The BEST episodes of Blue Heelers season 10
Every episode of Blue Heelers season 10, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Blue Heelers season 10!
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Woods), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
#1 - The Lowest of the Low
Season 10 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/24/2003
It is Constable Susie Raynor's first day in Mt Thomas and as she is being given the guided tour, she recognises a released paedophile who has moved into a house opposite a primary school. Ben is appalled, and makes sure he warns the community, but the man Donald Heinz asserts both his innocence and his civil rights, causing much community division and leading Tom to question his decision to appoint Ben as Acting Sergeant. Then a young girl goes missing and the man is accused of abducting her.
#2 - A Better Mind
Season 10 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/23/2003
Ben investigates the health of a baby boy reared by his widowed dad. The man is trying to treat the boy's fever with natural remedies, to the exclusion of conventional medicine, which outrages the police officer and leads to an eventual kidnapping.
#3 - Thicker than Water
Season 10 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/23/2003
Jo and PJ discover the body of a young woman at the bottom of a cliff in a suspected suicide. PJ is surprised to find out that Marco Fiorelli, his new flatmate, not only knew the woman—but she worked for his father! PJ's investigations reveal Marco's father is wanted by the fraud squad for raising $15 million against non-existing assets and it seems like his debtors are closing in when they pay a visit to the house and kidnap Jo who they think is the key to reach Fiorelli. The threat to Jo's life makes PJ realise his true feelings for her. But will it be too late?
#4 - Raging Hormones
Season 10 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/30/2003
Tess struggles to keep her emotions under control as her raging hormones give her a ""pregnancy brain"". When a pedantic husband tries to stop his pregnant wife playing squash, a scuffle breaks out between them and Tess arrests him for assault. Ben sides with the husband, and suggests they should try counselling, but Tess seems hell bent on arresting him. Tom feels that Tess' personal life and her pregnancy is affecting her professional decisions—and suggests Tess stand down from operational duties… but his suggestion only makes things worse… until Tess is confronted with a horrible reality.
#5 - A Blind Eye
Season 10 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/6/2003
A French documentary maker in town to film country policing captures all the intricacies and conflicts when the Heelers are forced to investigate one of their own. In a series of flashbacks, the Frenchman's video footage reveals the truth behind Widgeree's Senior Constable Ian Goss' suspected cover-up of a crime, as it's being investigated by internal affairs.
#6 - Chocolate Sardines
Season 10 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/13/2003
Ben has joined the Salvation Army, much to the amusement of his colleagues. They are certain it's only because he fancies the new captain, Marissa, but Ben denies it. He sets out to impress her but his courting attempts are thwarted when an investigation keeps leading to some of her favourite welfare recipients. When a young boy's guinea pig goes missing, Ben sees it as an opportunity to show Marissa his softer side. He ropes Jonesy into helping. Eventually, their hunt leads to the missing pet—and also the shoplifters. But will Ben's efforts be enough to convince Marissa to go on a date with him?
#7 - Too Good To Be True (1)
Season 10 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/20/2003
Tess is delighted when her sister Bridie turns up in town with a good job and a new boyfriend, but Jonesy has to work hard to overcome an instinctive dislike. The Heelers are baffled when a man confesses to murdering a young woman, but they can't find her body. Bridie flirts with Jonesy, causing escalating aggression from the boyfriend, who takes it out on Bridie, then staggers into the hospital with a stab wound. Meanwhile the young woman is found, but says she's been raped. When the Heelers go to question the boyfriend and the young woman, they discover both have disappeared from the hospital—along with Jonesy, who was supposed to be guarding them. And then an hysterical Bridie leads them to her boyfriend's bloody dead body.
