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* FrontierDoctor: Cooper's Crossing isn't exactly a metropolis, and a lot of what the flying doctors do is in far more remote settings with even less equipment. And the homesteaders are just as ornery as the ones in TheWildWest.
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The series had a short-lived SpinOff titled ''R.F.D.S.'', set out of Broken Hill, New South Wales. This series was remade by the Creator/SevenNetwork in 2021 as ''Series/{{RFDS|2021}}''.
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The series had a short-lived SpinOff titled ''R.''[[Series/RFDS1993 R.F.D.S.'', ]]'', set out of Broken Hill, New South Wales. This series was remade by the Creator/SevenNetwork in 2021 as ''Series/{{RFDS|2021}}''.
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The series had a short-lived SpinOff titled ''R.F.D.S.'', set out of Broken Hill, New South Wales. This series was remade by the Creator/SevenNetwork in 2021 as ''Series/{{RFDS|2021}}''.
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* TragicBigot: One episode has a WW2 veteran rallying a campaign to prevent a Japanese business venture from setting up shop in the area, which is eventually revealed to be because he hates the Japanese for his brother's brutal death in the war. Never mind that the businessmen in question were born decades after the war, it's a grudge he simply can't give up, and it's not resolved at the end of the episode, the business venture is simply forced to cancel its plans as they had no interest in trying to purchase land in a hostile area.
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* TragicBigot: One episode has a WW2 [=WW2=] veteran rallying a campaign to prevent a Japanese business venture from setting up shop in the area, which is eventually revealed to be because he hates the Japanese for his brother's brutal death in the war. Never mind that the businessmen in question were born decades after the war, it's a grudge he simply can't give up, and it's not resolved at the end of the episode, the business venture is simply forced to cancel its plans as they had no interest in trying to purchase land in a hostile area.
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* CharacterDeath: David Gibson, the base's main pilot, is killed after a crash in the final episode of the first season.
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* CharacterDeath: CharacterDeath:
** David Gibson, the base's main pilot, is killed after a crash in the final episode of the firstseason.season.
** Dr. David Ratcliffe dies in a climbing accident while attempting to rescue another person who fell. This was just after the character had quit working at the clinic to pursue other goals in life.
** David Gibson, the base's main pilot, is killed after a crash in the final episode of the first
** Dr. David Ratcliffe dies in a climbing accident while attempting to rescue another person who fell. This was just after the character had quit working at the clinic to pursue other goals in life.
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* FishOutOfWater: Several of the doctors, including Tom and Chris
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* FishOutOfWater: Several Most of the doctors, including Tom and ChrisChris. The only one who actually came from Cooper's Crossing before leaving for medical school was Rosie Lang.
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* CharacterDeath: David Gibson, the base's main pilot, is killed after a crash in the final episode of the first season.
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* KilledOffForReal: David Gibson, the base's main pilot, is killed after a crash in the final episode of the first season.
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* KilledOffForReal: David Gibson, the base's main pilot, is killed after a crash in the final episode of the first season.
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* WelcomeEpisode: The miniseries for Tom, "Will to Survive" for Chris.
* WrenchWench: Emma Plimpton, the base's mechanic.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: "Return of the Hero", in which a decorated war hero returns to town and ostracised when it's revealed that he's dying of AIDS.
* WelcomeEpisode: The miniseries for Tom, "Will to Survive" forChris.
Chris. To a lesser extent, "Return of the Hero" for Geoff.
* WrenchWench: Emma Plimpton, who becomes thebase's local mechanic.
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* AnArmAndALeg: On Liz's first solo assignment, she's forced to amputate a patient's leg to save him when the weather makes airlifting him to hospital too dangerous. It leads to some trouble when the pilot claims that he would have taken the risk of he had known that there was a possibility of amputation.
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* AnArmAndALeg: On Liz's first solo assignment, she's forced to amputate a patient's leg to save him when the weather makes airlifting him to hospital too dangerous. It leads to some trouble when the pilot claims that he would have taken the risk of if he had known that there was a possibility of amputation.
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* DisposableFiance: Liz Drever, Tom's love interest in the miniseries, who leaves him for New York before the series because of the lack of opportunities in Cooper's Crossing.
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* DisposableFiance: Liz Drever, Tom's love interest in the miniseries, who leaves him for New York before by the series end because of the lack of opportunities in Cooper's Crossing.Crossing.
* FishOutOfWater: Several of the doctors, including Tom and Chris
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* QuicklyDemotedLeader: Dr. Harry Sinclair is in charge of the basebase in the miniseries, but is due for retirement and wants Tom to take his place.
