Will to survive An
introduction to the show. It's Tom's birthday. The new
doctor, Chris Randall, arrives. Later she is forced to
amputate Jim Spencer's leg, to save his life.
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Trial by gossip
Everybody is mad at Chris for amputating Jim Spencer's
leg. Tom defends her. George Baxter and Jim Spencer
threatens to sue Chris and the hospital. Chris discovers
a girl with croup but the mother doesn't allow an
operation because of the rumours Baxter's been spreading.
Tom makes Baxter say he has been wrong. Chris saves the
little girl. |
Hot enough for you
The Robertson family comes to town, looking for work. On
their way to a farm they get lost. The man goes to look
for help, but it's extremly hot, he gets dehydrated and
collapses. At the car the two boys wander off into the
bush. The man is found and a search starts for the rest
of the family. They find the car with the woman and a
baby, but not the boys. Chris and George Baxter find
them - a little too late. One of the boys died in the
heat. |
Dreams of sand An old
man called Rabbit is admitted to the hospital. Chris
wants him to go to a nursing home for treatment, but
Rabbit doesn't want to. He knows he won't live much
longer and want to spend that time in freedom, which
Chris finally understands. Hurtle is back from the coast,
but he'll sell the garage, he has met a woman. She comes
to visit him and tells him she doesn't want to get
involved with him, which means he'll stay in Coopers
Crossing after all. Hurtle is bitten by a snake but
saved by Ron. Sharon and Gibbo see each other a lot
which makes Vic upset. He thinks Gibbo tries to take
advantage of Sharon.
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Public property Bruce
comes to Coopers Crossing to get married. He has never
met the bride to be, they have only written letters.
When Joylene arrives it turns out that she is pregnant.
Bruce (and everybody else) get really upset, and Bruce
says he doesn't want to marry her anymore. Tom feels
sorry for Joylene, who really wanted to marry Bruce, so
he lets her stay at his place. Finally Bruce's brother
proposes to Joylene and they get married. When she's
having the baby, they call him Bruce, which makes the "old"
Bruce pretty happy.
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Is nothing sacred A
lady called Debbie Wilson shows up in town to fight for
the aborigines. She wants to find sacred places and make
sure that the aboriginals have access to these places.
Many of the people in Coopers Crossing get upset, and
when Tom invites Debbie to dinner they think things have
gone too far. A man called Don Shepard knows about
sacred places, but he won't tell Debbie. He doesn't tell
because one of the sacred places is situated on George
Baxter's land, and Baxter is paying Don not to tell
anyone. But after a while Don takes Debbie to the spot,
and it turns out everything is a fake. Don painted the
false picture and the "sacred" place himself to get
payed from Baxter. Debbie leaves Coopers Crossing and
everything is back to normal again.
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Square pegs Andrew
Cameron is a farmer and very successful in everything he
does. He demands his son, Matt, to be just as successful
as he is, which of course is impossible. Finally Matt
breaks into the Nomad and steels some drugs and tries to
kill himself. He is rescued by the RFDS. Tom finds an
old woman, Ruth Pitt, in a tent outside town, where she
lives with her retarded son Hugh. Ruth has a bad heart,
and she dies, so they have to send Hugh to a home. It is
a bit sad, as everybody liked him so much.
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Sins of the father
Prue is pregnant and staying at a couple she says is her
aunt and ucle. She delivers the baby but it requires
help from the RFDS as the baby is in a wrong position.
Prue doesn't want to look at her child at all, and it
turns out the couple isn't related to her. They just
want to buy her baby! But Prue changes her mind and
wants to keep her child. Hurtle and Ron are babysitting,
when some gunpowder blows up in Ron's face. He will be
ok but has to go to Sydney for treatment.
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Rally to the cause An
international rally comes to Coopers Crossing which
makes everyone excited. A driver called Sandra spends a
lot of time with Gibbo and Chris has dinner with a
french driver. This makes Tom jealous, but when he finds
out nothing happened he and Chris kiss! Emma Plimpton
arrives in Coopers Crossing, she Hurtle's niece and a
trained mechanic.
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Talk of the town Emma
is upset with Hurtle, the garage's economy is a mess,
Hurtle never demands people to pay their bills which
makes it impossible for him to pay his! So Emma has to
do his dirty work. Violet finds out she has got
diabetes, but doesn't take care of it and collapses.
Finally Tom makes her realize she can live a great life,
even though she's a diabetic.
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Do you read me One of
Sharon's friends is going out with a boy named Max, and
she goes to Chris to get the pill. Linda gets the
prescription at the farmacy, but Violet sees her, and
soon everybody knows about it. Linda's mother is more or
less seing George Baxter, and he gets really upset! He
talks to Frank, Tom and Chris, and threatens to sue
Chris for doing this. Linda suspects that she's already
pregnant and she and Max run off. They're involved in a
car-accident, and Linda looses her baby.
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E.T. - New girl in town
Tom and Gibbo have to land in the
middle of nowhere after a clinic run. They go to an old
cabin where they find a man and his dying mother. They
also find the man's daugther Amanda who has lived there
isolated for her whole life. When the old lady dies Tom
promises to bring Amanda to town, but this upsets the
man. He later comes to town to persuade Amanda to come
back. She refuses and he kills himself.
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A choice of enemies
RFDS gets an emergency call from Adrian Bailey, son of
the wealthy Rex Bailey, who is out cycling in the bush.
Everybody says he shouldn't go on, he doen't know
anything about the bush. But he ignores them. After a
while they get another call from him, but at the same
time there's an emergency call - a 7-year old boy with
50% burns. Tom chooses to go to the boy first, but when
they come to Adrian he's dead! A very rude reporter is
there, and he makes it sound as it was all Tom's fault
Adrian died. Rex arrives in town and after reading the
papers he also blames Tom. But Sharon talks to him, and
he understands it wasn't Tom's fault.
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Departures Sharon
tells everybody that she is moving to Sydney to study.
She's going to be a socialworker. Everybody at the base
is happy for her but Gibbo is a bit upset about Sharon
did not tell him she applied. Nancy is sad about Sharon
leaving, but Vic's really angry. He and Sharon fight
about it, but Sharon does go, eventually. There's a man,
Jim Dawson, who is going crazy at a pub after drinking
very much, where he also gets serious cuts to his face.
He just rides off, and when Tom and Jack arrive, they go
after him. Jim is in a really bad shape so they bring
him home to his wife. This has happened a lot of times
before, but now he really want to change things. His
wife, Peg doesn't believe him, and she leaves him.
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A lost generation
Gibbo, Ron and Emma meet a woman named Clare Dobson on
the road where her car broke down. Gibbo gives her a
ride back to town and Ron promises to fix her car. It's
obvious that they are competing over her. Nancy is
helping out on the base after Sharon left. Joe offered
her the job, which makes Tom and Chris a bit upset. The
war-memorial is coming up, and everybody is excited.
Everybody except Chris. She thinks it's horrible to
celebrate war, and she's arguing about it at the base.
This really upsets Joe, and Chris finds out that he
experienced some terrible things when he was in Vietnam.
Later it turns out that Clare Dobson was Violet's
granddaughter, which of course makes Violet very happy!
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Someone Special ( Dr. Tom Callaghan leaves )
Tom sees some horrible
pictures of starving kids in Africa and starts thinking
of going there to help. Chris thinks they're about to
get married and tells Violet - which means the whole
town knows. But Tom tells Chris he's made up his mind,
he'll go to Africa. The talk in the town just says Tom
will leave the outback and everybody thinks he'll go
into town to start his own clinic. This hurts Tom a lot,
but when he tells the truth, everybody apologizes. But
the whole town, especially Chris, is sad when he leaves.
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Return of the hero ( Dr. Geoff Standisch arrives in
Coopers Crossing )
The new doctor, Geoff Standish arrives, a really
bragging city doctor. He gets drunk one night, when he
was on call, which upsets Chris terribly. Geoff tells
her he came to the outback because his wife died of
cancer. He was to busy working and didn't notice until
it was too late, and he blames himself for her death.
They meet a man called Les Foster, who is gay, and has
found out he has got aids. The disease gets worse and he
finally dies. |
Eye of the beholder
Kate is at George Baxter's place giving vaccin-shots.
They run into bad weather during a ride and go to a shed.
George is hit by lightning, and has a seizure. It turns
out he might have epilepcy. Violet is organizing the
Miss Coopers Crossing contest, and manages to talk Emma
into entering. She wins over a stroppy girl called
Melissa Cumberland-Brown.
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Like a death in the family
A family, the Morgans, has to sell
their property, and George Baxter buys it for his
company. This makes the Morgans pretty mad. Nancy has
done some tests with Geoff and the results show some
cellular changes in her utures, it's cancer. They have
operate. After the operation it shows that the cancer
has spread and they have to perform a hystorectomy (to
remove the whole utures), but Nancy refuses. She and Vic
argue a lot about it, and this makes Sharon returns from
Sydney for a while. But she can't make Vic understand
why Nancy refuses to have the operation. Sharon talks to
Geoff and Chris to get some advice. Finally she makes
Vic understand and he talks to Nancy. She decides to
have the operation, and it's a success, they managed to
get rid of the whole cancer!
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Million-acre prison
The base gets a call, a boy got shot and Chris flies
out. She does her best, but the boy dies. The weather is
really bad, so they can't fly the body back to town.
Jack and dr. Turner agree that Chris should do the
autopsy at the spot. She feels bad about it, but does it
anyway. Geoff gets a telegram, a job-offer from Sydney,
and Violet discovers this as well. Which means the whole
town knows pretty soon. Kate is really upset about Geoff
leaving, and so is the rest of the town. Finally Geoff
decides to stay.
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Fearless Frank Gibbo
demands vacation, and the only release-pilot is an old
man called Frank Watson, known as Fearless Frank. He is
a very good pilot but sometimes he takes risks. He
really likes a woman called Val. She called the RFDS,
but she's a hypochondric, so Chris doesn't want to go.
Frank went on his own but after picking Val up he got a
stomach-ache and has to make an emergency landing on the
road. This means Gibbo won't get his vacation after all
... Frank ends up in hospital but discharges himself and
goes flying. As he is sick he doesn't have the
permission to fly. When he lands he claims this was his
last flight, he'll start working for Val!
