The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors (1986)


  • Genre: Drama
  • First Air Date: 1986-05-15
  • Last Air Date: 1992-10-06
  • Total Seasons: 9
  • Total Episodes: 221
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 50 min.
  • Production Company: Crawfords Australia
  • Production Country: Australia, United States of America
  • Networks: Nine Network
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Summary

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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The Flying Doctors Seasons

Season 0

First Air Date: 1985-03-12
3 Episodes

Season 1

First Air Date: 1986-05-15
26 Episodes

Season 2

First Air Date: 1987-07-07
24 Episodes

Season 3

First Air Date: 1988-03-03
26 Episodes

Season 4

First Air Date: 1988-09-08
24 Episodes

Season 5

First Air Date: 1989-08-31
26 Episodes

Season 6

First Air Date: 1990-03-01
20 Episodes

Season 7

First Air Date: 1990-07-18
20 Episodes

Season 8

First Air Date: 1991-01-24
26 Episodes

Season 9

First Air Date: 1991-08-08
29 Episodes

The Flying Doctors Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1Will to Survive50 min
Season 1Episode 2Trial by Gossip50 min
Season 1Episode 3Hot Enough for You50 min
Season 1Episode 4Dreams of Sand50 min
Season 1Episode 5Public Property50 min
Season 1Episode 6Is Nothing Sacred50 min
Season 1Episode 7Square Pegs50 min
Season 1Episode 8Sins of the Fathers50 min
Season 1Episode 9Rally to the Cause50 min
Season 1Episode 10Talk of the Town50 min
Season 1Episode 11Do You Read Me50 min
Season 1Episode 12E.T. - New Girl in Town50 min
Season 1Episode 13A Choice of Enemies50 min
Season 1Episode 14Departures50 min
Season 1Episode 15A Lost Generation50 min
Season 1Episode 16Someone Special50 min
Season 1Episode 17Return of the Hero50 min
Season 1Episode 18Eye of the Beholder50 min
Season 1Episode 19Million-acre Prison50 min
Season 1Episode 20Like a Death in the Family50 min
Season 1Episode 21Fearless Frank50 min
Season 1Episode 22Forgivness50 min
Season 1Episode 23Acceptance50 min
Season 1Episode 24The Show Goes On50 min
Season 1Episode 25To the Rescue (1)50 min
Season 1Episode 26Into the Future (2)50 min
Season 2Episode 1Good Day for It50 min
Season 2Episode 2Horses for Courses50 min
Season 2Episode 3The Unluckiest Boy in Town50 min
Season 2Episode 4It Isn't Cricket50 min
Season 2Episode 5An Only Child50 min
Season 2Episode 6A Love Story50 min
Season 2Episode 7Keeping Up Appearances50 min
Season 2Episode 8All Things Bright and Beautiful50 min
Season 2Episode 9My Name is Sky50 min
Season 2Episode 10Bachelors & Spinsters50 min
Season 2Episode 11Fifty-two Hours Straight50 min
Season 2Episode 12A Friend of a Friend50 min
Season 2Episode 13Friends and Lovers50 min
Season 2Episode 14Realms of Gold50 min
Season 2Episode 15The Hometown Hero50 min
Season 2Episode 16A Distant Echo50 min
Season 2Episode 17No Laughing Matter50 min
Season 2Episode 18No Quarter Asked50 min
Season 2Episode 19Myths & Legends50 min
Season 2Episode 20The Hitch-hiker50 min
Season 2Episode 21Give a Dog a Bad Name50 min
Season 2Episode 22Everyday a Gift50 min
Season 2Episode 23Bearing Gifts50 min
Season 2Episode 24Repeat Performance50 min
Season 2Episode 25The Noble Art50 min
Season 3Episode 1Sapphire50 min
Season 3Episode 2Cries from the Heart50 min
Season 3Episode 3All in a Day's Work50 min
Season 3Episode 4Out of a Clear Blue Sky50 min
