Heartbreak High: Season 5
An entirely new school, new staff and new students keep the tensions running high and bring in even more trouble to the Hartley hallways this year.
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Heartbreak High Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season overview
An entirely new school, new staff and new students keep the tensions running high and bring in even more trouble to the Hartley hallways this year.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Episode 131
Jun 23, 1997 · 45 min
The Heartly high students are getting a hard time from the Heartly heights students and one of them plays a crule prank on Anita.
Episode 132
Jun 25, 1997 · 44 min
Kurt is embarrased by hais alchoholic father.Leo Fine is sent to jail and Melanie Blacks dad takes over at the sharkpool.
Episode 133
Jun 30, 1997 · 43 min
The newest addition to the teaching staff at Hartley Heights High School, Gerard Albers, is an eccentric and flamboyant bohemian from Spain, who is as at home on the touch football
Episode 134
Jul 2, 1997 · 45 min
When Les confiscates a Penthouse magazine from Drazic in class, he has no idea what the consequences will be. Drazic takes revenge by sticking a centrefold on one of Les' Biology t
Episode 135
Jul 7, 1997 · 44 min
New kid Andrew arrives at Hartley. Although he has Muscular Dystrophy and is in a wheelchair, he is determined to be treated like a normal teenager.
Episode 136
Jul 9, 1997 · 44 min
Melanie and Andrew seem happy together but as opposition to their relationship mounts, Melanie starts having second thoughts.
Episode 137
Jul 14, 1997 · 45 min
Albers decides to teach a history class with a twist when he asks the class to put Arthur Phillip on trial. Was Arthur Phillip a good man or did he knowingly attempt to carry out g
Episode 138
Jul 16, 1997 · 45 min
Anita and Ryan are not coping well with the 4am wake up calls from baby James. Jeff feels bad - he came here to help the kids through the HSC but he seems to be making things harde
Episode 139
Jul 21, 1997 · 43 min
Anita and Ryan are enjoying life without parental supervision until Kath Livingstone, the new housekeeper, arrives with her daughter Sarah.
Episode 140
Jul 23, 1997 · 44 min
Nikki is furious when Kurt continuously puts his love for the environment ahead of her. However, he reveals the cause of his fanaticism: a seal at the Aquarium is on the brink of d
Episode 141
Jul 28, 1997 · 44 min
When Sarah helps Anita and Drazic discover the internet, she inadvertently gets them both into trouble. Anita is wooed by a man calling himself DJ Byron but when she agrees to meet
Episode 142
Jul 30, 1997 · 46 min
Ryan, still smarting over Kurt and Nikki's blossoming relationship, is staying away from the football team. However, Barry manages to persuade him to rejoin for an inter-school com
Episode 143
Aug 4, 1997 · 44 min
After putting Kurt in hospital, Ryan finds he is being ostracised. Feeling sorry for himself, he wags school and meets Mario,, who offers him a way out of his depression - and so,
Episode 144
Aug 6, 1997 · 44 min
Now well and truly entrenched in the world of drugs, Ryan is at the point where his speed is costing him more than he can afford. Desperate for more drugs, Ryan begins to steal, fi
Episode 145
Aug 11, 1997 · 45 min
When Ryan is late for class again, and hasn't done his major assignment, Barnett hauls him over the coals. Ryan refuses to be helped by her or anyone and walks out before he can be
Episode 146
Aug 13, 1997 · 45 min
Sarah enlists Anita's help to find her father but Kath makes it very clear that they'll receive no assistance from her.
Episode 147
Aug 18, 1997 · 44 min
While busking, Nikki meets Luda, a recording artist who wants to record one of her songs.
Episode 148
Aug 20, 1997 · 46 min
Since Mai and Drazic had a close nocturnal encounter, things in the warehouse have been somewhat tense. As the new arrival, Kurt feels that maybe he's the problem.
Episode 149
Aug 25, 1997 · 44 min
When JJ, a prisoner on day release, begins working at the school, he runs into some prejudice from the kids. All that is, except Sarah who, upon talking to JJ, realises they have a
Episode 150
Aug 27, 1997 · 44 min
Despite her mothers objections and threats, Sarah continues her relationship with JJ.
