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The Best Episodes of SeaChange

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SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    SeaChange Season 3 Episode 13 - Half-Life
    9.2/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Half-Life

    S3:E13

    While Laura suffers the fallout of a cancelled wedding, 'The Oyster' - publishing anti-nuclear material - is seized. Max and Phrani conjure a plan to keep the newspaper in print but Morton Tregonning prepares to open the nuclear waste dump regardless...just as soon as the tunnel is completed. After protesting at the tunnel site, Miranda and Craig are arrested for trespassing. When Laura learns all police and legal authority in town are Morton's Port Deakin stooges - including her new co-worker, Port Deakin magistrate, Tucker - she is angered. Feeling utterly powerless, Laura quits her position as magistrate, deciding to defend Miranda and Craig herself. Tucker's bias and corrupted self ensure the case will be impossible to win until Max discovers an anomaly which saves the day...but not the fate of the town. As the ends of the tunnel come close to connecting, the locals pray for a miracle...which comes in the form of a natural disaster courtesy of an enexpected source...Meredith. Frust

    Director:Ian Watson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. SeaChange Season 4 Episode 8 - Love Will Find a Way
    9.2/10(32 votes)

    #2 - Love Will Find a Way

    S4:E8

    Laura, Miranda and Bob Jelly join forces to save Pearl Bay from destruction. Miranda is forced to confront her true feelings for Fin.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 6 - The House That Jack Built
    9.1/10(23 votes)

    #3 - The House That Jack Built

    S2:E6

    The town is being terrorised by monster crabs, let loose in suspicious circumstances.

    Director:Sue Brooks
    Writers:Doug MacLeod, Andrew Knight

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  4. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 2 - Vaya Con Dios to All That
    9.0/10(33 votes)

    #4 - Vaya Con Dios to All That

    S2:E2

    Laura and Dan grapple with their relationship while Rupert embarks on a campaign to get his parents back together.

    Director:Ali Ali
    Writer:Max Dann

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  5. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 13 - Law and Order
    9.0/10(26 votes)

    #5 - Law and Order

    S2:E13

    Conflicts are overflowing in the town. The courthouse is being closed, Meredith doesn't know what to do, everyone wants to know about Laura and Max and the list goes on. Without warning, the town knows everything. In a revelating meeting, the town's secrets are all brought out. Heather and Meredith tell all and Trudi reveals her baby isn't Jack's. Meredith begins a seige at the courthouse, where the town's residents inside say a gunwomen is holding them hostage. Laura stays in her office thinking it is real while Karen, Angus, Max and a small group of our favourite's sit in the courtroom enjoying a sing-a-long. When the demands are met, the only problem is to get away with it. Karen decides to leave Pearl Bay and travel, much to Angus' dismay. Phrani and Kevin become closer and Bob and Bucket blow up the bridge. The town waits for the aftermath, not sure what it will mean

    Directors:Paul Moloney, Deb Cox
    Writer:Deb Cox

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  6. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 8 - I Name Thee Bay of Pearls
    9.0/10(26 votes)

    #6 - I Name Thee Bay of Pearls

    S3:E8

    Laura's mother, June, arrives in town during a geriatric traffic crime spree. June's suspiciously sudden appearance is more of an inconvenience than a pleasure for Laura, who is too caught up in her own life to sense her mother's sadness. When Laura eventually discovers her father's declining health has forced June to place him into respite care, she is forced to reassess her priorities. Max begins to spend more time with his father and his friends, learning of Pearl Bay's real, great, textured history. However, Bob has his own interpretation of the town's past and plans to turn Pearl Bay into Ye Olde Pearl Bay : a sure-fire tourism hit. Max plays along with Bob's redundant plan for his own entertainment. When judgement day arrives and the city tourist agents descend on the town, instead of letting Bob hang himself, Max turns an inevitable disastrous slide show into a tribute to the older citizens of Pearl Bay. Meanwhile Harold feels the grip of old age tightening. His frustration is w

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 7 - Looking Forward to the Past
    8.9/10(20 votes)

    #7 - Looking Forward to the Past

    S2:E7

    Bob Jelly sells out one of Pearl Bay's most revered traditions to a commercial sponsor and an old girlfriend of Angus's drives into town.

    Director:Steve Jodrell
    Writers:Andrew Knight, Tim Pye

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  8. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 2 - How Much Greener Was My Neighbour's Valley?
    8.9/10(18 votes)

    #8 - How Much Greener Was My Neighbour's Valley?

    S3:E2

    With the Fire Brigade dance looming, Laura struggles to get a date. Max is taken with the new Latin Dancer and even Griff has a date in Karen! Jules is arrested for theft, much to Heather's dismay and the dance is the fire of everyone's emotions. Max and Laura however seem to be getting on well - dancing on the pier in the moonlight.