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* BoomerangBigot: Violet Carnegie is one of the most outspoken critics of having a female doctor in town.
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* AnArmAndALeg: On Liz's first solo assignment, she's forced to amputate a patient's leg to save him when the weather makes airlifting him to hospital too dangerous. It leads to some trouble when the pilot claims that he would have taken the risk of he had known that there was a possibility of amputation.
* BoomerangBigot: Violet Carnegie is one of the most outspoken critics of having a female flying doctor intown.town.
* DisposableFiance: Liz Drever, Tom's love interest in the miniseries, who leaves him for New York before the series because of the lack of opportunities in Cooper's Crossing.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Chris is hit with this after the Jim Spencer amputation, to the point that a woman almost refuses to let her perform a tracheotomy on her daughter.
* BoomerangBigot: Violet Carnegie is one of the most outspoken critics of having a female flying doctor in
* DisposableFiance: Liz Drever, Tom's love interest in the miniseries, who leaves him for New York before the series because of the lack of opportunities in Cooper's Crossing.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Chris is hit with this after the Jim Spencer amputation, to the point that a woman almost refuses to let her perform a tracheotomy on her daughter.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan (Andrew [=McFarlane=]) of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan (Andrew [=McFarlane=]) of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan (Andrew [=McFarlane=] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan (Andrew [=McFarlane=] [=McFarlane=]) of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan (Andrew [=McFarlane=] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
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''The Flying Doctors'' was an Australian MedicalDrama series, produced by Crawford Productions for the Creator/NineNetwork. The series began in 1985 with a three-part miniseries, which revolved around Doctor Tom Callaghan of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service]] and his arrival at the base in Cooper's Crossing. The miniseries also introduced Nurse Kate Wellings (Lenore Smith), who remained for the rest of the series. The regular series began in May 1986, introducing Tom's assistant Dr. Chris Randall (Liz Burch), as well as pilot David Gibson (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), mechanic Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney) and local police Sergeant Jack Carruthers (Terry Gill) and pu.
[=McFarlane=] left midway through the first season, though he would return later. His replacement, Dr. Geoff Standish (Robert Grubb), remained for the rest of the series (over 200 episodes).
!! ''The Flying Doctors'' provides examples of:
* BoomerangBigot: Violet Carnegie is one of the most outspoken critics of having a female doctor in town.
* MyLocal: The Majestic hotel, run by Vic and Nancy Buckley.
* {{Retool}}: Something between this and a SpinOff or SequelSeries, ''R.F.D.S.'' in 1993, set in Broken Hill and with only two returning characters (neither of them medical personnel). It lasted 13 episodes.
* StayInTheKitchen: Chris gets a bit of this upon her arrival, to a perhaps uncommon degree for 1980s Australia though not so much for an isolated outback town.
* TragicBigot: One episode has a WW2 veteran rallying a campaign to prevent a Japanese business venture from setting up shop in the area, which is eventually revealed to be because he hates the Japanese for his brother's brutal death in the war. Never mind that the businessmen in question were born decades after the war, it's a grudge he simply can't give up, and it's not resolved at the end of the episode, the business venture is simply forced to cancel its plans as they had no interest in trying to purchase land in a hostile area.
* WelcomeEpisode: The miniseries for Tom, "Will to Survive" for Chris.
* WrenchWench: Emma Plimpton, the base's mechanic.
[=McFarlane=] left midway through the first season, though he would return later. His replacement, Dr. Geoff Standish (Robert Grubb), remained for the rest of the series (over 200 episodes).
!! ''The Flying Doctors'' provides examples of:
* BoomerangBigot: Violet Carnegie is one of the most outspoken critics of having a female doctor in town.
* MyLocal: The Majestic hotel, run by Vic and Nancy Buckley.
* {{Retool}}: Something between this and a SpinOff or SequelSeries, ''R.F.D.S.'' in 1993, set in Broken Hill and with only two returning characters (neither of them medical personnel). It lasted 13 episodes.
* StayInTheKitchen: Chris gets a bit of this upon her arrival, to a perhaps uncommon degree for 1980s Australia though not so much for an isolated outback town.
* TragicBigot: One episode has a WW2 veteran rallying a campaign to prevent a Japanese business venture from setting up shop in the area, which is eventually revealed to be because he hates the Japanese for his brother's brutal death in the war. Never mind that the businessmen in question were born decades after the war, it's a grudge he simply can't give up, and it's not resolved at the end of the episode, the business venture is simply forced to cancel its plans as they had no interest in trying to purchase land in a hostile area.
* WelcomeEpisode: The miniseries for Tom, "Will to Survive" for Chris.
* WrenchWench: Emma Plimpton, the base's mechanic.