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Forgiveness Kate and
George Baxter are together, but Kate finds out George
also has a relation with another woman, so she breaks up
with him again. Meanwhile a young woman called Sarah is
very scared to be alone in her house, while her husband
is gone. She thinks someone is sneeking around the house
and she is right!
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Acceptance The
Cochrane-brothers come to town. They end up in hospital
after they've been in an accident with explosives -
looking for gold! Josie Rattan has a caraccident, but
says she's ok. When Geoff finds her unconscious he does
some tests, she has got a braintumor. She knows she'll
die but don't want to spend her last days in hospital.
She finally convinces Geoff to let her go!
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The show goes on A
theatre group comes to town, but their director and
head-actor, Rick, breaks his leg. In hospital Chris
discovers he has got a disease that needs treatment in
Sydney but he won't go. Their manager runs with all
their money, but the town helps them out. Joe gets a
part instead of the one Rick should have and is a real
success. He is offered to go with the group but refuses.
Rick decides to go to Sydney after all.
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To the rescue Two
thieves are troubling everyone, they want pills and
medicins to sell to schoolkids. They hassle both Kate
and Jack. But one of them is injured and is nearly
killed! Chris saves him. Violet organizes the Queen of
the Outback contest in Windoona, but everything goes
wrong. Violet and Emma are arguing about clothes and
Emma says she quits. Chris manages to make a compromise.
Then it turns out the decoration is wrong, and the band
doesn't play the right music. And Violet blames Chris
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Into the future ( Gibbo has to leave us, Sam is coming )
The Queen of the Outback
competition is held in Windoona and Emma wins! On the
way back Gibbo has to fly, even though he is on vacation
because the other pilot was drunk. The engines catches
fire, and he has to do an emergency landing. Everything
seems to be all right, but Gibbo is seriously ill. He
has to fly to Broken Hill but on the way he dies. George
Baxter is elected new M.P of the district.
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Windows of the soul
David is getting a man to hospital who has hurt his head.
David finds out he's been in Vietnam but he doesn't want
to talk about it. But he does have a heart condition and
needs a by-pass operation in Sydney. He refuses to go,
he reckons he has got nothing to live for. He runs away
from the hospital but then his daughter from Vietnam
shows up. Apparantly he had no knowledge of her. She and
David go looking for her father and finally they manage
to locate him. After lots of dramas the man ends up in
hospital, and when he sees he has a daughter who cares
about him he decides to go through with the operation
and he and his daughter leave for Sydney together.
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Saison 2 Ep. 27 / 50 |
Good day for it Sam
and Kate are worrying about a woman named Sal Cleary,
she acts a bit odd. They check it out and it turns out
her daughter Julie is pregnant. She isn't married but
still wants to keep the baby. The family wanted to
pretend the baby was Sal's, so both she and Julie has to
stay out of sight until the baby is born. At the birth
there are some complications but everything goes well
eventually and Geoff, Kate and Sam make everybody think
it was Sal's child. There is a political election
between George Baxter and a man named Rob Dalton. George
wins. |
Horses for courses A
man called Jim has a car-accident and goes to hospital.
His wife, Carol, is acting a bit strange about it. Chris
finds out she's dyslectic, but she refuses to admit it.
Later her son drinks some medicine, she can't read the
bottle and so everybody finds out over the radio she
can't read and write. Sam buys a horse from Carol, who
is an extremely good rider, and Sam and Kate are
practicing together for the big rodeo. Carol doesn't
want to ride in the rodeo, she feels embarresed, but she
turns up anyway. There's a beer-strike and Hurtle makes
some own beer. But suddenly the whole town starts acting
really strange. Geoff finds out Hurtle has mixed the
alcohol with caffeine, which causes personality changes!
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The unluckiest boy in town
A woman named Barbara Freeman finds
out she's got a braindisease. It's hereditary, but her
husband Robert won't tell their son Michael, he doesn't
want him to worry. But Michael hears it anyway, and
steals Baxter's airplane. DJ wants to start a disco to
get the youngsters calm, they have caused a lot of
trouble. Jack gives him permission to build a gym.
Jack's boss Kevin has heard complaints about the
youngsters and shows up. He decides to transfer Jack,
but when he sees how Jack talked Michael down from the
plane he changes his mind. Finally DJ gets his disco and
celebrates with a huge party!
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It isn't cricket A
rich man called Nigel turns up in town. Due to an
accident he ends up in hospital. He has got one glass
eye, and a melanoma in the other one. He refuses an
operation since that would make him completely blind and
doesn't care what the others say. Finally Kate and a
blind lady convince him to have the operation. There's a
cricket game between the Crossing and Windoona and Nigel
manages to get a top national player to play for Coopers
Crossing. Sam plays for Windoona, and finally it's him
versus Emma - Emma wins and so does the Crossing!!
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An only child Jan,
Phil and Zoe Buchanon come to the Crossing to write some
articles and take some pictures. Both Jan and Phil fall
down a cliff, which makes little Zoe an orphan. She
moves in with Chris. Sam can't stay at the pub, the RFDS
can't afford paying the bill anymore, they can only pay
60 dollars a week. Sam moves in with Violet, but then it
turns out Vic and Nancy would have let Sam stay at the
pub for those 60 dollars. This causes a huge fight
between Violet and Nancy! Sam is waiting to see if he
will get his permenancy as a pilot of the RFDS,but when
the letter comes it turns out he got another six months
probation. |
A love story Susan is
pregnant. When her father and brother find out, they put
a lot of pressure on her boyfriend Greg to marry her.
Susan has a miscarriage and then her family thinks
marriage is not necessary anymore. Geoff and Kate help
Greg out. Chris and father Jacko wonder what has to
happen with Zoë.
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Keeping up appearances
Elaine Dermody is treated by Chris
for some bruises which she says are caused by a fall.
Chris doesn't believe her story. Hurtle finds a new way
of earning money: he sells survial kits for in the
desert. Together with DJ he makes a video.
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All things bright and beautiful
A patient is brought in by Geoff.
Everyone is dazzled, but Geoff is still doubting. Father
Jacko has raised money for new choir books. When he is
on a holiday, a rough motor rider is seen with Jacko's
bag. Jacko as well as a kangaroo are shot.
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My name is sky A
group of hippies comes to Coopers Crossing. They sell
things and offer massages to bring people closer
together. One of the group steels from the garage. Geoff
is allowed to go to a meeting in Sydney. Everything
seems to have change there. Sky helps Chris with a
patient. |
Bachelors & spinsters
There is a bachelor party in Broken
Hill and because of it DJ has a couple of days off.
Baxter has arranged his replacement, Barry Saunders.
Barry is very strict by the book. When Glen tries to
reach Chris with a fake emergency, Barry thinks he'll be
blamed for it. Then it turns out there is really
something wrong with Glen and Barry freaks out. Geoff
asks Kate to save to last dance for him.
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Fifty-two hours straight
Pharlap and Carbine burn a car to
get some money from the insurance company. Sam, Emma and
Geoff are on their way home and Sam thinks an actual
accident has happened. Sam gets hurt because of an
explosion. The only thing Emma and Geoff can do is to
take care of light and warmth.
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A friend of a friend
Dougie gives a stranger a lift. The man talks on and on
about his direct contact with God and Dougie introduces
him to Jacko. Chris diagnoses the man with schizofrenia.
Sam and Emma visit Sam's parents.
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Friends & lovers
Chris and Zoë go to Broken Hill to meet Zoë's father and
to take a patient to the hospital. Sam has bought a ring
for Emma which she keeps in her save. Because of the
anual eel catching event, Emma's ex-boyfriend is in
Coopers Crossing as well. Geoff tries to catch an eel
for Kate. |
Realms of gold An old
man is found in the desert; he is hurt and not to be
saved. He leaves a piece of paper. It is a map of an
area where gold might be found. Soon whole of Coopers
Crossing is caught by goldfever.
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The hometown hero
While Sam is on his way home, he picks up an emergency
call of another plane. The pilot is unwell and his
brother can't fly. Sam talks him down safely. Kate and
Geoff share their first kiss.
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A distant echo Violet
finds out that her great grandfather was responsible for
killing many aboriginals. She is very upset and wants to
die. Dougie has appendicitis and helps Violet accept
things the way they are. Geoff and Kate ignore each
other and fight again because Geoff mentions Kate's
relationship with Baxter.
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No laughing matter
Mum Cochrane is reported missing. When she is found it
turns out she hasn't got long to live anymore. Her two
sons, Pharlap and Carbine, are getting their "pocket
money" because of Geoff. They waste the money until Jack
locks them in. Mum is taken to a nursing home in
Melbourne en is still quite capable of giving orders.
Emma and Sam get engaged.
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No quarter asked
Jessie Logan returns to the Crossing after having
wandered around the world for five years. Especially
Kate is very glad. Jessie has MS. George Baxter is
working against her plans and this gives her new
strenght. All her friends help out to fix her little
house while she's in hospital.
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Myths & legends
Stories are told about Hughie, a man who lives in the
outback for years. A journalist tries to prove that the
man doens't exist, but a boy claims to be Hughie's
grandson and wants to prove the opposite. Chris has to
go on holiday. |
The hitch-hiker A
hitch hiker runs away for her boyfriend Bruce. When it
turns out that even in the hospital she isn't save,
Geoff takes her to his own house. His distance to
patients he likes to keep, seems to have vanished. Kate
is jealous and the whole village questions Geoff's act.
Bruce finds them and wants to revenge on Geoff.
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Give a dog a bad name
Everyone thinks an older couple is
murdered, because there is no other explanation for
their death. The most important suspects are three men
who have just arrived with a fun fair. But Jack
discovers something else. Chris' father interferes with
her work all the time and this annoys Chris a lot.
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Every day a gift
Chris' father's girlfriend comes to Coopers Crossing.
Noel Farley has to sell his farm to afford a journey to
Venice for his sick daughter. Maureen makes sure that
Baxter has to pay the full price for it. Noel is now
able to send his daughter to an expensive clinic. DJ
organizes a lottery to raise some money for the journey
to Venice. |
Bearing gifts DJ's
friends open a restauarant in Coopers Crossing. When one
of the guests gets a food poisoning, the restaurant is
blamed. Emma goes to Sydney to buy a wedding dress and
to pick up Violet. Violet is arrested because she has
some drugs with her. She helps the police to find the
person who is really responsible for it.
