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The story of legendary safe cracker and career criminal Ted West and his firecracker of a wife, Rita. Combining real events and the rich folklore of the West family and associates, this is rollicking history, and a tempestuous romance, set at a time of great social upheaval.
2015
Ted West is reunited with his true love, Rita. But she has a secret and he has a lot to prove if he’s to get back on top of his gang and his game...
Ted confronts his great white whale, as Rita battles boredom. And a war with the Dallies turns up unexpected opportunities.
Ted and Rita both champion good causes: a disco dancing overstayer and a mouse who needs to roar.
The matter of the poisoned lamington splits the house of West and leads Ted and Rita to sex, drugs and rock & roll.
The biggest job yet has explosive consequences for the Wests. Oh, and Wolf has a girlfriend.
Ted and Rita realise they have raised a problem child. But how to do deal with him? They both have the answer...
2017
Rita and Ted return from their holiday to a rude surprise and Wolf gone. Rita distracts herself by waging war on the new neighbours, And Ted is dealt a blow he probably saw coming.
Lefty is a desperate man and Ted is dragged along for the ride. The gang has to look to the past if they have hopes of a future.
Wolf grows dissatisfied with his career, but it turns out that is the least of his problems. A sexy blast from Rita's prison past arrives with dangerous intentions.
Guilt over Evan is tearing Rita and Wolf apart. McCarthy feels compromised by his lady's past. A fateful meeting at the forbidden dairy leads to fireworks.
Rita may have finally found her match. Fear forces Bilkey in too deep. A means to an end changes everything.
Bert is deceived and destroyed. Rita proves there's no fury like a woman scorned, and Wolf ups his game.
Wolf plays with the big boys. Rita gets under Cheryl's skin. A last minute change of plans may cost everything.
Rita makes a deal with some devils, and Mike buckles when his personal and private lives collide.
2016
Rita West is reunited with love of her life Ted, but has lost a son. The gloves are off in the war with the Horsemen and there’s a storm in a teacup... actually a whole tea-set.
Rita helps out a friend from prison and Wolf get an upwardly mobile job. The Springbok tour creates employment opportunities for Ted and there's a swingers' party.
Ted goes after a wad of South African cash. A crime close to home has the Wests joining forces with the police and neighbourhood watch.
Rita's ambitious career path for Wolf hits some bumps. Ngaire has a dangerous liaison and Bert and Falani take on the Springboks alongside the protestors.
It's hectic times for Rita and Ted; a royal wedding, a funeral, forbidden love, a family feud...plus a Nazi.
Times are changing for Ted. Rita wants to expand her business and keep the peace between father and son. Wolf mixes business with pleasure.
Ted and the boys go hunting South Africans while Rita has a mess to sort out with her growing business and an explosive affair.
The wives financially support their men, which doesn't go down well and the Springbok tour divides the gang and the country.
Rita's in charge of her first big job and the stakes have never been higher but can she rely on those closest to her?
Ted get one final crack at the South African money. Meanwhile, Wolf's at war with his parents; and the rest of the country are at war with themselves.
2020
It’s 1990 and the Auckland Commonwealth Games are in full swing, with a surprise contestant in the road cycling; Wolf has a problem he cannot solve, but ‘help’ is the hardest word; meanwhile, for Rita and Ted, the return of an old friend spells bad news.
Cheryl deals with the devil while Wolf tries his hand at parenting; meanwhile Rita gives death the good old-fashioned West family middle-finger salute.
Carol and Rita explore a range of alternative therapies; Ted and the lads go to a strip club and meet an old friend; meanwhile, for Wolf and the boys, things go from bad to a place beyond worse.
As Wolf deals with failure, Cheryl takes some time out in a place that is almost exactly like Fiji but not; meanwhile Falani finds an old friend living under a bridge, like a troll
Carol and Ngaire go on a bar crawl for revenge while Wolf seeks out the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, to help Ted, Rita enters into a pact with a most unlikely devil.
Sometimes, when a job goes very very wrong, it is the innocents who must pay the price or take the fall. Rita makes a list, of the bucket variety; which means that Ted, the old dog, masters a new trick.
Rita has one last item she needs to cross off her bucket list; unable to face the future, Carol goes back in time; meanwhile Wolf has to play catch-up.
One last job, a funeral and then a wake; the end is nigh.
2019
While NZ is going crazy for the America's Cup, the Wests are busy stealing for a living and welcoming baby Pascalle.
Rita is dealing with trouble and strife both at home and abroad, as the repercussions from the two bungled robberies spead. Meanwhile, Ted isn’t safe in prison
As Ted lies in hospital, Rita calls the troops to see off those responsible – and many innocent letter-boxes may perish as a result.
Ted's gang head down country for their first job without their leader. Plus, Cheryl brings home a hippy, leading to a very uncomfortable visitation from the past for Rita.
The Wests celebrate Van and Jethro’s fourth birthday party. What could possibly to wrong? Apart from the appearance of a gang of angry clowns…
Ted wants payback for his suffering but doesn't believe in a truce or playing the long game. What plan will he come up with?
A plague has descended upon the West house and Rita must sort the mess out – including making a deal with the devil.
The West’s past secrets risk being exposed. Rita and Wolf go head-to-head in a game of mutually assured destruction.
The war that has been simmering under the surface, between Rita and Wolf, bursts into fruition as Wolf takes matters into his own hands.
October 1987. As the stock-market crashes around the West family and their associates an old dynasty crumbles and decays, while the next generation finds a home in which to forge the next one.
2018
Pregnant and alone, Cheryl struggles with Wolf behind bars. Phineas pursues extra-marital affairs and McCarthy swoops in to help the Wests out of a sticky situation.
Despite Ted's misgivings, the gang plan a job during the silly season. Ngaire returns with a surprise and Cheryl's Christmas cheer comes to a devastating end.
Wolf and Cheryl grieve at Tutaekuri Bay, while Rita suffocates in a full house and seeks help from an unlikely source. Ted gambles with his future.
Rita rebels against Cheryl's plan to go straight, Wolf struggles to leave his life of crime behind, and Ted faces a mountain of debt when his winning streak ends.
Passion boils over as Ngaire and Lefty cross paths, Eric follows his heart to the Dire Straits concert, and Ted's bad attitude could spell the end for his marriage.
Rita finds comfort in the arms of someone else, Cheryl goes in search of her dream wedding dress, and Riana returns to stir up trouble for the Wests.
The boys compete for the job of Wolf's best man, Phineas fesses up to Carol, and Sparky plans to send the USS Texas up in flames in the name of love.
A grisly murder pits the gang against each other, Cheryl and Wolf are at each other's throats over wedding venues, and Rita gives Ted an ultimatum
Ngaire encounters a familiar face at Cheryl's hen's party while Wolf is lead astray by an old flame at his stag do. Phineas and Bert fight for Carol.
The Wests come together for Cheryl and Wolf's wedding but the groom has cold feet, and the cops threaten to derail the nuptials.
David de Lautour
Ted West
Antonia Prebble
Rita West
Dan Musgrove
Lefty Munroe
Esther Stephens
Ngaire Munroe
Todd Emerson
Bilkey van Heeder
Pana Hema-Taylor
Bert Thompson
Xavier Horan
Phineas O'Driscoll
Sophie Hambleton
Carol O'Driscoll
Jessica Grace Smith
Cheryl West
Patrick Tafa
Falani
