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- Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as a multi-millionaire some sixty years later.
- Dame Penelope Keith is best known for two of TV's greatest comedy characters: Margo Leadbetter in the 1970s sitcom The Good Life and Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born.
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- Charles' views on architecture, religion and medicine haven't always made him popular.
- Out of work and struggling to just put food on the table, John comes up with a scheme for he and his mates to make some money by fixing pigeon races. Finding success, they move up to horses.
- Jim Tracey gets out of prison looking to settle the score with John for not looking after his wife while he was inside.
- John secures protection from the police for his bet making operation but faces new competition for workers when the factory reopens.
- Rumours give Nellie some last-minute doubts about her marriage to John and she seeks Father O'Tool's advice.
- With pending gaming legislation that could shut down his tote, John shifts his focus to politics and backs an independent candidate in the local by-election.
- John West hires an expensive barrister to represent his men who are facing gaming charges. Fortunately, the man's ethics are in line with John's and he suggests paying off the police's main witness.
- Sgt O'Flaherty, now running the Gaming Squad, steps up his pursuit of John West, a freshly minted millionaire.
- John makes the difficult decision to cut ties with a longtime friend and colleague by promoting him to an out-of-the-way job.
- With the closure of the Tote, John has severed his ties with Carringbush and shifted his focus to horse racing and winning the Victoria Cup.
- Nellie continues her affair with brick layer Bill Evans but breaks things off out of fear of being caught.
- John reestablishes ties with the Catholic church when Archbishop Malone visits him to express his regrets for the way John was treated by his priest.
- John backs the government's effort to enact conscription but the issue divides his men just as it does the country.
- Eddie Corrigan is among those wanting to unite the country's Socialist parties into an official Communist Party of Australia linked to the international movement.
- Frank Ashton in the running for the leader of the Labor party much to the dismay of John and Archbishop Malone.
- Archbishop Malone returns from the Vatican with a warning for John about the danger of the Socialisation of the Labor Party.
- Sugar Renfrey is in line to be the next mayor of Carringbush. Snoopy Tanner is bootlegging booze into the United States for John West but their business association ends when Snoppy's gang steals from John's warehouse.
- Marjorie West returns home and introduces her family to the man - the German man - the non-Catholic German man - she met while studying overseas.
- John and Frank Ashton are called to testify before a Royal Commission in connection to John paying Frank to vacate his seat for Ted Thurgood.
- Labor's election victory has made Jimmy Summers the nation's new PM. A letter from Marjorie announces the birth of John and Nellie's first grandchild but it's not enough to soften John's heart and accept her back into his house.
- John, a milk marketer, is upset by allegations in the newspaper about his influence over the Victorian parliament in efforts to prevent passage of the Milk Supply Bill.