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167. What a guy
A new doctor and nurse arrive in Coopers Crossing. Unfortunately, since
he's charming but arrogant and she's tired of overbearing city doctors,
the stage is set for a clash.



168. Bad moon rising
A man collapses at an oil drilling rig. Johnno and David arrive there.
The boss running the rig knows Johnno and doesn't like him, something
which happened in the past. The boss wants the man back at work, so he
discharges himself from hospital, but he collapses again and David is
called out again. This time the ground is very wet and muddy and Johnno
has difficulties getting the plane off the ground; his past comes back
to haunt him. But after removing the chairs and stuff from inside the
plane to make it lighter, he manages.



169. A new life
Gail delivers her baby under very hard circumstances in the Nomad. She
gets a depression and don't want anything to do with the baby. Gail and
her husband decide to let the baby stay with Geoff and Kate for a while.
It turns out Gail hasn't cope with her father's dead and has a problem
with her parents-in-law who are constantly deciding everything for her
and Des.



170. Trough thick and thin
The doctors are called on to help a pair of English girls who are
stranded in the outback. One of them is seriously ill. Guy and Johnno
like the girls a lot.



171. Deceptions
David has decided to leave Coopers Crossing and do something else with
his life. A man sacks a jackeroo - the jackeroo has been seeing his
daughter - and tells him to keep away from her. The jackeroo and
daughter are having a row - she falls and bangs her head. David is on
the way there but sees the jackeroo setting fire to a cabin and tries to
stop him, but the jackeroo hits him. David has to spend a night in
hospital and misses his leaving party at the pub. The next day David
leaves the hospital and hears some shouting. He finds the jackeroo stuck
half way down a cliff on a ledge. David goes down to him, then goes back
up to call the base. Johnno, Geoff and Kate turn up, they throw a
stretcher down to David but it gets caught on something, David tries to
free it and slips and falls upside down. He can't get himself back up
and falls down to the bottom of the cliff. Geoff rushes down to see him,
but David is dead.



172. None so blind
When her car breaks down, Kate gets battery acid in her eyes. She can't
see anything and it is not sure if she ever will see again. But
everything turns out fine! Meanwhile an aboriginal woman helps out at
the base. Not everyone is pleased with this!



173. Sleep of reason
The arrival of Kate's younger sister Penny is shrouded in mystery. She
turns out to be subdued and secretive, while Magda also has a secret and
makes a shocking announcement.



174. My mother’s child
Clare is called by an agency about her son Steve she has given up on
adoption. She is very tense about it all. Just as Penny thinks there is
nothing to do in Coopers Crossing, Steve arrives by bus.



175. Swinging on the rope
A wealthy and powerful landowner causes problems for the RFDS when he
insists that his injured son is sent to a specialist in Melbourne. The
new doctor Rowie arrives. She used to live in Coopers Crossing and is
rather hostile, especially to Kate.



176. Father and son
Vic decides to become a partner in a tourist enterprise, and a father
has to come to terms with a tragedy when his baby boy dies.



177. A little miracle
Geoff and Kate are off camping in the bush. They are planning to get
pregnant, but nearby a family gets into trouble. The father is obsessed
with religion and risks his son's live. At the end a little miracle
occurs and the son is saved.



178. Murphy's law
Vic runs over a little girl, Fiona, with his car accidently. Guy and
Jackie pick her up, but luckily she isn't too badly hurt. At the
hospital Guy noticed that Fiona's mother, Judy, is sick, she's got
cancer and hasn't got a much time left. A friend of hers, named Rick,
comes to visit and when he finds out about Judy's condition he wants to
look after Fiona after Judy's death. But Judy claims Rick isn't the
father which makes it impossible. Judy won't say anything about who the
father is though. Clare finds Fiona's chart and it turns out Judy has
been lying to Rick about Fiona's age, and Rick is Fiona's real father.
Everybody says that it might be hard for him to get the custody of Fiona
anyway since there is no legal evidence that he is her father. They only
way out is marriage between Judy and Rick. Judy agrees and they are
married in hospital. Later Judy dies and Rick and Fiona leave Coopers
Crossing to start a life of their own.



