The Flying Doctors - Season 7 Episode 5 A Rural Education
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.
Year: 1992
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, United States of America
Studio: Nine Network
Director:
Cast: Robert Grubb, Lenore Smith, Nikki Coghill, David Reyne, Christopher Stollery, Sarah Chadwick
Crew:
First Air Date: May 15, 1986
Last Air date: Oct 06, 1992
Season: 9 Season
Episode: 221 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 6.07/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 51.193
Language: English
Episode
Fly Like A Bird
A Day To Remember
A Place To Call Home
Divided Loyalties
A Rural Education
The Ties That Bind
Brother’s Keeper
Wilderness
Valentine’s Day
A Little Tenderness
Poet’s Corner
Family Farm
A Place Where You Belong
Break Away
Billie and Pete
Old Man Weed
David and Goliath
Last Carnival
Innocence Lost
Bush Christmas