Doctor In THe House ran in the U.S. from 1971 until 1974 in syndication.
This English comedy about a group of madcap medical students was set at crumbling St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital in London-which as the dean informed us in the opening episode, " is not one of the oldest but was founded in 1560 after a severe outbreak of veneral disease that followed, closely on the discovery of America."
The 3 principals were newly arrived and youthful Dr. Michael Upton ( Barry Evans), his new found friend Duncan Waring ( Robin Nedwell),and perpetual malingerer Dick Stuart-Clark ( Geoffrey Davies). Their nemesis was the crotchety and ever put-upon Prof. Loftus(Ernest Clark). The boy's were constantly in trouble, whether hatching schemes or pranks, throwing up in anatomy class, or chasing the shapely nurses who populated St. Swithin's. A large cast of semi-regulars also appeared. The student's had earned their degrees by the second season, and left St. Swithin's, only to return (as interns), a year later.; It was explained that Upton had gone away to sea.
Doctor In The House was originally a series of books popular in England during the early 1950's. The Author, a newly graduated and bored Dr. Richard Gordon, wrote the first while he was a ship's doctor on a cargo vessel en route to Australia. The books led to a hugely successful ( in England) series of movies starring Dirk Bogarde and around 1969-1970, to a London Weekend Network Television Series which became a national craze. The tv scripts were supervized by Dr. Gordon himself, and the show was taped before a live audience. Although it was quickly exported to, and popular in, many other countries, cracking the U.S. market was difficult. American station managers resisted (1) anything English and (2) anything making fun of doctors. It finally made it to the U.S. and became a popular program here for several seasons.
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