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51. Night Visions (2001–2002)
Episode: The Passenger List/The Bokor (2001)

TV-14 | 44 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

In "The Passenger List", a plane crash investigator becomes worried that his daughter may have been on an airliner that crashed, but he's missing the point. In "The Bokor", a group of medical students falls prey to - one of them.

Directors: Keith Gordon, Yves Simoneau | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Kelly Rutherford, Paul Guilfoyle, Troy Evans

Votes: 138

52. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: One for the Road (1986)

Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In 1934, a couple of South Bronx barflies try to kill drunk Mike Malloy for his insurance money and find they're tangling with much more than they bargained for.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: James Cromwell, Geoffrey Lewis, Joe Pantoliano, Al Ruscio

Votes: 322

53. Carnivàle (2003–2005)
Episode: Damascus, NE (2005)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

When Carnivale finally arrives in Damascus, Ben gets closer to finding his father when another vision of a man with the shredded face leads him to the town's seedy hotel. Ben then goes to ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson

Votes: 583

54. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: A Fair Hearing: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Clancy (aka The Sloan Ranger) loses his first race after a promising start. Maggie and Bob are obviously disappointed but Cookie, who bet some of the club's money, takes it the hardest.

Director: Chris Adshead | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

55. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: A Touch of Class: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Vicky sours on accepting the loan when she learns the house will have to be acceptable to Simon's father. Frank attempts to make repairs to the cop shop, but the plumbing poses a bit of a problem and Bob must finish the job.

Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

56. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: An Axe to Grind: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Anthropologist Emma Hutchison, a friend of Molly's from university, arrives for a short visit. Also arriving in the district are Joe Fisher, a transient aboriginal man, and his son Dennis who is quickly befriended by Robbie Quinn.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

57. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Have I Got a Deal for You: Part 1 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Hannah Green arrives to a busy hospital and after a brief wait, is examined by Terence who determines she has a perforated ulcer that will require an operation to fix.

Director: Bruce Best | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

58. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Hot and Cold: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Mark and Lee Somers arrive in the valley with their daughter Megan. Mark and Lee are old friends of Terence's from university and are staying at Terence's vineyard.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

59. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Leader of the Pack: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Esme is frantic in her concerns for the safety of the community when a gang of bikers roll into town on "machines straight from hell."

Director: Bob Meillon | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

60. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Lost Weekend: Part 1 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Terence accompanies Vicky on a trip to Magnolia Vale to recover her stolen truck. Simon was hoping to go with her, but as Terence wanted to check on some wine making equipment up for sale, he took Simon's place.

Director: Bill Hughes | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

61. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Lost Weekend: Part 2 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Terence and Vicky's remaining time in Magnolia Vale is highlighted by the truck being stolen, an epic bar brawl, and Terence being treed by a vicious dog named Attila before he's finally tranquillised by Vicky.

Director: Bill Hughes | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

62. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Man's Best Friend: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

The greyhound syndicate hold their first meeting and agree to hire the services of a trainer in Burrigan.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell

63. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Man's Best Friend: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

While Maisie is in hospital, she reveals to Brendan that she once had an affair with Joe Gilroy, Frank's father.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

64. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Moment of Truth: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Keith Fitzgerald, Sarah's father-in-law, arrives in town and sets his sights on having Terence deregistered after the coroner's inquest clears both Terence and Tania of any wrongdoing in connection to Rod's death.

Director: Bob Meillon | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

65. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: My Son, My Son: Part 1 (1983)

Drama, Romance

The magistrate releases Gabe into the Gilroy's custody on a twelve month good behaviour bond. Vicky invites Simon out to the farm for dinner but Bob's unexpected return from the club turns company into a crowd.

Director: Bruce Best | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

66. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Partners: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

While Arnold is in hospital getting his broken nose seen to, Johnno retrieves the files from the office. Armed with the incriminating documents, Johnno calls up Muldoon to make a play for his hardware store - and the shire presidency.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

67. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Raking Over the Ashes: Part 2 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Terence operates on Bobby Norton when the young boy's appendix bursts. Terence's original failure to diagnose Bobby's condition brings back memories of an identical, but fatal, situation involving his own son.

