The BEST episodes directed by Geoff Bennett
#1 - Live Catch
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 14
Bomber faces disciplinary action after a violent confrontation with illegal fishermen. Kate is blinded by a deadly toxin, sparking a desperate race to find an antidote, and 2Dads' plan to help Bomber gain a promotion backfires when they are kidnapped.
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#2 - A Brilliant Career
Sea Patrol - Season 2 - Episode 11
A change of command on HMAS Hammersley results in divided loyalties and the humiliation of the ship's most senior female officer. After a dangerous departure from Samaru, Commander Mike Flynn is recovering in hospital.
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#3 - Ransom
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 4
A kidnap drama on the ocean and relationship tremors below decks rock Hammersley as she sails the Coral Sea.
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#4 - Rawhide
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 10
Hammersley hunts down cattle rustlers behind the hijacking of live cattle shipments. Robert takes desperate measures to be seen as a team player by his crewmates, and Bird is terrorised by her ex-boyfriend.
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#5 - Shadow Line
Sea Patrol - Season 2 - Episode 9
The Hammersley is once again in hot pursuit of the cabin cruiser responsible for trafficking weapons and ammunition to the Samaru Islands. Meanwhile Mike Flynn receives a tempting offer from Ray Walsman and Kate's life is placed in danger when she becomes isolated from the crew.
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#6 - Shoes of the Fisherman
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 7
On patrol in the Arafura Sea, the Hammersley encounters an old adversary, an illegal foreign fishing vessel skippered by an infamous fisherman known as Hannibal. Robert is lost overboard in mysterious circumstances, sparking a major search and lives are at stake when Swain discovers rabies on board Hammersley.
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#8 - In Too Deep
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 16
Mike is tortured and faces death when he is captured by a ruthless gang of drug traffickers. Dutchy and the crew vow revenge when one of their mates is presumed murdered. After realising she has no romantic future with Mike, Kate makes a fateful decision about her career.
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#10 - Hidden Agendas
Sea Patrol - Season 2 - Episode 7
The crew find a boy who has found a cache of guns. The boy is later kidnapped which ends up ruining a date for Kate and Jim. Meanwhile, one crew member faces losing the love of his life.
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#11 - Tell Her, It's Over!
Doctor Doctor (2016) - Season 3 - Episode 1
Disgraced heart surgeon Dr Hugh Knight's plans to leave Whyhope forever are upended when tragedy strikes. Penny makes a fateful decision about her love life.
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#12 - Father's Day
McLeod's Daughters - Season 4 - Episode 9
Tess has a fight on her hands when Peter claims custody of Charlotte. Alex enlists the help of his barrister father, Bryce.
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#13 - Double Dealing
McLeod's Daughters - Season 4 - Episode 2
Tess' world is turned upside down by the arrival of a man claiming to be Jack McLeod's long lost son.
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#15 - Deep Water
Sea Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 12
The Hammersley races to save a boatload of tourists from being murdered as part of a bizarre terrorist publicity stunt. Meanwhile, Swain and the crew help deliver the baby of a runaway teenager, found lost at sea with her criminal boyfriend. A series of emergencies at sea prevent Swain from attending the birth of his first baby.
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#16 - The Universal Donor
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 8
The sinister business of organ harvesting sees two of the Hammersley's favourite sailors facing their own mortality.
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#18 - Through the Storm
Sea Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 8
The video of Chefo's bucks night finds its way into Kate's hands and she is humiliated by what she finds on it. The HMAS Hammersley comes across an unexploded sea mine and Spider manages to save the life of a boy who was near the mine, but have Spider's days in the navy come to an end?
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#19 - Day of Reckoning
McLeod's Daughters - Season 4 - Episode 4
Sandra has a surprising solution when Alex and Nick face a heart wrenching decision, while Tess tackles her own problems with a charging bull and a gate.
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#20 - The Hunted
Sea Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 10
Dutchy and the crew are caught in a deadly fight for survival when a training exercise turns into a manhunt.
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#21 - Chinese Whispers
Sea Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Hammersley saves sailors from a sinking ship, only to learn they are diamond smugglers who will kill to save their cargo. Swain is kidnapped by smugglers and left trapped in their sinking ship. Will Buffer rescue him before the ship sinks? Mike is reprimanded by Navy brass over his obsession with the Bright Island mystery.
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#22 - Episode 8
Love Child - Season 3 - Episode 8
Annie risks losing her unborn child when she is injured at an anti-war protest. Joan's career as a doctor hangs in the balance following her role in Eva's pregnancy. Shirley makes a life-changing decision to help Maggie keep her baby.
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#23 - Rescue Me
Sea Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 7
The HMAS Hammersley confronts a series of new menaces in the northern waters from pirates to toxic crabs, not to mention a gorgeous solo yachtswomen with a rescue fetish.
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#26 - Crocodile Tears
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 2
A new Commanding Officer and the discovery of a cruel and lucrative trade in crocodile skins results in some tense and disturbing moments for the crew of the HMAS Hammersley.
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#27 - Isn't She Lovely
Doctor Doctor (2016) - Season 3 - Episode 2
Hugh faces chaos at home and work, with a mutiny on the farm and a deadly pregnancy crisis with Hayley. Meryl teaches Matt and Charlie a lesson about bribery and corruption.
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#28 - Episode 8
Love Child - Season 4 - Episode 8
Joan makes a fateful decision about her future with Lawrence. Debbie's world is rocked when she discovers Matron has made secret deal to adopt out her baby. Viv gives Matron a dose of her own medicine.