#8 - Too Good To Be True (2)
Season 10 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/27/2003
Bridie accuses Jonesy of murder, but makes the mistake of manufacturing evidence against him. When she is found out, suspicion naturally falls on her, and she is arrested. But Tess is convinced of her innocence, and persuades a rather reluctant Jonesy to help her find the real killer. Ironically Tess' efforts to exonerate her sister of murder reveal that she is involved in a far more despicable crime—she has been running a brothel staffed by sex-slaves. Tess is forced to make an emotional choice, finally accepting her sister for who she really is.
#9 - Every Man and His Ute
Season 10 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/3/2003
Jo's life is saved by a mysterious stranger after she is left choking on her seatbelt after she is run off the road. When she learns her benefactor may have done a drive-by shooting, she refuses to accept it, but the truth is hard to find, partly because of her faulty memory of the events, and partly because of the confusion caused by a light blue ute, which has been involved in a series of crimes, from the drive-by shooting, to running her off the road, to an armed robbery of the Juicy Rooster. Unfortunately the ute's owner has an alibi for at least one of these crimes, and PJ is forced to believe his explanation that his ute was stolen. But by who, and why?
#10 - Motherhood
Season 10 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/10/2003
Tess is surprised to discover that her in-laws, are the couple who stopped to help a hit and run victim; they are equally surprised to discover she is pregnant. As Tess tries to stop Evan and Tom fussing about her headaches and blurred vision, PJ begins to suspect the hit and run victim was injured by something far more personal than a vehicle. While PJ and Jo meet the man's wife and teenaged son and try to piece together what happened, Tess' mother-in-law reveals herself as a gynaecologist and diagnoses Tess with Pre-Eclampsia—a potentially life- threatening condition for her and her baby.
#11 - A New Life
Season 10 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/17/2003
Jo takes a single mother, Cherry, under her wing when she arrives in Mt Thomas searching for Ryan, the father of her baby, who disappeared shortly after she announced she was pregnant. She has since been suspected of his murder and is anxious to clear her name. Ryan now has a new girlfriend, and has once again mysteriously disappeared shortly after his new girlfriend announced her pregnancy too. The Heelers think they have a serial absconder on their hands
#12 - A Knife for a Knife
Season 10 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/16/2003
Tom's teenage step-son, Daniel, finds a class mate stabbed in an alley, Jonesy and Tess are shocked to find the young victim had a knife. Daniel denies any knowledge of armed gangs, but his younger brother says otherwise. When the teenage stab victim goes missing from the hospital, Jonesy and Tess find the boys in a tense stand-off armed with knives. Tess tries to take control of the situation, but when one boy lunges in her direction Jonesy throws himself in between them and takes a knife in the torso.
#13 - Safety Last
Season 10 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/1/2003
Jonesy begins to doubt Susie's efficiency on the job until he is taken hostage by a fugitive in the woods and Susie has to save his life, with the help of a handcuffed suspect.
#14 - Good and Evil (1)
Season 10 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/8/2003
Ben finds his tolerance tested when his 16-year-old daughter Maddy turns up at a seedy Mt Thomas nightclub with her ""muso"" boyfriend Kyle. Ben's worst fears are confirmed by a teenage girl's story of being drugged and raped at the nightclub. Further investigation incriminates Kyle, outraging Maddy who accuses Ben of victimising the love of her life. Maddy puts herself in extreme danger trying to prove Kyle's innocence. It comes down to a race against time ... can Ben get to Maddy before the rapist?
#15 - Good and Evil (2)
Season 10 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/15/2003
Ben is concerned that Maddy is dating a 'weirdo' just to spite him. He tries to push her into someone more suitable, until his judgement is questioned when both boys become implicated for theft and fraud.
#16 - Losing the Road
Season 10 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/22/2003
Susie fears for her husband Brad's safety when she discovers a grieving father and his son have settled in Mt Thomas. She realises they are the father and brother of the boy who was killed in the same accident that lost Brad the use of his legs. Brad thinks it is just a coincidence but Susie fears that they are out for revenge.
