A Country Practice
A small-town doctor strives to balance personal ambition with rural duty in this long-running Australian drama, where heartfelt relationships and community challenges test the limits of compassion and resilience.
A Country Practice was an Australian television drama series. At its inception, one of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, who had wrote the pilot episode and entered a script contest for the network in 1979, coming third and winning a merit award. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7
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Shane Porteous
as Dr. Terence Elliott
Brian Wenzel
as Sergeant Frank Gilroy
Lorrae Desmond
as Shirley Gilroy
Chance Porteous
as 488 episodes
Gordon Piper
as Bob Hatfield
Syd Heylen
as Vernon 'Cookie' Locke
Joan Sydney
as Matron Margaret 'Maggie' Sloan
Shane Withington
as Brendan Jones
John Tarrant
as Matt Tyler
Grant Dodwell
as Simon Bowen
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