Director: Brendan Maher | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

68. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Ships in the Night: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Frank, Shirley, Simon, Brendan, and Cookie depart from Sydney Cove aboard the S.S. Oriana.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Grant Dodwell, Penny Cook, Lorrae Desmond

69. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: So Close and Yet So Far: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

The first guests for Molly's Farmland are signed up, and as they are not due to arrive until Christmas, it should provide enough time to complete preparations.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

70. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: So Close and Yet So Far: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Bob retrieves Chloe from the edge of the dam and carries her back to the house where Bill is in the midst of one of his bad spells and has no clue as to what is happening around him.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

71. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Something Out There: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Molly is upset that a duck shoot has been organised to help raise funds for the seniors bus.

Director: Bob Meillon | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

72. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Splitting the Difference: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Matron Sloan arrives early for work to find Judy and Nurse Daley making breakfast in her office, and to put it mildly, she's far from impressed.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

73. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Still Life: Part 2 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Molly confronts Boney and Clyde about Ollie's death when she learns the pair are professional roo shooters. They deny involvement and eventually put Frank on to the individuals responsible.

Director: Kevin James Dobson | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

74. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Taking the Plunge: Part 1 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Cookie places an ad for a housekeeper when Bob's house reaches new heights of uncleanliness. Gabe applies for the job but Bob gives the position to Glenda Saunders, a woman he is obviously smitten with.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

75. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Taking the Plunge: Part 2 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Glenda's revelation that she is married leaves Bob heartbroken. Brendan seeks support from Terence in his effort to get Matron Sloan to relax her firm grip on hospital regulations so that Brett's mother can stay at the hospital with him.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

76. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: The Best Thing for Everybody: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Judy is seeing local mechanic Barry Hall. Barry is a single father struggling to raise his five-year-old daughter Kerry after his wife Lisa walked out on them.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

77. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: The Harder They Fall: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Bob has booked the classiest act to grace the club since the Hijinks girls - a pair of female wrestlers who perform in "600 litres of raspberry flavoured jelly."

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Grant Dodwell, Penny Cook, Lorrae Desmond

78. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: The Hidden Trap: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

News quickly spreads that Simon and Vicky are once again looking for a house. They are soon inundated with offers from real estate agents.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

79. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: The Hidden Trap: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Molly continues to work on getting out her first issue of the Valley Voice but refuses to publish Esme's libelous article about the Herberts.

Director: Russell Webb | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

80. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: They Shoot Cows Don't They: Part 1 (1981)

Drama, Romance

A woman who has remained tied to her home in order to look after her curmudgeon of a father seeks Terence's help to allow her to get away for a few days.

Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Shane Porteous, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond, Shane Withington

81. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Town Tragedy: Part 2 (1981)

Drama, Romance

Gossip begins to circulate in town that Ian and Eliane were having an affair. Andy, increasingly speculative as to why Elaine was traveling in Ian's car (which was heading to Sydney), goes to see Ian in the hospital.

Director: James Davern | Stars: Shane Porteous, Helen Scott, Grant Dodwell, Penny Cook

Votes: 9

82. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Tug of War: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Simon isn't pleased that Dr. Swift has set up practice in town but Terence tells him there is not much they can do about it.

Director: Bob Meillon | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

83. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Upstaged: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Simon has gone to Sydney by air ambulance with young Bobby Price, the town's paperboy, who needs emergency surgery to remove a brain tumour.

Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

84. Crash Zone (1999–2001)
Episode: Free Stuff (2001)

Unrated | 22 min | Family, Sci-Fi

The lure of a program that can order all the free stuff from the Net automatically is Marcello's latest brainwave. When it goes wrong, however, it threatens everyone's future.

Director: Julian McSwiney | Stars: Cassandra Magrath, Paul Pantano, Damien Bodie, Frances Wang-Ward

85. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: All You Need Is Luck (1989)

Drama

Kate's temporary replacement arrives and ruffles Maggie's feathers. Chris has to give advice to a woman intent on marrying a man ten years her senior.

Director: Colin Budds | Stars: Robert Grubb, Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, Peter O'Brien

Votes: 9

86. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: The Wranglers Daughter (1988)

Drama

The people of Cooper's Crossing are involved in a life and death search for the mentally handicapped daughter of a horse wrangler.