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Repeat performance ( Wedding Sam & Emma )
Preparations for the bicentenial
are in full swing, just as preparations for Sam and
Emma's wedding. Chris gets stuck somewhere with a sick
girl because of bad weather conditions. The only
transport she can get is a donkey. Sam, Kate and Geoff
are just on time for the ceremony and Kate catches the
wedding bouquet.
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Saison 3 Ep. 51 / 76 |
The noble art Some
boxers come to Coopers Crossing. Johnny Lawrence is one
of them. He was the champion some years ago and is very
much set to a come-back. He develops some kind of crush
on Kate. During a fight, Johnny loses consiousness. It
is discovered that he has problems with his heart and he
may never box again. At first he is very angry about it,
but later on he decides to buy a farm and become a
farmer. He asks Kate to go with him, but she refuses.
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Sapphire Sapphire is
a woman who is married and lives with her husband and
his sister. Her husband is a lot older than her and
everyone thinks Sapphire is after his money. Meanwhile
the sister is poisoning her brother but has convinced
the farm hand that Sapphire is doing it.
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Cries from the heart
A man and his 8yr old daughter Tracy are in a car crash
and Tracy wanders off. A woman reports to Jack that she
has met the girl but Jack doesn't believe her as there
is no evidence of a child having been in the car, and
the woman has been reporting for years a child is crying
in the bush as her own 8yr old daughter Laura died. When
Tracy's father regains conciousness and asks for Tracy,
Jack is distraught as he blames himself for Laura's
death. Chris comforts Jack and later the girl is found
alive. |
All in a day's work
It's inspection time at the base and the inspector hasn'
t arrived. The team is busy flying around the district
and are unable to make the clinic run. Guess who's at
the clinic run? The inspector. Eventually she arrives at
the base by the mail plane but when she is talking to
Geoff he falls asleep. Jack falls in love with Chris.
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Out of a clear blue sky
arty the mechanic arrives and
causes problems for DJ at the disco, while Jack is out
of town sorting out his divorce in the hope that Chris
and he will get together.
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Affirmative action
ecause of the doctor's service, a tennis match is
organised at the farm of the Greenways. Meg, the
daughter, trains secretely for a camel race of 3000 km.
When her father finds out, he refuses all financial
support. Sam and Emma convince George Baxter to support
Meg. |
Figures in a landscape
The famous artist Max comes with
his agent Charles to Coopers Crossing. To make a profit,
they pretend that Max died, but then it turns out,
Charles won't share the money. Geoff's former girlfriend
visits Coopers Crossing. She tries to let GG fall for
her again. Kate and Chris would like to know what the
other "G" stands for (maybe Grumpy?).
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The devil you know
Kimberley White, a representative of a firm which has
stocks in the Baxter company, comes by for an inspection.
She is very stressed out and lives on pills. Chris gives
her inspiration to overrule her boss.
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Operating solo A
doctor in science comes to the Crossing. He falls in
love with Chris. He is seriously injured by an explosion
and Chris is the only one available to operate on him!
Geoff hurts his knee and is sent to Broken Hill. Kate
goes there with him (against her will because "doctors
are the worst patients"). Geoff and Kate have to stay in
a motelroom and they kiss, but that's it!
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The path of true love
A group of people falls in a river.
Connie is seriously injured and keeps asking for her
husband Robert. The other members of the group don't
believe he exists and they are getting tired of her. But
Geoff finds the man.
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The kid Andy arrives
with his dog in Coopers Crossing to join a match for
dogs. He fights with another boy, gets injured and has
to go to hospital. There they find out that Andy has got
a tumor. |
The first step A
woman who has got a seizure, blaims all of this on her
baby. Her husband can't cope anymore. Chris tries, with
all the other Coopers Crossing's residents, all sorts of
therapy, but nothing seems to work. But then Sam takes
her to the horses.
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Hopscotch Mimmi, her
husband and two daughters arrive in Coopers Crossing.
Mimmi is already giving birth when she arrives in
hospital. Kate takes the two daughters to violet, who
takes them to Sam and Emma. Then the husband disappears
and a day later they have all disappeared.
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Jacks high Because of
a fire at the Baxter's place, Jack has to kill all the
sheep. When he gets a lift back to the plane, his gun
goes off and Jack is seriously injured. Marty and Dougie
organise a riding casino for sheep sheerers.
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Clapped out Violet
doubts about leaving. Nancy gets Maggie Hutton to take
over Violet's shop. They organise a diner to thank
Violet. Chris spends a lot of time with Mike and because
of it, Kate feels not at ease. She is scared she has to
move again. |
Private lives, public faces
A new cop Larry O'Connor and his
dog Rebel arrive in town and he is eager to make an
impression. He starts out by arresting the youths who
broke into Baxter's office. DJ is panicking as the boys
go to the disco he runs. Mike tells Chris he is married,
but that he loves her. Violet's grand-daughter arrives
and takes Violet to England.
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Wedlock A boy finds
out his mother is having an affair with another
landowner. The boy falls off his horse and complains of
pain in his legs. Chris can't find anything wrong with
the boy and suggests he go home. He hears his parents
talking about a divorce and falls ill again. Sam and
Chris devise a way to find out if he is faking or not.
Marty is forever talking about leaving for Surfer's
Paradise so DJ, Constable O'Connor and Sam set up the
Surfer's |
The wrangler's daughter
A wrangler and his mental impaired
daughter are camping out in the bush. The wrangler's
boss Richard Sawyer frightens the girl who runs away,
and when her father goes looking for her he is bitten by
a snake. The locals start a search in the bush and
Constable O'Connor impresses the town by finding the
girl. |
Borrowed time A crop
duster friend of Sam's named Bob works for Baxter but he
has turned into a enviromentalist and sprays water and
milk over the crops. Baxter is not impressed and wants
Constable O'Connor to arrest him. Bob tells Sam about
his 8yr old son being killed when he sprayed himself
with chemical from a tank. Bob decides to make a
statement by threatening to empty chemicals into
Canberra's water supply. Bob gets killed and Sam finds
out there were no chemicals aboard his plane.
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The forbidden A land
inspector visits and falls down a cave after being
warned by an aboriginal spirit to stay away. He is
rescued but is very ill. Geoff asks Dougie for help in
getting the curse removed. The man recovers but his
tests show he has a disease caused by bat droppings.
Mike visits Chris and brings his two daughters with him.
The whole town starts talking about Chris, so Mike
leaves but states he will be back. Sam's sister, Paula,
also comes to the Crossing, she got a job as
radiographer at the hospital.
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She'll be right
Hurtle returns to the crossing driving a Rolls Royce,
which is stolen, but he doesn't know. Constable O'Connor
is advised to look out for the stolen car, so Hurtle and
Vic hide it. Jack returns and he finds out Hurtle and
Vic are up to no good. Mike tells Chris he has asked his
wife for a divorce, but receives a call saying his wife
has taken the children back to France. He asks Chris to
go with him but she refuses. Mike leaves, and Chris
cries on Jack's shoulder.
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One final request An
old lady is dying. Geoff and Kate keep her company, as
she won't leave her house. She tells Geoff and Kate not
to hesitate to say that they are in love with each
other. Hurtle and Vic must appear to court because they
owned a stolen car.
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Roxanne Emma is going
out to fix a tractor, despite Sam's and Paula's
protests. On the road she sees a car in trouble. Inside
she finds Roxanne and Kenny, both on the run from the
police after a robbery. Kenny has been shot and is in a
dreadful state. Roxanne forces Emma, under gunpoint, to
ditch their car, and drive them to an abandonned shed in
the bush. Late at night Kenny gets worse, so Emma and
Roxanne go into town and get Chris. Sam has already
reported Emma missing, but no one misses Chris until the
following morning. A search is organised and finally
they find Chris and Emma, who has been under a lot of
strain, since Roxanne has been taking amfetamines.
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Don't tell anybody A
school picnic is held at a property belonging to a man
named Rodney. He claims a ghost lives there too, called
Mick. Geoff and Kate are there, to teach the kids first
aid. Later on the town people gather out there, except
for Maggie, Emma, Chris and Lucy, who look after the
pub. Geoff and Sam are called out on an emergency, but
get terribly frightened by a dog! They swear, however,
not to tell anybody. At night three nasty men arrive at
the pub, which scares the women a bit. On the property
Marty decides that he's going to sleep in Mick's room,
to see if he is real. Paula scares him during the night,
pretending to be a ghost. Marty runs away and falls down
a gully! Sam is getting very worried about Emma, he
can't reach her on the phone. He rushes back the
following morning, only to find her and the other women
having a nice breakfast with the nasty blokes from the
previous night. Before Jack leaves Rodney's property, he
actually sees Mick, in whom he had never previously
believed, but when he tells Chris, she just laughs.
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No way back Emma is
visiting a lady called Ann Williams on a farm out of
town. George Baxter wants to buy the property, but Ann
doesn't want to sell it, she has too many memories of
the farm, where she lost her child a few years back.
While Emma is out there, Sam visits, and suddenly Emma
get a horrible stomach pain. She realizes there's
something wrong with the baby, and George Baxter, who is
in the neighbourhood, offers to give her and Sam a lift
to the hospital. When they arrive in Coopers Crossing,
Emma has lost her baby. Emma seems to recover, but an
argument with Sam reveals she's really feeling terrible.
Ann has decided to sell the property and move to the
city. She doesn't want George to get a cheep price so
she organizes an auction. The property is sold ... to
Sam Patterson!! Geoff finally agrees to go flying with
Chris in her Tiger Moth. He is terrifid ... but he
survives! |
Johnnie come home A
man named Harry has inherited a kidney disease from his
father and needs a new kidney. The only one who might be
able to give it to him is his brother Johnnie, but he
disappeared in Vietnam during the war. Harry's father
dies and at the funural his wife Julia sees Johnnie, but
Harry doesn't believe her. When Johnnie ends up in
hospital, it turns out Julia was right, it is Johnnie!
He gives his kidney to Harry!
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Saison 4 Ep. 77 / 100 |
Look, up in the sky
Because of a fundraising, Geoff and Kate join a balloon
race. Geoff is no good at navigating! It turns out the
owner of the balloon is ill. He has to go to hospital.
His wife just left him because he had something going on
with a younger girl, but she returns to him.
