Marilyn wore her heart in her sleeve, and motivated sales person - hosting a successful lingerie party for the female staff, sparking Kirsty’s entrepreneurial spirit and inadvertently was the catalyst for inspiring Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson) by directing them to a self-help guru.
Despite picking up work at the cafe, Marilyn soon left for Dargaville - realising she had burned many bridges in her short time in Ferndale and not wanting to stand in the way of Marj and Laurie’s happiness.
Her nickname from her colleagues at the clinic was "Motormouth Marilyn" Dr. Simon Hilton-Jones was the hippy doctor abruptly hired to replace Katherine Blake (Margaret Umbers).
Simon proved unpopular with the staff due to his poor time management and apparent lack of interest in prescribing medication or taking comprehensive histories.
After she left her electronic organiser at Kennedy’s Bar, she was impressed by Stuart Neilson’s (Martin Henderson) detective skills and offered him a role in her business.
When the clinic had liquidity issues following the opening of the new High Dependency Unit, it is soon revealed that the construction company that is owed money belongs to Hilary.
Without opposition, Hilary rolled out the restructure and brought in Australian firm Ideal Health and their consultant Dr Ethan Gill to overhaul her investment.
When Hilary is forced to fire Hone from his acting clinic director position, and appointed Ethan to replace him, it triggers the pair to break up.
Ideal Health then revealed their true agenda by buying rival, and larger, hospital St Catherine’s and pulled out of the Shortland Street contract.
Greg Feeney was the drug dealing step brother of Carmen Roberts (Theresa Healey) and potential love interest for Kirsty Knight (Angela Dotchin).
She arrived as the paramedic partner of Sam Aleni (Rene Naufahu) and an old nursing school friend of Jo Jordan (Greer Robson).
When the McKenna’s returned, Jo invited her to move into her share house with Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson) and Kristy (Angela Dotchin).
Rebecca found that living, working, and socialising with Sam was too much for their relationship to handle and moved back into Kristy’s place after Jo leaves town.
Rebecca had a short term relationship with Kane Taiaroa (Joe Folau) before she began dating ambulance partner Rangi Heremaia (Blair Strang).
She was hired at the hospital as replacement for the recently deceased Steve Mills and shocked her old university boyfriend Guy Warner (Craig Parker) by winning at date with him at a fundraising night.
Annie became attracted to the recently returned Dr Meredith Fleming (Stephanie Wilkin) whilst the pair worked together to set up an IVF clinic.
Dr Ethan Gill was brought in as a management consultant to lead the restructure introduced by Hilary Sturgess (Susan Brady).
Ethan quickly alienated many staff with the roll out of the “Ideal Way” recommended changes and orchestrated the removal of acting clinic director Hone Ropata (Temuera Morrison).
Whilst Ethan was initially suspected to be behind the recent assaults of sex workers, Carmen Roberts and Guy Warner (Craig Parker) discovered that he was instead a regular customer and had a cleaning fetish.
It was soon after that Ideal Health announced their true plan of buying and operating the larger rival hospital St Catherine’s, and pulled out of Shortland Street, leaving it potentially financially unviable.
The two eventually reconciled but Rachel was shocked to learn Tim was the father of Ramona's (Ashleigh Seagar) baby and was refusing to offer support.
Nurse Neville Otis Jackson started persistently telephoning the clinic in August 1994, wanting to speak to Dr Michael McKenna (Paul Gittins).
The clinic staff soon realised the true manipulative nature of Craig when he began to blackmail and emotionally torture Otis to provide him with home care as payback for his injuries.
After Ellen Crozier (Robyn Malcolm) takes over his home care, she challenged Craig to exercise his independence and stop torturing Otis.
However his disdain for the "system" was still apparent and he revealed secrets to manipulate the seriousness of paraplegia to the newly injured Rangi Heremaia (Blair Strang).
However Carmen soon discovered that Vic was completely aware that he would need full-time nursing care prior to coming to Ferndale and was after the money she had won in the lottery.
Priest Corrine returned 14 years later when she married Morgan Braithwaite (Bonnie Soper) and Gerald Tippett (Harry McNaughton) during a supposed rehearsal.
She returned a year later as the celebrant for Sophie McKay (Kimberley Crossman) and Kieran Mitchell's (Adam Rickitt) wedding which again was gatecrashed and cancelled.
Wilbur Skeggins made an uncredited guest appearance in the infamous 1994 cliffhanger where he attended his son, Lionel's (John Leigh) wedding to Kirsty Knight (Angela Dotchin).
Though it turned out that Wilbur had been faking illness in a bid to win back his "mail order" wife - Angelina (Geeling Ng).