A Country Practice

A Country Practice is a multi-Logie award-winning Australian television soap opera/serial. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes at 7.30 pm Monday and Tuesday nights, from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced at both ATN-7's production facility at Epping, New South Wales with exterior locations filmed in Pitt Town and Oakville in the outskirts of Northwest Sydney. Several of the regular cast members became highly popular celebrities through their roles in the series. It also featured a number of native Australian animals, particularly the iconic Fatso, the Wombat adding to its enduring appeal both domestically and internationally. After the series was cancelled by the Seven Network in 1993, a reworked version of the series ran briefly 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 was surpassed by Network Ten series Neighbours. At its height, the show attracted 8–10 million viewers weekly, when the population of the time was a mere 15 million, and was sold to 48 countries.

For the song "A Country Practice" by Half Man Half Biscuit, see Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral.

A Country Practice
Main title caption in 1981, depicting the Wandin Valley Clinic
GenreSoap opera
Created byJames Davern
StarringLorrae Desmond
Georgie Parker
Grant Dodwell
Penny Cook
Anne Tenney
Shane Withington
Shane Porteous
Brian Wenzel
Joan Sydney
Wendy Strehlow
Theme music composerMike Perjanik
Opening themeA Country Practice (instrumental)
Ending themeReprise
Country of originAustralia
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons14
No. of episodes1,088 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)James Davern
Running time48 minutes
Production company(s)JNP Productions
Release
Original networkSeven Network (1981–93)
Network Ten (1994)
Picture format4.3 PAL
Audio formatStereo
Original release18 November 1981 (1981-11-18) –
5 November 1994 (1994-11-05)

Founding and creator James Davern (OAM)

A Country Practice creator and Executive Producer (EP) James Davern of JNP Productions, had worked on a previous similar type rural series, as producer and director of the long-running Bellbird that screened on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1967–1977) and had written the pilot episode for ACP and entered a script contest put forth by the Network Ten in 1979, that were looking for a new hit soap opera after the demise 2 years prior of Number 96. Davern came third and won a merit award.,[1] although TEN turned the series down, but the rival Seven Network picked up the series, stating it liked the characters and setting. Davern contribution to the industry would be recognised when he was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 1991 and be honoured as an Order of Australia. recipient in 2014.

Logie Awards

A Country Practice is the third most successful television program in the history of the Logie Awards, after Home and Away (1st) and Neighbours (2nd), having won 29 awards during its twelve years of production.[2]

Logie Awards 1983

  • Best Supporting Actor In A Series: Brian Wenzel
  • Best Juvenile Performance: Jeremy Shadlow

Logie awards 1984

Logie Awards 1985

  • Most Popular Lead Actor: Grant Dodwell
  • Most Popular Lead Actress: Anne Tenney
  • NSW Most Popular Male: Grant Dodwell
  • NSW Most Popular Female: Penny Cook
  • NSW Most Popular Show: A Country Practice
  • Most Popular Drama Program: A Country Practice
  • Best Lead Actor In A Series: Shane Withington
  • Best Supporting Actress In A Series: Wendy Strehlow

Logie Awards 1986

  • Most Popular Australian Actor: Grant Dodwell
  • Most Popular Australian Actress: Anne Tenney
  • NSW Most Popular Female: Anne Tenney
  • NSW Most Popular Program: A Country Practice
  • Most Popular Australian Drama: A Country Practice

Logie Awards 1987

  • NSW Most Popular Program: A Country Practice

Logie Awards 1988

  • NSW Most Popular Program: A Country Practice

Logie Awards 1989

Logie Awards 1990

Logie Awards 1991

  • Most Popular Actress: Georgie Parker

Logie Awards 1992

  • Most Popular Actress: Georgie Parker

Logie Awards 1993

  • Most Popular Actress: Georgie Parker

Format

Though sometimes considered a soap opera, the storylines of the show's two one-hour episodes screened over any one week formed a self-contained narrative block. The storylines were meant to have a primary appeal to adult and older youthful audiences, and in particular they had greater appeal to children from middle-class backgrounds.[3] As it did not have the open ended narrative of a traditional soap opera, it was technically a series.[4] Nevertheless, many storylines were developed as sub-plots for several episodes before becoming the focus of a particular week's narrative block. Overall, the program "so emphasized the ongoing storylines of its major characters as to make the distinction between series and serial more or less meaningless".[4]

