''Reef Doctors'' is an Australian television drama series that premiered on

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on 9 June 2013.Reef Doctors: Sun, sand and snakes galore , Sydney Morning Herald 16 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013
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Premise

The show revolves around Dr. Sam Stewart, the leader of a team of doctors serving the remote Hope Island Clinic. They look after residents of a small island community and neighbouring islands on the Great Barrier Reef, as well as holidaymakers and thrillseekers who visit the area. Sam is a single mother with an unusual interest in venom, hoping to extract the hidden secrets that may have the power to cure fatal diseases.

Pre-production

Reef Doctors is the first non-children's show Jonathan M Shiff has produced. As well as starring in the series, Lisa McCune is a co-producer. Filming commenced on 28 November 2011 in Queensland, around the Great Barrier Reef, and finished in April 2012. The series was due to be broadcast from September 2012, but was pushed back to June 2013.Airdate: Reef Doctors , TV Tonight 24 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013
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Ratings and reception

The series received mixed reviews upon its long-overdue premiere. The first episode finally aired on 9 June 2013 at 6:30pm, attracting low ratings of just 357,000 for Network Ten. These low figures caused Ten to move the show into a different time-slot, on Fridays at 9:30pm, but even that proved to be too much to ask, because it then failed to attract reasonable viewing figures in its changed time-slot. As a result, the show was subsequently moved to Ten's digital channel

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) from 29 June 2013.

Cast

* Lisa McCune as Dr. Sam Stewart * Richard Brancatisano as Dr. Rick D'Alessandro * Rohan Nichol as Toby McGrath * Susan Hoecke as Freya Klein * Andrew Ryan as Gus Cochrane *

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as Olivia Shaw * Rod Mullinar as Sonny Farrell *

Justin Holborow Justin Bevis (born 17 September 1996 in Sydney, Australia), better known as Justin Holborow, is an Australian actor, best known for his roles as Harley Canning in Eleven's ''Neighbours'', Jack Stewart in ''Reef Doctors'', and as Griff in the ...

as Jack Stewart * Chloe Bayliss as Nell Saunders * Kristof Piechocki as Malcolm Reid * Matt Day as Prof. Andrew Walsh * Alexandra Davies as Gillian

Episodes

Home media

References

External links

''Reef Doctors''
at the Australian Television Information Archive * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reef Doctors Network 10 original programming 10 Peach original programming Australian drama television series 2013 Australian television series debuts 2013 Australian television series endings Television shows set in Queensland English-language television shows