The Flying Doctors: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
The Gift
Aug 31, 1989
Doctor David Ratcliff from Broken Hill arrives. Jimmy and Sally McCarthy has a caraccident. Sally will be fine, but Jimmy has massive braindamage. David says Jimmy is clinicly dead
Second Chance
Sep 7, 1989
Emma is trying to get a truck out of some water which it has fallen into, Paula is helping her. The truck falls on Emma's arm and she is trapped with her arm under the water. Paula
Not The Malarvys
Sep 14, 1989
The Malarvy-family comes to Coopers Crossing when their daughter is hospitalized due to pneumonia. They have eight children and the oldest daugther looks after the rest of them. Sh
The Adventure
Sep 21, 1989
Luke becomes suspicious of the safari group that arrives in Coopers Crossing. When Paula joins them, Luke follows headlong into the jaws of disaster.
No Man's Land
Sep 28, 1989
Chris and David arrive at a place to do a clinic run, a mother lives there with her 2 daughters. They seem like they have something against men and aren't too keen on David, they w
Rising Sundown
Oct 5, 1989
A lady named Essie Harrington is selling her property. Two japanese men shows up at the auction and they lay the highest bid. This upsets almost everybody, especially since Essie's
Man And Boy
Oct 12, 1989
A young boy named Ricky gets hit by lightning. David, Kate and Sam manages to get there, but the storm makes sure they can't take off. Ricky is in agony and Kate wants to let Ricky
The Longing
Oct 19, 1989
An aboriginal couple, the woman pregnant, has a car accident, but is all right. The man, Joe, gets a job on a farm and his wife Sheena accompanies him. Joe gets fired and they both
Bitter Harvest
Oct 26, 1989
Chemicals are being dumped illegally. A family returns home after a holiday to find crops are dead and stuff all over the place. The father has a row with the man that should've be
The Instrument
Nov 2, 1989
David, Kate and Paula go on a clinic run to where men are working in a mine. A man has cracked ribs, David advises him to stop working but he won't, the man also fights in a boxing
Word & Deed
Nov 9, 1989
Jacko is babtizing a baby who is ralated to Sam. Afterwords Sam discovers some burnmarks on Jacko's hands. He is taken to hospital and diagnosed with leprosy. He can be treated but
All That Glitters
Nov 16, 1989
A rich man called Barry Ryan comes to town. He is out with some horses when Luke, who is nearby, hears a shot. Barry has been shot and is taken to hospital. But Jack has a problem,
Fly Past
Nov 23, 1989
DJ gets a call, a stationhand has a broken leg. Chris flies out and sees the worker - who turns out to be Tom Callaghan!! He isn't too badly hurt and everybody wonders why Tom isn'
The Last Rodeo
Nov 30, 1989
A girl named Kathy complains of stomachpains and Chris does some tests. Kathy's father shows up secretly and he and Kathy leaves during the night. The tests show Kathy is a diabeti
Sky Above, Earth Below
Dec 7, 1989
A little girl named Sophie falls down a mineshaft. Everybody tries to rescue her but it doesn't look too good. In the last minute David saves her, despite his claustrofobia!
Lucky Lady
Dec 14, 1989
An old man is found in the forrest, he claims to be searching for someone. He is dehydrated and goes to hospital, but runs away. It turned out he had crashed a plane outside the Cr
The Chips Are Down
Dec 21, 1989
Nick's father, Jim, and Nick are out driving. Nick is a bit worried, the rumour says his dad takes amphetamine. Nick is asleep, when Jim suddenly can't see properly. He crashes int
Guardian Angel
Dec 28, 1989
Michael and Lee visits an old man named Karl. They work for a mining company and wants to do a survey on Karl's land, but he refuses. When they are on their way Michael starts acti
Battlers
Jan 4, 1990
Nick and his friend Shane works for mr. Logan. Nick hurts his chest and Tom says he needs to rest for 10 days. Mr. Logan doesn't except that and to keep his job Nick keeps working.
No Tears
Jan 11, 1990
A man working for Baxter, Ben, has a caraccident. The RFDS comes and checks him out. They say he need an eyeoperation. But Ben has heard that Baxter wants to fire him, so he grabs
A Doctor's Dreaming
Jan 18, 1990
On the way to a clinic run some medical things fall off the truck and gets left behind. David returns to the hospital with some patients, only Geoff, Kate and Emma left at place. G
Blues For Judy
Jan 25, 1990
A girl who is a friend of Emma's give birth in her car, then leaves the baby outside Emma's front door wanting Emma to look after it - what she doesn't know is that Emma is staying
The Claim
Feb 1, 1990
Lorraine is killed while trying to mend her bridge. Her death leaves her best friend, Judith, to pick up the pieces and fight off a blackmailing claimant on Lorraine's will.
A Rhyme For Reason
Feb 8, 1990
Pip, an elderly lady who is the darling of Coopers Crossing, comes into some money.
Dad's Little Bloke
Feb 15, 1990
The accident of a young boy entangles his family in a web of deceit and suspicion.
A Sporting Life
Feb 22, 1990
Mel Cregan from Coopers Crossing is the big baseballhero in New South Wales. After a great game he and his dad, Kev, are celebrating at the pub with their mates. They are rather dr