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Season 7

The Flying Doctors

Season 7

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July 18, 1990 (36 years ago)

20 episodes

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Key Crew

Director

Karl Zwicky

Writer

Jutta Goetze

Fly Like A Bird

The new pilot, Johnno Johnosn, arrives. An old man named Les thinks he's got asbestosis from mine-jobs. He's convinced he'll die and wants compensation money from the mining company. He's gonna give the money to a boy named Matt, who wants to be a pilot. Les finds out he's not gonna die after all, and when Matt finds out he steels Johnno's plane. Johnno manages to talk him down though.

A Day To Remember

During a clinicround there are reports of small fires, which eventually turns out to be one huge fire! Geoff goes out there, but burns his hands and is replaced by David. He attends a family where the woman is seriously ill. They manage to get her to hospital, but she needs major surgery in Sydney. There's no time to fly her there, and Geoff can't operate, so David has to do it! The operation is a success!

A Place To Call Home

Nick is out fixing a wind mill, when a woman named Kerry comes, her car broke down. She's pregnant and starts having contractions. Nick helps with the delivery, she gets a baby girl. Something is not right with Kerry though, and it turns out she stole the car and a lot of money from her boss. He comes to Coopers Crossing and says if he gets his stuff back he won't press charges.

Divided Loyalties

A pilot-friend of Johnno's, Keith Lorrigan, has a plane crash and dies. His wife Vikki finds some heart pills, and Johnno doesn't want anybody to know, they'd only think it was Keith's fault. Johnno tries to work out what happened and discovers Keith thought he was flying barrels of destilled water, when in fact it was sulphuric acid in them. The barrels leeked and caused the crash.

A Rural Education

August 15, 1990

David and Annie go to a remote part of town to do check ups on pupils at the school. One of the boys keeps acting strangly and has bad headaches and his hands keep shaking, his sister is having headaches aswell. The other kids tease him and think he is mad. David tries talking to his father but gets no joy from him, so he goes to see the boy's grandfather. He has got the shakes aswell and says it's miners shake, David finds out from him that stuff from the mines has been leaking into a stream, but then they find out it is getting into water where the boy's father is getting water from to water the vegetables with, so it turns out the boy is being poisoned.

The Ties That Bind

August 22, 1990

The team is presented with a major problem by a couple and their disabled child.

Brother’s Keeper

August 29, 1990

Through helping an alcoholic friend, Tom finds himself trapped in a mine and at the mercy of a murderer.

Wilderness

September 5, 1990

A man burns down his house and heads into the outback, taking his daughters with him.

Valentine’s Day

September 12, 1990

David falls in love with a British woman, she is flying around the world on her own, she is only in town for a few days while her plane is being fixed. But, then David finds out she is very ill and has hodgekins disease. She wants to travel and sees as much of the world as she can before she dies. David asks her to marry him, but she turns him down because of the travelling.

A Little Tenderness

September 19, 1990

Tom talks to a woman who needs to have her utures removed. The woman lives under horrible cirumstances, he husband is really mean. One day her husband gets badly hurt, and Tom and Johnno flies out there. There's a storm coming in, so they can't fly the hurt man to hospital. Tom has to operate, assisted by Johnno and the wife. The operation is a sucess and finally the couple manages to sort things out.

Poet’s Corner

September 26, 1990

An alcoholic poet suffering with writer's block shows up in town and causes trouble by his decision to turn to plagiarism.

Family Farm

October 3, 1990

A tense situation develops in town after a distraught man, burdened by his failure to provide for his family, takes two hostages.

A Place Where You Belong

October 10, 1990

A young German doctor arrives in Cooper's Crossing and is soon needed to help out in an emergency.

Break Away

October 17, 1990

A young mother attempts to escape from her manic depressive boyfriend by running away to Cooper's Crossing.

Billie and Pete

October 24, 1990

Geoff runs into a couple of people from his past, ex-jazz singer Billie Sorenson and her one-time pianist Pete.

Old Man Weed

October 31, 1990

Magda and Kate attempt to persuade an aborigine girl's father to let her have an operation to save her from a brain tumour.

David and Goliath

November 7, 1990

David attempts to help a man who has his leg trapped. Back at the hospital David also notices a lump on the man's chest which he wants tested and removed.

Last Carnival

November 21, 1990

Annie gives treatment to a boy who works on a carnival and they soon develop a strong rapport.

Innocence Lost

November 28, 1990

Kate and Geoff attempt to help a girl who has been raped. She isn't saying much and refuses to say who did it. Annie goes on a date with Ted Patterson.

Bush Christmas

December 5, 1990

Vic and Nancy are getting ready for Christmas.