A Very Peculiar Practice
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Two
- 1986 - 1992
- 15 episodes (2 series)
Comedy series about a young doctor in his new job as part of a group practice at Lowlands University. Stars Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn, Amanda Hillwood and more.
A Very Peculiar Practice - The Complete Series
Lowlands University is a swamp of fear and loathing. A showpiece Sixties campus looking increasingly anachronistic in the paranoid, profit-driven Eighties, it is staffed by angst-ridden academics desperate to hang onto their privileged status amid swingeing cutbacks. It also houses what may well be the worst medical practice in the British Isles.
Fresh-faced Stephen Daker (Peter Davison) sees his new job at the Medical Centre as a chance to pursue excellence among a dedicated team. He's somewhat shaken when he meets his colleagues: the once-great Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden), practice head, proponent of alternative psychiatry, and a wildly unpredictable dipsomaniac; public school-educated fascist Bob Buzzard (David Troughton); and Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn), an uber-feminist who sees illness as something men do to women. Dark secrets, sinister experiments, demented academics, STD epidemics, the Yankee Dollar, a desperate Creative with writer's block and a couple of nuns all conspire to make life on campus a hair-raising experience for Stephen.
Andrew Davies's surreal, searingly funny look at sexual politics, medical malpractice and academic rivalry at the height of the Thatcher era won huge acclaim and a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series.
This set comprises both series and A Very Polish Practice, the single episode 1992 sequel that finds Stephen coping with life in post-Communist Warsaw.
First released: Monday 10th October 2011
DVD- Distributor: Network
- Region: 2
- Discs: 5
- Catalogue: 7953373
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