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Return to Eden

Produced by Eden Productions

Producers: Hal McElroy, Tim Sanders
Writer: Michael Laurence
Directors: Karen Arthur, Kevin Dobson, Rod Hardy, Arch Nicholson

Aired: 1983, 1986

The Miniseries begins when the rich, twice divorced mother, Stephanie Harper, marries handsome young Wimbledon Champ Greg Marsden. He begins an affair with Stephane's best friend Jilly Stewart. On their honeymoon in 'Eden', the family estate in the Northen Territory, Greg pushes Stephanie into a crocodile infested river. She amazingly survives and with plastic surgery has a new face and identity, and begins to plot her revenge. Stephanie entices Greg to fall in love with her and they return to Eden where she confronts Greg and Jilly by revealing her true identity. (6 x 60min)

The series picks up from the mini-series seven years later. Stephanie Harper, Australia's richest woman, is happily married to her plastic surgeon husband. Her two children are now young adults, involved in the Harper 'empire' and in their own problems. The release of Jilly Stewart from prison starts a dramatic chain of events. (22 x 60min)

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