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The Confident Man

Episode 01
Writer: Tim Rolfe
Director: Gregor Jordan

A smooth talking wheeler-dealer businessman manages to talk his way out of a speeding ticket but later faces his greatest challenge: persuading a robber at his bottle shop that the cordless drill he's threatening him with is really a gun.

Starring: Bryan Brown as Jack Jackson, Josephine Byrnes as Julia, Steve Bastoni as Constable Paul Bell, Aaron Blabey as Nick, Mark Lee as Frank.
With: Jill McKay, Andrew Chapman, Peter Talmacs, Minh Tam Tran

Dancing Partners

Episode 02
Writer: Graeme Nixon
Director: Ian Gilmour

The two children of a separated ballroom dancing champion couple live with their mother but every second Saturday afternoon spend time with their dance-mad father who, they believe, is harbouring a secret girlfriend.

Starring: David Webb as Clive, Noni Hazelhurst as Anne, Matilda Brown as Fiona, Treffyn Koreshoff as John
With: Ray Mather, Kim Graham, Gary Whitaker.

Borrowing Bazza

Episode 03
Writer: Duncan Ball
Director: David Caesar

A fading artist who has pinned all his hopes on winning the Archibald Prize, is devastated when his subject dies suddenly—and kidnaps his body in order to finish the portrait.

Starring: Bruce Spence as Colin, Barry Crocker as Sir Barry, Jonathan Hardy as Roger, Richard Carter as Jim Nicholson.

Bonus Mileage

Episode 04
Writer: Simon D. Hoenger
Director: Christopher Robin Collins

A bad-tempered computer salesman meets an apparently wealthy collector on a bumpy air journey but regains consciousness after a fall on the plane to discover he's assumed the identity of the other person.

Starring: Geoffrey Rush as Harry Chisholm, Shane Briant as Jay Condor
With: Peter Carmody, Kate Fischer as Melody Christian, Tottie Goldsmith as Vanessa Condor, Jacek Koman, Anthony Martin as Policeman, Natalie McCurry as Tania, Alan Zitner

The Test

Episode 05
Writer: Heather Christie
Director: Lynn Hegarty

When a man starts going out with one of his employees, his over-possessive mother, who has an obsession for playing with dolls, does her best to split the couple up.

Starring: Judy Morris as Veronica, David Wenham as George, Pippa Grandison as Karen
With: Leigh Russell as Taxi Driver

The Crossing

Episode 06
Writer: Gabiann Marin
Director: Kate Dennis

A woman flees an accident scene and must dodge the police after knocking down a pedestrian on a crossing when speeding home from her first night spent with her new boyfriend.

Starring: Nadine Garner as Mallory, Justine Clarke as Pip
With: Les Foxcroft, Joy Hruby as Elderly Woman, Louise Howitt, Paul Livingston as Café owner, Martin Maddell, Berynn Schwerdt, Victoria Wells

Third Party

Episode 07
Writer: Neil Burman
Director: Smantha Lang

A married man arranges to meet a woman for a meal via a video dating agency but takes along a pair of stockings and a menacing length of rope.

Starring: Rachel Ward as Sarah, Marshall Napier as Ray.
With: Mitchell Butel as Waiter, Anthony Hayes as Damien

Cold Revenge

Episode 08
Writer: Daniel Krige
Director: Daniel Krige

A hitman hired for a murder becomes suspicious of the woman who's given him the job when everything starts to go wrong and the hit turns out to be her brother.

Starring: Dee Smart as Judy, Robert Mammone as Steve
With: Ken Bromlow as Mechanic, Daniel Krige as Judy's Brother

Night of the Monster

Episode 09
Writer: Heather Christie
Director: Stephen Wallace

A little girl whose eye-witness testimony helped convict her mother's killer, fights for her life when the man escapes from jail and breaks into her home seeking revenge.

Starring: Brittany Byrnes as Jessie, Jessica Napier as Michelle, Boris Brkic as Arthur Evan Pendle, John Walton as Peter.

One Way Ticket

Episode 10
Writer: Daniel Krige
Director: Michael Offer

Late at night, a woman, scared and alone, takes shelter in a railway ticket office but fears the male worker there, who's also waiting for the rain to stop, may be dangerous.

Starring: Claudia Karvan as Cassie, Richard Roxburgh as Ben, Irene Rowland as Bag Lady, Avril Wynne as Bag Lady Double

Directly from My Heart to You

Episode 11
Writer: Louis Nowra
Director: Catherine Millar

A female android, ordered to carry out a series of murders by the scientist who created her, begins to derive pleasure from her job as a killing machine and starts acting on her own impulses.

Starring: Kimberley Davies as Betty, Gary Day as Lowell, Simon Westaway as John Berryman.
With: as Sam, Mercia Deane-Johns as Woman, Kate Fitzpatrick as Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Gan as Rita, Grant Piro as Merrill

A Sure Thing

Episode 12
Writer: Gary N. Lines
Director: Lewis Fitz-Gerald

A reformed gambler is persuaded to make one last bet on what seems like a sure thing, but ends up losing a lot more than he bargained for.

Starring: Russell Kiefel as George, Robert Taylor as Peter, Loene Carmen as Katey, Sandy Winton as Bartender, Ken Talbot