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Children's TV series set in a fictional rural town in New South Wales, Australia, following the adventures of veterinarian John Stevens and his team. The aborigines call Stevens Woobinda, animal doctor.
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Episode 1 - Not My Kind of Country
Release Date: 1969-06-03A raging bushfire threatens the life of a runaway boy, and of Kevin and the boy's mother who have gone to look for him. All three are trapped by the fire.
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Episode 2 - Smoke Signals
Release Date: 1969-06-09While flying in the outback, John Stevens encounters an Aboriginal with acute appendicitis and must co-operate.
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Episode 3 - Crocodile Hunter
Release Date: 1969-06-16Three American business executives set off on an outback photographic safari in crocodile infested swamps, but only two of them return to Stevens' home.
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Episode 4 - Trouble With Chico
Release Date: 1969-06-23Stevens finds himself involved with a diamond robbery when he baby-sits a trained chimpanzee named Chico.
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Episode 5 - The Exterminators
Release Date: 1969-06-30A group of cattlemen decide to organise a hunt for the kangaroos which they believe are the carriers of the deadly disease Anthrax, which is being spread among their cattle.
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Episode 6 - Eye Witness
Release Date: 1969-07-07Stevens discovers that a young immigrant has smuggled a puppy into the country and, afraid that he will now lose it, the boy runs away, and innocently becomes involved in a bank robber chase.
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Episode 7 - The Crop Duster
Release Date: 1969-07-14When a farmer sprays his crops with insecticide, Stevens discovers that the powder is threatening a colony of koalas.
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Episode 8 - Birds Of A Feather
Release Date: 1969-07-21While returning a champion mare to its owner, Jack and Kevin come across men illegally trapping birds for smuggling overseas.
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Episode 9 - The Rustler
Release Date: 1969-07-28A dishonest vet tries to convince a cattle owner that his cattle are seriously ill and should be immediately removed from the property and destroyed. The vet then plans to steal and sell the herd.
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Episode 10 - Nine Lives
Release Date: 1969-08-04A cat has been left a large sum of money in its master's will, a sum which can only be claimed by the relatives on the natural death of the animal. The late eccentric master's nephew, Willy, has some gambling debts which need urgent attention, and his attempts to liquidate the cat and claim the money do not succeed. When he tries to push it over a quarry, he himself falls down and has to be rescued; when he tries to drown it in a dam, he ends up floundering for his life; and when he abandons it in a remote forest, the cat uncannily finds its way back, just in time to stop Willy getting his clutches on the money.
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Episode 11 - Bounty Hunter
Release Date: 1969-08-11A valuable thoroughbred horse escapes from its horsebox after a road accident, and Kevin goes out to search for it.
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Episode 12 - Panic
Release Date: 1969-08-18An Army plane carrying an atomic device and a deadly virus crashes in the Gattens Creek area.
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Episode 13 - That's What Friends Are For
Release Date: 1969-08-25Colin Greaves, a champion polo player, is thrown from his horse during a match and suffers a severe leg injury. He becomes disillusioned and loses the will to recover.
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Episode 14 - Sound Of Danger
Release Date: 1969-09-01Tiggie and Kevin's efforts to care for a sick platypus are ruined by the sudden arrival of mining prospectors.
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Episode 15 - A Dog's Best Friend
Release Date: 1969-09-08An eccentric old man who cares for a house full of stray dogs is to be evicted from his home by a new and ruthless owner.
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Episode 16 - Nobody Comes Here Anymore
Release Date: 1969-09-15The Stevens family goes to an island bird sanctuary so Kevin can release a bird that he has been caring for. They cross paths with a dangerous gang of counterfeiters using the island as a hideout.
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Episode 17 - The Runaways
Release Date: 1969-09-22While flying a seriously ill dog back to Gattens Creek, Kevin and Peter Fischer find themselves involved in an elopement and are forced to make a detour.
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Episode 18 - Deadly Cargo
Release Date: 1969-09-29John Stevens investigates a case of rabies and unwittingly gets involved with a gang of smugglers.