Setting and stories

The series followed the workings of a small hospital in the fictional New South Wales rural country town of Wandin Valley as well as its connected medical clinic, the town's veterinary surgery, RSL club/pub and local police station. The show's storylines focused on the staff, and regular patients of the hospital and general practice, their families, and other residents of the town. Through its weekly guest actors, who appeared in the series portraying differing characters, it explored various social and medical problems. The series examined such topical issues as youth unemployment, suicide, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS and terminal illness. Apart from its regular rotating cast, mainly among the younger personnel, A Country Practice also had a cast of semi-regulars who would make appearances as the storylines permitted. One of the more popular and frequent characters from its inception included the valley's corrupt town councillor Mr Alfred Muldoon (Brian Moll). The program as well would also showcase a number of animal stars and Australian native wildlife, most famously Fatso the wombat. Fatso was played throughout the series by three separate wombats, Fatso (1981–1986) replaced due to temperament issues with the cast, George (1986–1990) replaced due to early signs of wombat mange (a marsupial viral disease), and Garth (1990 through series end).

Highest rating episode

Anne Tenney, as Molly Jones, an unconventional fashion designer, farmer and Green-hugging local environmentalist, became one of the series' most popular characters, and her death episode became the highest rating, and most remembered storyline. The series, the 13 week storyline arc dealt with its addressing of how a young woman, as well as her husband and local residents coped with terminal illness, after the popular character becomes diagnosed by leukaemia, and her subsequent treatment. The now iconic episode sees the character of Molly sitting in her back garden and waving while her husband, Brenden, is teaching his daughter to fly a kite. He sees Molly is fading, and calls her name. As the screen fades to black, the episode concludes in hushed tones with Bob Hatfield (Gordon Piper) reading a tribute poem "Mad Molly", over the series closing credits[5] This storyline arc, was originally written to be featured over a continuing 11 week script. A producer realised that the ratings were not being monitored during this period, so it was extended for 13 weeks, and hence 4 extra 1 hour episodes.

Iconic storylines over its lengthy 12-year run would also include the wedding of Dr. Simon Bowen, to local vet Vicki Dean in 1983, well as the later wedding of Dr. Terence Elliot to Matron Rosemary Prior amidst the series' bushfire scenes that marked the final episodes, the death of nurse Donna Manning in a car crash, the off-screen death of longtime resident Shirley Gilroy in a plane crash, and the final undoing of corrupt "Wandin Valley" town shire councillor Alf Muldoon, who had been a recurring character since the series inception.

Network Ten continuation

After its lengthy run on the Seven Network, just months after its demise, it was announced that the serial would be picked up by Network Ten with a mainly new cast and a few key cast members continuing from the Seven series. Unlike the Seven series which was produced in Sydney, the Network Ten series was produced in Melbourne with location shooting in Emerald, Victoria. The new series debuted in April 1994, but it was not as successful as its predecessor and was abruptly cancelled in November. The series would feature Paul Gleason, Jane Hall, Vince Colosimo and Laura Armstrong, along with a select few actors from the previous Seven Network series including Joyce Jacobs and Andrew Blackman. Actress Joan Sydney who had appeared in the Seven Network series from 1983 until 1990, would also return as Maggie Morrison

Celebrity guest stars

A Country Practice became renowned for its long list of guest cameos, totalling over 1000 stars, with well known mainly Australian actors (predominantly of the period) who would appear in each week's two part episode arc. Some actors became more prominent during the series runs, and were classified as semi-regulars, appearing as the storyline permitted, Famous stars included: Sir Robert Helpmann, Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Simon Baker, Smokey Dawson, Ruth Cracknell, Henri Szeps, Pro Hart, John Meillon, Richard Wilkins, Barry Crocker, Dr John D'Arcy, Paul Kelly, Toni Collette and Delta Goodrem. At the program's height even the then Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, appeared as himself.

