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The Best Episodes of The Flying Doctors Season 8

Every episode of The Flying Doctors Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Flying Doctors Season 8!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 1 - What A Guy
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    #1 - What A Guy

    S8:E1

    A new doctor and nurse show up in Cooper's Crossing. He is charming but arrogant and she's fed up with overbearing city doctors, so the stage is set for a clash.

    Director:Mark DeFriest
    Writer:Jutta Goetze

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  2. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 2 - Bad Moon Rising
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    #2 - Bad Moon Rising

    S8:E2

    A man collapses whilst drilling an oil rig and after Johnno and David show up at the scene they discover the boss is an old enemy of Johnno's.

    Director:Mark DeFriest
    Writer:David Phillips

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  3. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 3 - A New Life
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    #3 - A New Life

    S8:E3

    A pregnant woman is being flown to the hospital with Kate as the only other passenger on board and they run into a bad storm. Kate is forced to deliver the baby after they woman goes into labour and she then rejects her baby and won't hold it or see it. Clare loses everything following a fire at her house. The doctors do everything they can to get the new mother to accept her new born baby.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:Vincent Moran

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  4. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 4 - Through Thick And Thin
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    #4 - Through Thick And Thin

    S8:E4

    After a couple of English girls are stranded in the outback, the doctors are called out to help.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:John Coulter

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  5. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 5 - Deceptions
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    #5 - Deceptions

    S8:E5

    David decides that the time has come to leave Cooper's Crossing and do something else with his life. A jackeroo is fired because he has been seeing the boss' daughter. David's efforts to save a life go disasterously wrong.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Julie Phillips

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  6. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 6 - None So Blind
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    #6 - None So Blind

    S8:E6

    After battery acid explodes in her face, Kate could loose her sight.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Denise Morgan

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  7. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 7 - Sleep Of Reason
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    #7 - Sleep Of Reason

    S8:E7

    After Kate's younger sister Penny shows up town, she immediately causes a stir. Magda is hiding a secret and makes a surprise announcement.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:Bevan Lee

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  8. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 8 - My Mother’s Child
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    #8 - My Mother’s Child

    S8:E8

    Clare is feeling stressed and her work starts to suffer after an agency contacts her about Steve, the son she had adopted. Penny is finding to hard to adapt in the outback and is feeling bored. After Clare's son arrives in town though things improve.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:David Worthington

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  9. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 9 - Swinging On The Rope
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    #9 - Swinging On The Rope

    S8:E9

    An influential landowner manages ro cause problems for the team after he insists that his injured son is sent to a specialist in Melbourne. A new doctor arrives in town and manages to offend the locals with her brusque manner.

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writer:Greg Haddrick

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  10. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 10 - Father and Son
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    #10 - Father and Son

    S8:E10

    Vic decides to invest in a tourist enterprise. A father has to come to terms with a tragedy.

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writer:Elizabeth Coleman

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  11. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 11 - A Little Miracle
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    #11 - A Little Miracle

    S8:E11

    Geoff and Kate decide to go camping hoping that some time together and some privacy will help them conceive a child. The end up camping near a fundamentally religious family and things go wrong after the father wants to sacrifice his son in an attempt to replicate Abraham.

    Director:Mark DeFriest
    Writer:Anthony Ellis

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  12. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 12 - Murphy’s Law
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    #12 - Murphy’s Law

    S8:E12

    After Vic accidentally runs over a girl, it is the beginning of a whole chain of events.

