RFDS on Channel 7 – While awaiting the verdict of his tribunal, a suspended Pete (Stephen Peacocke) is forced to face his deepest fears, when he, a grieving Wayne (Rob Collins), and the RFDS crew are all tasked to a catastrophic multi-casualty boat crash in some of the most challenging terrain they’ve faced.
A suspended Pete (Stephen Peacocke), awaiting his future at the RFDS, joins an equally unemployed Wayne (Rob Collins) on a trip to gather Timmy’s (Lee Willis-Ardler) ashes, but when the two are informed of a boat crash nearby – they must jump into action and drive through rugged terrain to get to the patients.
Pete will face his growing fears of difficult airways, ultimately succumbing to something that’s never happened to him, freezing under pressure from a panic attack that takes over his body.
Wayne will face deep personal resonance with the patients as the team try and get the three critical family members to safety.
But just when it seems like the worst may have passed, one of their own will be hit with a desperate medical emergency, forcing Pete to confront his deepest fears to save them.
RFDS – Wednesday 4 October at 8:50pm 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.
