The Flying Doctors

Show Summary

• This series chronicles the events surrounding the activities of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, which operates its own aircraft -in this case from the base at Coopers Crossing, an otherwise hardly notable town- to fly its medical staff throughout the Australian outback, where roads are too scarce and distances too immense to reach patients for medical care or get them to hospital by car in time. Doctors, nurses, pilots and base staff change throughout the seasons, often coming from the city and finding it difficult to adapt to life in the godforsaken countryside and be accepted by the isolated local community; there are of course the usual colleague stories. In most episodes they make one or more flights for routine medical examination sessions and/or emergency help, sometimes continued on board and/or in the hospital. Furthermore there are various sidelines, mainly concerning the local characters such as bar-owners Vic and Nancy, who also provide the only rooms, and some of their regulars, including local shopkeeper and busybody Violet Carnegie and arrogant richest businessman George Baxter who are very influential in the indispensable fund-raising.

Alum Actors

• Noel Trevarthen plays Ray Burgess
• Stephen Hall plays Kevin
• Sydney Jackson plays Father 'Jacko' Jackson

Non-YH Alum Crossactors

• None at this time.

Episode List

Mini Series:

• "Part One" - Aired: March 12, 1985
• "Part Two" - Aired: March 19, 1985
• "Part Three" - Aired: March 25, 1985

Season 1:

• 1.01 - "Will to Survive" - Aired: May 15, 1986
• 1.02 - "Trial by Gossip" - Aired: 1986
• 1.03 - "Hot Enough for You" - Aired: 1986
• 1.04 - "Dreams of Sand" - Aired: 1986
• 1.05 - "Public Property" - Aired: 1986
• 1.06 - "Is Nothing Sacred?" - Aired: 1986
• 1.07 - "Square Pegs" - Aired: June 22, 1991
• 1.08 - "Sins of the Father" - Aired: 1986
• 1.09 - "Rally to the Cause" - Aired: 1986
• 1.10 - "Talk of the Town" - Aired: 1986
• 1.11 - "Do You Read Me?" - Aired: 1986
• 1.12 - "E.T - New Girl in Town" - Aired: 1986
• 1.13 - "A Choice of Enemies" - Aired: 1986
• 1.14 - "Departures" - Aired: August 18, 1986
• 1.15 - "A Lost Generation" - Aired: 1986
• 1.16 - "Someone Special" - Aired: 1986
• 1.17 - "Return of the Hero" - Aired: 1986
• 1.18 - "Eye of the Beholder" - Aired: 1986
• 1.19 - "Like a Death in the Family" - Aired:
• 1.20 - "Million-Acre Prison" - Aired: 1986
• 1.21 - "Fearless Frank" - Aired: 1986
• 1.22 - "Forgiveness" - Aired: 1986
• 1.23 - "Acceptance" - Aired: 1986
• 1.24 - "The Show Goes On" - Aired: 1986
• 1.25 - "To the Rescue" - Aired: 1986
• 1.26 - "Into the Future" - Aired: 1986

Season 2:

