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The Stephanie Harper to do list!


Some hero has uploaded the whole lot onto You Tube and I was able to delight in this fantastic mini series again. What I loved more than anything is what Stephanie was able to do with the £3,000 she got for the gem stones. I would imagine Stephanie's to do list in Darwin would have looked something like this:-

With my £3,000 dollers I must get the following things:-

1) 1xflight to the Great Barrier reef (let's economise and get a single)

2) Nearly a year stay at the Barrier Reef cosmetic surgery clinic, including my own cabin, food, access to pool etc

3) Dramatic plastic surgery, new face, nose, bla bla bla. Wanna look like a completely different person - and 10 years younger than my real age.

4) 1xflight to Sydney (again lets ecomise and do a single).

5) Rent a cosy apartment above a pub in The Rocks - must have a good view of the harbour. Economise by flattering new eyelids and telling the landlord I'm good for the bond.

6) Food and shopping (Economise by not buying cat food and feeding Maxy smoked salmon from my plate - I'm not bothered about germs I've already been eaten by a crocodile).

7) Blue contact lenses, I need these incase anybody recognises my brown eyes. It's 1983 I'm sure you can pick up blue contact lenses at a really reasonable rate somewhere.

8) Supermodel wardrobe. I can't walk around in this old dress Dave pinched from that washing line forever. I need a supermodel wardrobe. Something with shoulder pads and belts (And possibly a mysterious head scarf for unveiling my new look).

9) A cut and perm at a trendy hair salon Oh - and a whole load of make up!

10) Copius copies of glossies such as Vogue, I need to practise being a supermodel.

My £3,000 should easily get me all this stuff. I'm not really good at much (except marrying men and horse riding) so I will have to get myself a job. I think I might go into the top model agency in the country and ask them if they can get me on the cover of Vogue. That should be easy enough with my new face, perm and blue contacts - reakon I could be on the cover in 6 months and that includes the three month lead time when it goes to print! So need the shoot within about 12 weeks!

That will teach my slimy husband and lush best friend to feed me to a crocodile!!

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Oh my gosh that's a cool list and so true! I've been totally infatuated with this mini series since i first saw it over 25 years ago as a kid.As much as i love it, it does have lots of plotholes and you have noticed them too.It's amazing how far $4000 got Stephanie. You'd think just her surgery on its own would be worth that much.Plus vogue would be expensive to buy every month along with the other mags. I think that with todays economy if they ever did a remake, they should make it at least 500,000


Katrina

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11) Expensive flash camera, so I can take secret pics of my kids. It's the eighties no one is going to question me taking pics by school railing or Saffy's concert gig.

12) A really big scrapbook/album so I can collect newspaper clippings about my former life, Dishy Dr Dan is not going to notice it lying about.

13) Learning to swim and some simple stretching exercises will transform my 40 year old bod into a twenty something one suitable for swimwear modelling, having two kids will had no noticable effect, nor the trama of a croc attack.

14) The croc only really went for my face, were it went for my arm and dragged me under, so that I had to model a sling in Chez Welles, miraculously healed. Must be the aboriginal herbs and creams, besides Dr Dan only does faces.

15) Must buy a Stephanie Harper wig for later, when I scare my lush mate and slimey hubbie.

Fabulous Series Cxxxx

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"13) Learning to swim and some simple stretching exercises will transform my 40 year old bod into a twenty something one suitable for swimwear modelling, having two kids will had no noticable effect, nor the trama of a croc attack."

LOL. Really as we all know aging and kids can be a lot more merciless on a woman's body and facial appearance than even a croc attack. No plastic surgery can ever fully reverse it and make 40 20 again in reality no matter what they may say but hey, 1980s soaps don't care about stuff like facts, that's why they are great....I guess Dr Dan's skills are supposed to be that incredible..maybe they sewed on brand new limbs harvested from a hot twenty year old top model?

Also she ate as she did before when she was still Stephanie..she drank and ate high calorie food and presumably wasn't chucking up..and her new body didn't bloat or put on weight.

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This is SO true and it has always bothered me how Stephanie/Tara managed to make a relatively small amount of money go so far!

The other thing is back at Eden when she's carrying out her revenge she's got the Stephanie Harper "fright wig" on which apparently makes her look just like pre-croc-attack-Steph but surely Greg and Jilly would have twigged it was "Tara" considering she still had her post-op face on show and not the putty nose and jowls that pre-croc-attach-Steph had?! A hairpiece, however nasty, surely cannot fool two people in the same room standing quite close together that they are looking at someone risen from the dead?! I know neither Jilly or Greg were exactly she sharpest tools in the box but seriously!

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Yes wasn't that wig scene ironic - basically it turned out it was Stephanie's old hair that had been making the world see her as a dowdy old frump and it had nothing to do with her looks or figure at all. When the nylon wig was dramatically pulled off and her new do revealed Greg and Gilly saw her as the super model beauty she actually was!

Therefore, the moral of the story is - don't spend vast amounts of plastic surgery when a 1980's power hair cut and body perm can make all the difference!

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I'm responding to this post 11 years later but this series from my childhood was just put up on Prime and I had ALL of these thoughts. Utterly ridiculous plot line :D :D :D

"I'll show you, you murderous bastard, by making love to you by candle light!"

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