by a radical animal rights organization, Sara is inadvertently caught up in a plot to kidnap a circus elephant. Thanks to the keen eyes and quick thinking of Pat and Graham, both Sara and the elephant are rescued
A two-part story in which the Greek woman of Nick's dreams, Melina, re-appears to enlist the aid of Nick (and the rest of the regulars) in solving an intriguing mystery.
Pat feels he is without friends when he hears about and tracks down a sunken boat. No one seems to have time to help Pat raise the boat for salvage and he must reach deep down within himself to find the necessary resources to do the job on his own; thus coming to grips with his own developing adulthood
When Laurel is offered a job as Band Manager on her old Reserve, unforeseen tensions erupt. If she accepts the job, it would mean leaving Gibsons, and quite possibly Jesse.
When a beautiful, mysterious, older woman comes to Gibsons and begins to sell her strange artifacts and concoctions, many of the regulars conclude that she is a witch. But Nick is completely enamoured with the woman and rejects any criticism of her--until Pat and Graham find a voodoo doll which is obviously meant to be Nick.
An overprotective yet demanding father brings his daughter to Gibsons to train her as a marathon swimmer. Both father and daughter must re-evaluate their relationship when Sara, Pat, and Graham demonstrate their burgeoning independence, and in light of a near-tragedy when the daughter must swim to save her father's life
Sara must deal with Jesse's stubborn refusal to see her as an adult when he objects to her leaving Gibsons to attend the Emily Carr College of Art and Design.
The regulars are concerned about the rather odd situation of newcomers Cliff and his son, Brandon. The general concern escalates when Cliff's ex-wife appears, claiming Brandon has been kidnapped from her by Cliff. Brandon's sudden disappearance at the same time as a barge loaded with extremely hazardous cargo, pushes the regulars to take action.
A Toronto divorcee is looking for a new life. She takes over the Reach cafe and becomes part of the beachcombers family, along with her eleven-year-old son Sam. Constable John gets a promotion and his own police boat, Nick decides to stay in Gibsons and Jesse, Laurel and Tommy move into their own house.
Part 2
Things are still looking bleak for Nick - Peresephone is up for auction; and Dana is changing the salvage office into a gift shop. Will Nick be able to straighten things out before it's too late?
After one too many runins with Dana, Relic is banned from the cafe forever. At Nick's insistence, Dana relents and agrees to allow Relic back in, but only on one condition.
A challenge is made, honour is at stake and John and Jesse find themselves racing through the wilderness in a battle between state-of-the-art technology and natural instinct.
A lucrative log spill turns nasty, and Relic finds himself pinned under a log, injured, with the tide rolling in. Weak and suffering from a case of flu, Relic realizes he has only himself to rely on for survival
This episode re-introduces Jordan 'Silicon' Smith, a young computer hacker Relic befriended. Once again, Relic enlists Jordan's computer wizardry in locating logs. With Relic continually one step ahead of him, it begins to look like a long, dry summer for Nick, until he decides to fight fire with fire.
Sam and Tommy get involved in a boy's club, but when the demands of the gang get too outrageous, Sam manages to turn the tables.
In this tribute to George Clutesi, the sudden death of George Douglas has Jesse, Laurel and the regulars feeling the loss. However, Tommy has the most difficulty coming to terms with his grandfather's death.
Gibsons is buzzing with activity as the regulars prepare for the First Annual Founding Day Celebrations. Relic seizes the opportunity to show the world what he really thinks of Gibsons when, to the dismay of all, he is unexpectedly made Mayor of the day.
Kelly, a 9-year-old boy, runs away from yet another foster home in search of his missing father. Mary Ross, his social worker, despairs of ever finding a secure placement for him, particularly as Kelly will not be separated from the mischievous Kate, his pet otter. Kelly and Kate wind up in Nick's temporary custody. Kate runs afoul of Nick, and Kelly runs afoul of Relic before Mary finally finds a solution to the problem.
After John is temporarily blinded, he and Dr. Ann Shirley find themselves growing closer in spite of their best intentions.
Someone is dumping toxic waste into the waters and evidence points to Nick and Pat. With the help of John, Nick must clear his name and solve the mysterious fish deaths.
Dana's upcoming birthday prompts Sam to seek for a not-yet-found treasure left behind by early Gibsons settlers. The treasure is found, but it is not what anyone expected.
A two-part episode featuring Sam's relationship with a young Asian boat person (May Lin), who is on the run from exploitive relatives.
Conclusion of two-part story
Sal is adamant that something be done about the Devil's Disciples, a group of bikers who have apparantly invaded Gibsons. Using the power of print, Sal convinces the townsfolk to close their shop doors to the Disciples. When the bikers find they are effectively cut out of the community, things begin to turn ugly.
Sara discovers an eccentric artist in Vancouver and brings him back to Gibsons where he rediscovers his creativity.