Director: Paul Moloney | Stars: Robert Grubb, Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, Peter O'Brien

Votes: 12

87. The Genie from Down Under 2 (1998)
Episode: Baby Talk (1998)

Family, Comedy, Fantasy

Diana and Nigel are planning to elope and Penelope has become a baby again so no-one can understand her wishes. Miss Mossop and Bruce decide to ruin the wedding plans.

Director: Aleksi Vellis | Stars: Alexandra Milman, Glenn Meldrum, Sandy Winton, Anna Galvin

88. The Genie from Down Under 2 (1998)
Episode: Stock and Bonding (1998)

Family, Comedy, Fantasy

Pen would really love a boyfriend and the gorgeous Montgomery St. Ives is her type. So, without Bruce's help Pen gets the guy and shows off to Sophie and Marcia. Unfortunately he turns out to be not her type at all.

Director: Ray Boseley | Stars: Alexandra Milman, Glenn Meldrum, Sandy Winton, Anna Galvin

89. The Genie from Down Under (1996–1998)
Episode: Nobody's Perfect (1996)

22 min | Family, Comedy, Romance

Bruce always misinterprets her wishes, so Penelope writes down her perfect wish. Everything turns out fine, Marcia is ugly, Penelope is perfect, and Lady Diana is rich. However, the two genies have the last laugh.

Director: Brendan Maher | Stars: Alexandra Milman, Glenn Meldrum, Rhys Muldoon, Anna Galvin

90. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: Second Time Around (1991)

TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Morse links the killing of a Deputy Assistant Commissioner on the night of his retirement to the 18 year old cold case murder of an 8 year old girl.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Jenny Laird, Oliver Ford Davies

Votes: 902

91. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Fast Freddie (1980)

Adventure, Drama, Family

The Hobo discovers a con man operating in a small town and tries to foil his plans to rob a doddering senior.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: London, Morey Amsterdam, Roger Dunn, Paul-Emile Frappier

Votes: 16

92. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Rex Badger P.I. (1982)

Adventure, Drama, Family

Hobo fills in for a goofy detective where his competency fails.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: London, Michael Kirby, Jayne Eastwood, Cec Linder

Votes: 13

93. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Small Change (1985)

Adventure, Drama, Family

Two lowlifes plan to rob a small business owner the day before he retires, and the Hobo along with a mime and a deaf-mute youth try to stop them.

Director: Jack Nixon-Browne | Stars: London, Patrick Allard, Peggy Coffey, Bob Collins

Votes: 7

94. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: The Clown (1982)

Adventure, Drama, Family

Hobo matches a retired clown--who can only dream of the glory days--with a fair that has a pressing need for talent.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: London, Donald O'Connor, Nancy Kerr, Mary Long

Votes: 12

95. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: The Further Adventures of Willy and Kate (1980)

Adventure, Drama, Family

The Hobo journeys onward, trying to keep his transient companions out of trouble, when Kate is captured by the authorities and placed in an orphanage run like a military academy.

Director: Jan Darnley-Smith | Stars: London, Gary Merrill, Pauline Fulton, Paul-Emile Frappier

Votes: 14

96. The Lost Islands (1976)
Episode: The Winds of Change (1976)

Adventure, Drama, Family

In order to keep up the food supply, Anna, Mark, Jason, Su Ying and David go fishing. What they don't know is that there is a bad storm heading right for the island - but no one will believe Tony and Jeremiah.

Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Tony Hughes, Jane Vallis, Robert Edgington, Amanda Ma

Votes: 7

97. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Buried Alive (1994)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Family

Jill Brock's father comes on an unexpected visit and stirs up the whole family.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 58

98. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Down the Tubes (1995)

Crime, Drama, Family

Cryptic dreams after his brother's death lead Littleton to make some drastic changes, including leaving Rome. To satisfy a charity request, Sheriff Brock prepares to do polka with the very ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 51

99. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Remote Control (1994)

Crime, Drama, Family

Littleton and Wambaugh go head to head again in the courtroom as Wambaugh argues that his latest client, Timmy Hendricks, was predisposed to violence because of his exposure to television ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 58

100. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode: Buddha's Bowl (1999)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddha's fabled overflowing alms bowl for villagers who are building a shrine to the original Buddha.

Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Tony Rosato

Votes: 198