# List of Love Child episodes

Love Child is an Australian television drama. It was created by Sarah Lambert, the co-creator of House Husbands. It premiered on the Nine Network on 17 February 2014. The show focuses on Dr Joan Millar (Jessica Marais), a doctor who works alongside Dr Patrick McNaughton (Jonathan LaPaglia) and Matron Frances Bolton (Mandy McElhinney) at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital's Stanton House for pregnant girls who are unmarried. During the course of the programme, 36 episodes of Love Child aired over four series.

## Series overview

| Series | Episodes | Episodes | Originally aired | Originally aired |
| Series | Episodes | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
| 1 | 8 | 8 | 17 February 2014 (2014-02-17) | 7 April 2014 (2014-04-07) |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 May 2015 (2015-05-05) | 23 June 2015 (2015-06-23) |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | 20 June 2016 (2016-06-20) | 1 August 2016 (2016-08-01) |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | 2 May 2017 (2017-05-02) | 4 July 2017 (2017-07-04) |

## Episodes
### Series 1 (2014)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | Aus. viewers (millions) |
| 1 | 1 | "Episode One" | Shawn Seet | Sarah Lambert | 17 February 2014 (2014-02-17) | 235930-1 | 1.587 |
| 2 | 2 | "Episode Two" | Shawn Seet | Tim Pye & Guila Sandler | 24 February 2014 (2014-02-24) | 235930-2 | 1.510 |
| 3 | 3 | "Episode Three" | Shirley Barrett | Sarah Lambert & Kym Goldsworthy | 3 March 2014 (2014-03-03) | 235930-3 | 1.453 |
| 4 | 4 | "Episode Four" | Shirley Barrett | Tim Pye & Matt Ford | 10 March 2014 (2014-03-10) | 235930-4 | 1.410 |
| 5 | 5 | "Episode Five" | Geoff Bennett | Sarah Lambert & Liz Doran | 17 March 2014 (2014-03-17) | 235930-5 | 1.358 |
| 6 | 6 | "Episode Six" | Geoff Bennett | Tim Pye & Kym Goldsworthy | 24 March 2014 (2014-03-24) | 235930-6 | 1.426 |
| 7 | 7 | "Episode Seven" | Grant Brown | Cathryn Strickland | 31 March 2014 (2014-03-31) | 235930-7 | 1.522 |
| 8 | 8 | "Episode Eight" | Grant Brown | Tim Pye | 7 April 2014 (2014-04-07) | 235930-8 | 1.453 |

### Series 2 (2015)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | Aus. viewers (millions) |
| 9 | 1 | "Episode One" | Shawn Seet | Cathryn Strickland | 5 May 2015 (2015-05-05) | 235930-9 | 1.107 |
| 10 | 2 | "Episode Two" | Shawn Seet | Jane Allen | 12 May 2015 (2015-05-12) | 235930-10 | 1.040 |
| 11 | 3 | "Episode Three" | Shawn Seet | Tim Pye | 19 May 2015 (2015-05-19) | 235930-11 | 1.152 |
| 12 | 4 | "Episode Four" | Geoff Bennett | Christine McCourt | 26 May 2015 (2015-05-26) | 235930-12 | 1.059 |
| 13 | 5 | "Episode Five" | Geoff Bennett | Jane Allen | 2 June 2015 (2015-06-02) | 235930-13 | 1.098 |
| 14 | 6 | "Episode Six" | Geoff Bennett | Tim Pye | 9 June 2015 (2015-06-09) | 235930-14 | 1.054 |
| 15 | 7 | "Episode Seven" | Lynn-Maree Danzey | Tamara Asmar & Tim Pye | 16 June 2015 (2015-06-16) | 235930-15 | 1.023 |
| 16 | 8 | "Episode Eight" | Lynn-Maree Danzey | Tim Pye | 23 June 2015 (2015-06-23) | 235930-16 | 1.061 |

