Knock
Comedy about a small-town doctor, adapted from a French play
- Genre
- Comedy
- Broadcast
- 1954
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 1
- Starring
- Moultrie R Kelsall and George Davies
- Writer
- Jules Romains
- Director
- James Crampsey
- Producer
- Campbell Logan
The action takes place in Scotland, at a wayside station; in Dr. Macfarlane's old consulting room; and at the Crosskeys Hotel, Kilringen, in the year 1924.
Dr. Knock has been sold a pup. He has bought Dr. Macfarlane's practice at Kilringen and speedily he discovers that it is a practice as shaky as the ancient and temperamental car in which he is being taken, spasmodically, to his new domain. Briefly, there are no patients: the inhabitants are disgustingly healthy and not given to seeking a doctor's aid.
But Dr. Knock is resourceful-and he has a method so startling as to be unique. By employing it he is sure that he can turn a barren practice into a doctor's Eldorado. The age of medicine, to use his own words, can now begin.
- Production company
- Picture
- Black and white
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 6th July 1954 on BBC One at 8:25pm
- Episode length
- 75 minutes