A Very Peculiar Practice - The Complete Series DVD

Lowlands University is a swamp of fear and loathing. A showpiece Sixties campus looking increasingly anachronistic in the paranoid, profit-driven Eighties, it is staffed by angst-ridden academics desperate to hang onto their privileged status amid swinging cutbacks. It also houses what may well be the worst medical practice in the British Isles.

Fresh-faced Stephen Daker (Peter Davison) sees his new job at the Medical Centre as a chance to pursue excellence among a dedicated team. He s somewhat shaken when he meets his colleagues: the once-great Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden), practice head, proponent of alternative psychiatry, and a wildly unpredictable dipsomaniac; public school-educated fascist Bob Buzzard (David Troughton); and Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn), an uber-feminist who sees illness as something men do to women. Dark secrets, sinister experiments, demented academics, STD epidemics, the Yankee Dollar, a desperate Creative with writer's block and a couple of nuns all conspire to make life on campus a hair-raising experience for Stephen.

Andrew Davies surreal, searingly funny look at sexual politics, medical malpractice and academic rivalry at the height of the Thatcher era won huge acclaim and a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series.

This set comprises both series and A Very Polish Practice, the 1992 sequel film which finds Stephen coping with life in post-Communism Warsaw.

Episodes
A Very Long Way From Home
We Love You That's Why We're Here
Wives of Great Men
Black Bob's Hamburger Suit
Contract Tracer
The Hit List
Catastrophe Theory
The New Frontier
Art And Illusion
May The Force Be With You
Bad Vibrations
Values Of The Family
The Big Squeeze
Death Of A University


  A Very Polish Practice (1992 sequel)

Peter Davison, Barbara Flynn, Graham Crowdon, David Troughton, Amanda Hillwood, John Bird, Peter Blake, Hugh Grant, Timothy West, Kathy Burke, Bill Shine, James Grout, Trevor Peacock

  David Tucker

  800 mins

  1986 - 1988 / 1992



  None specified

  English

  1

  2 - will only play on UK / European DVD player or multi region player

  Usually despatched within 5 working days
 

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