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Doctor in the House

Season 3 1971

  • 1971-02-27T23:00:00Z on ITV1
  • 30m
  • 14h 30m (29 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
The "Doctor" series follows the misadventures of the Medical personnel at St Swithin's Hospital. the first 2 series entitled "Doctor In the House" sees a group of students trying to achieve the "Doctor" title Inside St Swithin's. This Group was constituted by Michael Upton (Barry Evans), Dick Stuart- Clark (Geoffrey Davies), Paul Collier (George Layton), Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), Huw Evans (Martin Shaw), Dave Briddock (Simon Cuff) and Danny Hooley (Jonathan Lynn). The third series Entitled "Doctor At Large sees Robin Nedwell, Martin Shaw, Simon Cuff and Jonathan Lynn out of the series. By this time we get the chance to see Doctor Upton's career as a medical doctor, and the obvious disasters that come with it. Also in that series is Richard O'Sullivan's introduction as Dr. Lawrence Bingham. The 4th and 5th series Entitled "Doctor In Charge" Saw Barry Evans departure from the series, and the return of Robin Nedwell.

29 episodes

Season Premiere

1971-02-27T23:00:00Z

3x01 Now, Dr. Upton

Season Premiere

3x01 Now, Dr. Upton

  • 1971-02-27T23:00:00Z30m

A newly-qualified Michael Upton is released into the world of work. But finding the ideal job proves more difficult than it originally seemed.

Michael is subjected to spending an evening in the company of a sex-starved secretary when he stands in for a skiving Paul.

1971-03-13T23:00:00Z

3x03 You Make Me Feel So Young

3x03 You Make Me Feel So Young

  • 1971-03-13T23:00:00Z30m

Michael and Paul become partners in Doctor Maxwell's practice. But they find getting accepted by the patients much harder than getting accepted by Doctor Maxwell...

1971-03-20T23:00:00Z

3x04 Doctor Dish

3x04 Doctor Dish

  • 1971-03-20T23:00:00Z30m

Michael is asked to give a talk at the local girls' school. However, he finds it isn't just his medical knowledge that finds favour with the pupils.

1971-03-27T23:00:00Z

3x05 Modernising Major

3x05 Modernising Major

  • 1971-03-27T23:00:00Z30m

Paul and Michael decide the practice is behind the times and in need of revamping.

Paul thinks he has stumbled on a winner by using toads for quick and efficient pregnancy tests.

1971-04-10T23:00:00Z

3x07 Change Your Partners

3x07 Change Your Partners

  • 1971-04-10T23:00:00Z30m

Sue is left unimpressed when Dick introduces Michael to his attractive lady friend.

3x08 Trains and Notes and Veins

  • 1971-04-17T23:00:00Z30m

Michael invites Dick and Paul home to meet his parents. But having four doctors on the premises soon gets irksome.

1971-04-24T23:00:00Z

3x09 Lock, Stock and Beryl

3x09 Lock, Stock and Beryl

  • 1971-04-24T23:00:00Z30m

Michael's invovement with a nurse called Beryl escalates - much to his displeasure.

1971-05-01T23:00:00Z

3x10 Upton Sells Out?

3x10 Upton Sells Out?

  • 1971-05-01T23:00:00Z30m

A position becomes vacant at the private practice where Dick works, and Michael - tired of his tedious casualty job - decides to apply for it, leaving Paul unimpressed.

1971-05-08T23:00:00Z

3x11 Saturday Matinee

3x11 Saturday Matinee

  • 1971-05-08T23:00:00Z30m

Michael is left in charge of the practice when Dick skives off to see a girlfriend.

1971-05-15T23:00:00Z

3x12 Where There's A Will

3x12 Where There's A Will

  • 1971-05-15T23:00:00Z30m

Michael is less than delighted when one of his patients dies shortly after he treats him.

1971-05-22T23:00:00Z

3x13 Students At Heart

3x13 Students At Heart

  • 1971-05-22T23:00:00Z30m

Michael continues his quest for a job in surgery. However, once again he is up against Lawrence Bingham.

1971-05-29T23:00:00Z

3x14 No Ill Feeling!

3x14 No Ill Feeling!

  • 1971-05-29T23:00:00Z30m

Paul gets Michael a job with his uncle in general practice. But Mike still longs for the surgeon's scalpel.

3x15 Let's Start At The Beginning

  • 1971-06-05T23:00:00Z30m

Glad to get away from his G. P. job, Michael visits Dick at his psychiatric practice.

1971-06-12T23:00:00Z

3x16 It's All In The Mind

3x16 It's All In The Mind

  • 1971-06-12T23:00:00Z30m

Paul and Michael are pleased when their patients are healing well. But they soon discover it is not entirely due to their efforts...

1971-06-19T23:00:00Z

3x17 Cynthia Darling

3x17 Cynthia Darling

  • 1971-06-19T23:00:00Z30m

Michael is driven to distraction by an overbearing mother's insistence that her healthy daughter is ill.

With Dr. Griffin admitted to hospital, Michael is left in charge of the practice. Dissatisfied with Paul's work, Mike decides to replace him.

Michael is totally smitten with the new doctor, Nicky. And when the Dean offers Mike a new job, it looks as though he might make a mistake he'll live to regret.

1971-07-10T23:00:00Z

3x20 Operation Loftus

3x20 Operation Loftus

  • 1971-07-10T23:00:00Z30m

Michael's much-awaited return to St. Swithin's is cause for celebration. The festivities are quickly curtailed, however, when Professor Loftus also returns to the hospital.

3x21 Mother and Father Doing Well

  • 1971-07-17T23:00:00Z30m

Former medical student Huw Evans returns to St. Swithins with his heavily pregnant wife Pippa, a former typist at the hospital. She is heavily pregnant but both husband and wife end up as patients when Huw is involved in a traffic accident.

1971-07-24T23:00:00Z

3x22 A Joke's A Joke

3x22 A Joke's A Joke

  • 1971-07-24T23:00:00Z30m

Paul and Mike decide to get jobs as anatomy demonstrators, whilst Dick's just in it for the money. However, none of them counted on Lawrence Bingham's competition.

1971-07-31T23:00:00Z

3x23 Pull The Other One!

3x23 Pull The Other One!

  • 1971-07-31T23:00:00Z30m

Michael and Paul find they have differing attitudes to women.

Dick finds out he has inherited £50,000 following the death of his Uncle James.

Michael is showing all the symptoms of mumps, and is immediately admitted to Lawrence Bingham's ward.

1971-08-21T23:00:00Z

3x26 Mr. Moon

3x26 Mr. Moon

  • 1971-08-21T23:00:00Z30m

Michael visits Dick at the health farm at which he is working, and makes a bet that he can stick to the patients' diet.

1971-08-28T23:00:00Z

3x27 The Viva

3x27 The Viva

  • 1971-08-28T23:00:00Z30m

The junior doctors are all preparing for their viva exams, but one of them in particular has particular trouble when it comes to taking his.

Michael ends up in court after he injects a patient with some penicillin, to which he turns out to be allergic.

3x29 A Situation Full Of Promise

  • 1971-09-11T23:00:00Z30m

The lads are jealous when a handsome American doctor arrives, setting female hearts a-flutter. However there are more pressing matters as Michael, Paul and Bingham are on the interviewing panel to decide the new Senior House Officer. Michael has said it is a formality as he has promised it to Dick Stuart-Clark but when the better-qualified Nicky Barrington also applies Michael has no option but to give her the job.

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