A Very Peculiar Practice - The Complete Series - 5-DVD Set

A Very Peculiar Practice - The Complete Series - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
800 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Tucker

Written By:
Andrew Davies

Actors:
Peter Davison ..... Dr. Stephen Daker (14 episodes, 1986-1988)
Graham Crowden ..... Dr. Jock McCannon (14 episodes, 1986-1988)
Barbara Flynn ..... Dr. Rose Marie (14 episodes, 1986-1988)
David Troughton ..... Dr. Bob Buzzard (14 episodes, 1986-1988)
Elaine Turrell ..... Nun (14 episodes, 1986-1988)
Lindy Whiteford ..... Maureen Gahagan / ... (13 episodes, 1986-1988)
Amanda Hillwood ..... Lyn Turtle / ... (8 episodes, 1986-1988)
Gillian Raine ..... Mrs. Kramer (8 episodes, 1986-1988)
John Bird ..... Vice Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway (7 episodes, 1986)
Michael Shannon ..... Vice-Chancellor Jack Daniels (7 episodes, 1988)
Joanna Kanska ..... Grete Grotowska (7 episodes, 1988)
Clive Hill ..... (7 episodes, 1986)
Takashi Kawahara ..... Chen Sung Yau (7 episodes, 1986)
Colin Stinton ..... Charlie Dusenberry (6 episodes, 1988)
Kay Stonham ..... Daphne Buzzard (4 episodes, 1986-1988)
Dominic Arnold ..... Sammy Limb (4 episodes, 1988)
Toria Fuller ..... Julie Daniels (4 episodes, 1988)
James Grout ..... Prof. George Bunn / ... (4 episodes, 1988)
Joe Melia ..... Ron Rust (3 episodes, 1986-1988)
Frances White ..... Dorothy Hampton (3 episodes, 1986)
Thomas Wheatley ..... Professor Farris (3 episodes, 1988)
Eiji Kusuhara ..... Japanese Intrepreter (2 episodes, 1986)
Mark Addy ..... Mal Prentis (2 episodes, 1988)
JoJo Cole ..... Jo Lentill (2 episodes, 1988)
Mark Drewry ..... Harry Pointer (2 episodes, 1988)
James Noble ..... Glenn Oates (2 episodes, 1988)
Mossie Smith ..... Chloris Jakeman (2 episodes, 1988)

Synopsis:

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 swingeing cutbacks. It also houses what may well be the worst medical practice in the British Isles. Stephen Daker sees his new job at the Medical Centre as a chance to pursue excellence among a dedicated team and he's somewhat shaken when his colleagues turn out to be a wildly unpredictable dipsomaniac, a public school-educated fascist and 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.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: A Very Long Way from Anywhere
Original Air Date-21 May 1986
Season 1, Episode 2: We Love You, That's Why We're Here
Original Air Date-28 May 1986
Season 1, Episode 3: Wives of Great Men
Original Air Date-4 June 1986
Season 1, Episode 4: Black Bob's Hamburger Suit
Original Air Date-11 June 1986
Season 1, Episode 5: Contact Tracer
Original Air Date-18 June 1986
Season 1, Episode 6: The Hit List
Original Air Date-25 June 1986
Season 1, Episode 7: Catastrophe Theory
Original Air Date-2 July 1986
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: The New Frontier
Original Air Date-24 February 1988
Season 2, Episode 2: Art and Illusion
Original Air Date-2 March 1988
Season 2, Episode 3: May the Force Be with You
Original Air Date-9 March 1988
Season 2, Episode 4: Bad Vibrations
Original Air Date-16 March 1988
Season 2, Episode 5: Values of the Family
Original Air Date-23 March 1988
Season 2, Episode 6: The Big Squeeze
Original Air Date-30 March 1988
Season 2, Episode 7: Death of a University
Original Air Date-6 April 1988

A surreal comedy series tracking the career of Stephen Daker, a young doctor who works for the health centre of a modern British university.

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