Country Practice
| A Country Practice | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by | James Davern |
| Starring |
Joan Sydney Shane Porteous Georgie Parker Grant Dodwell Penny Cook Anne Tenney Shane Withington |
| Theme music composer | Mike Perjanik |
| Opening theme | A Country Practice (instrumental) |
| Ending theme | Reprise |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 14 |
| No. of episodes | 1,088 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | James Davern |
| Running time | 48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | JNP Productions |
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| Original network |
Seven Network (1981–93) Network Ten (1994) |
| Picture format | 4.3 PAL |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 18 November 1981 – 5 November 1994 |
A Country Practice is a multi-Logie award-winning Australian television soap opera/serial drama. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes at 7.30 pm Monday and Tuesday nights, from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced at both ATN-7's production facility at Epping, New South Wales with exterior locations filmed in Pitt Town and Oakville in the outskirts of Northwest Sydney. Several of the regular cast members became highly popular celebrities through their roles in the series. It also featured a number of native Australian animals adding to its enduring appeal both domestically and internationally. After the series was cancelled by the Seven Network in 1993 a reworked version of the series ran briefly on Network Ten in 1994. A Country Practice was the longest running Australian drama upon its demise, At its height the show attracted 8–10 million viewers weekly, when the population of the time was a mere 15 million, and was eventually sold to 48 countries.
A Country Practice creator James Davern of JNP Productions, had worked on a previous similar type rural series, as producer and director of the long-running Bellbird and had written the pilot episode for ACP and entered a script contest for the Ten Network in 1979. He came third and won a merit award., although TEN turned the series down, the Seven Network picked up the series stating it liked the characters and setting. Davern would be inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 1991 and be honoured as an Order of Australia recipient in 2014.
A Country Practice is the third most successful television program in the history of the Logie Awards, after Home and Away (1st) and Neighbours (2nd), having won 29 awards during its twelve years of production.
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