David Bowie was a fan. So was Iggy Pop. So much so that the pair would get tapes of this Australian television show sent to them. But in 1985, the writer's room for A Country Practice was in crisis.

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 ...

The TV heartthrob shares memories of the iconic show. “I’m in Karratha,” the 60-year-old told us as he was preparing to start night shift in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. John spent the ...