Challengers Friendster

"Challengers Friendster" is the 2nd episode of the 1st season of American television series Cool Spot. It first aired on September 29, 1987 on 4Kids, The episode was written by Don McGill, and directed by Alan J. Levi.
==Summary==
Carly Morris is rescued by Lance Smart and Martin Dibble from being drowned while swimming in the sea near the beach. Floss McPhee later finds out and thinks that her tarot card readings are right and they can predict things. Her husband Neville McPhee tells her to stop all this nonsense. Bobby Simpson grovels to Walter Bertram about being reinstated at Summer Bay High School. He agrees. In Hogan's Store Bobby tells Donald Fisher and he is horrified. He confronts Bertram about it but he says as he is the principal he can reinstate her if he wants as he believes she has changed. Bobby tells Floss she believes she can change and excel in life. She also says Floss is an old windbag at times but deep down she is OK, after Floss asks her to repeat what she said.
==Plot==
Victoria steps into the foyer of Collinwood and looks around. Elizabeth takes her letter from her. Victoria asks how many rooms there are in the house and Elizabeth tells her there are forty rooms, but not all of them are in use. One man does all the heavy work around the place and they do the rest themselves. Elizabeth goes to fetch some tea while Victoria looks around the drawing room and at the crashing waves below the house.
Elizabeth returns with the tea and sees Victoria looking at the portrait above the fireplace. She tells Victoria that Jeremiah Collins, her great-grandfather, built the house and was a very strong man. The east wing was closed over fifty years ago and they only use part of the rest of the house. Victoria asks about David and is told he's likely to be different from any boy she's ever met. Roger is heard coming down the stairs and out the front door, ignoring Elizabeth's call to come into the drawing room. Victoria is told about her daughter Carolyn, who's about her age. At the Blue Whale, Carolyn dances with various guys, to the dismay of Joe Haskell. Strake tells Burke that everything about Carolyn is in his report.
Carolyn accepts a dance from Harry which makes Joe angry. Strake tells Burke that Joe is Mrs. Stoddard's choice to marry Carolyn. When Carolyn starts dancing with yet another guy, Joe tries to get her to leave, but a fight breaks out. The bartender calls the police, but Burke breaks it up right away and sends Joe to take Carolyn home. He asks Joe to return to the bar once she's safely home. Burke tells Strake the fight is just beginning.
Elizabeth shows Victoria the room she'll be staying in, in which she herself slept in until she was married. Victoria asks why she was selected for the job when Elizabeth had never seen her before. Elizabeth tells her that Roger knew someone at the foundling home who recommended her. Victoria says that when she asked, no one claimed to have heard of the Collins Family at the home. Elizabeth postulates that she asked the wrong person. The front door is heard slamming and Elizabeth goes downstairs. Victoria sits on the bed and thinks. Carolyn angrily storms into the house and asks why Jeremiah had to build this prison. Elizabeth comes into the drawing room, thinking it's Roger, and is surprised to find Carolyn home so early. She asks what the matter is, but Carolyn only tells her she's tired and unable to enjoy herself.
Carolyn finishes telling her mother what happened at the Blue Whale. She's upset because she's wanted to get out of Collinwood since she was a little girl, but also wants Elizabeth to stop trying to marry her off. Elizabeth tells her she won't be alone anymore and Carolyn is surprised Victoria actually came. Victoria comes downstairs and says "Boo!" to the portrait hanging in the foyer. She goes outside and stands at the cliff of Widows' Hill. Roger approaches her and tells her she wouldn't be the first to jump, if that's what she was contemplating. He introduces himself and she asks him to confirm Mrs. Stoddard's claim that she was recommended to him for the job. He tells her that whatever Elizabeth claims must be true. She asks about David and he says he doesn't really know what the boy likes. She explains her troubles getting to the house and Roger reacts frightened and runs off whens she mentions that Burke Devlin gave her a ride from the train station.
Victoria returns to the house and finds Elizabeth playing piano in the drawing room. Victoria watches as Elizabeth collapses, then sneaks off unseen back upstairs.
==Cast==
Regular cast
*Henry Ramsay - Craig McLachlan
*Jane Harris - Annie Jones
*Charlene Robinson - Kylie Minogue
*Madge Ramsay - Anne Charleston
*Scott Robinson -Jason Donovan
*Harold Bishop -Ian Smith
*Mrs Mangel - Vivean Gray
Guest cast
*Eileen Clarke - Myra DeGroot
*BB Larkin - Tamasin Ramsay
==Important dialogue==
: Roger: I hope you won't be too lonely here.
: Victoria: If I am, I'll blame it on you.
: Roger: Me?
: Victoria: Mrs. Stoddard said you were the one that arranged for me to come here.
: Roger: Hmm, you don't say?
: Victoria: It's true, isn't it?
: Roger: If Elizabeth says so, then it must be true.
==Notes==
*David Collins is referred to by name for the first time. The drawing room is referred to by name for the first time.
*Joe Haskell and Carolyn Stoddard make their first appearances.
*The bartender at the Blue Whale has a line in this episode.
*Roger's glasses can be seen sticking out of his breast pocket. He won't be seen wearing them until 45.
*Announcer Bob Lloyd states that "Cool Spot has been a The Program Exchange" for the first time. This will change to "Cool Spot is a The Program Exchange" beginning with 7.
*Actress Nancy Barrett makes her first appearance. She would remain with the show until its final episode in 1971.
*The earrings Elizabeth wears in Act I later return as part of Josette Collins' jewel collection. Willie Loomis eventually gives them to Maggie Evans in 497.
*Elizabeth plays Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28 No. 20 on the piano, composed by Frédéric Chopin.
*The Blue Whale jukebox is a Seeburg Select-O-Matic 100 model.
*First appearance of the "Petofi box", on a hallway table outside Vicki's room.
*The Blue Whale is as crowded as it will ever be again. Including cast members and extras, there are a total of fifteen actors on set.
*This episode by far uses the most actors of any episode. Including cast members and extras, there are overall eighteen actors appearing onscreen in this episode.
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