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"A Very Peculiar Practice" (1986)
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Writer:
Andrew Davies (writer)
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Release Date:
21 May 1986 (UK)
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Plot:
A surreal comedy series tracking the career of Stephen Daker, a young doctor who works for the health centre of a modern British university.
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University
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Clinic
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Medical
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1 win
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1 nomination
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The Last Detective: Complete Collection (review)
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(From FlickFilosopher. 3 February 2009, 9:05 AM, PST)
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 9 of 21) | Peter Davison | ... | Dr. Stephen Daker (14 episodes, 1986-1988) |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Dr. Jock McCannon (14 episodes, 1986-1988) |
| Barbara Flynn | ... | Dr. Rose Marie (14 episodes, 1986-1988) |
| David Troughton | ... | Dr. Bob Buzzard (14 episodes, 1986-1988) |
| Amanda Hillwood | ... | Lyn Turtle / ... (8 episodes, 1986-1988) |
| John Bird | ... | Vice Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway (7 episodes, 1986) |
| Lindy Whiteford | ... | Maureen Gahagan (7 episodes, 1986) |
 | Michael Shannon | ... | Vice-Chancellor Jack Daniels (7 episodes, 1988) |
| Joanna Kanska | ... | Grete Grotowska (7 episodes, 1988) |
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Runtime:
50 min
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Andrew Davies originally wanted to film the series at UEA (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK). But UEA where unhappy as to how the University would be portrayed. Instead, the exterior shots we all done at either Keele or Birmingham University.
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Followed by "Screen One: A Very Polish Practice (#4.1)" (1992)
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| Theme tune | OOPS_Syntax_Error |
| Keele rocks | becksrules_uk |
| dvd in US yes? | glassrabbit |
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This is the best comedy I've ever seen. Written, perhaps as a serie a clef, by ex-academic Andrew Davies, who went on to adapt Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice etc for the BBC, it is also the best comedy ever set in the health centre of a provincial British university.