Medivac
1996
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 48 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
Drama
Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation. The series was also known as Adrenaline Junkies overseas.
Medivac was set in the emergency department of Brisbane's fictional Bethlehem West Hospital, where a dedicated medical team work in the demanding world of emergency medicine. The team specialises in the evacuation of disaster areas, journeying by helicopter to remote areas inaccessible by ambulance. They also work in the city streets and the suburbs involving themselves with the patients, their families and the police.
Seasons
Season 1
Dr. Harry Edwards is forced by the hospital's board of directors to appoint new arrival Dr. Red Buchanan as his successor for the Head of Bethlehem West's emergency department—despite Harry having promised the job to his Deputy Director, Dr. Julia McAlpine. Wayne makes a failed pass at Julia, describing to her the dreams he has had about the two of them together. Wayne and Bree are sent into the Glasshouse Mountains on a medivac to rescue an injured hiker. Tensions resurface between former colleagues Arch and Red now that the two are once again working together. Offended at being passed over for the Directorship, Julia hands in her resignation.
Season 2
An old flame from Arch's past provides Harry with legal advice regarding a doctor who knowingly exposed a patient to a fatal virus for the sake of performing a ground breaking trans-species organ transplant. Finally achieving the directorship that has eluded her, Julia asks Arch to accept the vacant position of Deputy Director—he refuses and then supports Wayne's bid for the job.
Season 3
Sean's best friend is diagnosed with a progressive nerve disorder and lapses into a coma. Julia passes over Gosia for the new Nurse Manager and instead appoints the unpopular Eric Frost to the position. A professor of Jewish studies overdoses on his housekeeper's pills trying to induce vomiting after eating pork. His asthmatic housekeeper is then brought in after having run out of her medication. Evie and Sean end their relationship.
Crew
Producer
Mikael Borglund
Network
10