Main Cast (Seven Network series) 1981-1993
Actor Role Episodes
Shane PorteousTerence Elliot(1981–1993) 986 episodes
Brian WenzelSgt. Frank Gilroy(1981–1993) 937 episodes
Lorrae DesmondShirley Gilroy (formerly Dean)(1981–1992) 816 episodes
Joyce JacobsEsme Watson(1981–1993) 805 semi-regular cast member until episode 99 on Seven Network, debuted in Episode 1 as Norma (retained to Network Ten series 1994 (30 episode)
Gordon PiperBob Hatfield(1981–1992) episodes 742, appeared from Episode 3
Syd Heylen"Cookie" Vernon Locke1982–1992) episodes 723, made debut in episode 14
Joan Sydney(Matron) Margaret 'Maggie' Sloane/Morrison(1983–1990) episodes 455 Seven Network series (including as a guest star returning episode series finale (episode 1,058) (retained to Network Ten series (30 episodes)
Shane WithingtonBrendan Jones1981–1986) 367 episodes
John TarrantMatthew Tyler(1988–1992) 349 episodes
Grant DodwellDr. Simon Bowen(1981–1986) 332
Penny CookVictoria "Vicki" Dean Bowen

(1981–1986) 330 (returned as guest star for series finale episode 1,058, 1993)

Anne TenneyMelissa "Molly" Jones(1981–1985) 299 episodes
Georgie Parker(Sister) Lucy 'Gardner' Tyler(1988–1992 ) 266 episodes
Josephine MitchellJo 'Loveday' Langley(1985–1989) 254 episodes
Di Smith (also known as Diane Smith/Dianne SmithDr. Alex 'Fraser' Elliot(1982–1989), credited here as Diane Smith, returned as a guest in 1993) 246 episodes
Maureen Edwards(Matron) Rosemary 'Prior' Elliot(1991–1993) 243 episodes (had previously appeared

(in guest roles as Yvonne McLean in 1983 and Katherine D, Angelo in 1990)

Kate RaisonCathy Hayden(1987–1990) 236 episodes (debuted in the series in guest role of Darlene McCoy in 1987)
Andrew BlackmanDr. Harry Morrison(1991–1993) 236 episodes Seven Network (retained to Network Ten series (30 episodes, 1994
Michelle Pettigrove(Sister) Kate Bryant/Kate 'Bryant' Morrison Morrison(1991–1993) 230 episodes Seven Network (appeared in Network Ten series (1 episode, 1994) (Note: had also appeared early in the series in 1988 as Mary O'Connor)
Matt DayJulian "Luke" Ross(1989-1993) 227 episodes
Wendy Strehlow(sister) Judy Loveday(1981–1986) 216 episode
Nicholas BufaloDr. Ben Green(1985–1988) 206 episodes
Kym WilsonDarcy Hudson183
Emily NicolChloe Jones(1983–1986) 174 epiosdes
Michael MuntzDr. Chris Kourous(1989–1991) 164 episodes
Gavin HarrisonHugo Szreclecki(1992–1993) 161 episodes
Jon Concannon (known as John Concannon/Jon Concannon)Senior Constable/Sgt. Tom Newman(1992–1993) 160 episodes
Judith McGrathBernice Hudson(1992–1993) 149 episodes
Anne LoobyAnna 'Lacey' Newman(1990–1993) 148 episodes (appeared as Jennifer Rose in guest episode 1990) 148
Helen Scott(Matron) Marta Kurtez(1981–1983) (original cast member) 126 episodes
Brett ClimoMichael Langley(1987–1989) 121 episodes (appeared in 2 guest roles as Barry Hall in 1982 and Sandy Hughes in 1984)
Sophie HeathcoteStephanie "Steve" Brennen(1990-1991), 117 episodes
Jamie CroftBilly Moss111 Episodes
Caroline JohanssonDonna Manning(1986-1988) 98 episodes
Mark Owen-Taylor(Peter) Mr. Manning(1986-1987) (88 episodes)
Mary ReganSister Anne Brennen (Director of Nursing)
Georgina FisherJessica Kouros

Network Ten cast (1994)

Only three of the original cast members from the Network Seven series were retained in the Network Ten re-launch: Joan Sydney, Joyce Jacobs, and Andrew Blackman.

