Oh Doctor Beeching!. Image shows from L to R: Jack Skinner (Paul Shane), Ethel Schumann (Su Pollard). Copyright: BBC
Oh Doctor Beeching!
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1995 - 1997
- 20 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom following the working and personal lives of the staff at Hatley railway station in 1963, under the threat of the Beeching axe. Stars Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland, Julia Deakin, Barbara New and more.
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 6 - Love Is A Very Splendid Thing
Finding Ethel to be particularly upbeat, the rest of the staff suspect she's met a man - and he turns out to be Joe, an American serviceman stationed nearby. Fearing he's holding his mother back from going to the US, Wilfred joins the army.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 17th August 1997
- Time
- 6:45pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Paul Shane | Jack Skinner |
| Su Pollard | Ethel Schumann |
| Jeffrey Holland | Cecil Parkin |
| Julia Deakin | May Skinner |
| Barbara New | Vera Plumtree |
| Stephen Lewis | Harry Lambert |
| Ivor Roberts | Arnold |
| Perry Benson | Ralph |
| Terry John | Percy |
| Lindsay Grimshaw | Gloria Skinner |
| Paul Aspden (as Paul Aspen) | Wilfred Schumann |
| Tara Daniels | Amy Matlock |
| Felix Bowness | Bernie Bleasdale (Ticket Inspector) |
| Mac McDonald | Joe |
| David Croft | Writer |
| Richard Spendlove | Writer |
| Roy Gould | Director |
| Charles Garland | Producer |
| David Croft | Executive Producer |
| Steve Jamison | Editor |
| John Bristow | Production Designer |