179. Breaking down the wall
Steve, Penny, Jackie and Guy are on a tour with a German couple and a
tour guide. They are in a cave, everybody but Jackie and the German
woman go in. Inside the cave the guide has a heart attack and dies, and
the other ones can't find a way out. After lots of searching, trouble
and secrets everybody is rescued. Kate is feeling sick, and the
pregnancy tests shows it - she and Geoff are going to be parents!!!



180. Once bitten
Geoff is really sick and hospitalized. The problem is nobody knows what
it is. It is some infection in his arm, but since they can't find the
source of the infection they don't know how to treat him. The only way
out seems to be to amputate the arm! Then Johnno realizes Geoff was out
at a man called Rocket who had some old equipment that might have leaked
hydraulic fluids. They test Geoff, Johnno was right, and Geoff is
treated. And he can keep his arm.



181. Clipped wings
Johnno is flying the doctors out on an emergency. Due to bad weather he
has to land on a strip under regulation length, but since it's an
emergency Johnno lands. It turned out to be a non-critical case, and
when the other ones wanted to stay there until the weather got better,
Johnno decides to fly. The wind changed and the plane crashes. No one
gets hurt. Johnno is investigated and suspended. He shouldn't have tried
to take off. He is upset and takes a job on a farm. A pilot there hurts
his arm, there is no one there to fly him to town. Johnno thinks it's a
danger to the pilots life and flies himself, despite the suspension.
When he comes into town the doctors say he shouldn't have to come to
hospital. Once more there is an investigation, but Rowie says the
patient had a life-threatening injury to save Johnno. Johnno has to take
his pilots licence again, he does and succeeds.



182. Walk don’t run
Penny and Kate are competing with each other. Kate joins the annual
cross country horse race: she puts her unborn baby's life at risk by
doing this. Penny helps a woman who is obsessed with athletics.



183. Masquerade
Guy becomes involved with a battered housewife and Jackie has to cope
with an amorous dentist.



184. Against the current
Penny and Steve go camping. But their idyll ends when they come across a
horrifying sight. Penny decides to go back to Melbourne, but Kate and
Geoff go after her and persuade her to come back.



185. Last of the Cochranes
A mysterious call drags Geoff to Melbourne where he meets up with
91-year-old Mum Cochrane, who is determined to return to Coopers
Crossing to die.



186. Double life
The people of Coopers Crossing are stunned when Guy's fiancée, Fern
Wentworth, arrives in town. She is convinced that he has become too
provincial and wants to reclaim his love.



187. Something, nothing
Johnno decides to re-evaluate his priorities in life when he and Rowie
are nearly killed while flying through a storm. His first move is to
tell Rowie he wants her to be a part of his future. He also buys the
farm of his friend Bronwyn, who is diagnosed with MS.



188. Family
Scarlett, Kate and Geoff's daughter, is born in this episode! But
something is wrong with her and the only doctor who can help her is an
alcoholic as Kate found out!



189. Being positive
Anthropologist Jerry Davis returns to Coopers Crossing needing to speak
to Geoff urgently. It's known that Jerry, who has a scar on his neck,
was operated by the RFDS team during an emergency. Jackie is thrilled at
the return of the man of her dreams, who she hopes will be the man of
her future, but Jerry has bad news.



190. Open day
Geoff tries without success to persuade the mother of a badly scarred
boy that it would aid his mental recovery to come to Coopers Crossing
and face the world. When the boy becomes suicidal, Penny holds out a
hand of friendship.



191. Changing times
Geoff and Kate move to Melbourne because Geoff is offered a job there.
They can't get used to the city and they move back. Meanwhile Johnno and
Rowie are having wedding plans, but at the last moment Rowie is getting
second thoughts and doesn't want to marry Johnno anymore.



192. Freedom
Jackie discovers a pair of young lovers living in the cellar of her
farmhouse in a story reminiscent of "Romeo and Juliet" with equally
tragic consequences.