The Flying Doctors - Season 8
Season 8
Network
Episodes27
DatesJan 24, 1991 - Aug 1, 1991
Episodes
Season 8Episode 150 min
What a Guy
A new doctor and nurse show up in Cooper's Crossing. He is charming but arrogant and she's fed up with overbearing city doctors, so the stage is set for a clash.
Jan 24, 1991
Season 8Episode 250 min
Bad Moon Rising
A man collapses whilst drilling an oil rig and after Johnno and David show up at the scene they discover the boss is an old enemy of Johnno's.
Jan 31, 1991
Season 8Episode 350 min
A New Life
A pregnant woman is being flown to the hospital with Kate as the only other passenger on board and they run into a bad storm. Kate is forced to deliver the baby after they woman goes into labour and she then rejects her baby and won't hold it or see it. Clare loses everything following a fire at her house. The doctors do everything they can to get the new mother to accept her new born baby.
Feb 7, 1991
Season 8Episode 450 min
Through Thick & Thin
After a couple of English girls are stranded in the outback, the doctors are called out to help.
Feb 14, 1991
Season 8Episode 550 min
Deceptions
David decides that the time has come to leave Cooper's Crossing and do something else with his life. A jackeroo is fired because he has been seeing the boss' daughter. David's efforts to save a life go disasterously wrong.
Feb 21, 1991
Season 8Episode 650 min
There Are None So Blind
After battery acid explodes in her face, Kate could loose her sight.
Feb 28, 1991
Season 8Episode 750 min
The Sleep of Reason
After Kate's younger sister Penny shows up town, she immediately causes a stir. Magda is hiding a secret and makes a surprise announcement.
Mar 7, 1991
Season 8Episode 850 min
My Mother's Child
Clare is feeling stressed and her work starts to suffer after an agency contacts her about Steve, the son she had adopted. Penny is finding to hard to adapt in the outback and is feeling bored. After Clare's son arrives in town though things improve.
Mar 14, 1991
Season 8Episode 950 min
Swinging on the Rope
An influential landowner manages ro cause problems for the team after he insists that his injured son is sent to a specialist in Melbourne. A new doctor arrives in town and manages to offend the locals with her brusque manner.
Mar 21, 1991
Season 8Episode 1050 min
Father & Son
Vic decides to invest in a tourist enterprise. A father has to come to terms with a tragedy.
Apr 4, 1991
Season 8Episode 1150 min
A Little Miracle
Geoff and Kate decide to go camping hoping that some time together and some privacy will help them conceive a child. The end up camping near a fundamentally religious family and things go wrong after the father wants to sacrifice his son in an attempt to replicate Abraham.
Apr 11, 1991
Season 8Episode 1250 min
Murphy's Law
After Vic accidentally runs over a girl, it is the beginning of a whole chain of events.
Apr 18, 1991
Season 8Episode 1350 min
Breaking Down the Wall
After a tour guide dies of a heart attack whilst showing people around some caves, Guy, Penny, Steve and a German couple find themselves lost inside the caves. Kate is not feeling well but a pregnancy test explains the cause of her sickness.
Apr 25, 1991
Season 8Episode 1450 min
Once Bitten
Geoff is struck down with a mystery illness and after nobody seems to be able to diagnose what it wrong, it appears the only option is to amputate his arm.
May 2, 1991
Season 8Episode 1550 min
Clipped Wings
Johnno is determined to fly back to town despite some bad weather conditions and ending up losing his pilot's license forcing him to take both his practical and theory tests again. After there is a medical emergency he decides to break his ban and fly the hurt man back to the hospital against regulations.
May 9, 1991
Season 8Episode 1650 min
Walk Don't Run
Kate is determined to compete in the town's annual cross country horse race even though she is pregnant. Her main rival is her sister Penny and neither of them is prepared to let the other one win.
May 16, 1991
Season 8Episode 1750 min
Masquerade
Guy attempts to help a battered housewife. Jackie attempts to fend off the affections of a dentist.
May 23, 1991
Season 8Episode 1850 min
Against the Current
Penny and Steve are looking forward to going on a camping trip but things take an unpleasant turn after they see something shocking. Penny runs off to Melbourne.
May 30, 1991
Season 8Episode 1950 min
Last of the Cochranes
Geoff finds himself involved with the Cochrane family again. He goes to Melbourne after receiving a mystifying telephone call and he meets Old Ma Cochrane, mother of Carbine and Pharlap. The 91 year old woman wants to return to the Crossing so that she can die.
Jun 6, 1991
Season 8Episode 2050 min
Double Life
Guy receives a massive surprise after his fiancee Fern Wentworth turns up. She wants to win back his heart and turn him into the man she knew before he moved to Coopers Crossing.
Jun 13, 1991
Season 8Episode 2150 min
Something, Nothing
Johnno ends up having a near death experience, after flying in a storm, and he thinks about his life. He buys a farm from his friend who is ill with MS and admits his true feelings to Rowie.
Jun 20, 1991
Season 8Episode 2250 min
Family
Geoff and Kate get ready to celebrate the birth of their first child. Geoff receives a visit from a paediatrician friend called Colin. After the baby is born, she is ill and needs an operation. The person who is best qualified to perform the surgery is Colin but unfortunately he is now an alcoholic. Kate finds out about his drinking problem and doesn't want him to perform the procedure but if baby Scarlett does not get the operation soon, she will die.
Jun 27, 1991
Season 8Episode 2350 min
Being Positive
Jackie is pleased after Jerry Davis return to Coopers Crossing but romance is the last thing on his mind. After talking with Geoff about a scar he has on his neck after being involved in a medical emergency, he has some shocking news to deal with.
Jul 4, 1991
Season 8Episode 2450 min
Open Day
A young boy who is disfigured with scars is kept away from society by his worried mother. Geoff attempts to rehabilitate them and encourage them back into the community but the mother refuses. After the boy becomes suicidal though it's up to Penny to try to resolve the situation.
Jul 11, 1991
Season 8Episode 2550 min
Changing Times
Geoff and Kate experience city life after they relocate to Melbourne after he has been been given the opportunity to train as a cardiologist. They end up deciding not to leave the Crossing though and move back after not enjoying life in Melbourne. Rowie and Johnno finalise their wedding arrangements and she she gets cold feet.
Jul 18, 1991
Season 8Episode 2650 min
Freedom
A couple of young lovers decide to hide away in the cellar of a farmhouse to avoid the anger of their feuding families. After Jackie finds them, their secret becomes common knowledge with tragic consequences.
Jul 25, 1991
Season 8Episode 2750 min
Red Letter Day
Aug 1, 1991
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