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Preacher man A
preacher called Teddy Faithful is coming to town, and it
is said he can perform miracles. At a meeting in the
townhall, when everybody is there, he makes a blind man
see again! Everybody is stunned, but later on it turnes
out that it was all a fake. Brett, the man organizing
all Teddy's activities, had hired the man to make
everything looks good. Teddy fires Brett and will leave
on his own, along with Jenny Rose, a singer who now
follows Teddy around and didn't know anything about
Brett's lies either. Paula thinks she is turning to
religion and wants to follow Teddy, but Sam makes her
see sense. |
The fear - Part I
Kimberly White is coming back to Coopers Crossing, to
check on George Baxter. She brought her son Todd. Chris
meets them at the airport, but Todd isn't very nice.
They make a country drive, and stop in the middle of the
outback to go for a walk. Todd stays by the car, but
suddenly he gets frightened and starts running after
Kimberly and Chris, screaming. He falls and hurts his
leg. When they asked him what scared him, he says it was
a snake. In hospital, Todd gets a bed next to a young
boy named Danny, and they become good friends. Chris is
still worried about Todd, she doesn't believe a snake
scared him, and on a hunch she takes him outside. He
gets completely terrified, and Chris realizes he's got
agrophobia, he's afraid to be outdoors. Paula realises
that Danny has a crush on her and tells him that she is
more of a big sister to him. It helps her to understand
the situation Geoff has been in while she had a crush on
him and she tells him she is over the crush and hopes
they can be friends. Geoff is relieved.
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The fear - Part II
Todd is still in hospital, and getting therapy equipment
organised from all around the district, but he still
can't seem to go out. Kimberly buys him a brand new
motorbike, thinking this will help him overcome his fear,
but it doesn't. Sam and Emma suggest, that Todd could
ride the motorbike at dawn, when nobody is around to see
wether he makes it or not. Todd tries, and it works out
fine. He decides to go on a clinic run with Chris, and
when Sam has let Chris off, he flies Todd to Danny's
property. When they're about to land, Todd gets scared
and tells Sam to abord the landing. Danny is down below,
riding his own motorbike, but he takes a serious fall
and is knocked unconcious. Todd overcomes his fear in
order to save Danny. Kimberly is upset about not being
able to help Todd, so she puts her energy into building
a sports centre in Coopers Crossing. She's annoyed about
it taking so long, and when she and Todd has to leave,
she let's Jack handle the builing of the sports centre.
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Fair go The mailman,
old Frank, is retiring, and he introduces the new
mailman, Nick to everyone in the district. When Nick is
taking over, he charges double Frank's prices, which
makes everyone mad. A lady called Gail Morris wanted to
get a lift with the mailplane to a clinic when she
wasn't feeling good, but changed her mind when she found
out what it would cost. Later on she was found
unconcious, it turned out she was a diabetic. Nick
realizes his mistakes, and lowers the prices. George is
told of Kimberley's donation to Jack for the sports
centre and tries to manipulate Jack and Chris into
spending it on the Baxter Memorial Park. Jack and Chris
investigate and discover that George is under a legal
obligation to refurbish the park and it will cost him a
fortune to do so. He is hoping they will fund it instead
of the sports centre. Jack and Chris make plans but
discover that George has lodged a complaint with the
council about the site. They eventually compromise on
the "Kimberley White Memorial Centre" with a big plaque
proclaiming Baxter's assistance, on the park site.
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Broken airwaves Kate
is sick and tired of being taken for granted. She leaves
for a rodeo, but her car breaks down. Kate mounts her
horse Toby, but he throws Kate off. Kate hurts her neck
and she can't remember anything. In an old shed she
makes radiocontact with the RFDS. D.J. tries to figure
out where she is. Geoff is personally more involved than
he should be as a doctor!
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Bed and board A new
man in town, Ron, offers to work for bed and board at
Sam and Emma's place. They need all the help they can
get, and are greatful. It turns out Ron is the man who
ran out on Maggie, when she was young and pregnant. Ron
wants to make up for it, but Maggie turns him down
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Breaking the drought
There's a bad drought in the neighbourhood, making
everybody in a bad mood. Vic has to go to Broken Hill to
get more beer, but Lucy, who will look after the pub,
falls ill. Marty offers to help, but leaves the pub
unattended. When he comes back, Paula has taken over,
making him a bit upset. They decide to help, but
everything gets out of hand, and the pub is totally
wrecked. Emma is angry with Marty, for helping out at
the pub instead of the garage and he fires him. When Vic
gets back, he doesn't get too upset about the brawl, and
he convinces Emma to give Marty his job back. In the
end, the drought is broken and it starts to rain!
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Family secrets - Part I
Geoff's brother Barry arrives in
town, to everyone's surprise. Geoff never talks about
his family, but Barry seems really nice. Geoff isn't too
happy about seeing his brother and makes him stay in the
pub. Barry helps out with a lot of things, and he also
organizes the building of the sports centre. He has an
intrest in Kate, especially after seeing Geoff is a bit
interested in her, and after the official opening of the
sports centre Kate is upset with Geoff and Barry
comforts her. Marty has found the perfect car for Barry,
"the Beast", and Barry offers to take Marty with him to
Surfer's. Geoff is mad at Barry, and offers to pay him,
if he leaves Coopers Crossing. Barry just laughs at him!
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Family secrets - Part II
Barry tells Kate Geoff has warned
him to get away from her. She gets upset and asks him
out for dinner, which he ofcourse accepts. Vic leaves
Barry his bill, but he doesn't seem to be able to pay.
Vic asks Geoff about it, and Geoff pays up right away.
Barry later on takes Kate on a ride in "the Beast", he
wants to talk about Geoff. When they stop Barry tries to
talk Kate into coming with him to Surfer's. When she
doesn't want to he tries to kiss her. Kate fights him
off, resulting in him driving as a maniac back to town,
scaring Kate to death. Barry talks to Marty, saying he
doesn't want to buy "the Beast" after all, meaning the
garage will be stuck with the car. Geoff finds out, and
buys the car, so Emma won't loose any money on the deal.
Later in the pub, nobody wants to sit with Barry. When
Geoff comes in, Barry starts provoking him. Finally they
both go outside and have a proper fist fight. Afterwards
they go to Geoff's place, but Geoff still forces Barry
to leave first thing the following morning. When he has
left, Geoff starts to talk to Kate. She is really upset,
and says she can't live with a man who never opens up.
Geoff tries to tell Kate about himself, but she's says
she'll be going away to get over him!
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All you need is luck
A new nurse, Penny, arrives as a replacement for Kate.
This upsets Maggie, since she and Penny both are from
Windoona, and Penny might have a few stories to tell
about Maggie. Sam and Emma let Maggie stay with them,
and Maggie tells Emma she had a son when she was very
young. The father was shot, and therefore her son David
was raised as her brother. When David turned 21 Maggie
told him the truth, which made him run away. There's a
big cattle sale going on in the district, and D.J. meets
a friend called Jean, who he only knows from radio
conversations. She has a funny relationship to her
stationhand Russ. She wants to have a baby with him, but
he wants to marry her. They've worked out an agreement,
if she gets pregnant, they will marry. In hospital Russ
finds out he can't have children. He asumes Jean won't
marry him because he can't give her a baby and he leaves.
D.J. and Jean manages to track him down and convince him
to stay with Jean.
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The silly season A
man called Lloyd Somerset is out driving when he picks
up a young man called Jamie. In the evening there's a
terrible storm coming and suddenly Jamie sees some
strange lights in front of the car. Lloyd doesn't say
anything, he hasn't even told Jamie his name. All of a
sudden, the lights appear again and the car is turned
over! Geoff and Sam are on their way home from a clinic
when the storm hits the plane, causing the electricity
to malfunction. The compass is magnetic, and shouldn't
be affected, but it's acting very crazy. Sam manages to
get the plane down and Geoff takes a look at Lloyd in
hospital. He has lost a lot of blood and is unconscious.
Geoff finds out he's got leukaemia. Jamie is released
from hospital and at the pub he tells everyone he saw a
UFO. He calls all the newspapers, who are interested at
first, but later decide not to follow up the story.
Finally Geoff learns the truth about Lloyd. He'd been to
a nuclear testing site where he used to work. He tells
Geoff terrible tests went on, and he has written a book
about it. Therefore he uses an alias, and he is being
followed. He gives the manuscript of the book to Geoff.
Right after Lloyd dies, an investigator from Canberra
arrived. He got all Lloyd's things, apart from the
manuscript, which Geoff posted to the publishers. Geoff
also decides to keep "the Beast".
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Every situation
Baxter has been on a political trip in Canberra, and got
stuck by helping young boys who had no place to stay.
They make life miserable for him, and fool around a lot
on the radio. When Baxter threatens to have them sent
back to Canberra, they cause him to crash with his
plane. They didn't think he'd get hurt, but he did. He
recoveres in hospital. Chris is feeling a bit run down,
but won't admit it to anybody. Finally she agrees to let
Geoff take some tests. Sam's new flying pupil turnes out
to be Maggie's brother. He knows where Maggie's son is,
and even though Maggie pretends not to care, the news
upsets her. |
The storyteller A
storyteller called Tommy Barringa comes to the district
and Jack and Chris go to listen to him. Tommy and a girl
named Lindey love each other but Lindey's father doesn't
like his daughter seeing a black man. The father is
abused, he gets a dislocated shoulder and Dougie says he
did it. Jack doesn't believe him but Dougie insists.
Finally there's a fight between Tommy and the father and
it also turnes out Tommy was responsible for the
dislocation. Tommy ends up in prison where he kills
himself. |
The choice Kate
returns, but she wants to swap jobs with Penny
permanently. Geoff tries to talk to her, begging her to
stay until Chris comes back from Sydney. He won't tell
Kate why Chris went to Sydney, making Kate even more
upset. A plane crashes on Robert Morton's property, with
two young women in. Chris is called back from her trip
to Sydney and she and Geoff go out there. There is
nothing they can do for one of the women, Kerry, but
they can save Sandra. It turned out Kerry and Sandra
were sisters. They both lived with Robert, as he
couldn't choose one of them, he loved them both. It's
sheering time for Sam and Emma, but Sam is occupied with
emergencies, leaving Emma to care for the property.
