The Flying Doctors: Season 3
Season 3 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 The Flying Doctors Season 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
The Noble Art
Mar 3, 1988
A boxing troupe arrive and one of them is ex-champion Johnny Lawrence who is after Kate. Geoff is jealousy but keeps his distance. Johnny suffers a heart problem and has to give up
Sapphire
Mar 10, 1988
Sapphire is a woman who is married and lives with her husband and his sister. Her husband is alot older than her and everyone thinks Sapphire is after his money. The sister in the
Cries From The Heart
Mar 17, 1988
A man and his 8yr old daughter Tracy are in a car crash and Tracy wanders off. A woman reports to Jack that she has met the girl but Jack doesn't believe her as there is no evidenc
All In A Day's Work
Mar 24, 1988
It's inspection time at the base and the inspector hasn' t arrived. The team are busy flying around the district and are unable to make the clinic run. Guess who's at the clinic ru
Out Of A Clear Blue Sky
Mar 31, 1988
Marty the mechanic arrives and causes problems for DJ at the disco, while Jack is out of town sorting out his divorce in the hope that Chris and he will get together.
Affirmative Action
Apr 7, 1988
Sam and Emma come to the aid of a friend who has entered 'The Great Australian Camel Race'; and George Baxter finds himself besieged after incurring the wrath of the town's womenfo
Figures In A Landscape
Apr 14, 1988
An artist and his agent arrive in town to find a bush retreat to boost his flagging career, but is the visit just a cover for something more sinister? Meanwhile, Chris finally conf
The Devil You Know
Apr 21, 1988
George Baxter meets his match when he comes up against a tough American business woman.
Operating Solo
Apr 28, 1988
An explosion at a gas field injures Geoff, and Kate accompanies him for therapy at Broken Hill—will romance blossom? Chris has to perform an emergency operation, and DJ has to wi
The Path Of True Love
May 5, 1988
The RFDS come to the aid of a tourist bus stranded by a flood. One of the passengers is seriously ill, and it looks as if she will die alone until a 25-year-old love affair is reki
The First Step
May 26, 1988
Geoff has to be cruel to be kind to help a young woman recuperate from a stroke, while for DJ, woo turns to woe.
Hopscotch
Jun 2, 1988
When a young, penniless woman expecting her third baby is deserted by her husband, the town's sympathy is aroused.
Jacks High
Jun 9, 1988
Things look nasty in Coopers Crossing when the town is invaded by a wild bunch of shearers and Jack is accidentally shot. Will the town be able to find somebody with his rare blood
Clapped Out
Jun 16, 1988
The RFDS come to the rescue of two old timers trying to save their heritage from the rapacious George Baxter.
Private Lives, Public Faces
Jun 23, 1988
A new cop Larry O'Connor and his dog Rebel arrive in town and he is eager to make an impression. He starts out by arresting the youths who broke into Baxter's office. DJ is panicki
Wedlock
Jun 30, 1988
A boy finds out his mother is having an affair with another landowner. The boy falls off his horse and complains of pain in his legs. chris can find nothing wrong with the boy and
The Wrangler's Daughter
Jul 7, 1988
A Wrangler and his mental impaired daughter are camping out in the bush. The wrangler's boss Richard Sawyer frightens the girl who runs away, and when her father goes looking for h
Borrowed Time
Jul 14, 1988
A crop duster friend of Sam's named Bob gets work for Baxter but he has turned into a Enviromentalist and sprays water/milk over the crops. Baxter is not impressed and wants Consta
The Forbidden
Jul 21, 1988
A land inspector visits falls down a cave after being warned by an aboriginal spirit to stay away. He is rescued but becomes very ill. Geoff asks Dougie for help in getting the cur
She'll Be Right
Jul 28, 1988
Hurtle returns to the crossing driving a Rolls Royce, which is stolen, but he doesn't know. Constable O'Connor is advised to look out for the stolen car, so Hurtle and Vic start hi
One Final Request
Aug 4, 1988
Mike has left his Tiger Moth plane to Chris, after going to France to his kids. Geoff and Kate comes to and old lady with a heart condition. Geoff wants to put her in hospital, but
Roxanne
Aug 11, 1988
Emma is going out to fix a tractor, despite Sam's and Paula's protests. On the road she sees a car in trouble. Inside she finds Roxanne and Kenny, both on the run from the police a
Don't Tell Anybody
Aug 18, 1988
A school picnic is held at a property belonging to a man named Rodney. He claims a ghost lives there to, Mick. Geoff and Kate are there, to teach the kids first aid. Later on the t
No Way Back
Aug 25, 1988
Emma is visiting a lady called Ann Williams on a farm outside of town. George Baxter wants to buy the property, but Ann doesn't want to sell, she has too many memories from the far
Johnnie Come Home
Sep 1, 1988
A man named Harry has inherited a kidneydisease from his father and needs a new kidney. The only one who might be able to give it to him is his brother Johnnie, but he disappeared