    Director:Mark DeFriest
    Writer:Vincent Moran

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  13. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 13 - Breaking down the wall
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    #13 - Breaking down the wall

    S8:E13

    After a tour guide dies of a heart attack whilst showing people around some caves, Guy, Penny, Steve and a German couple find themselves lost inside the caves. Kate is not feeling well but a pregnancy test explains the cause of her sickness.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:Maureen Ann Moran

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  14. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 14 - Once Bitten
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    #14 - Once Bitten

    S8:E14

    Geoff is struck down with a mystery illness and after nobody seems to be able to diagnose what it wrong, it appears the only option is to amputate his arm.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:Shane Brennan

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  15. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 15 - Clipped Wings
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    #15 - Clipped Wings

    S8:E15

    Johnno is determined to fly back to town despite some bad weather conditions and ending up losing his pilot's license forcing him to take both his practical and theory tests again. After there is a medical emergency he decides to break his ban and fly the hurt man back to the hospital against regulations.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:Jutta Goetze

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  16. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 16 - Walk Don’t Run
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    #16 - Walk Don’t Run

    S8:E16

    Kate is determined to compete in the town's annual cross country horse race even though she is pregnant. Her main rival is her sister Penny and neither of them is prepared to let the other one win.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:Denise Morgan

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  17. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 17 - Masquerade
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    #17 - Masquerade

    S8:E17

    Guy attempts to help a battered housewife. Jackie attempts to fend off the affections of a dentist.

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writer:Sue Hore

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  18. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 18 - Against The Current
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    #18 - Against The Current

    S8:E18

    Penny and Steve are looking forward to going on a camping trip but things take an unpleasant turn after they see something shocking. Penny runs off to Melbourne.

    Director:Brendan Maher
    Writers:Tony Cavanaugh, Victoria Madden

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  19. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 19 - Last Of The Cochranes
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    #19 - Last Of The Cochranes

    S8:E19

    Geoff finds himself involved with the Cochrane family again. He goes to Melbourne after receiving a mystifying telephone call and he meets Old Ma Cochrane, mother of Carbine and Pharlap. The 91 year old woman wants to return to the Crossing so that she can die.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:Graham Hartley

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  20. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 20 - Double Life
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    #20 - Double Life

    S8:E20

    Guy receives a massive surprise after his fiancee Fern Wentworth turns up. She wants to win back his heart and turn him into the man she knew before he moved to Coopers Crossing.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:Bevan Lee

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  21. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 21 - Something, Nothing
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    #21 - Something, Nothing

    S8:E21

    Johnno ends up having a near death experience, after flying in a storm, and he thinks about his life. He buys a farm from his friend who is ill with MS and admits his true feelings to Rowie.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Elizabeth Coleman

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  22. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 22 - Family
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    #22 - Family

    S8:E22

    Geoff and Kate get ready to celebrate the birth of their first child. Geoff receives a visit from a paediatrician friend called Colin. After the baby is born, she is ill and needs an operation. The person who is best qualified to perform the surgery is Colin but unfortunately he is now an alcoholic. Kate finds out about his drinking problem and doesn't want him to perform the procedure but if baby Scarlett does not get the operation soon, she will die.

    Director:Catherine Millar
    Writer:Vincent Moran

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  23. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 23 - Being Positive
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    #23 - Being Positive

    S8:E23

    Jackie is pleased after Jerry Davis return to Coopers Crossing but romance is the last thing on his mind. After talking with Geoff about a scar he has on his neck after being involved in a medical emergency, he has some shocking news to deal with.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:Bevan Lee

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  24. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 24 - Open Day
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    #24 - Open Day

    S8:E24

    A young boy who is disfigured with scars is kept away from society by his worried mother. Geoff attempts to rehabilitate them and encourage them back into the community but the mother refuses. After the boy becomes suicidal though it's up to Penny to try to resolve the situation.

    Director:Ian Gilmour
    Writer:Anthony Ellis

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  25. The Flying Doctors Season 8 Episode 25 - Changing Times
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    #25 - Changing Times

    S8:E25

    Geoff and Kate experience city life after they relocate to Melbourne after he has been been given the opportunity to train as a cardiologist. They end up deciding not to leave the Crossing though and move back after not enjoying life in Melbourne. Rowie and Johnno finalise their wedding arrangements and she she gets cold feet.

    Director:Kendal Flanagan
    Writer:Jutta Goetze

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"What A Guy" is the best rated episode of "The Flying Doctors" season 8. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Mark DeFriest and written by Jutta Goetze, it aired on 1/24/1991. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Bad Moon Rising".