The BEST episodes of The Flying Doctors season 5
Every episode of The Flying Doctors season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Flying Doctors season 5!
A long running drama showing the cases tackled by the Royal Flying Doctor Service, who bring medical help to the remote areas of the Australian outback.
#1 - Poet’s Corner
Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/12/1990
An alcoholic poet suffering with writer's block shows up in town and causes trouble by his decision to turn to plagiarism.
#2 - A Day to Remember
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/12/1990
When several small bush fires develop into a huge one, Geoff tries to help but ends up burning his hands. David takes Geoff's place on the clinic rounds, where a woman is found who needs an urgent operation in Sydney. David is forced to step in and operate when there is not enough time to get her there.
#3 - A Place to Call Home
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/19/1990
Nick is mending a windmill and ends up coming to the rescue of a pregnant woman called Kerry whose car has broken down. After she begins having contractions he helps to deliver the baby. After Kerry's boss shows up in town demanding to have the money and car that she stole off him returned, things turn nasty.
#4 - Divided Loyalties
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/26/1990
After Keith Lorrigan, a pilot friend of Johnno, crashes his plane and dies, Johnny decides to investigate and becomes determined to find out what really caused the accident.
#5 - A Rural Education
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/2/1990
David and Annie check ups on pupils at a remote school. One of the boys acts strangely and has been suffering with bad headaches and his hands keep shaking. His sister is suffering with headaches as well. The other children tease him and think he is crazy. David attempts to talk to his father but gets no joy from him, so he goes to see the boy's grandfather.
#6 - The Ties That Bind
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/15/1990
The team face a major problem caused a couple and their disabled child.
#7 - Brother’s Keeper
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/9/1990
After attempting to help an alcoholic friend, Tom finds himself trapped in a mine and at the mercy of a murderer.
#8 - Wilderness
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/29/1990
After a man burns down his house he heads into the outback, taking his daughters with him.
#9 - Valentine’s Day
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/5/1990
David finds himself falling in love with a British woman who is flying solo around the world. David finds out that she is very ill with a potentially fatal disease and she wants to travel and see as much of the world as she can before she dies.
#10 - A Little Tenderness
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/22/1990
Tom chats to a woman who needs to have her utures removed. She is living under shocking cirumstances as her husband is really mean man. After her husband is badly hurt, Tom and Johnno fly out there.Following a storm, they can't fly the hurt man to hospital forcing Tom to operate, assisted by Johnno and the wife.
#11 - Fly Like a Bird
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/5/1990
Johnno Johnson, the new Flying Doctor pilot, arrives in the Crossing and immediately finds himself tested. Ex miner Les is convinced he has contracted asbestosis as a result of his work down the mines. Les has a compensation claim in with the mining company and, as he believes he is going to die, plans to give the money to Matt who is keen to become a pilot. However when Les learns the truth about his health and discovers the mining company will not pay out, Matt steals Johnno's plane.
#12 - The Family Farm
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/19/1990
A tense situation develops in town after a distraught man, burdened by his failure to provide for his family, takes two hostages.
#13 - A Place to Belong
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/26/1990
A young German doctor arrives in Cooper's Crossing and is soon needed to help out in an emergency.
#14 - Break Away
Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/3/1990
A young mother attempts to escape from her manic depressive boyfriend by running away to Cooper's Crossing.
#15 - Billie and Pete
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/10/1990
Geoff runs into a couple of people from his past, ex-jazz singer Billie Sorenson and her one-time pianist Pete.
#16 - Old Man Weed
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/17/1990
Magda and Kate attempt to persuade an aborigine girl's father to let her have an operation to save her from a brain tumour.
#17 - David and Goliath
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/24/1990
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.
#18 - Last Carnival
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/31/1990
Annie gives treatment to a boy who works on a carnival and they soon develop a strong rapport.
#19 - Innocence Lost
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/7/1990
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.
#20 - Bush Christmas
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/21/1990
Vic and Nancy are getting ready for Christmas.
#21 - The Climber
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/26/1990
A bloke and his girlfriend turn up in town to see David - they are old friends. David and the bloke go climbing, his girlfriend isn't feeling well and stays at the hotel. The girlfriend seems to be getting worse and when Nancy sees her she calls Tom. It turns out to be a very bad case of food poisoning. During the climb the bloke starts feeling ill and can't carry on, he waits on ledge half way up and David goes for help. The food poisoning was from some caviar and champagne they had both had.
#22 - The Hero
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/15/1990
A new RDS pilot lands himself in trouble when he gives a lift to an old rascal called Felix.
#23 - Suspicion
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/22/1990
Chris has to look after a criminal, Evans. The police claims he tried to escape but his injuries are consistant with the ones of a beating. Chris feels sorry for him but finally she has to release him from the hospital. On the way to Broken Hill they have a caraccident. When Chris gets there Evans tries to kill them all but is shot to death by one of the policemen. It turned out Evans had been treated for schizophrenia.
#24 - Daddy's Girl
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/1/1990
Mr Price and his grown up daughter Megan own place where men are drilling. Tom is an old friend of Megan's. While Mr Price and Megan are there, there is a big explosion. Tom and David go there, Mr Price and Megan aren't injured so they decide to fly out the men who are seriously injured first. Megan isn't happy about this - she wants her father on the plane first, but she and Mr Price end up staying back with Tom while David goes in the plane with the other men. Mr Price has a heart attack and dies, but it turns out he was taking tablets for angina and didn't tell Tom before
#25 - Two Sisters Running
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/15/1990
Two girls, Kelly and Hannah, and their grandmother have a car accident. In hospital Geoff finds out the grandmother has lethal cancer. She wants to looks for the girls' father, Michael O'Connor, their mother is dead. Geoff locates Michael on the opal-fields, but Michael won't come back. The grandmother dies, and the girls overhear Geoff when he says they might be split up. The girls run away and a search-party is organized. Geoff has found out why Michael won't come back for his kids, and confronts him with the information. This makes Michael come and look for his girls and thanks to him they are found!