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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!

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor...
Genre:Drama
Network:Nine Network

Season 8 Ratings Summary

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

  • What A Guy
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    #1 - What A Guy

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/1991

    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

  • Bad Moon Rising
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    #2 - Bad Moon Rising

    Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/31/1991

    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

  • A New Life
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    #3 - A New Life

    Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/1991

    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

  • Through Thick And Thin
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    #4 - Through Thick And Thin

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 2/14/1991

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

    Director: Ian Gilmour

    Writer: John Coulter

  • Deceptions
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    #5 - Deceptions

    Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/1991

    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

  • None So Blind
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    #6 - None So Blind

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 2/28/1991

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

    Director: Catherine Millar

    Writer: Denise Morgan

  • Sleep Of Reason
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    #7 - Sleep Of Reason

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 3/7/1991

    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

  • My Mother’s Child
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    #8 - My Mother’s Child

    Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 3/14/1991

    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

  • Swinging On The Rope
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    #9 - Swinging On The Rope

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 3/21/1991

    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

  • Father and Son
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    #10 - Father and Son

    Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/1991

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

    Director: Brendan Maher

    Writer: Elizabeth Coleman

  • A Little Miracle
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    #11 - A Little Miracle

    Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/1991

    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

  • Murphy’s Law
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    #12 - Murphy’s Law

    Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/1991

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

    Director: Mark DeFriest

    Writer: Vincent Moran

  • Breaking down the wall
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    #13 - Breaking down the wall

    Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/1991

    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

  • Once Bitten
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    #14 - Once Bitten

    Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/1991

    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

  • Clipped Wings
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    #15 - Clipped Wings

    Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/1991

    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

  • Walk Don’t Run
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    #16 - Walk Don’t Run

    Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/1991

    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

  • Masquerade
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    #17 - Masquerade

    Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/1991

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

    Director: Brendan Maher

    Writer: Sue Hore

  • Against The Current
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    #18 - Against The Current

    Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/1991

    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

    Writer: Tony Cavanaugh, Victoria Madden

  • Last Of The Cochranes
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    #19 - Last Of The Cochranes

    Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 6/6/1991

    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

  • Double Life
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    #20 - Double Life

    Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/1991

    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

  • Something, Nothing
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    #21 - Something, Nothing

    Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 6/20/1991

    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

  • Family
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    #22 - Family

    Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/1991

    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

  • Being Positive
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    #23 - Being Positive

    Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/1991

    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

  • Open Day
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    #24 - Open Day

    Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 7/11/1991

    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

  • Changing Times
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    #25 - Changing Times

    Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 7/18/1991

    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