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Director:
Writers:
Nicholas Phipps (screenplay) and
Ronald Scott Thorn (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
2 December 1963 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Tagline:
It's that incurable 'DOCTOR' team in their NEWESTand SAUCIEST! [UK] more
Plot:
The stuffy medical director of a big-city hospital and his nemesis, a cheeky young intern, finally come... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Dirk Bogarde ... Dr. Simon Sparrow
James Robertson Justice ... Sir Lancelot Spratt

Samantha Eggar ... Delia Mallory
Barbara Murray ... Iris Marchant - Physiotherapist
Mylène Demongeot ... Sonia / Helga Stronberg (as Mylene Demongeot)
Donald Houston ... Major Tommy Ffrench
Jessie Evans ... Mrs. Parry
Ann Lynn ... Mrs. Whittaker
Leo McKern ... Harry Heilbronn
Rodney Cardiff ... Dr. Stewart
Dennis Price ... Dr. Blacker
Fenella Fielding ... Passenger on Train
Jill Adams ... Genevieve
Paul Whitsun-Jones ... Grimes
Michael Flanders ... Bradby
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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:102 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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Certification:
Iceland:L | UK:PG (tv rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:Btl | UK:A (original rating) (passed with cuts)

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Follows Doctor in Love (1960) more

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Spot the TV sitcom actor, 17 April 2000
Author: fiendishgames from London

The usual formula for this series featuring the urbane Bogarde, the irascible Robertson-Justice and - pardon my political incorrectness - some top notch tottie.

Probably considered quite risque in its time but hardly likely to provoke an "ooh err, missus!" these days, it mostly raises smiles rather than laughs although the odd bits of slapstick made my 7 year old son laugh.

Perhaps the most fun is to be had spotting future starts down the cast list: Richard Briers (The Good Life), John Bluthal (Vicar of Dibley), the uncredited Denise Coffee (Do Not Adjust Your Set), Ronnie Barker (Two Ronnies) and Derek Fowlds (Yes, Minister) are all here, not to mention Frank Finlay (Casanova) and Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey). No Richard Wattis or John Le Mesurier though - they must have been working on 5 other British comedies that week.

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