A Country Practice

A Country Practice

The highs and lows of the Wandin Valley residents, from the patients and staff at the rural town's hospital, to the locals and their everyday lives.

Genre: DramaRomance

Cast:Shane PorteousBrian WenzelLorrae DesmondJoyce JacobsGordon PiperSyd HeylenJoan SydneyShane WithingtonJohn TarrantGrant DodwellPenny CookAnne TenneyGeorgie ParkerJosephine MitchellDi SmithMaureen EdwardsKate RaisonAndrew Blackman


1Season 8

S8.E1 ∙ A Clean Slate: Part 1

1988

An itinerant farm labourer's reluctance to settle down is putting a strain on his marriage and prompting his wife to hit the bottle. The locals have conflicting views on how best to put Lover's Gully to good use.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ A Clean Slate: Part 2

1988

Councillor Alf Muldoon is up to no good again when he announces his plans for Lover's Gully forcing the locals to put Operation Platypus into action. Is there romance in the air for Terence and Alex?

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ Mixed Blessings: Part 1

1988

When Leanne Madden learns that she is pregnant, her husband, Dave, isn't exactly overjoyed. They already have one child with Down's Syndrome and Dave is fearful that they could end up with another.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ Mixed Blessings: Part 2

1988

Alex is hesitant about giving Terence an answer, as she is scared to make a commitment. After discussing it with Cathy, Alex decides to go to Canberra with Terence.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ Learning the Lessons: Part 1

1988

Jo has a hard time dealing with an over-zealous rookie cop. And when he decides to interfere in her love life, Jo blows her top. Terence and Alex return from Canberra very much in love.

6Season 8

S8.E6 ∙ Learning the Lessons: Part 2

1988

Andrew the chef has personal problems which means trouble for both staff and patients at the hospital. The town is awash with gossip of Terence and Alex's romance.

7Season 8

S8.E7 ∙ Revelations: Part 1

1988

Ben is captivated by Millie Alcott, an innocent girl who has grown up out of touch with the modern world.

8Season 8

S8.E8 ∙ Revelations: Part 2

1988

Alex feels that she cannot compete with Sophie and tells Cathy she's not exciting enough for Terence. Michael helps an old Jazz musician get back on his feet.

9Season 8

S8.E9 ∙ Revelations: Part 3

1988

Alex is torn between her professional ethics and her feelings for Terence and cannot decide whether or not to tell him that his daughter has a drug problem.

10Season 8

S8.E10 ∙ Revelations: Part 4

1988

Terence decides to help his daughter fight her problem - whether she wants his assistance of not. Michael and Ben are at loggerheads over Ben's involvement with Millie.

11Season 8

S8.E11 ∙ Tomorrow's News: Part 1

1988

A hard-nosed television journalist arrives in Wandin Valley to do a piece on Frank Gilroy, but has some trouble finding an exciting angle for the story

12Season 8

S8.E12 ∙ Tomorrow's News: Part 2

1988

A full-scale search is organised when two patients go missing from the hospital. Alex accepts Terence's proposal.

13Season 8

S8.E13 ∙ Love Hurts: Part 1

1988

Jo's friend Darren Greenway is having more problems than usual with his father. Ron owns a junkyard and is trying to force his son to leave school in order to help with the business.

14Season 8

S8.E14 ∙ Love Hurts: Part 2

1988

Jo organises self-defence classes at the club and is crushed when Michael falls for the teacher. With a bit of input from their friends, Terence and Alex reluctantly agree on a big wedding.

15Season 8

S8.E15 ∙ Give Me a Break: Part 1

1988

Jo and Cathy think they've discovered a Yowie in the National Park but what they really find is an escaped murdered who's been hiding out for more than twenty years.

16Season 8

S8.E16 ∙ Give Me a Break: Part 2

1988

Alex is lumbered with a pre-wedding talk from the Reverend, while Bob organises a buck's night for Terence. After injuring his back, Ben succeeds in annoying both the hospital staff and his friends with his irritable behaviour.

17Season 8

S8.E17 ∙ In Sickness and in Health: Part 1

1988

There are pre-wedding jitters all around as the big day draws near. Alex's parents arrive in town and her father immediately takes over, causing Alex and Terence to have a blazing row.

18Season 8

S8.E18 ∙ In Sickness and in Health: Part 2

1988

The wedding arrives but Frank's precise schedule falls apart when Matt Tyler enlists his help to unbog his car, leaving Alex waiting at the church. Terence ends up arriving at the church on a bicycle, but there is still no sign of Frank.

19Season 8

S8.E19 ∙ Matters of the Heart: Part 1

1988

Jo's father unexpectedly arrives in the Valley along with a little sister Jo never knew she had. Ben's former girlfriend, Barbara, arrives at the hospital to take care of him.

20Season 8

S8.E20 ∙ Matters of the Heart: Part 2

1988

Matt finds himself in the dog house when one of his patients passes away. Penny decides to stay with her grandparents in Sydney rather than returns to the Valley with Alex and Terence.

21Season 8

S8.E21 ∙ Matters of the Heart: Part 3

1988

Jo resolves to look after her little sister, but Frank and Shirley realise this can't go on forever. Ben's future as a country vet is in doubt as a result of his accident.

22Season 8

S8.E22 ∙ Matters of the Heart: Part 4

1988

Ben and Barbara decide to leave the Valley and the locals throw them a party to send them on their way. Jo moves out of the Gilroys.

23Season 8

S8.E23 ∙ Common Cause: Part 1

1988

After treating a twelve-year-old girl who thinks she is pregnant, Alex decides the time has come to set up a community health centre in the Valley.