    Director:Steve Jodrell
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 11 - Love in the time of Coleridge
    8.9/10(20 votes)

    #9 - Love in the time of Coleridge

    S3:E11

    While Laura's on a one way track to the altar, Maxs announces he has accepted a lucrative job with an international newspaper and will be leaving Pearl Bay - and Laura - behind. Of all things, a trivia night question causes Max to reassess his life. Max is reminded of his likeness to the mariner in Colerdige's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', who shot an albatross, his potential saviour. In other words, Max realises he should stop making a habit of sabotaging his own happiness. Meanwhile, Bob launches his campaign with Morton at the reigns. Mr Jelly receives female attention from his forward image consultant, Astrid Moore, prompting Bob to warn Heather she'll let a tiger out to play if she doesn't take him back. Heather knows Bob couldn't cheat on him no more than she could on him. Her theory is proved when a terrified Bob bails out a restaurant toilet window to escape Astrid's advances. Trudi finds herself in court...as Vietnamese interpreter. As the case unravels, the defendant is

    Director:Ian Watson
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 1 - If Fish Could Fly
    8.8/10(30 votes)

    #10 - If Fish Could Fly

    S2:E1

    Post-mortems on a Pearl Bay storm leave Laura facing a legal quandary and Bob Jelly with an invitation to quit.

    Director:Ali Ali
    Writer:Deb Cox

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  11. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 3 - Broken Hearts and Crustaceans
    8.8/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Broken Hearts and Crustaceans

    S2:E3

    There's an outbreak of broken hearts in Pearl Bay - on both sides of the bench.

    Director:Mandy Smith
    Writer:Andrew Knight

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  12. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 10 - Not Such Great Expectations
    8.8/10(18 votes)

    #12 - Not Such Great Expectations

    S2:E10

    It's vocational guidance time for the younger citizens of Pearl Bay. Bob wants Craig to follow his footsteps into the glorious career that is real estate.

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writers:Andrew Knight, Chris Hawkshaw

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  13. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 12 - To Thine Own Self Be Relatively True
    8.8/10(23 votes)

    #13 - To Thine Own Self Be Relatively True

    S3:E12

    Laura desperately wants to be honest with Warwick about her night with Max, but the moment constantly eludes her. To compound on her anxiety, Jack, distraught since Trudi left him, refers to Laura as the 'good', faithful sister. Work is no help either. Barry Boston and his ex-lover, Ari, are in battle trading accusations of deception and passionless love. With the rocky Jelly marriage creating bad PR, Morton threatens Heather into supporting Bob to keep face. However, newly independent Heather can not be swayed and throws her support behind the new candidate on the block - Meredith. To add to Bob's woes Craig goes through a sexual crisis, closely observed by a bemused Miranda. Yet despite the setbacks, Bob's campaign rolls on with Morton in the driving seat. Max's investigations reveal Morton plans to turn Pearl Bay into a nucelar wastedump! An incredulous Bob goes public and withdraws his nomination. Meanwhile poor Karen bravely accepts her fate as the 'dude bride' at her forthcoming

    Director:Ian Watson
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 4 - Sink or Swim
    8.7/10(25 votes)

    #14 - Sink or Swim

    S2:E4

    Bob Jelly's community bank goes belly upwards and Bob faces the same fate.

    Director:Mandy Smith
    Writers:Andrew Knight, Sue Hore

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  15. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 8 - Manna From Heaven
    8.7/10(21 votes)

    #15 - Manna From Heaven

    S2:E8

    An ominous dream of Kevin's looks like coming true when a mysterious woman arrives in Pearl Bay; Meredith's phenomenal memory fails her; and the locals hide a guilty secret from the past.

    Director:Steve Jodrell
    Writers:Deb Cox, Andrew Knight

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  16. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 5 - Head For Water
    8.6/10(23 votes)

    #16 - Head For Water

    S2:E5

    While the town wallows in grief, Bob tries to think up a name for the new pool. Angus has lost his sandbar, Max has lost Elena, Carmen has lost her child and Bucket has lost his dog - Alfonso Domenico Jones, the towns main grief. As they learn to deal with what they're facing, the citizens of Pearl Bay clash on right and wrong.

