The Beachcombers

- Season 18

(1989)

Dana and Sam are still adjusting to small town life in Gibsons, compared to their former life in Toronto. Dana wants Sam to experience all that Gibsons has to offer in terms of outdoor activities. She is, however, somewhat reluctant but ultimately agreeable when Sam wants to go on a day fishing trip with Tommy. Nick convinces Dana that although only eleven, Tommy knows the waters and is smart enough to know what he should and should not do. Dana's anxiety about the boys being out on the water is raised again when an elderly tourist couple, George and Mildred, stop in ...

A man by the name of Giles Hope has the Gibsons marina behind fencing and around the clock security protection. Apparently, a now absent Smitty lost the marina in a Reno casino bet, Hope, on behalf of the casino, who is the new owner and thus landlord. He will only provide access to the marina and the boats moored there to those people who were not in arrears to Smitty. The problem is that Smitty's records are spotty. As the police, John is allowed access. Nick, Jesse, Pat and Jack are among those not permitted access. And Relic is still in his shack, meaning that he ...

After the Reach is broken into several times, a local police officer moves in with the Battles for added security but things soon become complicated.

Sam and Tommy are at each others throats over a disagreement on how to build their tree house, which leads to name calling. Jesse and Laurel are at odds with each other over a decorating issue, which also leads to name calling. And Dana is having yet another issue with Relic over the menu. So it may be good timing, at least for Laurel and Dana, to take their planned mother/son boating trip on Dana's new sailboat, although the mothers may have to keep their sons from killing each other. But eventually the sons' feud extend to the mothers, which is not helped by a ...

Nick is helping John with a case of cargo ship thefts, the latest of microchips, which they believe are being smuggled out of the country. Nick would have a better handle on where the smugglers may be hiding along the coast. Meanwhile, Sam, while skateboarding, gets into an accident with Relic, destroying Relic's $1,000 sonar device. Sam makes an agreement with Relic to work the $1,000 debt off. Sam's first job, on which he takes his camera for some shots for a photo essay, is an on-land salvage mission with Relic up the coast. While Relic relaxes on the boat, Sam ...

Odd behaviour by Nick hints at a shady past and the possibility he is not the man everybody thought they knew.

Pat has been putting off many of his jobs in preparation for writing his final exam for the five month long correspondence business course he has been taking, the exam and final course results which he believes are bad. Those jobs include refurbishing Ted's boat which Nick encouraged him to buy for possible commercial ventures such as charters, and fixing John's motor. Those jobs seem to go by the wayside when Pat receives the results: he passed with flying colors. Pat has a stereotypical outlook on the life of a white collar businessman, which he now believes he is: ...

Two people that are out on water are Dana, who is taking a pleasure sail alone on her boat, and Relic, who is transporting a boat to Powell River for two young men. Relic had no intention of taking this job until he saw the wad of cash they had and the large sum they are going to pay him for it: $2,000. What Relic is unaware of is that the two men are drug dealers. They needed someone to transport the drugs for them in case the drugs were found and seized by authorities. Once in Powell River, they, at gunpoint, plan to set Relic adrift on another boat for him to fend ...

Sara, who is making her annual trek to commune with nature by spending some time to paint in her grandfather's run down cabin located in the forest on Putnam Island, is dismayed to learn that Graham wants to work for WestCom, the logging company on which his father is a board member. Graham, who is an environmentalist, believes he can do more good from the inside as the company's environmental consultant. He however finds that the company has no intention of hiring for such a position, and he doesn't want his father to pull strings for him. Ted, however, does speak to...

Nick has entered a new mellow phase of his life, where not even the antics of Relic in their professional competition bother him anymore. But Nick's mellow phase is short lived by a visit from his accountant, who tells him that most of his business deductions have been disallowed, meaning that he now owes taxes in the amount of $3,683, money he doesn't have. Meanwhile, Relic is going through changes of his own. Gibsons is quickly changing around him - growing up so to speak - and he no longer feels he is a part of it, and that he is beginning to be somewhat invisible....

After many failed attempts when he was younger, Sam now believes he is mature enough to have a pet, more specifically a dog. Dana refuses. Later, Sam finds among the items in Jack's warehouse an old weather-vane, this type which Jack calls a weirdlyworks. Jack truly believes it has magical powers - it can predict back luck or good luck - and thus is happy for Sam to take it away. Sam also believes in the weirdlyworks' powers, as its predictions of bad or good luck seem to be coming true, most specifically for "good luck" Nick, and "bad luck" John. But Sam is ...

On his way back into town at the Homestead Café, Graham, who had been out with Nick in the woods collecting eagle dropping samples, stumbles across Constable Fernley, who is on an undercover sting as a character named Clint. Because Graham doesn't leave in time, he is forced to play Clint's business partner, Buck - a role which was supposed to be played by John - to the targets of their undercover sting, Brink, Naomi, and Dirk, who are in the market for illegal bear gall bladders, prized within the Asian culture. This bungle not only causes a professional problem for ...