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Country Practice
 Australia
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Seven
Network / 1058x60m-e / 1981-93 (plus 30 more episodes in 1994)
Creator/Executive
Producer: James Davern
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 Drama
series. Episodes in the lives of the residents of the rural town of
Wandin Valley in New South Wales, especially focusing on the vets
practice, the hospital and the pub. This popular series won a massive
29 logies during its run. In 1994 the series briefly returned for 30
more episodes (with Robyn Sinclair and James Davern as Executive
Producers) on the Ten Network but with wholesale changes made to the
format and cast the show was quickly dropped, it went to just one
episode per week, the location was changed from New South Wales to
Victoria and the only original cast members to return were Joyce
Jacobs and Joan Sydney. The pet Wombat featured in the show was called
Fatso. A lot of emphasis was placed on the scripts making the show
still stand up pretty well today. Creator Davern
was also the man behind that other rural Aussie
classic Bellbird. One of the series biggest
highpoints was the 1983 wedding between Simon
and Vicky. Many of the storylines were
suggested by newspaper articles or from the
Australian Medical Association. (The show went
out of its way to give advice on various medical
problems like heart disease and so on).
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Cast
SHANE
PORTEOUS as Terence Elliott / JOYCE JACOBS as Esme Watson / BRIAN
WENZEL as Frank Gilroy / GORDON PIPER as Bob Hatfield / GRANT DODWELL
as Simon Bowen / HELEN SCOTT as Marta Kertesz (1981-83) / ANNE TENNEY
as 'Molly' Jones (1981-85) / PENNY COOK as Vicky Dean ( 1981-85) /
SHANE WITHINGTON as Brendan Jones (1981-86) / SYD HEYLEN as
Vernon "Cookie" Locke(1982-92) / WENDY STREHLOW as Judy
Loveday(1982-86) / JOAN SYDNEY as Margaret "Maggie" Sloan
(1983-90) / JOHN TARRANT as Matthew Tyler(1988-92) / GEORGIE PARKER as
Lucy Gardiner(1989-92) / KYM WILSON as Darcy Hudson(1991-93) /
1994
CAST:- Joan Sydney as Maggie
Sloan / Andrew Blackman as Harry Morrison / Joyce Jacobs as Esme
Watson / Paul Gleeson as Ian McIntyre / Claudia Black as Claire
Bonacci / Vince Colosimo as Danny Sabatini / Jane Hal as lJessamy
"Jess" Morrison / Laura Armstrong as Georgina
"Georgie" Wilks
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