The BEST episodes of RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service
Every episode of RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service!
Based in Australia’s red heart, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend. This series will capture the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country. It’s also a story about community and people coming together to laugh, to cry and to triumph, in spite of the huge obstacles they face.
#1 - Duty Of Care
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2025
The team attend a retrieval for a patient with Down syndrome, Mira questions her place in Wayne's world and a mediation attempt between Annya and Poppy takes a turn for the worse.
#2 - Separation Anxiety
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2025
In the wake of the crash Eliza second guesses herself, while Pete and Wayne struggle to separate their personal grievances from the job at hand.
#3 - Sieve & Sort
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2025
One year on, a devastating bus crash brings the RFDS team together again.
#5 - Episode 8
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/4/2023
Pete is forced to face his deepest fears, when he, Wayne, and the RFDS crew are all tasked to a catastrophic multi-casualty boat crash in some of the most challenging terrain they have faced.
#7 - Blood
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2025
It's Christmas in the outback. Wayne, Mira and Matty hit the beach after a jet ski crash, Chaya's fundraiser spirals, and Pete finally reveals his feelings to Eliza.
#10 - Episode 7
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/26/2023
With Dolly Hardon's charity drag night underway, what is supposed to be a night of fun for the RFDS team and the community descends into chaos when a bad batch of MDMA is found to be doing the rounds.
#11 - Non Negative
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2025
Wayne, Pete and Mira attend to a critically ill baby while Eliza visits a patient requesting help with voluntary assisted dying.
#13 - Episode 2
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/22/2023
Pete discovers an emergency intervention he performed has had major repercussions, while the team are called to a retrieval where they are challenged with keeping a patient's explosive secret.
#14 - Step Potential
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2025
A busy New Year's Eve pushes everyone to breaking point. Eliza, Pete and Ryan contend with a risky hot-air balloon retrieval, Wayne attends his clinic's fundraiser and Matty and Chaya come to blows.
#16 - Episode 1
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/15/2023
Staff shortages have the team working at their limits. Amidst the chaos of the White Cliffs rodeo, Pete is forced to act outside his scope of practice when faced with a multi-casualty car accident.
#18 - Episode 5
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/12/2023
Tensions flare between Eliza and Pete while transporting a contagious patient in stifling PPE, as Wayne's world is thrown upside down when a callout to a seizing patient takes a harrowing turn.
#19 - Episode 6
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/2023
Wayne's grief surrounding a sudden death results in dire consequences for his own health and a race against the clock for the team to get to him, especially for a terrified Mira.
#21 - Source Control
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2025
Eliza and Pete remain at odds as they work on an embarrassing case together. Wayne struggles to turn his professional switch off while looking after Kalthi.
#22 - Episode 4
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/5/2023
Eliza is tasked with leading the review into the White Cliffs incident as the team are faced with a skydiving accident, a missing patient and an old friend who's suffered a dangerous fall.
#23 - Accountability
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2025
The ramifications of the bus crash reach maximum impact as the RFDS team work together in a life and death situation, which ends up threatening one of their own.
#24 - Episode 3
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/29/2023
Dr Harrod's first day back on the job produces some awkward moments and Wayne finds something of Mira's that causes concern. The condition of a child with a suspected head injury becomes life threatening when a snake bite is discovered on his foot and the RFDS is asked to transport a prisoner.