Maggie helps her out at first, but then leaves her to
figure out the best way of getting the work done. Emma
tries to convince Sam to teach her to fly. Penny says
she doesn't want to swap jobs with Kate, but Kate makes
it clear to Geoff she'll only be staying until Chris
gets back from Sydney.
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A shadow of doubt
Gary Arnold and his daughter Su are forced to land in
Coopers Crossing, Gary collapsed over the controls. In
hospital nobody seems to know what's the matter with him.
Finally Geoff has a hunch, he reckons it could be
typhoid, and it is. Everybody is very upset, and they
make sure to keep a distance to Su. Marty, who has taken
Su under his wings, defends her. Finally it turns out Su
came from a camp in Thailand, where she'd been ever
since her mother died. Gary had tried to get her out of
there, without success, so they had fled Thailand and
entered Australia illegally. Jack worked it out though,
and they can stay.
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Mick and Julia Mick
and Julia come to the Crossing trying to get away from
Julia's daugther, Prue. Everybody likes them, and Mick,
who enjoys running, helps organizing a "Fun Run" - a 20
kilometres marathon, where all the money goes to the
RFDS. After the race Mick is resting in his room. But
when Julia finds him, he is dead. She tries to kill
herself but is saved, and eventually her will to live
returns. |
The deal A woman gets
a really bad asthma attack and thanks to her son she
gets to hospital. The boy makes a deal with God: if God
makes his mum better God can take him instead. Everybody
tries to convince him God doesn't do deals like that,
but the boy doesn't believe them. Finally Father Jacko
succeeds, maybe with some help from above...
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A thing of beauty
Emma's schoolmate Jenny comes to Coopers Crossing to
visit Emma and Sam. She's acting really strange and Emma
convinces her to see Geoff. It turns out she's got
anorexia, but she refuses to admit it. But finally she
realizes it's for the best and goes for treatment. A
mining company suspects there might be some minerals on
Sam and Emma's property and they think about what they
will do with all the money. In the end it turns out
there aren't any minerals worth extracting.
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Cadenza A child
orchestra arrives at Coopers Crossing. The solist,
Andrew, instantly falls in love with Emma. The bus broke
down on the way to Coopers Crossing, that's how they
met. When the orchestra is leaving the bus breaks down
again! Emma has to order parts from Broken Hill. Andrew
hurts his hand really bad and needs immediate surgery,
but it is not sure if he ever will be able to play the
violin again. In hospital he tells Emma he sabotaged the
bus to be able to spend more time with her.
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Mates ( Vic leaves The Crossing )
A ferrier named Luke arrives in
town. Vic need money to help Nancy's sister, who is
seriously ill. Baxter offers to buy the pub, but Vic
turns him down. Vic finally decides he has to sell the
pub, to get the money, even though he won't sell it to
Baxter! Luke is about to leave town, when his car
explodes. He is very seriously hurt, but manages to
recover. All his equipment is destroyed though. He
offers to buy the pub from Vic, who accepts, not knowing
that Luke is a front for George Baxter. Finally it's
Vic's birthday party, he'll be 60, but he leaves pretty
soon ... telling Geoff he'll be back ...
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The child A girl
gives birth to a little baby boy in the Nomad on the way
to hospital. She doesn't want to involve the father who
is a jackaroo who left as soon as he heard he was gonna
be a dad. But the baby's grandfather, the girl's dad, is
convinced the baby is the new Messiah. He interferes a
lot and the mother gets really upset about it. One day
he just wanters off into the bush, and isn't found ...
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Next to go Chris is
going to hospital to have her operation. Jack goes with
her, and her father meets her at the hospital. Before
the operation, she meets a young boy named Jamie, who is
convinced he'll die soon. Chris does everything she can
to convince him otherwise, but it's hopeless. Chris has
her operation, but her father tells Jack that even
though she pull through the operation, there's a 10 days
waiting period before the danger is over. When Chris
comes out from her operation, she learned that Jamie
died during his operation. In Coopers Crossing there is
a Bunyip race going on, to raise funds for the RFDS.
Geoff and Kate find out Chris pulled through the
operation, and tell the others Chris will be fully
recovered. |
Gotta have friends
Geoff gets a new patient, the donkey Druscilla who has
psychological problems. He manages to cure her after a
while. Maggie has some arguments with an old friend of
hers, who visits Coopers Crossing, about Luke. Geoff
proposes to Kate!!
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Saison 5 Ep. 101 / 126 |
The gift ( Dr. David Rattcliffe arrives )
Doctor David Ratcliffe from Broken
Hill arrives. Jimmy and Sally McCarthy have a car
accident. Sally will be fine, but Jimmy has massive
brain damage. David says Jimmy is clinicly dead and
wants to call the transplant unit. But Chris wants to
wait for Geoff, he is out on a clinic round. When he
comes home he confirms what David's been saying, Jimmy
is clinicly dead. But David has acted very badly toward
Jimmy's parents. Despite that, they agree to a
transplant! Chris wonders if Geoff and Kate are really
getting married, as Paula says they are. Kate hesitates,
but finally says "yes"!!!
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Second chance A truck
gets stuck in the river and Emma is asked to pull it
out. She tries together with Paula, but the truck is too
heavy and Emma get stuck underneath the truck in the
water. While the water is rising, Geoff has to make a
difficult decision: amputate Emma's arm or wait for
another truck to pull Emma out.
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Not the Malarvy’s The
Malarvy-family comes to Coopers Crossing when their
daughter is hospitalized due to pneumonia. They have
eight children and the oldest daugther looks after the
rest of them. She meets David and at a party she
accidently "thinks" David proposed to her. She is really
thrilled and tells her parents straight away. They also
like the idea of their daughter being married to a
doctor. After a lot of talking, explanations and
misunderstandings the girl understands and decides to go
to nursing school in Broken Hill.
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The adventure Geoff
and Kate run away to marry each other secretly. But not
everything turnes out the way they planned! Meanwhile
Paula leaves with two women and a man to take a photo
session in the outback. Luke goes with them, because he
doesn't trust the man and it proves he did the right
thing! |
No man’s land Chris
and David are on a clinic run for three days. The farm
they're staying at, is run by a woman and her two
daughters. David doesn't feel welcome and soon he finds
out that the women are very hostile towards all men.
There must be a reason for this attitude. Geoff and Kate
are taught a lesson: how to behave like a married couple.
They are overwhelmed with all kinds of presents, even
baby stuff. |
Rising sundown A lady
named Essie Harrington is selling her property. Two
japanese men shows up at the auction and they lay the
highest bid. This upsets almost everybody, especially
since Essie's husband was killed by the Japanese during
the war. The tension is too much for Essie, she
collapses and is brought to hospital. When she feels
better David says he'll take her back home, but someone
has sabotaged the plane, thinking David would fly the
japanese men. David makes a force landing, and he and
Essie are ok. Essie decided to sell her property to the
neighbours and the japanse men leave.
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Man and boy A young
boy named Ricky gets hit by lightning. David, Kate and
Sam manage to get there, but the storm makes sure they
can't take off. Ricky is in agony and Kate wants to let
Ricky die. But David says he, as a doctor, can't just
let a patient die. Finally a helicopter gets there and
Ricky is brought to hospital. He will be all right.
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The longing n
aboriginal woman wants to have her baby in a place where
she grew up. She and her husband drive around and not
everyone is friendly towards them. Finally Geoff and
Kate got married! But because Geoff has to help out far
away with the delivery of the aboriginal woman's baby,
the ceremony goes all by radio.
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Bitter harvest The
Potter family is supposed to be one of the happiest
families of Coopers Crossing. But suddenly this seems
not right as the Potter's are involved by a murder
attempt. Chris is a friend of the family and she takes
care of the family.
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The instrument David
discovers that a man who works in a mine got injured.
But the man keeps working and even wins a boxing match.
So David questions his motives, because this seems
impossible. |
Word and deed Jacko
is babtizing a baby who is related to Sam. Afterwords
Sam discovers some burnmarks on Jacko's hands. He is
taken to hospital and diagnosed with leprosy. He can be
treated but everyone is upset and stays away from him.
He gets sad and flies away without telling anyone. When
they find out and try calling him on the radio there's
no answer. Geoff and Sam follow him and manage to locate
him. They talk to him and soon Father Jacko is himself
again! |
All that glitters A
rich man called Barry Ryan comes to town. He is out with
some horses when Luke, who is nearby, hears a shot.
Barry has been shot and is taken to hospital. But Jack
has a problem, it seems no one was out there except
Barry - and Luke. Jack finds out Luke once killed a cop,
and puts him in jail. Finally it turns out Barry was
trying to kill himself, and Jack and Luke are friends
again. |
Fly past ( Return of Dr. Tom Callaghan )
DJ gets a call, a stationhand has a
broken leg. Chris flies out and sees the worker - who
turns out to be Tom Callaghan!! He isn't too badly hurt
and everybody wonders why Tom isn't working as a doctor.
They throw him a big welcome-back-party at the pub, but
he acts strangely and is very rude. The following day he
flies out to the property where he is working with David.
But in the plane David is stung by wasps and has an
allergic reaction. Tom performs a tracheotomy and calls
Mayday. Sam is out on a clinic round and can't help, so
Chris takes a Cessna and tries to talk Tom down.
Amazingly he manages to land the plane with only a few
difficulties. Later Tom talks to Chris about some things
he experienced in Africa, but then leaves for the farm.
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The last rodeo A girl
named Kathy complains of stomachpains and Chris does
some tests. Kathy's father shows up secretly and he and
Kathy leaves during the night. The tests show Kathy is a
diabetic and Chris and Dougie try to track her down.
They succeed eventually but Kathy is in a coma. She is
taken to hospital and will be fine. And her dad sets
things straight with her mum.
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Sky above, earth below
A little girl named Sophie falls
down a mineshaft. Everybody tries to rescue her but it
doesn't look too good. In the last minute David saves
her, despite his claustrofobia!
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Lucky lady An old man
is found in the forrest, he claims to be searching for
someone. He is dehydrated and goes to hospital, but runs
away. It turned out he had crashed a plane outside the
Crossing during the war, and his mates had died in the
crash, he wanted to see the plane and the grave. He felt
guilty for his friends dying, so he wanted to kill
himself out there but was rescued by his son, Geoff and
Emma. |
The chips are down
ick's father, Jim, and Nick are out driving. Nick is a
bit worried, the rumour says his dad takes amphetamine.
