The Flying Doctors · SEASON 7
A Rural Education
Episode 5 · 1990-08-15
- Drama
Episode overview
David and Annie go to a remote part of town to do check ups on pupils at the school. One of the boys keeps acting strangly and has bad headaches and his hands keep shaking, his sister is having headaches aswell. The other kids tease him and think he is mad. David tries talking to his father but gets no joy from him, so he goes to see the boy's grandfather. He has got the shakes aswell and says it's miners shake, David finds out from him that stuff from the mines has been leaking into a stream, but then they find out it is getting into water where the boy's father is getting water from to water the vegetables with, so it turns out the boy is being poisoned.
50 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. Fly Like A Bird1990-07-18
2. A Day To Remember1990-07-25
3. A Place To Call Home1990-08-01
4. Divided Loyalties1990-08-08
5. A Rural Education1990-08-15
6. The Ties That Bind1990-08-22
7. Brother’s Keeper1990-08-29
8. Wilderness1990-09-05
9. Valentine’s Day1990-09-12
10. A Little Tenderness1990-09-19
11. Poet’s Corner1990-09-26
12. Family Farm1990-10-03
13. A Place Where You Belong1990-10-10
14. Break Away1990-10-17
15. Billie and Pete1990-10-24
16. Old Man Weed1990-10-31
17. David and Goliath1990-11-07
18. Last Carnival1990-11-21
19. Innocence Lost1990-11-28
20. Bush Christmas1990-12-05
