The WORST episodes of The Flying Doctors
Every episode of The Flying Doctors ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Flying Doctors!
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 - The Last Dance
Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 8/22/1991
The love of Clare's life appears in the Crossing and causes her some consternation. meanwhile Steve finds running his own business is not as easy as he thought.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Bush Christmas
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/21/1990
Vic and Nancy are getting ready for Christmas.
#13 - Nymphs and Nightmares
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/8/1991
Rowie is riddled with guilt when Walter Morell claims to have seen a nymph in the outback. Twenty years ago, Rowie abandoned her friend Beryl in the outback and she believes the sighting of the nymph is more than just a coincidence.
#14 - Out of the Blue
Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/15/1991
Life with baby Scarlett leads to marital discord for Geoff and Kate. Then when Kate's sister Penny becomes infatuated with Geoff, things are only set to get worse. Meanwhile the whole town is convinced that a satellite is about to hit town.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Unfinished Business
Season 6 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/29/1991
When a lethal bacteria is found in the operating theatre, there is an outbreak of hysteria in the Crossing. Although Guy attempts to suppress local concerns he ends up exacerbating the situation. Meanwhile Rowie makes some life changing decisions about her relationship with Johnno.
#17 - Jacqueline
Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/5/1991
After a storm prevents Guy and Jackie from returning to the Crossing after a clinic round,they are forced to stay over night in an isolated shed. Not too surprisingly, when they get back in to town the next day everyone is talking about their night together.
#18 - Monkey
Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/12/1991
There is a highly specialised, successful in town but Jackie has to deal with a troubled conscience after finding out that he is addicted to heroine.
#19 - The Stranger
Season 6 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/19/1991
Geoff believes a man is suffering from mental illness when he jumps out in front of him, nude. However the man is evidently highly educated and astounds the locals with his understanding of flying, mechanics and medicine. At first they believe he must be some sort of alien but things become even more mysterious when the military arrives in the Crossing in search of him.
#20 - The Christening
Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/1/1991
As Kate and Geoff prepare for Scarlett's christening, they reflect on their lives together and the friends they have known.
#21 - The Good Book
Season 6 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/26/1991
Old familiar faces return to the Crossing when a party is held after Harry Cooper's diary is found. Things don't run quite as smoothly as planned though when George Baxter, who believes he owns a dairy as a consequence of what was written in the diary, crashes in to the bus carrying Chris. Tom makes it back from Africa and Emma arrives, with out Sam, but with two children in tow. When Geoff discovers that Baxter is not entitled to the dairy, he decides to return ownership to the town. DJ returns from Greece and flirts with Penny, much to Steve's annoyance. It is announced that Chris will go back with Tom to Africa.
#22 - My Little Patch
Season 6 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/3/1991
A young Koori boy has a difficult time when his grandfather is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Guy becomes involved but soon discovers that he is perhaps too emotionally attached to the situation and has trouble thinking rationally.
#23 - Two Splatt Shuffle
Season 6 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/10/1991
Emotions run high in the Crossing when they believe they have a bigamist in their midst. When a travelling salesman has an accident and is admitted to hospital, his terrible secret is exposed when two wives turn up at visiting time. Is he the bigamist he appears to be?
#24 - Secrets
Season 6 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/17/1991
A man threatens to kill his wife and child out of desperation when he can no longer go on with the guilt of his financial debt. Meanwhile an attractive, wealthy man, Andrew Abott, seduces Rowie.
#25 - The Games We Play
Season 6 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/24/1991
Guy is mystified by the symptoms of a young patient and has problems identifying a diagnosis. Meanwhile there is cricket fever in the Crossing as everyone awaits the contest they've all been waiting for to take place.