Nick is asleep, when Jim suddenly can't see properly. He
crashes into the Broken Hill bus! There are a lot of
victims, and everybody is called in. Nick thinks they
crashed because his dad was high, but an x-ray showed he
had a brain damage. He goes to Sydney for treatment as
soon as they find out.
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Guardian angel
Michael and Lee visit an old man named Karl. They work
for a mining company and want to do a survey on Karl's
land, but he refuses. When they are on their way Michael
starts acting more and more agressive. When they stop he
goes mad and pushes Lee off a cliff! Michael is found
and brought to hospital. After a lot of tests and
troubles they found out he had rabies!! After a while
Karl tells them there was a girl with Michael, and the
search starts. She is found and will be all right.
Before she leaves Coopers Crossing she promises Karl no
survey will ever be done on his land.
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Battlers Nick and his
friend Shane work for mr. Logan. Nick hurts his chest
and Tom says he needs to rest for 10 days. Mr. Logan
doesn't except that and to keep his job Nick keeps
working. But one day he feels really bad, and mr. Logan
says he'll drive Nick and Shane to town. In the car they
start arguing, and mr. Logan dumps the two of them in
the middle of nowhere. Nick is unconscious. Mr Logan's
wife, Maria, suspects something is wrong and takes a car
and goes after them. She can't drive well, and gets
lost. Nick and Shane get a ride to the nearest property
where the Nomad picks them up. He needs immediate
surgery, but will be all right. A search for Maria is
organized and she is found!
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No tears A man
working for Baxter, Ben, has a car accident. The RFDS
comes and checks him out. They say he need an eye
operation. But Ben has heard that Baxter wants to fire
him, so he grabs a horse and rides off. After a while he
is found and Tom tries to talk to him. When Tom steps
outside Ben shoots himself.
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A doctor’s dreaming
eoff, Kate, David and Emma leave for an aboriginal
meeting in the bush. Geoff gets appendicitus and has to
operate on himself. He passes out and Kate has to take
over because David won't make it on time!
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Blues for Judy A girl
who is a friend of Emma's gives birth in her car, then
leaves the baby outside Emma's front door wanting Emma
to look after it - what she doesn't know is that Emma is
staying overnight in town. The girl collapses and ends
up in hospital. David is her doctor, he knows she has
just given birth and tries to let her tell him where the
baby is. The baby ends up being left out in the cold all
night. The girl's boyfriend turns up as well. Eventually
the girl says where she left the baby and Emma and the
boyfriend find it.
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The claim Lorraine's
husband died and Judith's husband left with somebody
else. So the two friends are living together. Lorraine
gets killed in an accident and to make matters worse,
Judith's ex-husband returns (who is Lorraine's brother
as well). He wants Judith back, no matter what.
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A rhyme for reason
Kate has piano lessons from an old lady. Lately this
lady doesn't feel so well. It turnes out that her son in
law is giving her pills so that he inherits her
properties when she dies!
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Dad’s little bloke
Little Mikey gets hurt and in hospital it is discovered
that his blood group doens't match either his father or
his mother. It turns out that Mikey was switch at birth
with another baby boy. His father goes looking for the
other family in Melbourne, together with Kate and Geoff,
who went there for some time off.
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A sporting life Mel
Cregan from Coopers Crossing is the big baseballhero in
New South Wales. After a great game he and his dad, Kev,
are celebrating at the pub with their mates. They are
rather drunk but Kev insists on driving home in the
middle of the night. They have an accident and Mel hurts
his leg. They need to amputate but Mel doesn't allow it.
Geoff and Tom go through with the operation anyway, to
save Mel's life. After his operation Mel goes to Sydney
for special treatment. But he swears to sue Geoff and
Tom. After a lot of hard times Mel realizes you can have
fun in a wheel-chair - you can even sport.
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Saison 6 Ep. 127 / 146 |
A good drop of red
Tom, Kate, a pregnant woman and two businessmen are on a
airplane crash. They have to stick together to survive
in the middle of nowhere, but the businessmen don't
think that way! Then the pregnant woman has to deliver
her baby! |
The hero Gerry O'
Neill, the new pilot, gets a lift from the old Felix
because his car broke down. They get an accident and
because Felix has been drinking, Gerry tries to convince
the police that he has been driving. Geoff and Tom are
not sure about the new pilot.
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Suspision 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 car accident. When Chris gets
there Evans tries to kill them all but is shot to death
by one of the policemen. It turnes out Evans had been
treated for schizophrenia.
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Daddy’s girl During
college, Tom had a major crush on Megan Price. Togehter
with her wealthy father, Megan visits a pipe
installation nearby Coopers Crossing. During the
inspection, there is an explosion. Many people get
injured and Tom has to decide which patient goes to
hospital first.
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Two sisters running
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 look 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 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! |
Dangerous games Nancy
contacts an old rodeo-champion, Ralph McRae, to help
Nick. Vic is jealous, he thinks Nancy and Ralph have
something going. Ralph doesn't seem to realize he isn't
young anymore, so he tries some rodeo, but gets really
dizzy. It turns out he was near a stroke, but will be
allright if he takes care of himself. He doesn't want to
at first, but when he ends up in hospital he comes to
his senses. Vic and Nancy are fighting and Nancy falls
down the stairs. It looks like she'll be completely
paralyzed, but later it turns out she could get better,
if she has surgery. It's a rather big risk, but she and
Vic decides to go through with the operation. And it is
a success. |
Milk run A woman
named Lois Murchison takes a bad fall, and can't radio
for help. The only one left on the property apart from
herself is her very young son Ben. Lois manages to send
a call to D.J. on a really old radio, but he can't
really identify her. Finally Tom finds her and takes her
to hospital. Chris has applied for a top job in Sydney,
and she got it - but turned it down!
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Point of no return
Amanda is seeing Mark, who works on her father's
property. Her mother doesn't approve and after a fight
Mark leaves. Amanda is so upset she tries to kill
herself. Debbie got a bump on the head in an accident,
and in the plane her headinjury gets worse and she
faints. David lands the plane, and Amanda will be fine.
But Debbie's pilot license is withdrawn.
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Small mercies Tom
goes to see June Nichols, who is ill. Her radio is
broken, so Tom takes June's son Jason to go to the
neighbours for help. They have a car accident and then
get lost in the bush. They are found however, in time to
save June as well.
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A painful extraction
DJ's father visits Coopers Crossing and announces to
bring his son back to Greece to help with the family
business. Because all his son does, is playing a bit
with the radio. But soon father Goannides finds out that
his son has a very responsible job and so he lets DJ
decide for himself.
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The climber Two
friends visit David. Peter never finished his studies
and he is still blamed for it by his parents. His
girlfriend Karen is pregnant and she wants David ot tell
Peter. When David and Peter go climbing, this is David's
opportunity to tell Peter. But Karen got food poisoning
and looses the baby. Peter got food poisoning as well
and David has to help him while they are still climbing.
Clare replaces DJ.
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Dead reckoning A
pilot with typhoid comes to Coopers Crossing. A
businessman who stole an amount of money from his
company hired the pilot to fly him out of the country.
Geoff, Kate, Gerry and a woman with serious kidney
failure are held hostage by the businessman because they
don't agree. Kate is forced to go with him and the
pilot. The plane crashes down, but they survive!
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A bride to be
Whistler finally got the courage after twenty years to
ask Alice to marry him. But he wants to offer her a
great home. To make some money, he steals cattle with
his friend Graeme.
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A place for the night
Jenny can't walk anymore after she
fell off her horse. Tom can't find a cause and asks Kate
and Geoff to bring her to Sydney. On their way they are
having some troubles with the plain and they have to
spend the night by two sisters in a very strange house.
When they return next day, there are no signs that
people lived there and it seems like they met some
ghosts... |
End of the rainbow
Nick goes to an opal-miner called Jackson with a
generator. Jackson attacks Nick but then get trouble
breathing. He goes to hospital with his daughter while
Nick stays to guard the mine. A thief comes at night and
manages to get some opals with him. When Jackson comes
to the mine the following day he gets sick again and
David take some tests of the mine. Jackson thinks his
former partner, Palmer, stole the opals and goes over to
his mine. David goes after him and finds them fighting
in the mine. Suddenly the roof crashes down and the
three of them are trapped inside. In the last minute
they are saved by Tom and Nick. David finds out Jackson
was allergic to some fungus in the mine and therfore he
can't be working in it. He sells the mine to Parker.
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Double vision Tom is
treating a girl named Kim, she burnt her hands. She
falls in love with Tom and follows him everywhere which
is a bit embarresing. She follows him to the airport and
climbs into the cargospace in front of the plane when
they go on a clinic round. They find her there after a
while and she has to stay with them over night. The
following day she finds out her mother will come. She is
very upset and runs away. Tom finds her on top of a
windmill and manages, through difficulties, to get her
down. They found out Kim is schizophrenic and she will
go back to town for treatment.
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The boy in the boot A
father, Rex, and his son Tim are heading toward Coopers
Crossing when Tim gets in the boot of the car. They have
a caraccident, but are saved at the last minute before
the truck burns into a wreck. Tim will be fine, but
Geoff finds out Rex's got a heart disease. It isn't
curable and Rex wants to spend time with his son. They
leave for a farm the following morning. Tim's mother,
Jess, turns up in town and claims Rex has kidnapped Tim,
she wants him back! At the farm Rex and Tim finds out
the person they were looking for had moved but they stay
there with Di and Ellie Martin. Suddenly Rex collapses.
Geoff and Kate arrive but Rex dies in the plane. Tim
decided to stay on the farm to try the country life.
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Rest in peace Nick
and Annie find a car in a dried creek with two bodies
inside. They are believed to be Bob and Rachel Jordan,
who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. Tom is
suspicious and finally they find out the man in the car
wasn't Bob. It turned out Rachel had had an affair - Bob
was ill and spent most of his time in bed. Their son
found out and told Bob, who was very upset. Rachel and
her "boyfriend" took off, but apparently they didn't get
any further than the creek. Shortly afterwords Bob died,
but made Michael swear not to tell the truth. Michael
held his promise and burried Bob at the property. He had
had mental problems ever since.
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Life line Chris meets
Mandy, a young woman who recently lost her baby and who
thinks she is pregnant now. She tries and help Mandy,
but then she got some bad news: her father has cancer
and doesn't want to get treatment.
