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A Country Practice

A Country Practice was a long running series on Australian TV, based around the fictional Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital. It originally began airing as two-part episodes shown on two consecutive nights each week. The first double episode is summarised on fansite acountrypractice.com as:

1/2 -- Pilot "In General Practice"
A woman passing through the Valley has to divert to the hospital when she goes into labour early. A teenage girl tries to convince her father and Dr. Bowen to let her go on the pill.

The same double episode has been summarised on australiantelevision.cjb.net. This site begins with a pop-up ad, and I would normally avoid linking to a site that starts with a pop-up, but it has coverage of Australian TV shows that can be useful and is not readily available elsewhere:

EPISODE 1
A mysterious woman arrives at the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital in the final stages of labour. Simon's perception of Terence is changed when he witnesses Terence's skilled performance in the operating theatre, but the mystery surrounding Dr. Elliott only depends when Simon later finds him passed out drunk in his flat. Simon borrows a dog so as to have a reason to see Vicky at her surgery, but his advances are once again parried. Mrs. Myers rejects her new-born daughter.
EPISODE 2
Dr. Bowen refuses to prescribe the contraceptive pill to a fifteen-year-old girl without her father's permission. The girl is torn between her father and her insistent boyfriend. Shirley consents to go on a date with Frank but vows that it will be their last. Simon struggles to determine the cause of a young boy's Monday morning migraine headaches.

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