Actor Role Episodes
Paul GleesonIan McIntyre30 episodes
Claudia BlackClaire Bonacci30 episodes
Vince ColosimoHarry Sabatini30 episodes
Jane HallDr. Jess Morrison30 episodes
Laura ArmstrongGeorgie Wilkes30 episodes

Broadcast

A Country Practice originally aired on Seven Network Monday nights at 7:30. The unsuccessful 1994 Network 10 remake of the series aired in a low-rating timeslot of 5:30 Saturday nights, directly against Channel Seven's Saturday AFL coverage.

Seven also aired repeats of the original series at 9:30 weekday mornings from 1996–2002.

Foxtel's Hallmark Channel broadcast the complete series twice (including the short-lived Network Ten series) in a 2-hour block at 3:30-5:30 weekday afternoons from 2002 to 30 June 2010.

In 2014 Channel 7TWO ran repeats at 02:00 on weekday mornings.

International broadcasts

United Kingdom and Ireland

In addition to being broadcast in Australia, the series also had a successful run on the ITV network in the United Kingdom. A Country Practice began 27 October 1982, less than a year after its debut on Seven Network in Australia.

Originally, the series was partially networked (similar in theory to syndication) by Thames Television, the weekday contractor for the London area, to a cluster of six ITV regions; Anglia Television, Border Television, Channel Television, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire Television and TVS. These regions all aired one episode a week, on Wednesdays at 14:45–15:45, and in the original hour-long format. The remaining ITV regions – Central Independent Television, HTV, TSW, Granada Television, Scottish Television, UTV, and Grampian Television – all started later, and by the end of 1989, most of the ITV regions were now scheduling the programme at a day and time of their own choice and were at vastly different points in the storyline. In April 1990, the ITV network decided to adopt the method established by Yorkshire Television (from 1984) of editing each episode into two half-hour editions which allowed the series to be stripped Monday to Friday, usually before, or after, the lunchtime edition of Home and Away. This format also resulted in curtailment of the full closing credits in certain regions. Scottish Television was the only exception, and they chose various days and timeslots, but always screened A Country Practice in the original hour-long format.

Due to the content of some episodes, a substantial amount were withdrawn from transmission by some regions as the content was considered unsuitable for daytime viewing and this inevitably led to considerable chunks of the story being skipped.

Considered a daytime soap and notably several years behind Australian broadcasts, A Country Practice was popular in the UK and achieved consolidated viewing figures of between 2–3 million which is good for daytime television. Some regions (HTV, Border, Grampian, TSW and Granada) moved the later episodes of the series to an early evening slot of 17.10–17.40.