### Series 3 (2016)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | Aus. viewers (millions) |
| 17 | 1 | "Episode One" | Geoff Bennett | Tim Pye | 20 June 2016 (2016-06-20) | 235930-17 | 1.010 |
| 18 | 2 | "Episode Two" | Geoff Bennett | Samantha Winston & Tim Pye | 27 June 2016 (2016-06-27) | 235930-18 | 0.872 |
| 19 | 3 | "Episode Three" | Mark Joffe | Cristine McCourt | 4 July 2016 (2016-07-04) | 235930-19 | 0.896 |
| 20 | 4 | "Episode Four" | Mark Joffe | Cathryn Strickland | 11 July 2016 (2016-07-11) | 235930-22 | 0.910 |
| 21 | 5 | "Episode Five" | Peter Andrikidis | Tim Pye | 18 July 2016 (2016-07-18) | 235930-23 | 0.854 |
| 22 | 6 | "Episode Six" | Peter Andrikidis | Cathryn Strickland | 25 July 2016 (2016-07-25) | 235930-24 | 0.779 |
| 23 | 7 | "Episode Seven" | Geoff Bennett | Cristine McCourt | 25 July 2016 (2016-07-25) | 235930-25 | 0.726 |
| 24 | 8 | "Episode Eight" | Geoff Bennett | Tim Pye | 31 July 2016 (2016-07-31) | 235930-26 | 0.797 |
| 25 | 9 | "Episode Nine" | Grant Brown | Cathryn Strickland | 1 August 2016 (2016-08-01) | 235930-20 | 0.835 |
| 26 | 10 | "Episode Ten" | Grant Brown | Tim Pye | 1 August 2016 (2016-08-01) | 235930-21 | 0.773 |

### Series 4 (2017)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | Aus. viewers (millions) |
| 27 | 1 | "Episode One" | Geoff Bennett | Cathryn Strickland | 2 May 2017 (2017-05-02) | 235930-27 | 0.683 |
| 28 | 2 | "Episode Two" | Geoff Bennett | Chris McCourt | 9 May 2017 (2017-05-09) | 235930-28 | 0.659 |
| 29 | 3 | "Episode Three" | David Caesar | Fiona Samuel | 16 May 2017 (2017-05-16) | 235930-29 | 0.595 |
| 30 | 4 | "Episode Four" | David Caesar | Fin Eduist | 23 May 2017 (2017-05-23) | 235930-30 | 0.710 |
| 31 | 5 | "Episode Five" | Shannon Murphy | Vanessa Alexander | 30 May 2017 (2017-05-30) | 235930-31 | 0.614 |
| 32 | 6 | "Episode Six" | Shannon Murphy | Josephine D. Barrett | 6 June 2017 (2017-06-06) | 235930-32 | 0.639 |
| 33 | 7 | "Episode Seven" | Geoff Bennett | Chris Hawkshaw | 13 June 2017 (2017-06-13) | 235930-33 | 0.662 |
| 34 | 8 | "Episode Eight" | Geoff Bennett | Chris McCourt | 20 June 2017 (2017-06-20) | 235930-34 | 0.670 |
| 35 | 9 | "Episode Nine" | Wayne Blair | Vanessa Alexander & Lara Radulovich & Wendy Hanna | 27 June 2017 (2017-06-27) | 235930-35 | 0.699 |
| 36 | 10 | "Episode Ten" | Wayne Blair | Sarah Smith | 4 July 2017 (2017-07-04) | 235930-36 | 0.696 |

## Ratings

| Season | Season | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number |
| Season | Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| | 1 | 1.587 | 1.510 | 1.453 | 1.410 | 1.358 | 1.426 | 1.522 | 1.453 | – | – |
| | 2 | 1.107 | 1.040 | 1.152 | 1.059 | 1.098 | 1.054 | 1.023 | 1.061 | – | – |
| | 3 | 1.010 | 0.872 | 0.896 | 0.910 | 0.854 | 0.779 | 0.726 | 0.797 | 0.835 | 0.773 |
| | 4 | 0.683 | 0.659 | 0.595 | 0.710 | 0.614 | 0.639 | 0.662 | 0.670 | 0.699 | 0.696 |