Pat comes to Vancouver in order to diversify his interests and play the entrepreuneur. Despite the best efforts of his friends, his investments go awry.
Nick, John, Jack O'Gorman and even Relic form a syndicate and invest in a racehorse. Jesse is disappointed that his family responsibilities prevent his involvement.
This two-part episode re-introduces Jenny, the recent paraplegic, as in her role of investigative reporter, who strives to get to the bottom of a potential environmental disaster caused by greedy developers.
After Nick convinces Nancy to let Tommy take Sam on a fishing trip, a storm brews on the horizon. This plus some news she desperately wants to give Sam upon his return make Nancy quite anxious, even though the locals try to assure her, the boys are in no danger. Relic is convinced he is dying from most believe to be only a bee sting.
With the marina sold and the Persephone and Jetboat seized, Nick and the regulars decide the only way to reclaim their boats is to steal them back. Imagine everyone's surprise when Relic is revealed as the new owner of the marina.
After several break-ins at the Reach, Constable Fernley moves in temporarily with Dana and Sam. Complications arise when Fernley finds himself falling in love with Dana.
Feeling get hurt when Dana, Laurel, Tommy and Sam get stranded on an island.
Relic must save Sam, held hostage by smugglers.
In this episode, people in Gibsons wonder what Nick is hiding when they discover that he owns a pistol, makes telephone calls to Moscow speaking Russian, and is planning a trip to Yugoslavia. Things seem even fishier when John and Fernley can find no record of a Nick Adonidas.
Everyone seems happy about Pat's decision to move to Vancouver... everyone, that is, but Pat, who's suddenly having second thoughts. But pride and the belief everyone can't wait to see him leave prevent Pat from revealing his apprehension and fears.
Dana and Relic find themselves pursued on the water by rifle-toting drug smugglers when what appeared to be a simple delivery job goes very wrong.
Graham organizes logging protests on Putnam Island, he finds himself battling not only the logging company but his father as well.
Relic's uncharacteristic, 'caring' behaviour of late has the regulars wondering whether they have misjudged him all these years.
Skeletor, Sam's newly-acquired dog, is already on everyone's nerves as Sam finds himself endlessly defending the lively little mutt. When Skeletor is seriously injured, Sam alone must decide the little dog's fate.
Graham's unintentional involvement in John's undercover smuggling operation takes a complicated turn when it's discovered Ted Blake is somehow connected with the smugglers.
A regular fishing trip for Tommy, Nick and Jesse turns into a nightmare when Nick is kidnapped by crooks intent on escaping to American waters.
Sam is embarrassed by his visiting cousin, who has Down's syndrome.
Jack's determination to visit an old flame has the regulars duly concerned--Constance Bourne has been dead for ten years! And events become even more bizarre when Pat finds an invitation to Jack from Constance herself.
Dana's positive she saw...something...in the Reach. The Ghost of Captain Stubbs, explains Jack. But when Dana learns the regulars have fooled her with a childish ghost story, she decides it's time for the Captain himself to make an appearance.
Tommy and Jack occupy a treefort in an ancient 200 ft. tall temperate rainforest tree in order to save it from destructions by Ted Blake and his silent partner, Relic
Sam gets some interesting and totally useless advice from Nick, John, Pat and Graham, when he finds himself smitten with the daughter of his mother's friend. Meanwhile, Dana and Sam are going through parent/adolescent blues. Although Sam's heart gets broken, it is mended with a searing first kiss.
Both Ted Blake and Corporal John find themselves experiencing mid-life crises of sorts: Ted's trying to relive a carefree youth while John is having difficulty deciding his future with Dr. Ann.
Relic makes some uncharacteristically friendly overtures to Nick. Later, Nick and John take Relic, against his will, to a doctor because Nick has found out Relic thinks he has Lou Gehrig's disease. Relic is furious when he learns he only has an inner ear infection which will quickly heal/
John and Anne are too busy with their respective careers to organize their wedding so they hire Dana to take it on. Although under pressure by the lack of a bagpiper, a failed wedding rehearsal and memories of her own failed marriage, Dana pulls together the picture perfect wedding.
John gets up his courage to propose to Ann, only to be interrupted by an earthquake. Meanwhile, Relic along with Ted Blake and Ted's partner, Green, become trapped in an old machine shop. John, Nick Ann and the townsfolk come to the rescue. In the middle of the disaster, John proposes to Ann, Ann accepts, and Nick is chosen as the best man.
In this the last episode, Nick finds himself in the middle of a blackmailing scheme involving Les Boog, a man who owns the only log salvaging brokerage company in the area. Boats blow up, the marine catches fire, and circumstances point to Nick as the guilty party. As Nick chases the criminals down, his life is endangered. Relic and John come to the rescue. Nick comes to realize that beachcombing as a means of making an honourable living has become an impossibility. As the sun sets, and Nick grapples with his decision to retire, he finds comfort and friendship in his Gibsons' extended family/