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.