    Director:Sue Brooks
    Writer:Stuart McDonald

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  17. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 12 - Other People's Opinions
    8.6/10(19 votes)

    #17 - Other People's Opinions

    S2:E12

    Speculation about Phrani occurs, when her old ""friend"" arrives in town and stories fly everywhere. Love between Max and Laura and Angus and Karen (along with Phrani and Kevin) are the main factors of the episode while the town learn that they have to live their own lives and not be worried about other people's opinions

    Director:Paul Moloney
    Writers:Doug MacLeod, Andrea Denholm

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  18. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 3 - Hungi Jury
    8.6/10(18 votes)

    #18 - Hungi Jury

    S3:E3

    Laura joins the Women's Auxilary to be a part of the town's women. Meredith and Karen try to stop her, but she won't. The newly elected president - Vicki Drury, wife of Dave, is opposed to Heather and her ""minions"" - Phrani and the like, but Laura joins anyway. Angus discovers he is too predictable and changes his timetable, causing Kevin to get into all sorts of troubles. Max and Carmen go on a stakeout but it ends up turning into a night of love.

    Director:Mandy Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 1 - Best Laid Plans
    8.5/10(20 votes)

    #19 - Best Laid Plans

    S3:E1

    Bob is distraught after the council has been fired. Worried that he will be involved, Bob must track down the Port Deakin mayor. Karen returns from her travels to split up with Angus and find a new job. Angus takes some time off from his role as Court Clerk. Max must fight to keep his boatshed from being destroyed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 7 - Blowing in the Wind
    8.5/10(20 votes)

    #20 - Blowing in the Wind

    S3:E7

    An old friend of Max's arrives in town but no-one seems to like him when he is locked up for breaking Grey's trumpet. As music fills the jail all weekend, Grey and the prisoner have to bond to survive. Laura and Max consider their friendship and the entire town seems to be contemplating the future. Grey is rejected from the police band to his dismay and the town is left wondering if their lives are really good or just blowing in the wind

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 10 - Checks and Balances
    8.5/10(22 votes)

    #21 - Checks and Balances

    S3:E10

    Kevin is acting strangely. He heads out of town without Phrani, won't speak more than three words at once and most worrying of all...he's wearing slacks. Phrani's worrying is appeased when Kevin's sister, country singer Suzy, arrives in Pearl Bay to claim their recently dead father's silver guitar. The case ends up before Laura where Suzy's adamant belief her Dad was a member of the ""Master's Apprentices"" is challenged...and eventually proven correct, resulting in a cliff side tribute concert. Laura is reluctant to spread the news of her impending marriage but she is keen to sever all legal ties with Jack. However, when Jack pays Laura what he owes, she is left feeling unexpectedly hollow. Karen, too, is eager to even the scales. After Karen reveals her continental infidelity to Angus, she inisists he has an affair to compensate...while Meredith has her own way to keep Harold on his toes. Construction work finally begins on the tunnel site, arousing Max's curiousity. When Max doesn't k

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. SeaChange Season 4 Episode 4 - A Chair, A Seahorse and An Incompetent Crim
    8.5/10(28 votes)

    #22 - A Chair, A Seahorse and An Incompetent Crim

    S4:E4

    Stella's secret plan to save Pearl Bay has dire results for Miranda and Fin. Bob Jelly feels the heat when his business partner gets out of prison.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. SeaChange Season 3 Episode 6 - Adversely Posessed
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    #23 - Adversely Posessed

    S3:E6

    Griff is being kicked out of his home and moves into the Jelly's house. Laura tries to help him using a law of Adverse Posession. As Laura continues to see Warwick, the town grows to like him and wonder what Max will do. Trudi is back in the town and Rupert is fond of her child. However, Laura is not impressed and still will have nothing to do with her.Kevin and Phrani continue to work on their relationship after moving in does nothing

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. SeaChange Season 4 Episode 7 - It's Kissing Time
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    #24 - It's Kissing Time

    S4:E7

    Fin helps Miranda with her dream of starting a marine centre, but at what cost? Laura's life is in crisis when Ben's ex-wife applies for her job as Magistrate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ian Meadows

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  25. SeaChange Season 2 Episode 9 - Playing with Fire
    8.3/10(23 votes)

    #25 - Playing with Fire

    S2:E9

    A fire-twirler named Felix, and unliked by Laura, is the object of Miranda's affection. Kevin and Phrani try to increase their love life and Laura and Max have dinner - which results in the discovery of how much they have grown to love each other. Heather and Bob have Harold and Meredith over, but are still keeping the news from the town. The male community all express their thoughts of women, while Sergeant Grey wonders about the destruction of the 150 year old community hall. The suspect is Felix but the real vandals however are Rupert and Trevor. As passions ignite and fade, the town will never be the same again

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writer:Stuart McDonald

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Best Episodes Summary

"Half-Life" is the best rated episode of "SeaChange". It scored 9.2/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Ian Watson and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/9/2000. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Love Will Find a Way".