ITV regional broadcasts

  • Originally starting in 1982, Yorkshire Television were the first region to break away from the network transmissions in October 1984 and began editing each episode into two half-hour episodes, screening on Mondays and Tuesdays at 15:30. This led to continuity problems as whenever a public holiday occurred (on Monday), the 15:30 slot would be unavailable. The series was moved to back to an early afternoon hour-long format in 1988 when Sons and Daughters was stripped five afternoons a week at 15:30. A Country Practice then replaced Sons and Daughters when that series ended in March 1989, being again split into half-hour episodes and now being shown five afternoons a week for the first time. It was then moved to an early afternoon slot, and eventually hour-long episodes were reinstated. The series concluded in March 1998 and the Network Ten series was not shown. When Tyne Tees Television merged with Yorkshire, a number of episodes were skipped. This was to allow an alignment of schedules for the two regions.
  • TVS and Thames Television followed Yorkshire in September 1988 and started showing three half-hour episodes a week, from Monday to Wednesday, at 12:30–13:00.
  • Central Television did not follow the other ITV regions and, unusually, it began A Country Practice in July 1983, airing weekly on Tuesdays, 11:10–12:00, during the summer of 1983, but by September, the series had been shelved. In early 1990 while all the other ITV regions were well into their respective runs, Central surprisingly re-launched the series and followed the rest of the network (except Scottish) and stripped half-hour episodes, Monday to Friday, initially at 14:00-14:30. In September 1990, this changed to 13:50-14:20. From January 1993, moves to 13:15-13:45, and then briefly switches to a mid-afternoon slot, 14:50–15:20 in September 1993, and then 15:00-15:30 until the end of the year. Returns to 14:50-15:20 until March 1994, after which, it is moved back to lunchtimes at 13:55–14:25. By 1997, Central was airing A Country Practice at 12:55-13:25, and in 1998, the network concluded the original series in April in the 13:00–13:30 slot, and then immediately commenced the short-lived Network Ten version, finally completing all the episodes on Friday, 31 July 1998.
  • Scottish Television started broadcasting the series in 1983 and always aired A Country Practice as hour-long episodes. Throughout the 1980s the programme moved about in time and day but was generally broadcast once a week in an afternoon slot. In January 1994, after (episode #486), it was dropped from the schedules for about 4 months until June. From episode 491 screened every weekday morning at 10:55 for the duration of the summer school holidays (around 6 weeks) until 2 September. It reverted to its old weekly Tuesday slot the following week. It was the dropped completely after episode #588, during 1996. Although the company took over Grampian Television, the series continued until the end, doing so by airing daily episodes during the summer of 1998.
  • HTV started the series on Wednesday, 26 October 1983, broadcasting 1 hour episodes until 1990, when the series moved to 15:25 Wed-Fri as replacement for Sons and Daughters in half-hour format. From September 1993, moved to earlier time slot, but from March 1994, began airing in the early evening 17:10–17:40 slot. By the end of 1998, the series had been reduced to being shown on Thursdays and Fridays only. From January to March 1999, the series was shown on Tuesday through to Friday until Friday 5 March 1999 when the final Channel Seven episode was reached. HTV were the last ITV region to complete the series (and did not show the short lived Channel 10 series).
  • Carlton Television, who superseded Thames Television, became the first region to conclude the series, followed closely by Anglia Television in the daily 13:50–14:20 half-hour slot in April 1996. Anglia Television then commenced a short repeat of the first 40 episodes shortly after reaching the end.
  • Granada Television, from January 1994, until they aired the last episode during the autumn of 1996, moved the series to the later 17:10–17:40 slot. Border Television had, by now, aligned with Granada's run of the series and followed suit.
  • TSW did not begin until 30 May 1989, and initially aired A Country Practice weekly on Tuesdays at 14:00–15:00. August 1989, an additional hour long episode was added on Thursdays (replacing Richmond Hill). In 1990, TSW followed the rest of the English ITV regions and aired five, half-hour episodes, Monday to Friday, at lunchtime until 1998.

Satellite and Cable broadcasts

  • In the mid-1980s, A Country Practice was a prime-time series on Sky Channel, airing twice a week at 20:00 from at least 1985. During August 1985, the series was screened at 19:20 and 20:10 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in hour-long episodes and by 1986, it was screened at 20:00. The channel also screened The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. When the Sky Channel was launched on the new Astra 1A satellite in January 1989, it became Sky1 and A Country Practice was dropped from the schedule. For a brief period, later episodes were shown in 1997 on the cable channel Carlton Select.

Only the first 40 episodes have ever been repeated in the UK, and that was in 1998 when ITV contractor, Anglia Television, were the only region to repeat any episodes. Unlike other Australian soaps, which became cult viewing due to multiple runs; Prisoner was broadcast twice, first on ITV, and then Channel 5; The Sullivans also had two full runs, once on ITV and repeated on UK Gold; and also Sons and Daughters, which had three runs, first on ITV, then UK Gold, and finally, Channel 5 – A Country Practice has never been repeated in the UK or achieved the cult status of other soap operas of the same era.

