Everything you always wanted to know about The Flying Doctors. Dedicated to Lenore Smith and Christopher Stollery.
 

The mini series

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Tom Callaghan, a young, ambitious city doctor, joins the Royal Fling Doctor Service on missions to the homesteads, stock stations and mining camps of outback Australia. His arrival at remote Coopers Crossing coincides with the return to the district of Beth Drever, an Australian who married an American soldier, and her daughter Liz, a New York advertising photographer. Beth has returned to her home country to make crucial decisions about her future and that of the family homestead and sheep station, Corindabella. Liz, a witty and sophisticated New Yorker - the "golden spitfire" - believes her mother’s home country ... parched and sweltering outback Australia ... is hell on earth. Callaghan teams with Doctor Harry Sinclair, a veteran practitioner with the RFDS, who is in ill-health, close to retirement which is not welcomed by the folk at Coopers Crossing. They hold the old doctor in esteem and affection. Not so with Callaghan. The people out-back say the city doctor is too young, inexperienced, too outspoken and too smart ever to become one of them. Their minds are set when Callaghan’s first patient dies. It is in this setting - alien to them both - that the dedicated Australian Doctor, Callaghan, and the driving American career woman, Liz Drever, become irresistibly drawn together ... surviving a spectacular introduction at an RFDS emergency landing. Coopers Crossing is populated with the colourful characters who adorn Australia’s outback ... their loyalties tested at every turn of the story as Callaghan and Sinclair go about their work, often perilously, of healing ... and protecting the RFDS base itself from political closure. For Coopers Crossing is home to the men and women of the Royal Flying Doctors Service. Callaghan, Sinclair, Nurse Kate Wellings and Andy McGregor, the pilot who will fly over, under or around any weather to make a house call. For Callaghan and Liz, it determines their lives apart ... or together.

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