• 2.01 - "Good Day for It" - Aired: July 7, 1987
• 2.02 - "Horses for Courses" - Aired: 1987
• 2.03 - "The Unluckiest Boy in Town" - Aired: 1987
• 2.04 - "It Isn't Cricket" - Aired: August 4, 1987
• 2.05 - "An Only Child" - Aired: August 4, 1987
• 2.06 - "A Love Story" - Aired: August 11, 1987
• 2.07 - "Keeping Up Appearances" - Aired: August 18, 1987
• 2.08 - "All Things Bright and Beautiful" - Aired: 1987
• 2.09 - "My Name Is Sky" - Aired: 1987
• 2.10 - "Bachelors & Spinsters" - Aired: September 22, 1987
• 2.11 - "Fifty-two Hours Straight" - Aired: September 29, 1987
• 2.12 - "A Friend of a Friend" - Aired: 1987
• 2.13 - "Friends and Lovers" - Aired: September 29, 1987
• 2.14 - "Realms of Gold" - Aired: October 20, 1987
• 2.15 - "The Hometown Hero" - Aired: 1987
• 2.16 - "A Distant Echo" - Aired: November 3, 1987
• 2.17 - "No Laughing Matter" - Aired: November 10, 1987
• 2.18 - "No Quarter Asked" - Aired: November 17, 1987
• 2.19 - "Myths & Legends" - Aired: November 10, 1987
• 2.20 - "The Hitch-hiker" - Aired: February 2, 1988
• 2.21 - "Give a Dog a Bad Name" - Aired: 1987
• 2.22 - "Every Day a Gift" - Aired: 1987
• 2.23 - "Bearing Gifts" - Aired: 1987
• 2.24 - "Repeat Performance" - Aired: 1987
• 2.25 - "The Noble Art" - Aired: March 3, 1988
• 2.26 - "Sapphire" - Aired: 1987
• 2.27 - "Cries from the Heart" - Aired: 1987
• 2.28 - "All in a Day's Work" - Aired: 1987
• 2.29 - "Out of a Clear Blue Sky" - Aired: 1987
• 2.30 - "Affirmative Action" - Aired: 1987
• 2.31 - "Figures in a Landscape" - Aired: 1987
• 2.32 - "The Devil You Know" - Aired: 1987
• 2.33 - "Operating Solo" - Aired: 1987
• 2.34 - "The Path of True Love" - Aired: 1987
• 2.35 - "The Kid" - Aired: 1987
• 2.36 - "The First Step" - Aired: 1987
• 2.37 - "Hopscotch" - Aired: 1987
• 2.38 - "Jacks High" - Aired: 1987

Season 3:

• 3.01 - "Clapped Out" - Aired: 1988
• 3.02 - "Private Lives, Public Faces" - Aired: 1988
• 3.03 - "Wedlock" - Aired: 1988
• 3.04 - "The Wranglers Daughter" - Aired: 1988
• 3.05 - "Borrowed Time" - Aired: 1988
• 3.06 - "The Forbidden" - Aired: 1988
• 3.07 - "She'll Be Right" - Aired: 1988
• 3.08 - "One Final Request" - Aired: 1988
• 3.09 - "Roxanne" - Aired: 1988
• 3.10 - "Don't Tell Anybody" - Aired: 1988
• 3.11 - "No Way Back" - Aired: 1988
• 3.12 - "Johnnie Come Home" - Aired: 1988
• 3.13 - "Look, Up in the Sky" - Aired: September 9, 1988
• 3.14 - "Preacher Man" - Aired: September 15, 1988
• 3.15 - "The Fear (Part 1)" - Aired: September 22, 1988
• 3.16 - "The Fear (Part 2)" - Aired: September 29, 1988
• 3.17 - "Fair Go" - Aired: October 6, 1988
• 3.18 - "Broken Airwaves" - Aired: October 13, 1988
• 3.19 - "Bed and Board" - Aired: October 20, 1988
• 3.20 - "Breaking the Drought" - Aired: November 3, 1988
• 3.21 - "Family Secrets (Part 1)" - Aired: November 10, 1988
• 3.22 - "Family Secrets (Part 2)" - Aired: November 17, 1988
• 3.23 - "All You Need Is Luck" - Aired: February 9, 1989
• 3.24 - "The Silly Season" - Aired: February 16, 1989
• 3.25 - "Every Situation" - Aired: February 23, 1989
• 3.26 - "The Storyteller" - Aired: March 2, 1989
• 3.27 - "The Choice" - Aired: March 9, 1989
• 3.28 - "A Shade of Doubt" - Aired: March 16, 1989
• 3.29 - "Mick & Julia" - Aired: March 23, 1989
• 3.30 - "The Deal" - Aired: March 30, 1989
• 3.31 - "A Thing of Beauty" - Aired: April 6, 1989
• 3.32 - "Cadenza" - Aired: 1988
• 3.33 - "Mates" - Aired: April 20, 1989
• 3.34 - "The Child" - Aired: 1988
• 3.35 - "Next to Go" - Aired: 1988
• 3.36 - "Gotta Have Friends" - Aired: 1988

Season 4:

• 4.01 - "The Gift" - Aired: Unknown
• 4.02 - "Second Chance" - Aired: Unknown
• 4.03 - "Not The Malarvys" - Aired: Unknown
• 4.04 - "The Adventure" - Aired: Unknown
• 4.05 - "No Man's Land" - Aired: Unknown
• 4.06 - "Rising Sundown" - Aired: July 6, 1989
• 4.07 - "Man and Boy" - Aired: July 13, 1989
• 4.08 - "The Longing" - Aired: July 20, 1989
• 4.09 - "Bitter Harvest" - Aired:
• 4.10 - "The Instrument" - Aired: 1989
• 4.11 - "Word & Deed" - Aired: July 27, 1989
• 4.12 - "All That Glitters..." - Aired: September 7, 1989
• 4.13 - "Fly Past" - Aired: September 17, 1989
• 4.14 - "The Last Rodeo" - Aired: September 21, 1989
• 4.15 - "Sky Above, Earth Below" - Aired: October 5, 1989
• 4.16 - "Lucky Lady" - Aired: October 12, 1989
• 4.17 - "The Chips Are Down" - Aired: September 28, 1989
• 4.18 - "Guardian Angel" - Aired: October 19, 1989
• 4.19 - "Battlers" - Aired: October 26, 1989
• 4.20 - "No Tears" - Aired: November 2, 1989
• 4.21 - "A Doctor's Dreaming" - Aired:
• 4.22 - "Blues for Judy" - Aired: 1989
• 4.23 - "The Claim" - Aired:
• 4.24 - "A Rhyme for Reason" - Aired: February 8, 1990
• 4.25 - "Dad's Little Bloke" - Aired: February 15, 1990
• 4.26 - "A Sporting Life" - Aired: February 22, 1990
• 4.27 - "A Good Drop of Red" - Aired: March 1, 1990
• 4.28 - "The Hero" - Aired: March 8, 1990
• 4.29 - "Suspicion" - Aired: March 15, 1990
• 4.30 - "Daddy's Girl" - Aired:
• 4.31 - "Two Sisters Running" - Aired: March 29, 1990
• 4.32 - "Dangerous Games" - Aired: April 5, 1990
• 4.33 - "Milk Run" - Aired: April 12, 1990
• 4.34 - "Point of No Return" - Aired: April 19, 1990
• 4.35 - "Small Mercies" - Aired: April 26, 1990
• 4.36 - "A Painful Extraction" - Aired:

Season 5:

• 5.01 - "The Climber" - Aired: 1991
• 5.02 - "Dead Reckoning" - Aired: May 17, 1990
• 5.03 - "A Bride to Be" - Aired: May 24, 1990
• 5.04 - "A Place for the Night" - Aired: May 31, 1990
• 5.05 - "End of the Rainbow" - Aired: June 7, 1990
• 5.06 - "Double Vision" - Aired: June 14, 1990
• 5.07 - "The Boy in the Boot" - Aired: June 19, 1990
• 5.08 - "Windows of the Soul" - Aired: June 28, 1990
• 5.09 - "Rest in Peace" - Aired: July 5, 1990
• 5.10 - "Life Line" - Aired: July 12, 1990
• 5.11 - "Fly Like a Bird" - Aired: July 19, 1990
• 5.12 - "A Day to Remember" - Aired: July 27, 1990
• 5.13 - "A Place to Call Home" - Aired: August 2, 1990
• 5.14 - "Divided Loyalties" - Aired: August 9, 1990
• 5.15 - "A Rural Education" - Aired:
• 5.16 - "The Ties That Bind" - Aired:
• 5.17 - "Brother's Keeper" - Aired:
• 5.18 - "Wilderness" - Aired:
• 5.19 - "Valentine's Day" - Aired:
• 5.20 - "A Little Tenderness" - Aired:
• 5.21 - "Poet's Corner" - Aired:
• 5.22 - "The Family Farm" - Aired:
• 5.23 - "A Place Where You Belong" - Aired:
• 5.24 - "Break Away" - Aired:
• 5.25 - "Billie and Pete" - Aired:
• 5.26 - "Old Man Weed" - Aired:
• 5.27 - "David and Goliath" - Aired: 1990
• 5.28 - "Last Carnival" - Aired: 1990
• 5.29 - "Innocence Lost" - Aired: 1990
• 5.30 - "Bush Christmas" - Aired: 1990
• 5.31 - "What a Guy" - Aired: 1990
• 5.32 - "Bad Moon Rising" - Aired: 1990
• 5.33 - "A New Life" - Aired: 1990
• 5.34 - "Through Thick and Thin" - Aired: 1990
• 5.35 - "Deceptions" - Aired: March 19, 1994
• 5.36 - "None So Blind" - Aired: 1990