Aired on RTÉ Two weekdays at 18:00 or 18:30. In Autumn 1988, to make way for Home and Away, the show moved to main channel RTÉ One airing weekdays at 17:30. The final episode (1088) aired in January 1997.[6] RTÉ stripped episodes into a 30-minute timeslot. RTÉ commenced a repeat in 1998 beginning with season 8 (1988) in a morning slot.

European screenings

France

A Country Practice was named "À Coeur Ouvert".

Germany

A Country Practice was named Das Buschkrankenhaus (The Country Hospital), and aired on Sat 1 in 1985, and then on ARD from 1989 to 1991.[7]

Italy

A Country Practice was named "Wandin Valley".

Norway

A Country Practice (called "Hverdagsliv") was broadcast on TV2 during the 1990s

Africa

Kenya

was also transmitted on Kenyan Television (VoK now KBC) during the 1980s.

Zimbabwe

broadcast on ZBC state television in the 1980s

Oceania

New Zealand

A Country Practice was first transmitted on TV2 during 1986. Whereas the series was produced as two episodes per week in Australia, it was shown once a week on Thursdays at 2.30pm before moving to twice a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 6.30pm by 1987. By 1988, the series went back to once a week on Sundays at around 4pm, and by 1989 an additional episode was broadcast on Saturdays in the same timeslot. By 1990, A Country Practice screened on Channel 2 on Saturdays and Sundays at 5pm until it moved to TV One during the final months of 1991, where it was shown once a week on Tuesdays at 7.30pm until the end of 1992.

North America

Canada

The entire series was broadcast, from start to finish, by CBC Television outlet CBET in Windsor, Ontario. Two episodes were broadcast daily, Monday through Friday, starting in the late 1980s, until they were caught up to contemporary episodes in the early 1990s. Its inclusion on CBET's schedule was out of necessity to fill a television schedule: because Windsor stations cannot carry programming licensed for broadcast in the United States. Most American programming that was part of the CBC schedule throughout Canada could not be broadcast by CBET and, thus, was replaced by programming imported from Britain and Australia. Many Australian soap operas, A Country Practice among them, have thus found loyal audiences in the Metro Detroit area, while they otherwise remain unknown in North America.

From 1991 to 1994, the show also aired on ASN, a cable network that served Canada's Maritimes. Four hour-long episodes aired each week, from Monday to Thursday with Monday's and Tuesday's episodes repeated on Saturday and Wednesday's and Thursday's episodes on Sunday. The station aired the show from episode 1 to somewhere in the early 700s.

ASN ceased carrying the show when specialty cable channel Showcase was launched on 1 January 1995, as they picked up A Country Practice for broadcast throughout Canada. It broadcast one episode daily, from Monday to Friday, and completed the entire series run (including the 30-episode Network Ten series) in June 1999. It began rebroadcasting the entire series on 28 June 1999, with promises that the entire series would be broadcast for those who missed the first airing. However, a single line of text scrolling across the bottom of the screen during 21 August 2000, episode announced that the show would be removed from the Showcase lineup as of Monday, 28 August 2000. According to the station's email autoresponse at the time, the decision was based on "declining viewership and a demand by viewers for more current programming". Sometime after that, Showcase changed their format to favour a less family-oriented and more adult-oriented viewership.

Novel

Series writer Judith Colquhoun, who also wrote episodes for other Australian serials, Blue Heelers, Neighbours and Home and Away released a novel in 2015. Called New Beginnings, it is based on the early episodes of the series from 1981. This was followed up by two further novels from the same author, To Everything a Season and Silver Linings.