Season 3Episode 5Affirmative Action50 min
Season 3Episode 6Figures in a Landscape50 min
Season 3Episode 7The Devil You Know50 min
Season 3Episode 8Operation Solo50 min
Season 3Episode 9The Path of True Love50 min
Season 3Episode 10The Kid50 min
Season 3Episode 11The First Step50 min
Season 3Episode 12Hopscotch50 min
Season 3Episode 13Jacks High50 min
Season 3Episode 14Clapped Out50 min
Season 3Episode 15Private Lives, Public Faces50 min
Season 3Episode 16Wedlock50 min
Season 3Episode 17The Wrangler's Daughter50 min
Season 3Episode 18Borrowed Time50 min
Season 3Episode 19The Forbidden50 min
Season 3Episode 20She'll Be Right50 min
Season 3Episode 21One Final Request50 min
Season 3Episode 22Roxanne50 min
Season 3Episode 23Don't Tell Anybody50 min
Season 3Episode 24No Way Back50 min
Season 3Episode 25Johnnie Come Home50 min
Season 3Episode 26Look, Up in the Sky50 min
Season 4Episode 1Preacher Man50 min
Season 4Episode 2The Fear (1)50 min
Season 4Episode 3The Fear (2)50 min
Season 4Episode 4Fair Go50 min
Season 4Episode 5Broken Airwaves50 min
Season 4Episode 6Bed and Board50 min
Season 4Episode 7Give a Dog a Bad Name50 min
Season 4Episode 8Breaking the Drought50 min
Season 4Episode 9Family Secrets (1)50 min
Season 4Episode 10Family Secrets (2)50 min
Season 4Episode 11All You Need is Luck50 min
Season 4Episode 12The Silly Season50 min
Season 4Episode 13Every Situation50 min
Season 4Episode 14The Storyteller50 min
Season 4Episode 15The Choice50 min
Season 4Episode 16A Shade of Doubt50 min
Season 4Episode 17Mick & Julia50 min
Season 4Episode 18The Deal50 min
Season 4Episode 19A Thing of Beauty50 min
Season 4Episode 20Cadenza50 min
Season 4Episode 21Mates50 min
Season 4Episode 22The Child50 min
Season 4Episode 23Next to Go50 min
Season 4Episode 24Gotta Have Friends50 min
Season 5Episode 1The Gift50 min
Season 5Episode 2Second Chance50 min
Season 5Episode 3Not the Malavrys50 min
Season 5Episode 4The Adventure50 min
Season 5Episode 5No Man's Land50 min
Season 5Episode 6Rising Sundown50 min
Season 5Episode 7Man & Boy50 min
Season 5Episode 8The Longing50 min
Season 5Episode 9Bitter Harvest50 min
Season 5Episode 10The Instrument50 min
Season 5Episode 11Word & Deed50 min
Season 5Episode 12All That Glitters50 min
Season 5Episode 13Fly Past50 min
Season 5Episode 14The Last Rodeo50 min
Season 5Episode 15The Chips Are Down50 min
Season 5Episode 16Sky Above, Earth Below50 min
Season 5Episode 17Lucky Lady50 min
Season 5Episode 18Guardian Angel50 min
Season 5Episode 19Battlers50 min
Season 5Episode 20No Tears50 min
Season 5Episode 21A Doctor's Dreaming50 min
Season 5Episode 22Blues for Judy50 min
Season 5Episode 23The Claim50 min
Season 5Episode 24A Rhyme for a Reason50 min
Season 5Episode 25Dad's Little Bloke50 min
Season 5Episode 26The Sporting Life50 min
Season 6Episode 1A Good Drop of Red50 min
Season 6Episode 2The Hero50 min
Season 6Episode 3Suspicion50 min
Season 6Episode 4Daddy's Girl50 min
Season 6Episode 5Two Sisters Running50 min
Season 6Episode 6Dangerous Games50 min
Season 6Episode 7Milk Run50 min
Season 6Episode 8Point of No Return50 min
Season 6Episode 9Small Mercies50 min
Season 6Episode 10A Painful Extraction50 min
Season 6Episode 11The Climber50 min
Season 6Episode 12Dead Reckoning50 min
Season 6Episode 13A Bride-to-Be50 min
Season 6Episode 14A Place for the Night50 min
Season 6Episode 15End of the Rainbow50 min
