Memories of Crawfords’ The Flying Doctors which ran from 1986 to 1992, preceded by a mini-series in 1985.

Much of the series was filmed in outer Melbourne and Minyip township in north-west Victoria as Cooper’s Crossing. The show sold in multiple territories around the world.

One Minyip resident Corinne Heintze recalled one storyline in the show’s mini-series involving a parade in Minyip’s main street.

“The scene had to look like it was a really stinking hot, dusty outback day, but they were actually filming between showers of hail,” she told The Wimmera Mail-Times.

“It was probably about 10 or 11 degrees.

“Rebecca Gibney had to get on the back of a truck and be paraded down the street. In between takes she was in a cafe with a pile of blankets, then she’d have to jump out on the back of the truck.

“This went on for about two hours and I thought, ‘You poor woman – you must be freezing’.

“But scene came out looking amazing.”

But by 1993 the show went “gritty” with RFDS filmed in Broken Hill for one season.

This week Seven announced a new RFDS (working title) drama to be filmed in Broken Hill based around real case stories.

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