24Season 8

S8.E24 ∙ Common Cause: Part 2

1988

A young couple find their relationship put to the test when one of them reveals they have a sexually transmitted disease. Jo enlists Michael's help in catching a prowler.

25Season 8

S8.E25 ∙ Fallen Idols: Part 1

1988

Jo and Sandy plan a romantic dinner party but the evening does not go the way they'd hoped or planned.

26Season 8

S8.E26 ∙ Fallen Idols: Part 2

1988

Tommy Hibbert returns to Wandin Valley from prison to a frosty reception from his "friends" and family. The doctors have some bad news for old Polly Waterford.

27Season 8

S8.E27 ∙ False Pretences: Part 1

1988

Alex organises the opening of the Community Health Centre to a less-than-spectacular reception. Cathy and Matt go droving and and up spending the night under the stars together.

28Season 8

S8.E28 ∙ False Pretences: Part 2

1988

Sandy finally learns the truth about her married boyfriend.

29Season 8

S8.E29 ∙ Dark Horses: Part 1

1988

After receiving a bang on the head, Bob mysteriously develops clairvoyant powers. A young woman returns from a holiday cruise to find that she is pregnant.

30Season 8

S8.E30 ∙ Dark Horses: Part 2

1988

Cathy is bitten by a deadly snake and ends up in hospital, leaving Matt and Michael to cope with the farm.

31Season 8

S8.E31 ∙ Going the Distance: Part 1

1988

A boy's illness could be a lot more serious than it appears. Michael's attempt to help a man who has given up the will to live fails. Matt is offered first refusal on Ben's practice.

32Season 8

S8.E32 ∙ Going the Distance: Part 2

1988

Matt beats Ted Campbell's age-old long distance record to raise money for Jake Cooper's medical treatment, causing Cathy to see Matt in a whole new light. Jo and Sandy give the tuck-shop some competition.

33Season 8

S8.E33 ∙ Seeing the Light: Part 1

1988

UFOs in Wandin Valley? It certainly seems that way after Bob and Cookie discover a landing site, and when a strange man is admitted to hospital, Esme thinks he is an alien.

34Season 8

S8.E34 ∙ Seeing the Light: Part 2

1988

After discovering the identity of the stranger, Frank is determined to get to the bottom of the great UFO mystery. A man makes a fool of himself over a young woman.

35Season 8

S8.E35 ∙ No Place Like Home: Part 1

1988

Michael and Cathy spend a romantic afternoon on the river. Alex's dream to help the tenants of a dilapidated boarding house backfire when the landlady decides to evict them.

36Season 8

S8.E36 ∙ No Place Like Home: Part 2

1988

An old man refuses to leave his home and barricades himself in. Sandy leaves Jo's flat and moves to Burrigan. Alex and Cathy convince the landlady to get the repairs done on the old house.

37Season 8

S8.E37 ∙ Everybody's Doing It: Part 1

1988

Jo's search for a new flatmate ends when Sally Lewis moves in, but Jo doesn't know Sally as well as she thought.

38Season 8

S8.E38 ∙ Everybody's Doing It: Part 2

1988

Michael and Matt try to force Cathy to see a doctor. Jo finds it hard to deal with the fact that her flatmate is a drug dealer.

39Season 8

S8.E39 ∙ Sparring Partners: Part 1

1988

Jeff and Jill Ryan appear to be the perfect couple but looks can be deceiving.

40Season 8

S8.E40 ∙ Sparring Partners: Part 2

1988

A girl's attraction to a married man leads to a dangerous turn of events. Jo ends up in hospital as a patient when she collapses out of sheer exhaustion.

41Season 8

S8.E41 ∙ Hard Act to Follow: Part 1

1988

An aging drifter and his granddaughter arrive in town. When Esme is charmed by the stranger, Cookie is less than pleased.

42Season 8

S8.E42 ∙ Hard Act to Follow: Part 2

1988

A boy's hopes for a brilliant career nose-dive when he's caught cheating. Esme and Charlie have second thoughts.

43Season 8

S8.E43 ∙ Thanks for the Memory: Part 1

1988

A woman's memory lapse and her forgetfulness proves almost fatal when she sets her house on fire. Shirley develops a severe case of triskadekaphobia - a fear of the number thirteen.

44Season 8

S8.E44 ∙ Thanks for the Memory: Part 2

1988

A woman decides to sacrifice the man she loves because of her mother's incurable illness.

45Season 8

S8.E45 ∙ Stand and Deliver: Part 1

1988

A boy who believes he is descended from Captain Midnight takes to his ancestor's bush-ranging ways.

46Season 8

S8.E46 ∙ Stand and Deliver: Part 2

1988

The town is in an uproar over the Bicentennial Art Exhibition-ist. Eddy Midnight and company smash a dog fighting ring.

47Season 8

S8.E47 ∙ Young Girls: Part 1

1988

A Reform School girl arrives for work experience at the park and takes a fancy to Matt.

48Season 8

S8.E48 ∙ Young Girls: Part 2

1988

A girl with epilepsy has trouble coming to terms with her condition. Michael tries to explain how he feels to Jo, but she doesn't seem to want to listen.

49Season 8

S8.E49 ∙ Paddling Your Own Canoe: Part 1

1988

Jo's HSC results arrive. Terence tries to convince the mother of a terminally ill boy to give her son a chance to enjoy life.

50Season 8

S8.E50 ∙ Paddling Your Own Canoe: Part 2

1988

After Alex accidentally drinks one of Terence's prized wines, she and Cathy decide to join a wine appreciation class to get more clued up on good plonk. Jo finds herself falling for someone other than Michael.