First viewed : May 1993
My mum liked this a lot more than me but I did watch quite a bit of the first couple of seasons for the Peak District scenery. The series concerned a medical practice in a Derbyshire village with initially three partners, posh Beth ( Amanda Burton ), macho Geordie Jack ( Kevin Whateley ) just returned from Africa and pretty boy Will ( Simon Shepherd ) . Jack and Beth soon became a rather smug couple while unhappily-married Will suffered a bout of depression, as well he might working with that pair. There was a regular supporting cast, including Sylvia Sims as Beth's wealthy friend Isabel and Margery Mason as the life-sapping miseryguts cleaner Alice. Although it tackled some serious themes, it was generally feelgood in nature
The main stories I remember are :
- One with Sean Pertwee as a local footballer with a life-threatening condition
- One with John Lynch as a Catholic priest struggling with epilepsy
- A ludicrous but strangely affecting story where Beth goes to the aid of an injured joyrider who's come off the road and finds herself struggling to survive in the wilds of Derbyshire, not too far from where she parked her car.
I'd had enough after season two. Whateley and Burton bailed out at the end of season three leaving Shepherd to carry the show while new characters bedded in. I'm surprised it went on to 2002 when it was axed on a literal cliffhanger to many protests.
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