Mercury - Season 1 (1996)

The Mercury Media Group is beset with rumours of takeover from a West Australian media tycoon.

Nell takes over the editor's chair when Bill has to go to Western Australia to be grilled by the media tycoon who's bought a significant interest in Mercury Media.

Gibbo investigates paedophilia in high places; general reporter Kevin Kinsella manages to get an exclusive interview with the parents of a baby who has just survived a risky operation.

Bill Wyatt and Georgi Singer are on opposite sides when industrial trouble affects the Sunday Mercury.

Plod re-investigates a controversial police raid; Georgi and Gibbo try to expose crooked property developer Mil Pascoe.

Cub reporter Nathan Cohen almost blows Tess's exclusive story; Gibbo begins a dangerous relationship with Clare Bannister; Georgi has a fit when one of her stories is blown by the government, and she accuses Gibbo of leaking it.

Tess finds the experience intoxicating when she takes over Rocco's gossip column for the week; everyone comes together for Gibbo when tragedy overtakes the foreign correspondent.

Gibbo is given a story that threatens the career of the Opposition Leader. A colourful racing identity friend of Sylvie Waterman's comes out of jail and wants her to write his biography.

Kevin Kinsella writes a moving story about his and his wife's attempts at In Vitro Fertilization.

It's the last week before a government-called election and it looks like an Opposition victory.