A Country Practice
Premiered: Nov 18, 1981 | 13 seasons | 932 episodes
Popularity: 6
| Creator: | James Davern |
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| A Country Practice was an Australian television drama series. At its inception, one of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, who had wrote the pilot episode and entered a script contest for the network in 1979, coming third and winning a merit award. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping, Sydney. After its lengthy run on the seven network it was picked up by network ten with a mainly new cast from April to November 1994 for 30 episodes, although the ten series was not as successful as its predecessor . The Channel Seven series was also filmed on location in Pitt Town, while, the Channel Ten series was filmed on location in Emerald, Victoria. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Wenzel | Frank Gilroy | 408 |
| Gordon Piper | Robert 'Bob' Hatfield | 358 |
| Syd Heylen | Vernon 'Cookie' Locke | 358 |
| Di Smith | Dr. Alex 'Fraser' Elliott | 230 |
| Nicholas Bufalo | Benjamin 'Ben' Green | 190 |
| Anne Tenney | Melissa 'Molly' Jones | 188 |
| Sophie Heathcote | Stephanie 'Steve' Brennan | 117 |
| Matt Day | Julian 'Luke' Ross | 106 |
| Brett Climo | Michael Langley | 86 |
| Rebekah Elmaloglou | Christina Agapitos | 6 |
| Charles Tingwell | 2 | |
| Nadine Garner | Donna Hume | 2 |
| Nadine Garner | Bonnie Stewart | 2 |
| Arkie Whiteley | Jenny | 2 |
| Kate Ferguson | Gloria Simpson | 2 |
| Ric Herbert | Tony | 2 |
| Paul Smith | Marty Warren | 2 |
| Paul Smith | Andy | 2 |
| Debra Lawrance | Kerry Burgess | 2 |
| Debra Lawrance | Anna Harris | 2 |
| Baz Luhrmann | 1 | |
| Rebekah Elmaloglou | Belinda Perkins | 1 |
| Toni Pearen | Patty Morrison | 1 |
| Betty Lucas | Mrs Bourke | 1 |