Episode guide
A Country Practice: Season 1
50 episodes · premiered Nov 18, 1981
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- Episode 1: In General Practice (1) Nov 18, 1981 Mystery surrounds an obviously wealthy, pregnant woman who arrives at the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital in the last stages of labour.
- Episode 2: In General Practice (2) Nov 19, 1981 Dr Simon Bowen refuses to prescribe the contraceptive pill to a fifteen year old girl without her father's permission. The girl is torn between her father and her insistent boyfriend.
- Episode 3: Town Tragedy (1) Nov 25, 1981 A very serious accident upsets the townsfolk leaving questions unanswered, and Dr. Elliott battles for the survival of one of the injured.
- Episode 4: Town Tragedy (2) Nov 26, 1981 Questions arise about the tragic incident and Dr. Elliott and nurse Shirley Dean work to protect Andy MacKay from the small town gossip.
- Episode 5: The Itinerants (1) Dec 2, 1981 Doctor Elliott fights to save the life of a sick child, against opposition from the childs frightened mother.
- Episode 6: The Itinerants (2) Dec 3, 1981 Brendan battles with a stubborn angry patient, and Molly goes to the Sales yard to buy a dog, and ends up with something completely different.
- Episode 7: They Shoot Cows? (1) Dec 9, 1981 Brendan battles with a stubborn angry patient, and Molly goes to the Sales yard to buy a dog, and ends up with something completely different.
- Episode 8: They Shoot Cows? (2) Dec 10, 1981 There's a fire in the Wandin Valley Community Hospital, and Brendan Jones finds out who caused it. Simon Bowen has to make a decision about the right and wrong of shortening a life.
- Episode 9: Coming Home (1) Dec 16, 1981 Dr. Elliott gets up to mischief with an old boy of the Valley and gives Sgt. Gilroy a few headaches. Dr. Bowen finds a companion although not quite what he was looking for.
- Episode 10: Coming Home (2) Dec 17, 1981 Matron Kertesz takes over as District Nurse and has to care for a young man recently crippled and struggles between her profession and her emotions.
- Episode 11: Secrets (1) Dec 23, 1981 Shirley Dean is involved in an accident and makes police work very difficult for Sgt. Gilroy. Nurse Brendan Jones saves the life of a young asthmatic.
- Episode 12: Secrets (2) Dec 24, 1981 Dr Bowen fights to make the town's stubborn bus driver see how he can endanger the lives of passengers with his illness.
- Episode 13: Alternatives (1) Dec 30, 1981 Molly's glamorous model friend comes to stay, driving Brendan crazy and causing Vicki Dean some jealous moments.
- Episode 14: Alternatives (2) Dec 31, 1981 Dr. Elliot faces a threat of his past being revealed when he takes the side of alternative medicine for a dying child.
- Episode 15: Golden Fleece (1) Jan 5, 1982
- Episode 16: Golden Fleece (2) Jan 6, 1982
- Episode 17: Teamwork (1) Jan 12, 1982
- Episode 18: Teamwork (2) Jan 13, 1982 The team at the hospital - with the help of Shirley, Frank, Vicky, and Robert Bowen - work together to treat the passengers of the bus accident. Molly confronts the bank manager about her…
- Episode 19: Suffer Children (1) Jan 19, 1982 Vicky secures a high-profile job treating a Yarraman colt trained by Neil Stephens, but worries that Stephens is excessively pushing his reluctant daughter Robin into constant showjumping…
- Episode 20: Suffer Children (2) Jan 20, 1982 After Robin is admitted to hospital as the result of her horse-riding accident, Simon searches for the truth about the previous injuries - which were treated by Terence - that become…
- Episode 21: Mates (1) Jan 26, 1982
- Episode 22: Mates (2) Jan 27, 1982
- Episode 23: Agrophobic Sons & Other Lovers (1) Feb 2, 1982 Terence comes to the aid of a woman suffering from agoraphobia. Molly assists at the veterinary practice when Vicky falls ill, while Simon uses this as an opportunity to get closer to her…
- Episode 24: Agrophobic Sons & Other Lovers (2) Feb 3, 1982 Shirley, Molly, and Vicky assist at the hospital during the strike. Simon performs his first operation in the valley on Kathy Pieri. However, what is at first thought to be an appendicitis…
- Episode 25: I Know Where She's Gone (1) Feb 9, 1982
- Episode 26: I Know Where She's Gone (2) Feb 10, 1982
- Episode 27: No Apparent Reason (1) Aug 10, 1982
- Episode 28: No Apparent Reason (2) Aug 11, 1982
- Episode 29: The Second Deadly Sin (1) Sep 7, 1982
- Episode 30: The Second Deadly Sin (2) Sep 8, 1982
- Episode 31: The Seeds of Discontent (1) Sep 14, 1982
- Episode 32: The Seeds of Discontent (2) Sep 15, 1982
- Episode 33: Sign of Affection (1) Sep 21, 1982
- Episode 34: Sign of Affection (2) Sep 22, 1982
- Episode 35: Field of Thunder (1) Sep 28, 1982
- Episode 36: Field of Thunder (2) Sep 29, 1982
- Episode 37: The Push (1) Oct 5, 1982
- Episode 38: The Push (2) Oct 6, 1982
- Episode 39: Acts of Kindness (1) Oct 12, 1982
- Episode 40: Acts of Kindness (2) Oct 13, 1982
- Episode 41: A Human Reaction (1) Oct 19, 1982
- Episode 42: A Human Reaction (2) Oct 20, 1982
- Episode 43: Show Down (1) Oct 26, 1982
- Episode 44: Show Down (2) Oct 27, 1982
- Episode 45: Pie in the Sky (1) Nov 2, 1982
- Episode 46: Pie in the Sky (2) Nov 3, 1982
- Episode 47: Stirring the Possum (1) Nov 9, 1982
- Episode 48: Stirring the Possum (2) Nov 10, 1982
- Episode 49: Cup Fever (1) Nov 16, 1982
- Episode 50: Cup Fever (2) Nov 17, 1982