The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors
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The Flying Doctors

6.6 / 10
1986
9 seasons
221 episodes
Drama

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Will to Survive

    6.0
    15-05-198650m

    Tom and Kate are on a clinicround. It's Tom's birthday. There they see a patient named Ted, who complains of stomach-ache. His family situation isn't the best, he doesn't care abou...

  • Ep 2

    2.Trial By Gossip

    6.0
    22-05-198650m

    Chris has horrible nightmares about the amputation. Everybody is accusing her, they are convinced that she could have treated Jim Spencer without taking off his leg. Her patients a...

  • Ep 3

    3.Hot Enough For You

    7.0
    29-05-198650m

    An english family, the Robertsons, arrives in Coopers Crossing, looking for work. They get a tip that a farmer outside town needs workers so they decide to go there. However, they...

  • Ep 4

    4.Dreams of Sand

    05-06-198650m

    Hurtle comes back to town, but he says he won't stay. He's going up to the coast. Tom, Kate and Chris are visiting an old man called Rabbit. When they're about to leave Rabbit is...

  • Ep 5

    5.Public Property

    12-06-198650m

    Bruce is coming to Coopers Crossing to get married. He's never met the bride to be, they have only written letters. When Joylene arrives it turns out that she is pregnant. Bruce (a...

  • Ep 6

    6.Is Nothing Sacred

    19-06-198650m

    A lady called Debbie Wilson shows up in town to fight for the aboriginies. She wants to find sacred places and make sure that the aboriginals have acess to these places. Many of th...

  • Ep 7

    7.Square Pegs

    26-06-198650m

    Andrew Cameron is a farmer and very successful in everything he does. He demands his son, Matt, to be just as successful as he is, which of course is impossible. Finally Matt break...

  • Ep 8

    8.Sins of the Fathers

    07-07-198650m

    Prue is pregnant and staying at a couple she says is her aunt and onkel. She delivers the baby on the baby but it requires help from the RFDS since the baby is in a wrong position....

  • Ep 9

    9.Rally to the Cause

    14-07-198650m

    An international rally comes to Coopers Crossing which makes everyone excited. A driver called Sandra spends lots of time with Gibbo and Chris has dinner with a french driver. This...

  • Ep 10

    10.Talk of the Town

    21-07-198650m

    Emma is upset with Hurtle, the garage's economy is a mess, Hurtle never demands people to pay their bills which makes it impossible for him to pay his! So Emma has to his dirty wor...

  • Ep 11

    11.Do You Read Me

    28-07-198650m

    One of Sharon's friends is going out with a boy named Max, and she goes to Chris to get the pill. Linda gets them on the farmacy, but Violet sees her, and soon everybody knows abou...

  • Ep 12

    12.E.T. - New Girl in Town

    04-08-198650m

    Tom and Gibbo has to land in the middle of nowhere after a clinicround. They come to an old cabin where they find a man and his dying mother. They also find the man's daugther Aman...

  • Ep 13

    13.A Choice of Enemies

    11-08-198650m

    RFDS gets an emergecny call from Adrian Bailey, son of the wealthy Rex Bailey, who is out cycling in the bush. Everybody says he shouldn't go on, he doen't know anything about the...

  • Ep 14

    14.Departures

    18-08-198650m

    Sharon tells everybody that she is moving to Sydney to study. She's going to be a socialworker. Everybody at the base is happy for her but Gibbo is a bit upset about Sharon not tel...

  • Ep 15

    15.A Lost Generation

    25-08-198650m

    Gibbo, Ron and Emma meets a woman named Clare Dobson on the road where her car broke down. Gibbo gives her a ride back to town and Ron promises to fix her car. It's obvious that th...

  • Ep 16

    16.Someone Special

    01-09-198650m

    Tom sees some horrible pictures of starving kids in Africa and starts thinking of going there to help. Chris thinks they're about to get married and tells Violet - which means the...

  • Ep 17

    17.Return of the Hero

    08-09-198650m

    The new doctor, Geoff Standish arrives, a really bragging citydoctor. He gets drunk one night, when he was on call, which upsets Chris terribly. Geoff tells her he came to the outb...

  • Ep 18

    18.Eye of the Beholder

    15-09-198650m

    Kate is at George Baxter's place giving vaccin-shots. They run into bad weather during a ride and comes to a shed. George is hit by lightning, and has a seizure. It turns out he mi...

  • Ep 19

    19.Million-acre Prison

    22-09-198650m

    A family, the Morgans, has to sell their property, and George Baxter buys it for his company. This makes the Morgans pretty upset. Nancy has done some tests with Geoff and the resu...

  • Ep 20

    20.Like a Death in the Family

    29-09-198650m

    The base gets a call, a boy has got shot and Chris flies out. She does her best, but the boy dies. The weather is really bad, so they can't fly the body back to town. Jack and dr....

  • Ep 21

    21.Fearless Frank

    06-10-198650m

    Gibbo demands vacation, and the only release-pilot is an old man called Frank Watson, known as Fearless Frank. He is a very good pilot but sometimes he takes riskes. He really like...

  • Ep 22

    22.Forgiveness

    13-10-198650m

    A girl named Sarah is alone at her and her husband's property when he is off working. She claims she hears someone spying on her and involves as well Jack as Geoff. Finally she see...

  • Ep 23

    23.Acceptance

    20-10-198650m

    The Cochrane-brothers come to town. They end up in hospital after they've been in an accident with explosives - looking for gold! Josie Rattan has a caraccident, but says she's ok....

  • Ep 24

    24.The Show Goes On

    27-10-198650m

    A theatre group comes to town, but their director and head-actor, Rick, breaks his leg. In hospital Chris discovers he's got a disease that needs treatment in Sydney but he won't g...

  • Ep 25

    25.To The Rescue (1)

    03-11-198650m

    Two thieves are troubling everyone, they want pills and medicins to sell to schoolkids. They hassles both Kate and Jack. But one of them is injured and is nearly killed! Chris save...

  • Ep 26

    26.Into The Future (2)

    10-11-198650m

    The ""Queen of the Outback"" competition is held in Windoona and Emma wins! On the way back Gibbo has to fly, even though he is on vacation because the other pilot was drunk. The e...

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