The Flying Doctors

- Season 6

(1990)

Two strangers visit Coopers Crossing in search of a bed for the night.

A new RDS pilot lands himself in trouble when he gives a lift to an old rascal called Felix.

When Chris thinks she has stumbled across a case of police brutality, she does everything in her power to intervene.

Memories come flooding back for Tom Callaghan when an old girlfriend flies into Coopers Crossing.

Nick discovers an overturned truck containing an old lady and two little girls.

Vic and Nancy bicker constantly but when Nancy falls down the stairs by accident, things take a turn for the worse. Only a dangerous operation can prevent her from being paralysed for the rest of her life.

Word gets around that a prominent professor is to visit Coopers Crossing to see Chris about a job. DJ has a mystery to work out when a young boy radios in about an accident involving his mother but their location and identity are not clear enough to send immediate assistance.

What begins as a routine clinic run to Mondobella Homestead turns into a series of disasters - and they all come down to one woman, Pauline Grant.

Tom is blinded and trapped in the bush after a car accident.

DJ's father announces that his son will be accompanying him back to Greece to help run the family business.

David's past catches up with him when two old university friends, Peter and Karen, come to visit him at Cooper's Crossing.

When charter pilot Doug Holland flies into Coopers Crossing to refuel his aircraft, a nightmare begins for Geoff, Kate and the other doctors.

Typical Aussie outback man Whistler, who loves Alice but has avoided marriage for 20 years, discovers that the time has come to make a decision. In order to raise some extra money so that he will be able to support her, he attempts cattle rustling - but collapses in the process.

A young girl blames herself for her sister's drowning and loses the will to walk. While taking her to Broken Hill for tests, the plane makes a forced landing, and Geoff and Kate decide to stay the night in an eerie homestead occupied by two strange sisters.

When Nick and David go searching for Dan Jackson, an asthmatic who works in an opal mine, they find more than they expected.

When Peta Rowlands and her daughter Kim arrive at Coopers Crossing, Kim soon develops a crush on Tom. The residents tease Tom about it but he suspects that Kim has a serious problem.

A bizarre incident occurs when following an accident, Tim Sewell is nearly incinerated in the boot of his father's car and refuses to speak about it.

David goes in search of a Vietnam veteran who badly needs a heart by-pass, and ends up becoming surrogate father to a dog.

While out horse riding one afternoon, Nick and Annie make a gruesome discovery that may contain the answer to a six-year-old mystery.

Chris undergoes an emotional crisis after receiving some devastating news about her father.