A Country Practice (1981)

Genre

soap opera

Country

Australia

Length

13 seasons, 1048 episodes

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This show takes place in a small Australian town centered around a bush nursing hospital. It follows the daily lives, work, and personal dramas of the local residents and medical staff. The series shows both everyday moments and more serious events in the community.

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What happens

A Country Practice is an Australian television soap opera/serial which was broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 22 November 1993, and subsequently on Network Ten from 13 April 1994 to 5 November 1994. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,088 episodes were produced. The series was set in the fictional rural town of Wandin Valley, New South Wales and centred around the permanent residents and visitors of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, with other scenes taking place at the associated medical clinics, local police station, RSL club, and throughout the wider Valley, including the neighbouring town of Burrigan. The show was produced at the ATN-7's production facility at Epping. Pitt Town and Oakville, suburbs on the outskirts of northwest Sydney, Australia, were used for most of the exterior filming; Oakville's historic heritage-listed Clare House, built in 1838, served as the location for the series' primary setting. The series featured Gold Logie award-winning former variety star Lorrae Desmond, and several of the other regular cast members became popular celebrities as a result of their roles in the series. It also featured a number of native Australian animals, particularly the iconic "Fatso the wombat", adding to its appeal both domestically and internationally. After the series was cancelled by the Seven Network in 1993, the series was briefly relaunched on Network Ten in 1994. At the time of its cancellation, A Country Practice was the longest-running Australian TV drama; however, by the late 1990s, that record was surpassed by Network Ten series Neighbours. At the height of its popularity, the show attracted 8–10 million Australian viewers weekly (at a time when the population of Australia was 15 million). The series was eventually sold to, and broadcast in, 48 countries. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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