British Comedy Guide

Hospital!

  • TV sitcom
  • Channel 5
  • 1997
  • 1 episode

Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital, shown on Channel 5's opening night. Stars Greg Wise, Bob Peck, Hywel Bennett, Mark Heap, Haydn Gwynne and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1997
Channel
Channel 5
Episodes
1
Stars
Greg Wise, Bob Peck, Hywel Bennett, Mark Heap, Haydn Gwynne, Celia Imrie, Julian Clary, Alexei Sayle and more
Writer
Laurie Rowley
Director
John Henderson
Producers
Sue Vertue, Charles Brand and Nick Mortimer
Company

Ruthless property developer, Dickie Beaumont, threatens to close down a hospital unless his son-in-law, currently in intensive care following an accident at his wedding, pulls through.

The only man who can save the hospital is the brilliant brain surgeon Dr Jim Nightingale, but fate complicates matters when a number of difficulties combine to make the doctor's work nigh-on impossible: power cuts, the homicidal tendencies of a past lover, a mad axeman on the loose, and his own illness, "Saddam Hussein Syndrome".

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 30th March 1997 at 8pm on Channel 5
Episode length
1 hour

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