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Thursday April 23 9.30pm

Joey Conway, a big-name newspaper columnist, turns up dead in 1973 and Detective Sam Tyler is certain he knows the killer. It just happens to be someone he remembers from another murder case 35 years in the future.

Spurred on by powerful flashbacks from 2008, Sam’s behaviour seems increasingly erratic to Lieutenant Hunt, Ray, Annie and Chris, who have another suspect in mind. When Sam goes totally out on a limb and faces surprising consequences at the 1-2-5, it looks like the once-and-future killer may get away with the crime.

Music In This Episode:

“It Don’t Come Easy” by Ringo Starr
“Lux” by Traffic Sound
“Isn’t Life Strange” by The Moody Blues

Thursday April 23 8.30pm

A girl who vanished at age 14, four years ago, reappears with a tale of imprisonment and sexual slavery, but Benson and Stabler find themselves on an odd fact-finding journey as they try to piece together her story and resolve the discrepancies.

Trivia:

This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Elisabeth Fritzl case in Austria. Joseph Fritzl kept his daughter as a sexual slave in the cellar of his basement for 24 years, impregnating her several times. Three of her children lived with her in the secret three-room structure, the rest lived with their grandparents (elisabeth’s mother believed she had joined a cult and couldn’t keep the babies or make contact with her family).

Thursday April 23 8.00pm

Two peregrine falcons that live at the top of a high rise shopping centre mall in busy Bondi Junction have been struck down with a mystery illness.

Dr Chris must diagnose the problem so the beautiful birds can be returned to their penthouse home.

Meanwhile over at Bondi’s referral hospital SASH, a six year old retriever jasmine is rushed in with a potential fatal gastric dilation volvulus (gdv).

Her stomach has twisted and as a result blood can no longer pump to her heart. If Dr Lisa doesn’t carry out emergency surgery, she will be dead within hours.

Back at the Bondi clinic Dr Chris is going hopping mad (pun intended!) looking after a randy rabbit! This little bunny has an unrequited love for a much bigger, older woman called Archelina.

The problem is that the randy rabbit just won’t leave his disinterested girlfriend alone.

For Bunny, there’s two choices: the snip; or find a new friend. What will Bunny’s fate be?

Hot Tip From Dr Chris – The Stress Test!

If you’re worried that your little animal is anxious, then you’re not alone. Levels of anxiety and stress in pets are at record levels. But here’s how to find out of your fretting friend is affected. Next time you sense they’re stressed (before a thunderstorm, when they have been left home alone) then try the ‘At Home Stress Test’. Simply press their paw up against a pane of glass and leave it there for 10 seconds. If they leave a moisture mark on the window then anxiety has become their enemy…

Wednesday April 22 9.30pm

Crews and Seever are called in when a politician is shot and killed in her home. The detectives discover the representative was the force behind a political initiative that would put a comprehensive ban on handguns and cost a gun manufacturing company millions in profit. Crews and Seever work to prove that the representative’s political ambitions may have gotten her killed. Meanwhile, Crews questions what Reese might be doing with the FBI.

Wednesday April 22 8.30pm

Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) postpones her vacation with Chase (Jesse Spencer) in order to ask House (Hugh Laurie) to accept the case of an environmental radical who collapsed at a protest with unexplainable symptoms. Although suspicious of her motives, House agrees. Since she pushed him to take the case so emphatically, House forces her to take the lead and run many of the tests on the patient.

Meanwhile, House is unsure of Wilson’s (Robert Sean Leonard) new healthy diet.

Tuesday April 21 9.30pm

Lightman becomes obsessed with his investigation of two young women who committed suicide. Meanwhile, the team tries to recover billions of dollars for investors who were bilked by a Ponzi scheme.

Tuesday April 21 8.30pm

The NCIS team begrudgingly joins forces with the FBI when they identify the remains of a serial killer the FBI has been hunting for 12 years. After contacting the serial killer’s family, the NCIS and FBI teams search their home for additional remains and make a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, the NCIS team has problems with the “fictional” book McGee wrote about a team of NCIS agents.

Tuesday April 21 8.00pm

Surrounded by beaches, blessed with plentiful sunshine, Sydney is a surfer’s city. Once a year the surfing tribes from Bondi, Bronte, and Maroubra, gather to decide which beach has the best surfers.

In the carnival atmosphere of surfing and music, a roll of builder’s plastic becomes a make-shift slip and slide on a hill at South Bondi. What seemed like a good idea at the time, ends with a 16 year old boy suffering a compound fracture to his lower leg, and lifeguards race to the building commotion.

In the water the showdown between the area’s best surfers is still in full-flight, when a dangerous visitor arrives. A 10 foot shark is spotted from the rescue chopper, and lifeguards clear everyone out of the water. It’s only weeks since a man was mauled by a shark at the same spot, and no one is taking any chances. Except it appears the competitors in the surfing contest, who continue on more concerned with points than jaws.

Surfing rites of passage aren’t restricted to the surfing. Young lifeguard maxy has been attempting to prove his maturity by taking over Corey Oliver’s caretaker duties at the local surf club. Corey has been in Europe and arrives intent on inspecting Maxy’s work. In the interim however, poor Maxy is about to discover he’s the victim of sabotage as Reidy and Kerrbox ransack the club inside.

Monday April 20 8.30pm

Paul McDermott and friends have packed the caravan south to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to bring forth this very special episode of Good News Week.

Recorded live from Melbourne Town Hall, special guests are:
Reginald D Hunter
Arj Barker
Corinne Grant

We here at Ten encourage interactive viewing, so please grab your novelty whoopee cushion, place it under your significant other and be a a part of the fun!

Cass tries to push Donna away, but Donna’s determined to stand by her mum.

Donna remains firm in her resolve to stand by her mother, no matter how Cass treats her. But her friends are increasingly worried as Cass works her way back into rehearsals for the school play, and publicly humiliates Donna. When Donna finally snaps, Cass puts her heart on the line for the first time – and begs Donna to stay. But has she missed her last chance?