A Country Practice: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of A Country Practice Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Sanctuary (Part 1)
· 46 min
A Chilean refugee tries to make a new life for himself in Wandin Valley, but ghosts of his past come back to haunt him.
Message In A Bottle (Part 1)
· 46 min
A mysterious stranger arrives in town and confuses everyone with his various stories. All is revealed later at Camelot when a party game turns ugly.
Endangered Species (Part 1)
· 46 min
Alex tries to help a woman who lives in fear of her husband's violent temper. Charlie McKeachnie is back in town and Cookie is not happy.
Play It Again (Part 1)"
· 46 min
Matron Sloan wins the lottery and everyone has suggestions on how she should spend the money. Jo and Michael go to Bribie Island to visit his family.
Mothers And Daughters (Part 1)
· 46 min
Alex starts having contractions and his convinced she is losing the baby. Jo goes to Sydney to try and find her mother.
Fool's Gold (Part 1)
· 46 min
Shirley is having trouble coping with Jo and Michael's impending departure from Wandin Valley. Alex warns a young athlete about the dangers of taking steroids.
On The Threshold (Part 1)
· 46 min
Preparations are well underway for Michael and Jo's wedding, but things don't go quite as smoothly at the buck's night.
Last Of The Summer Wine (Part 1)
· 46 min
Shirley and Frank try to adjusted to life without Jo. Alex is wondering about her purpose in life and is readily losing patience with her patients.
Snake In The Grass (Part 1)
· 46 min
New nurse Lucy Gardiner tries Matron Sloan's patience but winds up charming Bob.
Burnout (Part 1)
· 46 min
The latest new locum is giving Shirley a hard time and has Esme close to tears – but her effect on Terence is quite the opposite.
Pick Of The Crop (Part 1)
· 46 min
A farmer's wife ends up with severe poisoning from a lethal mix of pesticides.
Nobody's Fool (Part 1)
· 46 min
Everyone is waiting for a glimpse of the girl Cris describes as his “Beautiful Jessie”.
Playing With Fire (Part 1)
· 46 min
Matron Sloan is worried about the hospital's future and takes her anger out on Lucy. Jessie starts at her new school.
Baby Makes Three (Part 1)
· 46 min
Matron Hilda Arrowsmith arrives at the hospital and Maggie is convinced her old nemesis is up to no good.
Ticket To Ride (Part 1)
· 46 min
Frank tries to track down a runaway girl who is in town with the carnival and Frank and Shirley try to help the girl.
Taking A Chance (Part 1)
· 46 min
Cathy and Lucy are waiting for a certain doctor to ask them to the "Bachelor and Spinster" ball.
She Loves Me Not (Part 1)
· 46 min
Lucy helps a man involved in a car accident who then becomes dangerously obsessed with her.
Young Hearts (Part 1)
· 46 min
Romance hits the over-fifty set of Wandin Valley with the formation of a new club. Cris gets involved with two elderly sisters living in the past.
Illusions (Part 1)
· 46 min
When Terence leaves to visit Alex, Cris’ old friend Sandy McIntosh fills in as the latest locum.
The Food Of Love (Part 1)
· 46 min
Famine strikes Wandin Valley as the residents take part in a forty-hour famine for charity.
Handle With Care (Part 1)
· 46 min
Cathy has an unexpected house guest, her sister-in-law Michelle. Terence helps Michelle understand the reasons behind her illness.
Fly Away Home (Part 1)
· 46 min
The Wandin Valley Bush Brigade is on its way to raising money, its membership, and frequency of its drill practices. Matt says he is leaving town.
Give Me Shelter (Part 1)
· 46 min
Matt has begun to pack, ready for the big move. He has put his practice up for sale.
Fellow Travellers (Part 1)
· 46 min
A road accident throws two unlikely characters together, a one-legged bike riding grandma and Skeeter Martin.
Apparitions (Part 1)
· 46 min
The locals are looking forward to the return visit of cricket star Stewart Richmond. When the hospital staff find out, they over-react.
Love Is Blind (Part 1)
· 46 min
Ruth and Terence meet when they are out painting the countryside and are instantly attracted to one another.
Birthright (Part 1)
· 46 min
Terence arrives in Marla Nigurra, with one goal in mind – he wants to return home to Wandin Valley with Alex.
A Delicate Balance (Part 1)
· 46 min
Shirley returns from her Queensland holiday to find a new computer installed at the clinic.
Defence Of The Realm (Part 1)
· 46 min
Pollution and the environment become issues in the Valley following Lucy's visit to the local Up.
Just One Look (Part 1)
· 46 min
Lucy and Muldoon argue over the state of the tip and she unearths some interesting information with the help of the eccentric Vincent D. Smith.
Can't Buy Me Love (Part 1)
· 46 min
Adam Campbell returns to the valley, but he is reluctant to go home to see his father. Luke and Jessie play a profitable joke on Frank.
Pride And Joy (Part 1)
· 46 min
Cris is accused of mistreating Jessie and is investigated by Maureen Hutchins firm "Family and Community Services".
Race Day (Part 1)
· 46 min
Racial prejudice rears its ugly head with the arrival of a beautiful Thai locum – Dr. Sumatra Pasert.
Hook, Line And Sinker (Part 1)
· 46 min
Matt's Valley Vet radio show is attracting some very strange callers. Esme is delighted with her new job as governess to Jessie.
Bel Canto (Part 1)
· 46 min
Cathy returns from Kakadu with a smile on her face. Could it have something to do with a mysterious helicopter pilot?
Natural Selection (Part 1)
· 46 min
Clem Pollard presents Terence with an intriguing case when he appears in the Valley to save trees.
Playing It Safe (Part 1)
· 46 min
Dave and Jenny Cooper face the past when their son is injured in Jessie's new tree house. Muldoon is up to no good again with his plans of building a Lakeview hotel.
Call To Arms (Part 1)
· 46 min
Cookie and Bob decide to join Esme's Brownie troop. Matt and Lucy unearth an old diary which reveals the Councilor's past.
Future Shock (Part 1)
· 46 min
Frank and Shirley stand on opposite sides as the locals fight to stop the proposed dam development by Ted Kagan.
For Pity's Sake (Part 1)
· 46 min
The Wandin Valley protestors are dismayed when young Ashley Lawson is sent to defend them. A very frightened Shirley keeps a vigil at Frank's bedside.
Flashback (Part 1)
· 46 min
Lucy is injured in a game of tennis with Matt and it turns out to be more serious than initially thought.
Stand By Me (Part 1)
· 46 min
Luke and Shirley plan a car rally to raise money for the Xavier refuge. Francis Daley is diagnosed with manic depression which leaves Keith astounded.