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    Never Say Die

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    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

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