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Episode 19 - Trapped
Release Date: 1969-10-06Jack, Peter and Kevin work feverishly to save the life of a prize Australian Silkie dog trapped under tons of rock from an excavation site.
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Episode 20 - Sleeping Dogs Don't Lie
Release Date: 1969-10-13The Stevens family go to Sydney to attend a veterinary convention and become involved with an eccentric old woman who takes them on a hair-raising tour of Sydney Harbour.
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Episode 21 - The Champion
Release Date: 1969-10-20Foul play is discovered the night before a big sheepdog competition in Gattens Creek. Stevens is called in and catches the culprit.
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Episode 22 - Doctor Fugitive
Release Date: 1969-10-27Stevens is attacked by two prison escapees, and through loss of memory is mistaken for one of the prisoners.
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Episode 23 - Noel's Ark
Release Date: 1969-11-03An eccentric pianist arrives in Australia on his yacht with his pets - exotic animals and birds collected from all over the world. While ashore, his yacht is set adrift.
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Episode 24 - A Life For A Life
Release Date: 1969-11-10Peter and Kevin become involved with an old Aboriginal and his dying camel, and Jack Johnson narrowly misses death.
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Episode 25 - Where Dead Men Lie
Release Date: 1969-11-17When Kevin, Peter and Tiggie are transporting a lamb for special surgery, they spot an 'injured' man lying beside his car. They land, and the man hijacks their plane, leaving them stranded without water.
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Episode 26 - Ghost Town
Release Date: 1969-11-24Peter Fischer takes the Land Rover for a day's sightseeing. Arriving at a ghost town, he is bitten by a poisonous snake, and his life is saved by a tribe of Aborigines.
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Episode 27 - No Love For Theodore
Release Date: 1969-12-01When Stevens is appointed to look after an anteater from South America destined for an Australian zoo, the animal's defection to the Australian way of life causes a diplomatic controversy.
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Episode 28 - The Joker
Release Date: 1969-12-08The activities of a practical joker cause a sequence of events that results in property owners suffering from the effects of a drought finding water on their land.
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Episode 29 - The Companion
Release Date: 1969-12-15A child who secretly blames her father for her mother's death in a boating accident forgives him when he saves her Persian cat.
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Episode 30 - The Rescue
Release Date: 1969-12-22The owner of a dog kennel develops a tracking system using dogs with radios to assist in search parties.
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Episode 31 - Talk To My Agent
Release Date: 1969-12-29When Kevin becomes an animal's agent, it looks as though he'll send the movie producers broke.
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Episode 32 - The Carrier
Release Date: 1970-01-05A valuable dog is loose in the area, carrying a deadly disease. Stevens and Fischer are faced with the task of rescuing the animal before the local farmers find it and destroy it.
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Episode 33 - Gallena Ridge
Release Date: 1970-01-12Kevin assists in bringing into the open the unjust dealings of the manager of a large cattle station.
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Episode 34 - Lenny
Release Date: 1970-01-19Tiggie sets out to train a wild brumby, but runs foul of a brutal stockman.
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Episode 35 - Second Sight
Release Date: 1970-01-26A blind man has his faith restored when he has to rescue Tiggie.
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Episode 36 - Loaded Message
Release Date: 1970-02-02Stevens has only hours to unmask the perpetrator of a scheme to poison all the stock in the Gattens Creek area.
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Episode 37 - Caesar Was Shot
Release Date: 1970-02-09Stevens and Fischer have to perform a dangerous operation when a spear fisherman accidentally shoots a horse with an explosive-headed spear.
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Episode 38 - Chocolate, Cherry Or Pistachio
Release Date: 1970-02-16Gattens Creek is terrorised by a tiger with a passion for ice-cream.
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Episode 39 - Silent Witness
Release Date: 1970-02-23Driving out to see Stevens, a man accidentally knocks down and injures a pedestrian. He is frightened away by the man's dog, and then begins to feel that the dog is hunting him.