Season 6:

• 6.01 - "The Sleep of Reason" - Aired: March 14, 1991
• 6.02 - "My Mother's Child" - Aired: 1991
• 6.03 - "Swinging on the rope" - Aired: March 23, 1991
• 6.04 - "Father and Son" - Aired: April 4, 1991
• 6.05 - "A Little Miracle" - Aired: April 11, 1991
• 6.06 - "Murphy's Law" - Aired: April 18, 1991
• 6.07 - "Breaking Down The Wall" - Aired: April 25, 1991
• 6.08 - "Once Bitten" - Aired: May 2, 1991
• 6.09 - "Clipped Wings" - Aired: May 9, 1991
• 6.10 - "Walk, Don't Run" - Aired: May 16, 1991
• 6.11 - "Masquerade" - Aired: May 23, 1991
• 6.12 - "Against The Current" - Aired: May 30, 1991
• 6.13 - "Last of the Cochranes" - Aired: June 6, 1991
• 6.14 - "Double Life" - Aired: June 13, 1991
• 6.15 - "Something, Nothing" - Aired: June 20, 1991
• 6.16 - "Family" - Aired: June 27, 1991
• 6.17 - "Being Positive" - Aired: July 4, 1991
• 6.18 - "Open Day" - Aired: July 11, 1991
• 6.19 - "Changing Times" - Aired: July 18, 1991
• 6.20 - "Freedom" - Aired: July 25, 1991
• 6.21 - "Nymphs and Nightmares" - Aired: August 8, 1991
• 6.22 - "Out of the Blue" - Aired: August 15, 1991
• 6.23 - "The Last Dance" - Aired: August 22, 1991
• 6.24 - "Unfinished Business" - Aired: August 29, 1991
• 6.25 - "Jacqueline" - Aired: September 5, 1991
• 6.26 - "Monkey" - Aired: September 12, 1991
• 6.27 - "The Stranger" - Aired: September 19, 1991
• 6.28 - "The Christening" - Aired: September 19, 1991
• 6.29 - "The Good Book" - Aired: September 26, 1991
• 6.30 - "My Little Patch" - Aired: October 3, 1991
• 6.31 - "Two Splatt Shuffle" - Aired: October 10, 1991
• 6.32 - "Secrets" - Aired: October 17, 1991
• 6.33 - "The Games We Play" - Aired: October 24, 1991
• 6.34 - "Bone China" - Aired: October 31, 1991
• 6.35 - "Johnno Be Good" - Aired: November 7, 1991
• 6.36 - "Lost Rainbows" - Aired: November 14, 1991
• 6.37 - "Broken Promises" - Aired: November 21, 1991
• 6.38 - "Visitors Welcome" - Aired: November 28, 1991
• 6.39 - "Yesterday's News" - Aired: December 5, 1991
• 6.40 - "Dirty Linen" - Aired: December 19, 1991
• 6.41 - "Chasing Rainbows" - Aired: December 26, 1991
• 6.42 - "Uncle Cyrano" - Aired: January 2, 1992
• 6.43 - "Luck of the Draw" - Aired: August 25, 1992
• 6.44 - "Trouble with M.E." - Aired: September 1, 1992
• 6.45 - "The Accomplice" - Aired: September 8, 1992
• 6.46 - "Blind Obsession" - Aired: September 15, 1992
• 6.47 - "Wimp" - Aired: September 22, 1992
• 6.48 - "Visionaries" - Aired: September 29, 1992
• 6.49 - "Life Lessons" - Aired: November 10, 1992

Links

• The Flying Doctors on IMDB

Additional Pictures (YH Alum Actors)

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Additional Pictures (Non-YH Alum Actors)

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