- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1979 - 1982
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 29 (4 series)
- Starring
- James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, Richard Wilson and Derrick Branche
- Writer
- Eric Chappell
- Director
- Vernon Lawrence
- Producer
- Vernon Lawrence
James Bolam plays Roy Figgis, a long-term NHS hospital bed occupant. Archie Glover (Peter Bowles) and Norman Binns (Christopher Strauli) are his wardmates, all suffering from extreme cases of hypchondria.
Despite being apparently 'ill', the three don't just get themselves into trouble, but seem to have difficulty behaving.
Richard Wilson plays Dr Gordon Thorpe, and Derrick Branche is Gupte, the ward orderly, who are both the bane of the three's lives, and they the bane of theirs.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 29th October 1979 on ITV at 8pm
- Last new broadcast
- Thursday 16th December 1982 on ITV at 7:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Upcoming repeats
- Series 2 Episode 3: Tomorrow at 2:20am on ITV4
- Series 2 Episode 5: Tomorrow at 6am on ITV4
- Series 2 Episode 6: Saturday at 6:10am on ITV4
- Series 2 Episode 7: Sunday at 6am on ITV4
- Series 3 Episode 1: Tuesday at 6:10am on ITV4
- Series 3 Episode 2: Friday 24th July at 6:10am on ITV4