A Young Doctor's Notebook
- TV comedy drama
- Sky Arts
- 2012 - 2013
- 8 episodes (2 series)
Black comic drama series about a doctor at different ages, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, based on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov. Also features Rosie Cavaliero, Adam Godley and Vicki Pepperdine.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 2
The inexperienced younger doctor is forced to carry out the operation of his career. His older self does little to ease his nerves.
Further details
The young doctor grows increasingly frustrated with his patients, who exploit his naivety and fail to heed his desperate warnings about the dangers of syphilis.
When an eight-year-old girl falls on a lathe, he is also forced to conduct a double amputation. Blinded with panic, his older self does little to put his nerves at ease as he prepares his blunt saw for the operation of his career.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 13th December 2012
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Sky Arts
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Daniel Radcliffe | Young Doctor |
| Jon Hamm | Older Doctor |
| Rosie Cavaliero | Pelageya |
| Adam Godley | The Feldsher |
| Vicki Pepperdine | Anna |
| Shaun Pye | Yegorych |
| Tim Steed | NKVD Agent Kirill |
| Janine Duvitski | Belladonna Zbinka (Old Woman) |
| Rebecca Gethings | Margarita (Mother) |
| Colin Hoult | Aleksandr (Father) |
| Amara Mountford | Little Natasha |
| Steve Speirs | Syphilitic Mikhail |
| Mark Chappell | Writer |
| Shaun Pye | Writer |
| Alan Connor | Writer |
| Alex Hardcastle | Director |
| Clelia Mountford | Producer |
| Kenton Allen | Executive Producer |
| Jon Hamm | Executive Producer |
| Saskia Schuster | Executive Producer |
| Lucy Lumsden | Executive Producer |
| Matthew Justice | Executive Producer |
| Dan Cheesbrough | Executive Producer |
| Mark Henson | Editor |
| Dennis De Groot | Production Designer |
| Stephen Warbeck | Composer |