ANDREW TAKES OFF IN NEW MINI-SERIES

SYDNEY-BASED actor Andrew McFarlane is "up in the air" after scoring one of the top roles for 1984.
He's landed a starring role in the big-budget mini-series Flying Doctors.
The series, based on the famous outback medical service, will screen on the Nine Network,
It will be the Melbourne-based Crawford Productions' second mini-series – last year the company produced All The Rivers Run for the Seven Network.
Like All The Rivers, which was set in the 1890s, Flying Doctor also takes a step back in time – but not quite as far. The show is set in the late Forties.
Filming is scheduled to begin soon in South Australia, and will continue until April.
Producers of the series, scheduled to screen late this year, are Bud Tingwell and former Cop Shop and Skyways producer Graham Moore.
Further casting details are expected to be released soon.
Flying Doctor continues the run of plum roles enjoyed by Andrew McFarIane.
The handsome actor was last seen on television as Lt David Keating in the ABC series Patrol Boat, Andrew thought he'd said goodbye to the show after the first series concluded production four years ago, but, after encouraging response overseas and locally, a second series was made.
But it was as John, Dave and Grace's eldest son, in The Sullivans, that Andrew won himself a multitude of fans.
The character – a medical student and pacifist – went off to war and was reported missing in action.
Andrew quit the series, but Crawfords brought him back to star in the top-rating telemovie The John Sullivan Story. In the program, John turns up in Yugoslavia where he's befriended by a group of Partisans.

TV WEEK - 6/2/1984