A Country Practice

Season 5

Follow the highs and lows of the townsfolk of Wandin Valley. This drama TV series revolves around the daily happenings of a "small-town" rural Australian hospital and its doctors, nurses, patients, and just about everyone else in the locale. A heartwarming Australian drama series that at times will see you laughing hysterically and at other times crying rivers. Well worth watching.

Where to Watch Season 5

20 Episodes

Follow the Leader (1)
E1
Follow the Leader (1)Jeremy Gunn - (Jayson Duncan), is expelled from a private boarding school for marijuana posession. There is more to that than meets the eye he is covering up for others as he has a low self- esteem. So he returns home to his father Tom (T.B.A)who is the neighbour of Brendon & Molly Jones - (Shane Withington & Anne Tenney). Jeremy's mother has left Tom and is travelling Europe somewhere. Tom is depressed and this trouble with Jeremy is the last thing he needs and there is tension between the two as Jeremy reminds Tom of his mother and believes the boy to be useless. Jeremy attends Burrigan High where he hooks up with some local lads he was mates with pre boarding school and they are all at the age where they are learning to drive. Jeremy seeks lessons from Brendan as his father has not got the patience. Craig Morrison was one of those lads, we worked together often in the 1980's. So i cannot remember exactly where Episode 1 ended but...Jeremy couldn't drive well at all, though bravado m
Follow the Leader (2)
E2
Follow the Leader (2)With Terence away on vacation, locum Ingrid Scanlon arrives to fill in, but Esme and the town don't seem quite ready for a female doctor. The doctors are kept busy giving hepatitis vaccinations after a hotel worker is found to have the disease. Tom Gunn's son, Jeremy, makes an unceremonious return home after being expelled from a private school in Sydney for possession of marijuana after his fleet-of-foot friends left him literally "holding the bag."
Comes a Stranger (1)
E3
Comes a Stranger (1)While sitting down for a drink with Bob at the pub, Father McBride scolds him for being a lapsed catholic. With him and Molly just struggling to pay the bills, Brendan doesn't appreciate hearing Simon talk about his plans for a grandiose six week European vacation -- or his suggestion that he and Molly come along.
Comes a Stranger (2)
E4
Comes a Stranger (2)
For the Sake of the Child (1)
E5
For the Sake of the Child (1)Molly leaves for Adelaide to help care for her ailing mother, but Donovan eats the instructions for feeding the animals she left Brendan.
For the Sake of the Child (2)
E6
For the Sake of the Child (2)
On the Edge (1)
E7
On the Edge (1)New nursing sister Marion Waring, who has come up from Sydney where she headed the casualty ward of a major hospital, proves to be a model of efficiency.
On the Edge (2)
E8
On the Edge (2)
Swan Song (1)
E9
Swan Song (1)Simon is desperate to defeat John Hamilton, a new lawyer living in Burrigan, in an upcoming golf tournament and employs various aids to help his game.
Swan Song (2)
E10
Swan Song (2)
Smooth Talking (1)
E11
Smooth Talking (1)From the moment he arrives on her doorstep looking for the "man of the house" to help de-bog his Rolls Royce, Vicky does not think very highly of the pompous Jonathan Hawthorn, a vacationing playwright who is looking after Bernard Haines' farm.
Smooth Talking (2)
E12
Smooth Talking (2)
Home Truths (1)
E13
Home Truths (1)A Miss Country Hospital beauty quest is in the works and not wanting to be upstaged by Matron Arrowsmith's entry, Burrigan's beautiful Nurse Marilyn Legge, Maggie commands Judy to enter on behalf of the Wandin Valley Hospital.
Home Truths (2)
E14
Home Truths (2)
Seasons Come & Seasons Go (1)
E15
Seasons Come & Seasons Go (1)Frank is furious when he can't discover who wrote the bad review about his play. A popular country and western singer comes to the valley with his teenage daughter.
Seasons Come & Seasons Go (2)
E16
Seasons Come & Seasons Go (2)Simon is estatic when he hears Vicky's good news. Judy helps a young girl cope with the pressures of adolescence. Terence has to face the dilemma of breaking bad news to a close friend.
I'll Cry If I Want To (1)
E17
I'll Cry If I Want To (1)Terence makes a morning house call to the Jones' farm to talk with Molly and Brendan and to answer some of their questions, referring them to an oncologist in Sydney.
I'll Cry If I Want To (2)
E18
I'll Cry If I Want To (2)
My Way (1)
E19
My Way (1)Alf Muldoon returns to Wandin Valley from his travels abroad in America. Simon and Vicky are visited by Simon's well-to-do brother Nicholas, his American wife Melanie, and their overly-precocious ten-year-old daughter Fern who finds fault with everything Simon and Vicky have or do.
My Way (2)
E20
My Way (2)