Season 6Episode 16Double Vision50 min
Season 6Episode 17The Boy in the Boot50 min
Season 6Episode 18Windows of the Soul50 min
Season 6Episode 19Rest in Peace50 min
Season 6Episode 20Life Line50 min
Season 7Episode 1Fly Like a Bird50 min
Season 7Episode 2A Day to Remember50 min
Season 7Episode 3A Place to Call Home50 min
Season 7Episode 4Divided Loyalties50 min
Season 7Episode 5A Rural Education50 min
Season 7Episode 6Brother's Keeper50 min
Season 7Episode 7The Ties That Bind50 min
Season 7Episode 8A Little Tenderness50 min
Season 7Episode 9Wilderness50 min
Season 7Episode 10Valentine's Day50 min
Season 7Episode 11Poet's Corner50 min
Season 7Episode 12The Family Farm50 min
Season 7Episode 13A Place Where You Belong50 min
Season 7Episode 14Break Away50 min
Season 7Episode 15Billie & Pete50 min
Season 7Episode 16Old Man Weed50 min
Season 7Episode 17David & Goliath50 min
Season 7Episode 18The Last Carnival50 min
Season 7Episode 19Innocence Lost50 min
Season 7Episode 20Bush Christmas50 min
Season 8Episode 1What a Guy50 min
Season 8Episode 2Bad Moon Rising50 min
Season 8Episode 3A New Life50 min
Season 8Episode 4Through Thick & Thin50 min
Season 8Episode 5Deceptions50 min
Season 8Episode 6There Are None So Blind50 min
Season 8Episode 7The Sleep of Reason50 min
Season 8Episode 8My Mother's Child50 min
Season 8Episode 9Swinging on the Rope50 min
Season 8Episode 10Father & Son50 min
Season 8Episode 11A Little Miracle50 min
Season 8Episode 12Murphy's Law50 min
Season 8Episode 13Breaking Down the Wall50 min
Season 8Episode 14Once Bitten50 min
Season 8Episode 15Clipped Wings50 min
Season 8Episode 16Walk Don't Run50 min
Season 8Episode 17Masquerade50 min
Season 8Episode 18Against the Current50 min
Season 8Episode 19Last of the Cochranes50 min
Season 8Episode 20Double Life50 min
Season 8Episode 21Something, Nothing50 min
Season 8Episode 22Family50 min
Season 8Episode 23Being Positive50 min
Season 8Episode 24Open Day50 min
Season 8Episode 25Changing Times50 min
Season 8Episode 26Freedom50 min
Season 8Episode 27Red Letter Day50 min
Season 9Episode 1Nymphs & Nightmares50 min
Season 9Episode 2Out of the Blue50 min
Season 9Episode 3The Last Dance50 min
Season 9Episode 4Unfinished Business50 min
Season 9Episode 5Jacqueline50 min
Season 9Episode 6Monkey50 min
Season 9Episode 7The Stranger50 min
Season 9Episode 8The Christening50 min
Season 9Episode 9The Good Book50 min
Season 9Episode 10My Little Patch50 min
Season 9Episode 11Two Splatt Shuffle50 min
Season 9Episode 12Secrets50 min
Season 9Episode 13The Games We Play50 min
Season 9Episode 14Bone China50 min
Season 9Episode 15Johnno Be Good50 min
Season 9Episode 16Lost Rainbows50 min
Season 9Episode 17Broken Promises50 min
Season 9Episode 18Visitors Welcome50 min
Season 9Episode 19Yesterday's News50 min
Season 9Episode 20Dirty Linen50 min
Season 9Episode 21Chasing Rainbows50 min
Season 9Episode 22Uncle Cyrano50 min
Season 9Episode 23Luck of the Draw50 min
Season 9Episode 24Trouble with M.E.50 min
Season 9Episode 25The Accomplice50 min
Season 9Episode 26Blind Obsession50 min
Season 9Episode 27Wimp50 min
Season 9Episode 28Visionaries50 min
Season 9Episode 29Life Lessons50 min
  • Robert Grubb

    as Dr. Geoff Standish
  • Lenore Smith

    as Kate Standish
  • Nikki Coghill

    as Sr. Jackie Crane
  • David Reyne

    as Dr. Guy Reid
  • Christopher Stollery

    as Johnno Johnson
  • Sarah Chadwick

    as Dr. Rowie Lang