BBC One · Ended

Get Well Soon

Comedy · 1997

Last aired: S1 E6, Poison Ivy · 1997-12-07

Get Well Soon is a BBC comedy series set in a TB sanatorium in 1947. The series follows the everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and ancillary staff at an NHS hospital during the post-war period.

Cast

Matthew Cottle Roy Osborne

Eddie Marsan Brian Clapton

Anita Dobson Ivy Osborne

Samantha Beckinsale Jilly Howell

Season 1

E1 The New Arrival 1997-11-02 · 30 min Roy Osborne arrives at the hospital to a slightly less-than-warm welcome from his new room-mate, Brian, who has himself moved upstairs. But when Jilly Howell, widow of the previous occupant of his bed, arrives by force of habit with a basket of export-only food in tow, Brian's eager to move back in.

E2 Snowbound 1997-11-09 · 30 min Despite a freakishly heavy snowstorm making travel for many near-impossible, Roy's father - who he hasn't seen for 6 years - turns up. And then so does his mother. And the woman his father's spent the time living with...

E3 Tucker's Gambit 1997-11-16 · 30 min The arrival of a particularly ill new patient prompts Roy and Brian to be moved. They find themselves occupying a room with Norman Tucker, and soon have him implicated in an international espionage investigation.

E4 Sons, Mothers, Lovers and Others 1997-11-23 · 30 min Roy's mother invites a friend to the hospital, in an attempt to fix up Roy with a girl closer to his own age. But with her affair, she's not the best person to make such judgements - and indeed ends up being arrested for solicitation!

E5 The Whist Drive 1997-11-30 · 30 min Brian, Tucker and Harry are given permission to leave their beds and attend a whist drive. But Roy is kept confined to his bed, and watches the chaos unfold as the rest attempt to woo female patients.

E6 Poison Ivy 1997-12-07 · 30 min Roy sets about writing a radio murder mystery, whilst Bernard gives his wife a box of chocolates poisoned with arsenic.

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