RFDS on Channel 7 – RFDS is a gripping medical drama based in Australia’s red heart in all of its precarious beauty, where the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
Pete (Stephen Peacocke) discovers the emergency intervention he performed at White Cliffs has had major repercussions, before he, Wayne (Rob Collins) and Chaya (Emma Harvie) are called to a retrieval where they are challenged to keep a critically ill patient’s explosive secret from her volatile husband, a challenge made all the more difficult when they have to change course for an injured grey nomad.
Pete (Stephen Peacocke) gets an unsettling update on the patient from White Cliffs that leaves him rattled, as he is thrown into another challenging retrieval with Wayne (Rob Collins) and Chaya (Emma Harvie) to a woman suffering mysterious abdominal pain.
They discover she is keeping an explosive secret from her volatile husband, one they have to keep from him throughout the flight home, a challenge made all the more difficult when they have to divert for an injured grey nomad.
When Leonie (Justine Clarke) confides in Eliza (Emma Hamilton) her devastating diagnosis, empty nester Eliza decides to follow her heart back to Broken Hill, throwing a spanner in the works for Pete and his blossoming romance with Chaya.
Meanwhile, Mira (Ash Ricardo) gets some surprising news that she must keep under wraps from Wayne until she decides what she really wants her life to be.
RFDS – Tuesday 22 August at 9:15pm at Channel 7 and 7plus
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About the Show
The series opens with the arrival of the new Senior Medical Officer Dr Eliza Harrod (Emma Hamilton). After a successful career as an Emergency Physician at a London Hospital, Eliza arrives with her teenage son Henry (Ash Hodgkinson), determined to escape her past and start a new life. Only days into the job, Eliza finds herself at the forefront of a catastrophic emergency retrieval that will change everything.
As she navigates the fallout, while continuing her highly skilled work, Eliza finds herself questioning the very core of who she is and who she wants to be. Meanwhile, Flight Nurse Pete Emerson (Stephen Peacocke) finds himself in tumultuous new territory when his family is involved in an unthinkable tragedy. Thrust into new responsibility as the guardian to his orphaned niece Taylor (Sofia Nolan), Pete finds himself questioning his ability as he comes to terms with unthinkable grief and loss…
Ambitious and driven, Dr Wayne Yates (Rob Collins) is a gifted doctor who has always strived for excellence. Determined to repair his relationship with his teenage son, Darren (Thomas Weatherall), Wayne will struggle to overcome the devastating loss of a patient who is a friend, while navigating his relationship with Pilot Mira Ortez (Ash Ricardo).
Bright, vivacious and compassionate, Base Manager Leonie Smith (Justine Clarke) is the master conductor of the of the team, keeping the planes flying and her doctors in the sky.
Filmed on location in and around Broken Hill, this series captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country.
It’s a series about community and people coming together to laugh, to cry and to triumph, in spite of the huge obstacles they face. They are the ones you meet in your worst possible moment. And that moment is one they face every single day.