Episode 151
Sep 1, 1997 · 44 min
Deciding to refocus his life on getting back in shape, Kurt has a chance meeting with Lachlan, an old friend who is now running a fitness club that is dedicated to cleaning up the
Episode 152
Sep 3, 1997 · 45 min
Kurt and Lachlan discover Skye and her friends camping in the park and try to move them on. Things heat up when Lachlan and Anita later find Lachlan's club house has been vandalise
Episode 153
Sep 8, 1997 · 45 min
Lee Delaine has two strikes against him: he's the newest student at Hartley Heights and to make matters worse, his father is the school's new Humanities teacher.
Episode 154
Sep 10, 1997 · 44 min
Sarah is back at Hartley having finally left home and returned to the city. She has rented a flat, but the landlord keeps trying to chat her up as well as beating his wife.
Episode 155
Sep 15, 1997 · 45 min
When Drazic throws himself into trying to design a new type of skate, Di suggests he consider a career in industrial design.
Episode 156
Sep 19, 1997 · 45 min
Believing she's on a date with Paul, Anita is taken aback when he recoils from her attempt to kiss him. When she presses him for an explanation, Paul reveals to her that he is gay.
Episode 157
Sep 22, 1997 · 44 min
Pat Gregory, an old friend of Nat Delane, takes up a teaching post at Hartley, but soon runs into trouble with Lee who is still having difficulty fitting in.
Episode 158
Sep 24, 1997 · 45 min
With his parents waiting for him to choose a new school to attend, Lee shocks them by announcing he is not going to change schools - he's dropping out.
Episode 159
Sep 29, 1997 · 44 min
Nikki turns moral crusader when she learns that the mother of her friend Tasha is being exploited by her boss. Nikki takes it upon herself to demand he pay his workers a fair wage
Episode 160
Oct 1, 1997 · 45 min
Di informs the students that the school has installed a card-swipe system as part of an "efficiency measure". Among other things, the cards record attendance, a system Drazic is qu
Episode 161
Oct 6, 1997 · 45 min
In a well intentioned effort to help Sarah overcome her inhibitions, Ryan volunteers her to perform a play in front of the class. Seeing a chance to help Kurt explore his sensitive
Episode 162
Oct 8, 1997 · 45 min
Wanting to take her relationship with Ryan further, Sarah asks Nat and Jill if she can have a friend stay the night. They are quick to agree, unaware she means Ryan, and the evenin
Episode 163
Oct 13, 1997 · 45 min
After Anita spends the night with Kurt at the shed, Drazic doesn't appreciate Kurt rubbing his nose in their relationship and asks Ryan to move out.
Episode 164
Oct 15, 1997 · 45 min
With a virtual Cold War existing at the shed between Kurt and Ryan, Kurt conspires with their realtor to orchestrate a scheme to break their lease by getting evicted.
Episode 165
Oct 20, 1997 · 44 min
Nikki's behaviour grows more erratic. She has missed two days of school and when she returns, wet from being in a fountain where she was talking to a cherub, Lee becomes concerned
Episode 166
Oct 22, 1997 · 45 min
Kurt takes up the cause of helping find a mate for Wally the sea turtle. With charitable donations hard to come by, Kurt accepts help from D'espo who comes up with a racy promotion
Episode 167
Oct 27, 1997 · 44 min
After a humbling defeat on the tennis court at the hand of a visiting tennis ace, Kurt takes a personal interest in Bonnie Coyne but her intense training schedule - and demanding m
Episode 168
Oct 29, 1997 · 45 min
To mark Ryan's move into the shed, Sarah gives him a clock that is family heirloom. Needing money to buy a bed, Ryan turns down Sarah's offer of a loan and then takes Drazic's sugg
Episode 169
Nov 3, 1997 · 44 min
A radio contest for a state-of-the-art sound system catches Drazic's ear. "The Wheelie Challenge" is an endurance challenge that has the competitors riding a Ferris wheel.
Episode 170 (Season finale)
Nov 5, 1997 · 44 min
Kurt's sudden disruptive behaviour escalates until he assaults Mr Delaine in the corridor and is suspended from school.