Never Say Die

1 9 7 0 (UK)
6 x 25 minute episodes

This Yorkshire Television comedy was set in the Emmott Robinson Ward of the Victoria Memorial Hospital and stories revolved around the “inmates”, Mr Hebden (Reginald Marsh), Mr Oliphant (Patrick Newell), Mr Finucane (Noel Purcell), Mr Bridge (Larry Noble), Corker (Teddy Green) and Albert (Wilfrid Brambell).

The staff included plump, balding Sister Ringstead (Ken Parry), Nurse Whitethroat (Mary Healey) and Poniatowski (Hugh Walters).

Never Say Die debuted on Tuesday 4 August 1970 – with an episode featuring battering to bits of a patient encased in plaster (who turned out to be a cake!) – and ran for six weeks, with the final episode broadcast on 8 September.

Peter Tinniswood wrote all six episodes.

Mr Hebden
Reginald Marsh
Mr Oliphant
Patrick Newell
Mr Finucane
Noel Purcell
Mr Bridge
Larry Noble
Corker
Teddy Green
Albert
Wilfrid Brambell
Sister Ringstead
Ken Parry
Nurse Whitethroat
Mary Healey
Poniatowski
Hugh Walters
Sister Brooding
Joan Sanderson

Episodes

Please, Please, Don’t Eat the Patient | Goodbye Mr Bridge | The Party | The Criminal | The New Sister | The Gamblers