A Country Practice was an Australian television drama series. At its inception, one of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, who had wrote the pilot episode and entered a script contest for the network in 1979, coming third and winning a merit award. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping, Sydney. After its lengthy run on the seven network it was picked up by network ten with a mainly new cast from April to November 1994 for 30 episodes, although the ten series was not as successful as its predecessor . The Channel Seven series was also filmed on location in Pitt Town, while, the Channel Ten series was filmed on location in Emerald, Victoria.


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Shane Porteous
Terence Elliot (408 episodes)

Lorrae Desmond
Shirley Dean/Gilroy (408 episodes)

Brian Wenzel
Frank Gilroy (408 episodes)

Joyce Jacobs
Esme Watson (358 episodes)

Syd Heylen
Vernon 'Cookie' Locke (358 episodes)

Gordon Piper
Robert 'Bob' Hatfield (358 episodes)

Grant Dodwell
Simon Bowen (322 episodes)

Shane Withington
Brendan Jones (272 episodes)

Penny Cook
Victoria "Vicki" Dean/Bowen (238 episodes)