DVD release

In late 2005, MRA Entertainment announced they had obtained the rights to release the entire series on DVD. In 2008, Magna Pacific Pty Ltd bought out MRA Entertainment, with plans to release Series 6, however the rights were then acquired by Beyond Home Entertainment which then re-released the first 5 seasons in 2007–2008, followed by Season 6 in 2010.[8] On 27th May 2020 Via Vision Entertainment announced they would be releasing season 11 on DVD on 26th August 2020.

Episodes Discs Licensed to Released
Season 1 1–14 4 MRA Entertainment 3 April 2006
Season 2, Part 1 15–44 6 MRA Entertainment 3 April 2006
Season 2, Part 2 45–106 12 MRA Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 3, Part 1 107–148 12 MRA Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 3, Part 2 149–190 12 MRA Entertainment 11 July 2007
Season 4, Part 1 191–236 12 MRA Entertainment 14 November 2007
Season 4, Part 2 237–280 12 MRA Entertainment 14 November 2007
Season 5, Part 1 281–318 12 MRA Entertainment 23 April 2008
Season 5, Part 2 319–356 12 MRA Entertainment 23 April 2008
Season 6, Part 1 357–400 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 7 April 2010
Season 6, Part 2 401–444 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 9 June 2010
Season 1 1–14 4 Beyond Home Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 2 Part 1 15–44 6 Beyond Home Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 2 Part 2 45–106 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 3 Part 1 107–148 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 3 Part 2 149–190 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 11 April 2007
Season 4 Part 1 191–236 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 14 November 2007
Season 4 Part 2 237–280 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 14 November 2007
Season 5 Part 1 281–318 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 16 April 2008
Season 5 Part 2 319–356 12 Beyond Home Entertainment 16 April 2008
Season 7, Part 1 445–488 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 5 October 2011
Season 7, Part 2 489–532 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 5 October 2011
The Early Years: Seasons 1–6 1–401 116 Beyond Home Entertainment 1 May 2013
Season 8, Part 1 533–576 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 2 January 2014
Season 8, Part 2 577–622 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 2 January 2014
Season 9, Part 1 623–666 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 5 March 2014
Season 9, Part 2 667–706 10 Beyond Home Entertainment 5 March 2014
Season 10, Part 1 707–750 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 28 April 2014
Season 10, Part 2 751–792 11 Beyond Home Entertainment 28 April 2014
The Middle Years: Seasons 7–10 445–792 87 Beyond Home Entertainment 28 April 2014
Season 11 793–882 22 Via Vision Entertainment 26 August 2020
Season 12 883–968 22 Via Vision Entertainment 21 October 2020

7plus Streaming Services

In March 2020 Channel 7's Streaming services 7plus began releasing each season of the show. Seasons 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 & 07 are currently available and 7plus has already said all season will be released.

Title Format Episodes # Release Date Streaming Status Special Features Distributors
A Country Practice (Season 01) Streaming Episodes 14 20 March 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 02) Streaming Episodes 93 20 March 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 03) Streaming Episodes 84 14 April 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 04) Streaming Episodes 90 14 May 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 05) Streaming Episodes 76 11 June 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 06) Streaming Episodes 88 9 July 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 07) Streaming Episodes 88 6 August 2020 Currently Streaming None 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 08) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 09) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 10) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 11) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 12) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 13) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
A Country Practice (Season 14) Streaming COMING SOON 7plus
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See also

References
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  2. "TV Week Logie Awards – Past Winners". Yahoo!7 TV.
  3. Jacinta Burke; Helen Wilson; Susanna Agardy (1983), "A Country Practice" and the child audience: a case study, Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Melbourne. ISBN 0-642-87073-X
  4. Bowles, Kate. Soap opera: 'No end of story, ever' in The Australian TV Book, (Eds. Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham), Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 2000. ISBN 1-86508-014-4 p 127
  5. "How Molly's death on A Country Practice touched the nation:'the writers' room was shedding tears'".
  6. "RTÉ TV Listings 1981 – 1996". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  7. Das Buschkrankenhaus – fernsehserien.de
  8. "A Country Practice – Full Episode DVD Box Sets". www.acountrypractice.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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