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#29 - The Stinger
Sea Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 6
As part of the boarding party checking a possible FFV, Dutchy doesn't hide his surprise at seeing one of the crew is SAS Captain Jim Roth. His flash of recognition is noticed by the ship's master, and the question now is, has Jim's cover been blown? ASIO "spook" Madelaine Cruise is furious. She confirms that Jim was on a mission and insists CO Mike Flynn shadow the vessel in case Jim needs assistance. And so he does, after Dutchy sees two men fighting on the deck, and the subsequent boarding party finds an area awash with blood and Jim under a tarpaulin with a serious head wound.
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#30 - Episode 1
Love Child - Season 3 - Episode 1
It’s 1970 and the times they are a-changing. Joan is devastated to discover an infection has left her almost certainly infertile while delinquent teen Maggie is determined to discover the identity of her birth mother.
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#31 - Giving up the Dead
Sea Patrol - Season 2 - Episode 5
Robert fails a drug test but is determined to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, the Hammersley uncovers a smuggling operation by Samaruian rebels which is designed to destabilise the government.
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#32 - Sub Silentio
Harrow - Season 2 - Episode 8
[Under Silence] While Grace autopsies the body of an elderly man discovered in an Egyptian sarcophagus, Harrow finds himself in a battle for his own life.
#33 - Rumble In the Jungle
Sea Patrol - Season 4 - Episode 12
Hammersley is caught in a war zone while delivering aid to a remote foreign island. Swain and Dutch risk their lives to rescue an aid worker and her sick patient from a deadly tribal feud. Mike faces a deadly dilemma when Bird is struck by a mystery illness and requires urgent evacuation.
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#34 - Cocksure
Underbelly - Season 1 - Episode 4
Carl Williams is caught red-handed whilst double-crossing the fearsome Moran brothers; the underworld is in an uproar over the mystery source of cheap drugs; a kidnap goes terribly wrong, from farce to disaster, when nobody wants to pay the victim's ransom, which only adds to the tension.
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#35 - Episode 7
Love Child - Season 4 - Episode 7
Joan's world is upended when her ex-fiance arrives from London. Bowditch and Martha are blackmailed over the hit-and-run accident. Rita has second thoughts about returning to the convent following the birth of her baby.
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#37 - Friends Like These
McLeod's Daughters - Season 1 - Episode 21
When Tess’s friends from the city arrive unexpectedly, it becomes apparent that Tess’s previous life isn’t going to fade quietly away in the distance.
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#38 - Eye for an Eye
Sea Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 2
Kate is hunted down by an obsessed criminal after she kills his accomplice during a boarding. When Bird is kidnapped, the crew fears she will be murdered as payback.
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#39 - Episode 2
Love Child - Season 3 - Episode 2
Shirley fights to keep her job as Maggie learns the truth of their relationship, Joan uncovers McNaughton's part in Greg Mathieson's death, and Viv loses her twins all over again.
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#41 - Episode 1
Love Child - Season 4 - Episode 1
When Joan goes into early labour, the unorthodox new head of obstetrics is the only one who can help her. Matron has her hands full with three new pregnant girls in Stanton House.
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#42 - Episode 4
Love Child - Season 2 - Episode 4
Joan finds herself in the middle of a violent custody battle over Gail's baby. Patricia faces a crisis when she travels to Melbourne to marry her Prince Charming. Martha is obsessed with seeing Queen Elizabeth during the 1970 royal tour.
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#43 - The Startle Reflex
Bump (2021) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Everyone tries to adjust to this new life, but not everyone is on the same page.
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#44 - Episode 2
Love Child - Season 4 - Episode 2
Matron buries her doubts about the baby swap, while Joan struggles with life as a single mother. Martha vows to uncover the truth about Patty's mysterious death. Elena fears for her life when her brother discovers the truth about her pregnancy.
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#45 - The Dogs of War
Sea Patrol - Season 2 - Episode 1
After the Hammersley successfully pulls off the tricky evacuation of all the Australian citizens from an island in the Samaru Archipelago, it comes across an FFV which isn't what it pretends to be. Charge discovers first-hand exactly how dangerous his job can be. And Nikki and ET have to decide what to do now that they're working together.
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#46 - Deep Water
McLeod's Daughters - Season 1 - Episode 22
Jodi’s fund raising efforts for Miss Gungellan are reaching fever pitch with a charity bush polo match to be held at Drovers Run, but a cloud of discontent covers the girls when they make a macabre discovery in the dam.
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#47 - Saving Ryan
Sea Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 12
Bird is compromised when she discovers Ryan working for a private security firm while AWOL from the navy. Mike fears his son has been murdered by mercenaries and risks his career to get revenge on the killers. A pregnancy scare forces Kate to reconsider her future.
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#48 - Under the Hammer
Sea Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 9
Disaster looms for the Hammersley crew when a fire erupts in the engine room, after the mascot is stolen by a rival Patrol Boat crew. Meanwhile, an eye injury threatens to destroy Charge's career, and ET takes a vow of chastity in a desperate attempt to prove himself to Nikki.
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#49 - Lifeline
Sea Patrol - Season 5 - Episode 8
Robert becomes the lifeline when 2Dads is trapped alone in a sunken research submarine. Mike and the crew pursue a marine biologist suspected of sabotaging the submarine, and with 2Dad's air supply running out, Charge must use all his technical skills to help save his mate's life.
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#50 - Episode 5
Love Child - Season 2 - Episode 5
The custody battle over Jim's baby becomes deadly serious. Joan receives a surprising proposal. Annie is deemed an unfit mother when her baby goes missing. Patricia has a life-changing encounter with some hippies.
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