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Saison 7 Ep. 147 / 166 |
Fly like a bird ( Johno Johnson arrives )
The new pilot, Johnno Johnosn,
arrives. An old man named Les thinks he's got asbestosis
from mine-jobs. He's convinced he'll die and wants
compensation money from the mining company. He's gonna
give the money to a boy named Matt, who wants to be a
pilot. Les finds out he's not gonna die after all, and
when Matt finds out he steels Johnno's plane. Johnno
manages to talk him down.
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A day to remember
During a clinic round there are reports of small fires,
which eventually turns out to be one huge fire! Geoff
goes out there, but burns his hands and is replaced by
David. He attends a family where a woman is seriously
ill. They manage to get her to hospital, but she needs
major surgery in Sydney. There's no time to fly her
there, and Geoff can't operate, so David has to do it!
The operation is a success!
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A place to call home
Nick is out fixing a wind mill, when a woman named Kerry
comes, her car broke down. She's pregnant and starts
having contractions. Nick helps with the delivery, she
gets a baby girl. Something is not right with Kerry
though, and it turns out she stole the car and a lot of
money from her boss. He comes to Coopers Crossing and
says if he gets his stuff back he won't press charges.
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Divided loyalties A
pilot-friend of Johnno's, Keith Lorrigan, has a plane
crash and dies. His wife Vikki finds some heart pills,
and Johnno doesn't want anybody to know, they'd only
think it was Keith's fault. Johnno tries to work out
what happened and discovers Keith thought he was flying
barrels of destilled water, when in fact it was
sulphuric acid in them. The barrels leeked and caused
the crash. |
A rural education
David and Annie go to a remote part of town to do check
ups on pupils at the school. One of the boys keeps
acting strangely and has bad headaches and his hands
keep shaking. His sister is having headaches as well.
The other kids tease him and think he is mad. David
tries talking to his father but gets no response from
him, so he goes to see the boy's grandfather. He has got
the shakes as well and says it's miner's shake. David
finds out from him that stuff from the mines has been
leaking into a stream, but then they find out it is
getting into the water where the boy's father is getting
water from to water the vegetables with, so it turns out
the boy is being poisoned.
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The ties that bind
Sandy and Phil are camping with their mentally disabled
son. But he needs a lot of attention and behaves very
bad. Phil leaves his wife and son. When Geoff visits the
camp, the mother and son have disappeared as well.
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Brother’s keeper
Through helping an alcoholic friend, Tom finds himself
trapped in a mine and at the mercy of a murderer.
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Wilderness A girl
comes to the clinic tour. Tom discovers she is a
diabetic. She needs to give herself insuline shots, but
her father forbids her to do so. He lost his wife
because of pills some doctors gave to her. When Tom
insists the girl needs medication, he takes his
daughters, burns his house down and drives into the
wilderness. The car breaks down and the Flying Doctors
are just on time to save the little girl's life, as she
hasn't took her insuline on time.
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Valentine’s day David
falls in love with a British woman. She is flying around
the world on her own and she is only in town for a few
days while her plane is being fixed. But then David
finds out she is very ill and has hodgekin's disease.
She wants to travel and see as much of the world as she
can before she dies. David asks her to marry him, but
she turns him down because of the travelling. Meanwhile
Clare has a secret admirer.
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A little tenderness
Tom talks to a woman who needs to have her utures
removed. The woman lives under horrible cirumstances,
her husband is really mean. One day her husband gets
badly hurt, and Tom and Johnno fly out there. There's a
storm coming in, so they can't fly the hurt man to
hospital. Tom has to operate, assisted by Johnno and the
wife. The operation is a sucess and finally the couple
manages to sort things out.
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Poet’s corner An
alcoholic poet with writer's block arrives in Coopers
Crossing and causes trouble by his decision to turn to
plagiarism. |
Family farm A tense
situation develops when Jim, burdened by his failure to
provide for his family, takes his wife and youngest
daughter as hostages. Geoff tries to calm him down and
switches places with the wife and daughter.
|
A place to belong ( Dr. Magdalena Hellar arrives )
Magda Heller from Germany
joins the Flying Doctors. She wants some change in her
life. Soon she is involved in an emergency.
|
Breakaway A young
mother, Stacey, tries to escape the clutches of her
manic depressive boyfriend, Terry, by running away to
Coopers Crossing with her daughter. But will she be safe
there? |
Billie and Pete
Billie, once a famous blues singer, and Pete are in a
car crash. Geoff knows Billie from his years in college
and asks her to stay at his and Kate's house. He helps
Billie with her voice problem, which he thinks is
physically and not mental. Meanwhile Kate tries to
figure out what really was between Billie and Geoff.
|
Old man’s weed Magda
and Kate have a fight on their hands when they try to
persuade an aborigine girl's father to allow her to
undergo an operation to save her from a brain tumor. The
man swears by his own medicine: a herb called old man's
weed. |
David and Goliath
David is called out to a patient who has his leg trapped.
Back at the hospital David also notices a lump on the
man's chest which he says should be tested and removed.
But the man goes to see another older doctor and he says
that the lump is allright as it is. David goes to see
the other doctor and ends up in a big disagreement with
him. David goes to see the man again to get him to
reconsider but he won't. A Flying Doctors offical turns
up and tells David not to pursue it any further and that
if he doesn't stop his job is on the line, but David
won't leave it alone and doubts whether he should quit
his job or not. But, eventually the man lets David do
the test and it turns out to be cancer.
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Last carnival When
Annie gives treatment to a boy who works on a carnival,
the pair develop a strong rapport.
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Innocence lost
Jeannie, Kate's friend, is raped by a young man. Kate
stays at Jeannie's house. The man returns to the house
and Jeannies father shoots him. Kate helps him more or
less against her will.
|
Bush christmas Vic
and Nancy are hard at work preparing for Christmas.
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Saison 8 Ep. 167 / 192 |
What a guy ( Dr. Guy Reid & Sr. Jackie Crane are coming
up ) A new doctor and
nurse arrive in Coopers Crossing. Unfortunately, since
he's charming but arrogant and she's tired of
overbearing city doctors, the stage is set for a clash.
|
Bad moon pising A man
collapses at an oil drilling rig. Johnno and David
arrive there. The boss running the rig knows Johnno and
doesn't like him, something which happened in the past.
The boss wants the man back at work, so he discharges
himself from hospital, but he collapses again and David
is called out again. This time the ground is very wet
and muddy and Johnno has difficulties getting the plane
off the ground; his past comes back to haunt him. But
after removing the chairs and stuff from inside the
plane to make it lighter, he manages.
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A new life Gail
delivers her baby under very hard circumstances in the
Nomad. She gets a depression and don't want anything to
do with the baby. Gail and her husband decide to let the
baby stay with Geoff and Kate for a while. It turns out
Gail hasn't cope with her father's dead and has a
problem with her parents-in-law who are constantly
deciding everything for her and Des.
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Trough thick and thin
The doctors are called on to help a
pair of English girls who are stranded in the outback.
One of them is seriously ill. Guy and Johnno like the
girls a lot. |
Deceptions ( Dr. David Ratcliffe's accident )
David has decided to leave
Coopers Crossing and do something else with his life. A
man sacks a jackeroo - the jackeroo has been seeing his
daughter - and tells him to keep away from her. The
jackeroo and daughter are having a row - she falls and
bangs her head. David is on the way there but sees the
jackeroo setting fire to a cabin and tries to stop him,
but the jackeroo hits him. David has to spend a night in
hospital and misses his leaving party at the pub. The
next day David leaves the hospital and hears some
shouting. He finds the jackeroo stuck half way down a
cliff on a ledge. David goes down to him, then goes back
up to call the base. Johnno, Geoff and Kate turn up,
they throw a stretcher down to David but it gets caught
on something, David tries to free it and slips and falls
upside down. He can't get himself back up and falls down
to the bottom of the cliff. Geoff rushes down to see him,
but David is dead.
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None so blind When
her car breaks down, Kate gets battery acid in her eyes.
She can't see anything and it is not sure if she ever
will see again. But everything turnes out fine!
Meanwhile a aboriginal woman helps out at the base. Not
everyone is pleased with this!
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Sleep of reason ( Penny Wellings arrives )
The arrival of Kate's
younger sister Penny is shrouded in mystery. She turns
out to be subdued and secretive, while Magda also has a
secret and makes a shocking announcement.
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My mother’s child
lare is called by an agency about her son Steve she has
given up on adoption. She is very tense about it all.
Just as Penny thinks there is nothing to do in Coopers
Crossing, Steve arrives by bus.
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Swinging on the rope ( Dr. Rowie Lang arrives )
A wealthy and powerful
landowner causes problems for the RFDS when he insists
that his injured son is sent to a specialist in
Melbourne. The new doctor Rowie arrives. She used to
live in Coopers Crossing and is rather hostile,
especially to Kate.
|
Father and son Vic
decides to become a partner in a tourist enterprise, and
a father has to come to terms with a tragedy when his
baby boy dies. |
A little miracle
Geoff and Kate are off camping in the bush. They are
planning to get pregnant, but nearby a family gets into
trouble. The father is obsessed with religion and risks
his son's live. At the end a little miracle occurs and
the son is saved.
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Murphy's law Vic runs
over a little girl, Fiona, with his car accidently. Guy
and Jackie pick her up, but luckily she isn't too badly
hurt. At the hospital Guy noticed that Fiona's mother,
Judy, is sick, she's got cancer and hasn't got a much
time left. A friend of hers, named Rick, comes to visit
and when he finds out about Judy's condition he wants to
look after Fiona after Judy's death. But Judy claims
Rick isn't the father which makes it impossible. Judy
won't say anything about who the father is though. Clare
finds Fiona's chart and it turns out Judy has been lying
to Rick about Fiona's age, and Rick is Fiona's real
father. Everybody says that it might be hard for him to
get the custady of Fiona anyway since there is no legal
evidence that he is her father. They only way out is
marriage between Judy and Rick. Judy agrees and they are
married in hospital. Later Judy dies and Rick and Fiona
leave Coopers Crossing to start a life of their own.
