An idealistic young doctor begins a new job in Student Health Service at a university medical center staffed by a bizarre group of misfits. Loosely based on Andrew Davies' experiences as a lecturer at the University of Warwick.
Show Details:
Start date: May 1986
End date: Sep 1992
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC One (UK) / BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 50 min
Episodes: 14 eps, 1 Reunion TVM
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
End date: Sep 1992
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC One (UK) / BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 50 min
Episodes: 14 eps, 1 Reunion TVM
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Credits:
- Peter Davison as Dr Stephen Daker
- Graham Crowden as Dr Jock McCannon
- David Troughton as Dr Bob Buzzard
- Barbara Flynn as Dr Rose Marie
- Amanda Hillwood as Lyn Turtle [ eps 1-8, 14 ]
- Joanna Kanaska as Grete Grotowska [ 2 ] recurring:
- Lindy Whiteford as Maureen Gahagan
- John Bird as Ernest Hemmingway
- Takashi Kawahara as Chen Sung Yau [ 1 ]
- Michael J. Shannon as Jack Daniels [ 2 ]
- Toria Fuller as Julie Daniels [ 2 ]
- Colin Stinton as Charlie Dusenberry [ 2 ]
- James Grout as Prof. George Bunn [ 2 ]
- Elaine Turrell as a Nun
- Sonia Hart as a Nun
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 21 May 86 | A Very Long Way from Anywhere |
| 2. | 1-2 | 28 May 86 | We Love You, That's Why We're Here |
| 3. | 1-3 | 04 Jun 86 | Wives of Great Men |
| 4. | 1-4 | 10 Jun 86 | Black Bob's Hamburger Suit |
| 5. | 1-5 | 17 Jun 86 | Contact Tracer |
| 6. | 1-6 | 24 Jun 86 | The Hit List |
| 7. | 1-7 | 02 Jul 86 | Catastrophe Theory |
| Season 2 | |||
| 8. | 2-1 | 02 Mar 88 | The New Frontier |
| 9. | 2-2 | 09 Mar 88 | Art and Illusion |
| 10. | 2-3 | 16 Mar 88 | May the Force Be with You |
| 11. | 2-4 | 23 Mar 88 | Bad Vibrations |
| 12. | 2-5 | 30 Mar 88 | Values of the Family |
| 13. | 2-6 | 06 Apr 88 | The Big Squeeze |
| 14. | 2-7 | 13 Apr 88 | Death of a University |
| Specials | |||
| S02. | 2-0 | 06 Sep 92 | A Very Polish Practice (94 min) |