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    Comedy Drama TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Very Peculiar Practice, A

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    1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 8 (UK)
    15 x 60 minute episodes

    The saga of a medical practice run by four doctors – Young bashful Dr Stephen Daker (Peter Davison) who joins the health clinic of the fictitious Lowlands University, and his blackly funny colleagues –  Bob, a nasty Tory (David Troughton), Jock, an old alcoholic conspiracy theorist (Graham Crowden) and Rose, a manipulative radical lesbian (Barbara Flynn).

    Some degree of sanity comes in the form of police student Lyn Turtle (Amanda Hillwood) and mathematician flatmate Chen Sung Yau (Takashi Kawahara). They offer humanity when Dr Daker gets caught in the crossfire between Bob Buzzard and Rose Marie, and when the outside world of government cuts and investment threatens the medical centre and the University as a whole.

    Andrew Davies’ scripts took a savage swipe at modern academia, and by the second series, the university had been taken over by an American company interested only in asset-stripping and weapons technology research.

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    One of the main storylines in 1986 was an epidemic of VD – what gleefully beastly Dr Bob Buzzard called “a bit of tool trouble”. Boozy Doctor McCannon told one stuttering youth, “out with it!” – only to be instantly sorry.

    Dr Daker and Dr Rose Marie (“Illness is a thing men do to women”) worked overtime treating infected parts and broken hearts, sewing up the catering manager’s trousers and telling the Vice-Chancellor what he’d caught.

    Series two featured Daker replacing Jock as the head of the medical centre and falling for the charms of Polish art historian Grete Grotowska (Joanna Kanska). This time conflict came in the form of the new vice-chancellor, right-wing American Jack B Daniels (Michael J Shanno).

    A 1992 one-off – A Very Polish Practice – followed Daker’s sojourn in Poland following his marriage to Grete.

    Both series were filmed using a mixture of Keele and Birmingham university locations.

    Dr Stephen Daker
    Peter Davison
    Dr Bob Buzzard

    David Troughton
    Dr Jock McCannon
    Graham Crowden
    Dr Rose Marie
    Barbara Flynnn
    Lyn Turtle
    Amanda Hillwood
    Maureen Gahagan
    Lindy Whiteford
    Ernest Hemmingway
    John Bird
    Chen Sung Yau
    Takashi Kawahara
    Grete Grotowska
    Joanna Kanska
    Jack B Daniels
    Michael J Shanno
    Jack Daniels
    Michael J Shannon
    Julie Daniels
    Toria Fuller
    Prof George Bunn
    James Grout
    Charlie Dusenberry
    Colin Stinton

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