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Breaking down the wall
Steve, Penny, Jackie and Guy are on
a tour with a german couple and a tour guide. They are
in a cave, everybody but Jackie and the german woman go
in. Inside the cave the guide has a heartattack and
dies, and the other ones can't find a way out. After
lots of searching, trouble and secrets everybody is
rescued. Kate is feeling sick, and the pregnancy tests
shows it - she and Geoff are going to be parents!!!
|
Once bitten Geoff is
really sick and hospitalized. The problem is nobody
knows what it is. It is some infection in his arm, but
since they can't find the source of the infection they
don't know how to treat him. The only way out seems to
be to amputate the arm! Then Johnno realizes Geoff was
out at a man called Rocket who had some old equiment
that might have leaked hydrolic fluids. They test Geoff,
Johnno was right, and Geoff is treated. And he can keep
his arm. |
Clipped wings Johnno
is flying the doctors out on an emergency. Due to bad
weather he has to land on a strip under regulation
length, but since it's an emergency Johnno lands. It
turned out to be a non-critical case, and when the other
ones wanted to stay there until the weather got better,
Johnno decides to fly. The wind changed and the plane
crashes. No one gets hurt. Johnno is investigated and
suspended. He shouldn't have tried to take off. He is
upset and takes a job on a farm. A pilot there hurts his
arm, there is no one there to fly him to town. Johnno
thinks it's a danger to the pilots life and flies
himself, despite the suspension. When he comes into town
the doctors say he shouldn't have to come to hospital.
Once more there is an investigation, but Rowie says the
patient had a life-threatening injury to save Johnno.
Johnno has to take his pilots licence again, he does and
succeeds. |
Walk don’t run Penny
and Kate are competing with each other. Kate joins the
annual cross country horse race: she puts her unborn
baby's life at risk by doing this. Penny helps a woman
who is obsessed with athletics.
|
Against the current
Penny and Steve go camping. But their idyll ends when
they come across a horrifying sight. Penny decides to go
back to Melbourne, but Kate and Geoff go after her and
persuade her to come back.
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Last of the Cochranes
A mysterious call drags Geoff to
Melbourne where he meets up with 91-year-old Mum
Cochrane, who is determined to return to Coopers
Crossing to die.
|
Double life The
people of Coopers Crossing are stunned when Guy's
fiancee, Fern Wentworth, arrives in town. She is
convinced that he has become too provincial and wants to
reclaim his love.
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Something, nothing
Johnno decides to re-evaluate his priorities in life
when he and Rowie are nearly killed while flying through
a storm. His first move is to tell Rowie he wants her to
be a part of his future. He also buys the farm of his
friend Bronwyn, who is diagnosed with MS.
|
Family Scarlett, Kate
and Geoff's daughter, is born in this episode! But
something is wrong with her and the only doctor who can
help her is an alcoholic as Kate found out!
|
Being positive
Anthropologist Jerry Davis returns to Coopers Crossing
needing to speak to Geoff urgently. It's known that
Jerry, who has a scar on his neck, was operated by the
RFDS team during an emergency. Jackie is thrilled at the
return of the man of her dreams, who she hopes will be
the man of her future, but Jerry has bad news.
|
Open day Geoff tries
without success to persuade the mother of a badly
scarred boy that it would aid his mental recovery to
come to Coopers Crossing and face the world. When the
boy becomes suicidal, Penny holds out a hand of
friendship. |
Changing times Geoff
and Kate move to Melbourne because Geoff is offered a
job there. They can't get used to the city and they move
back. Meanwhile Johnno and Rowie are having wedding
plans, but at the last moment Rowie is getting second
thoughts and doesn't want to marry Johnno anymore.
|
Freedom Jackie
discovers a pair of young lovers living in the cellar of
her farmhouse in a story reminiscent of "Romeo and
Juliet" with equally tragic consequences.
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Saison 9 Ep. 192 / 221 |
Nymphs and nightmares
A sighting of the 'Outback Nymph'
by washed-up journo Walter Morell brings unwelcome
memories rushing back for Rowie. Could it really be her
childhood pal Beryl whom she left in the Bush 20 years
ago? |
Out of the bleu ate
and Geoff are arguing a lot since Scarlett was born.
Geoff rescues Penny from suffocation and Penny developes
a crush on Geoff. Whole Cooper's Crossing is obsessed
with a satelite which may crash right in the middle of
the town! |
The last dance
Clare's routine is disturbed by the arrival of an old 'flame'
as Steve struggles to get his new business off the
ground. |
Unfinished business
Chaos comes to the operating theatre following a
surprising discovery of a deadly bacteria. Guy is called
upon to stem the rising panic, but tact is not his
strongest point. Rowie embarks on a journey of
self-discovery and comes to a decision about Johnno.
|
Jaqueline Guy and
Jackie got stuck in an abandoned shed after a clinic
round due to bad weather. And when they come back to
town the following morning everybody is really
interested about what happened in that shed during the
night ... |
Monkey Jackie is put
in an impossible position when she discovers that a
talented surgeon is also a heroin addict.
|
The stranger The
residents of Coopers Crossing think they've met their
first alien when a nude man confronts Geoff in the
outback. At first he just seems to be a nutcase, but it
transpires that he has an extraordinary depth of
knowledge about medicine, flying and mechanics. When the
military arrive in town looking for him, matters begin
to get a whole lot stranger.
|
The christening It is
the day of the christening of Scarlett. Geoff and Kate
are looking back at their lives by flashbacks.
|
The good book Steve
finds an old diary which is reason enough to organize a
big reunion! Tom, Chris, D.J., Emma and Baxter(!) return
in this episode.
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My little patch Guy
gets in over his head when he answers a call for help
from a young Koori boy, caught between two cultures,
whose grandfather is dying of cancer.
|
Two splatt shuffle A
travelling medical salesman is involved in an accident
and his double life is revealed when two women turn up
claiming to be his wife.
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Secrets When Rowie is
swept off her feet by the handsome and wealthy Andrew
Abbott, a long-lost brother shows her where her real
roots lie when he has conversations over the radio with
Kate, threatening to kill his wife and daughter because
of his money problems.
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The games we play Guy
attempts to diagnose the puzzling symptoms of a new
young patient. Meanwhile, Coopers Crossing is buzzing
with excitement over the cricket match of the decade.
|
Bone china The
residents of Coopers Crossing feel uneasy when killer
Matt Samuels is released from prison, and Kate insists
on driving him HOME, unaccompanied. Geoff flexes his
culinary muscles as he embarks on a restaurant venture
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Johnno be good Only a
week after the cremation, Johnno finds out his father
passed away. He goes to Melbourne to collect his
father's stuff and meets an old friend again. It turns
out Johnno's father was making up all kinds of stories
about Johnno flying over the world. But he never had
time for Johnno when he was a kid and Johnno didn't make
time for his father when he grew up. Now it is too late.
Steve and Guy try to fix up Johnno's house while he is
away, but instead of helping, they accidentally burn it
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Lost rainbows Rowie
leaves on horseback to an emergency. When she arrives,
there isn't an emergency but there is a very strange and
tense atmosphere. Rowie calls the base to help her out.
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Broken promises Emily
is marrying Hugh, but her parents are involved in
everything. She is overstressed and ends up in hospital.
She starts doubting the marriage, Hugh is from a fine
family and so is she, and she wonders if Hugh just
marries her because it will look good. Finally she calls
the wedding off. A truck with all the food and drinks
for the wedding crashes in the bush. Almost everybody
goes out there, and when they find out the wedding is
off they have a huge party in the middle of nowhere!!
But when they come back to town they discover the
wedding is back on again! So they try to cook to make up
for all the food. When they have finally finished the
bride's father comes and tells everybody the couple have
eloped!! |
Visitors welcome
Toshi, who visited Coopers Crossing last year, comes
back with a group full of japanese tourists. Since the
pub is full Johnno is staying at a man called Barry and
his son Luke. It's obvious Luke does anything to impress
his father, but Barry picks on him all the time. One of
the japanese men is stabbed one night, nobody knows who
it is. But when Johnno come out to Barry's place, Luke
is there, with a big blackeye. It turns out Luke stabbed
the japanese man to impress Barry (who once talked badly
about the japanese), Barry finds out and hit him. Rowie
discovers Luke's got a hearing injury, and it turns out
Barry's been beating Luke every now and then. He
realizes how wrong he has done and agrees to go in
councling. |
Yesterday’s news For
this one time Kate picks up her work as a nurse again.
She and Johnno go on a baby clinc tour. A journalist
joins them. An emergency occurs and Kate has to operate
on a young man. The journalist is only interested in
news and forgets that there are people involved. Kate
gets furious at her!
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Dirty linen The
laundry machines in the hospital breaks down one after
another, due to old age. But there isn't enough money to
buy new ones. The laundresses go on strike! After a lot
of trouble, and with the help from a famous union man
and Penny they sort the problem out. Steve meets the
school teacher Jane McLaughlin, and they end up in bed
together. |
Chasing rainbows
Rowie and Guy are arguing. Rowie's father is really ill,
but decides to go back to the outback. Rowie has to help
an injured member of the navy by radio.
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Uncle cyrano As Steve
pursues his infatuation with local schoolteacher Jane,
she goes to Guy with shattering news. Guy is torn
between professional and personal loyalty: should he
tell Steve the truth? And what about Penny?
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Luck of the draw
Geoff has to choose between delivering a premature baby
and attending Steve, a snake-bite victim. Jackie doens't
agree with Geoff's decision, but later on she has to
make a simular choice. Kate fights the local politics,
including Vic. |
Trouble with M.E.
When diehard farmer Matt Sheridan complains of tiredness,
Guy is convinced that he's suffering from stress, while
Rowie thinks it has to be physical. As the two clash,
the base's atmosphere grows ever more tense. Is Coopers
Crossing big enough for both of them?
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The accomplice A
stranger in town has winning ways and is accepted by
everyone except by Jackie, who feels uneasy about him.
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Blind obsession
Claire's secret admirer strikes again, and she confesses
that it would be fun to meet him in person.
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Wimp Steve faces
charges for contributing to a boxer's death in the ring.
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Visionaries Vic has a
plan to bring Coopers Crossing out of the recession:
bikini-clad parking inspectors. Vic thinks he has
visions about Guy and Penny and Rowie finds out about
the two. |
Life lessons Because
it is Scarlett's first birthday, Geoff decides to make a
videotape about the life lessons from his father. He
interviews all the important characters of Cooper's
Crossing and discovers many lies and secrets! The last
episode, so it was very sad!!
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