#17 - What Goes Around
Season 10 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/29/2003
Susie has found her husband, Brad, a job at a local call centre but is distressed to find that it's the work place from hell. When the boss accuses the union organiser of sabotage, Brad is persuaded to play detective and soon suspects the centre is linked to illegal activities.
#18 - Contamination
Season 10 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/5/2003
Ben buys his basketball team pork rolls from a local takeaway shop and is devastated when they all come down with food poisoning. But what appears to be a simple case for the health inspector turns into something else when racism and prejudice rear their ugly heads.
#19 - Dirty Cheaters
Season 10 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/12/2003
When the Mt Thomas High School principal is attacked, Tom and the Heelers suspect exam theft is the cause. Until, that is, they begin probing into the dysfunctional family of the principal. Meanwhile, Ben earnestly awaits the promotion to Sergeant that he has been seeking for four years. Last time he wanted it, it was snatched up by Tess. He's so close now, but Inspector Falcon-Price has other plans... And Susie's marriage troubles escalate; while Tom finds more trials as Daniel finishes school.
#20 - Sexual Healing (1)
Season 10 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/26/2003
When a local man hangs himself, allegations begin surfacing that his psychiatrist slept with him, and other patients. Meanwhile, Brad and Susie's relationship continues to deteriorate as he continues drinking, and she suggests he see the psychiatrist, however when he sleeps with her things get out of hand. As their sexual problems are revealed to everyone, Brad moves out and Susie can't take it anymore. Ben prepares for his promotion to Sergeant only to get the bad news from PJ and Jo that another guy - a friend of Inspector Falcon-Price - is running for the job.
#21 - For Better or Worse (2)
Season 10 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/26/2003
A domestic situation sees Susie paying regular visits to the same motel that Brad is staying at. She finds herself thankful, however, for the help that the others give her. Ben's set a date for his wedding - March 17 - and he's ready for the promotion. Inspector Falcon-Price pays a surprise visit to the station to inspect but can find nothing wrong and Ben thinks he did well in front of the panel. Susie spends the night with Brad but things get out of hand when his depression takes over, and he spends the next day at the Imperial until he evantually causes a scene and Chris rings the cops to get rid of him. Susie and Ben deposit an angry Brad at home, and after he assures Susie that he loves her, they head back to the station to sign Susie out so she can spend time with Brad. There, the others are leaving and Marissa is waiting for Ben so they can go out to dinner. Susie, however, realises her gun is missing and they rush back to her home. Brad is missing as well.
#22 - Black Out
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/2003
Against PJ's advice ben continues his affair with Felecity Falcon Price. It seems a night without electricity causes sparks to fly between the memebers of Mt thomas Station. PJ and Jo, seeming in the middle of nowheer are about to do the deed, at jo's insistance. Jonesy is more than happy, that the station is in darkenss whilst he is on duty with Tess. Being without phones can only be a good thing. As they are about to get closer, Tess drops a bombshell secret, (which isn't actually a secret to most BH fans).
#23 - Firebrands (2)
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2003
Amongst those searching, Tess and PJ must admit their true feelings for Jonesy and Jo respectively. But even as the flames die down, there is trouble when Ben - who realises he may have caused the entire bushfire - promises that he has stopped drinking, even though it may not be true.
#24 - In The Dog House
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/2003
Sabu, the family dog of Tom's family is accused of killing livestock. Tess takes the hard line impounding the dog. As per usual Jonesy questions Tess' stance, resulting in another D & M between the lovestruck, but unattainable pair. Tess revelas that as a child she had a dog...for merely a few weeks. From all magazine accounts Jonesy fronts Tess late one night in the station a gorgeous border collie pup in his arms.
#25 - Excuses, Excuses
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/2003
Ben, out on patrol, pulls over Inspector Falcon-Price'ss wife. The media find out about the incident and the Inspector is not impressed. Tom has to deal with Compo Hayes who smashed into Tom's car. Tess's husband gets offered a job in Melbourne, and decides to take it. The road patrol uncovers a grisly homicide.