The Flying Doctors 

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 ... See full summary »

Stars:

Lenore Smith, Robert Grubb, Maurie Fields

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Lenore Smith	...	Kate Wellings / ... 220 episodes, 1986-1992
Robert Grubb	...	Dr. Geoff Standish / ... 203 episodes, 1986-1992
Maurie Fields	...	Vic Buckley 203 episodes, 1986-1992
Val Jellay	...	Nancy Buckley 169 episodes, 1986-1992
Liz Burch	...	Dr. Chris Randall / ... 143 episodes, 1986-1991
George Kapiniaris	...	Dimitrios 'D.J.' Lonniadis 108 episodes, 1987-1991
Rebecca Gibney	...	Emma Plimpton / ... 107 episodes, 1986-1991
Peter O'Brien	...	Sam Patterson 92 episodes, 1987-1991

Storyline

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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

doctor | hospital | nurse | pilot | pub | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 May 1986 (Australia)

Also Known As:

De flyvende læger

Filming Locations:

Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Crawford Productions, Nine Network Australia

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Maurie Fields and Val Jellay played husband and wife in this show. They were married in real life.

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Quotes

Dr. Tom Callaghan: Everybody in Coopers Crossing gossips. I mean, I'd gossip if I had the time.

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Connections

Referenced in T-Bag Bounces Back: Black Hearted Belle (1987)

User Reviews

Brings back some great memories

A few weeks ago they started to show reruns of the flying doctors here on TV and I couldn't be happier about that. Every Saturday-evening I'm hooked again. I used to watch this show as a young teenager every week and now I'm watching it every week as a young adult and I'm still loving it.

It's very exciting and has some great acting. It's a kind of show where you really start to care about the major characters. The pacing sometimes is a bit slow, but I don't mind at all. This way you can really get sucked into the story and start to know and care about the people involved. Something which doesn't happen in most shows nowadays. I really hope that the reruns are going to last a long time, because The flying doctors is really a one-of-a-kind great show.