Doctor in the House

  • : 1969
  • : 157
  • : 2
  • ITV1
  • Comedy

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5x1
The Merger
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15, 1973
Eaves-dropping on a conversation between Sir Geoffrey and Sir John Pollock, the head of Highcross, Duncan learns that St. Swithins is to be demolished to make way for a hotel and the .. show full overview
5x2
Men without Women
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22, 1973
Duncan tries to cheer up depressed Dr. Don Harper, whose wife has just left him, but in vain. Duncan himself is pleased because, though there is currently a dearth of pretty nurses to .. show full overview
5x3
A Deep Depression Centred over St. Swithin's
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29, 1973
Due to Dick Stuart-Clark's incompetence a patient almost loses a healthy leg and he gets a good telling off from Sir Geoffrey. When he asks his colleagues how he is regarded they are .. show full overview
5x4
The Epidemic
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06, 1973
The blundering Reggie Grace is feeling ill again so Waring decides to use a new computer to find out what his prognosis is and it turns out that he has typhoid. The hospital is sealed .. show full overview
5x5
The Garden Fête
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13, 1973
Sir Geoffrey wants bright ideas for the hospital's annual garden party. Duncan suggests a beauty contest but has trouble finding contestants and is upset when Annabel, whom he is dating, .. show full overview
5x6
Brotherly Hate
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20, 1973
Bingham refuses to recommend Paul to Loftus for a senior house post. However when Lionel Bingham, Lawrence's identical but less buttoned-up twin appears, he impersonates his brother and .. show full overview
5x7
TheLoftus Papers
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27, 1973
Sir Geoffrey is off to a conference in Rome and asks Duncan to accompany him, giving him the text of the speech he will deliver. Paul, annoyed that Duncan threw him out of an operation .. show full overview
5x8
In Place of Strife
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03, 1973
Painters arrive to decorate the ward and, as they are in white coats, Duncan mistakes them for new students. The painters do their work but go home at five, leaving a bare patch, which .. show full overview
5x9
The Pool
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10, 1973
Duncan joins doctor Diana - whom he has helped by lancing a patient's boil very roughly - in protesting against the hospital swimming pool being demolished to make way for a new wing. .. show full overview
5x10
The Godfather
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17, 1973
The Binghams' marriage is in crisis. Lawrence wants a son and heir but Mary wants to carry on with her medical career. Efforts on Lawrence's part to get Duncan to talk Mary round fail .. show full overview
5x11
A Man's Best Friend Is His Cat
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24, 1973
Sir Geoffrey and his wife are visiting her mother and he asks Duncan to look after his cat, Thomas, which wees everywhere and is not good-natured. Thomas gets put with the lab animals .. show full overview
5x12
There's No Fire without Smoke
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01, 1973
Duncan and Dick carry on playing cards during a fire drill, aware there is no fire but Sir Geoffrey is annoyed with their apathy and appoints them fire wardens. Urged by Sir Geoffrey to .. show full overview
5x13
Hello Sailor!
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08, 1973
In debt and spurned by Annabel, Duncan decides to join the Navy but, when Annabel agrees to marry him, needs a way of getting out, so feigns madness. The psychiatrist testing him is also .. show full overview
5x14
Any Complaints?
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15, 1973
The Municipal and District Hospital Patients' Protection League has received six hundred and seventy complaints about Duncan Waring, and he only has thirty patients on his ward. When the .. show full overview
5x15
Watch Out - There's a Thief About
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22, 1973
Items are going missing from around the hospital, arousing suspicions that they are being stolen and sold to hotels - until an electro-cardiograph machine goes walkabout. A recently .. show full overview
5x16
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?
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29, 1973
Duncan re-encounters Irishman Danny Hooley, a former colleague from his medical student days, who claims to have been working in Africa. Duncan gets him a job at St Swithins as a locum, .. show full overview

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