Getting On - Complete Series 1-3 ( Getting On - Complete Series One and Two )

Getting On - Complete Series 1-3 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Getting On - Complete Series One and Two
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
437 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
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Written By:
Jo Brand
Vicki Pepperdine

Actors:
Jo Brand ..... Nurse Kim Wilde (8 episodes, 2009-2010)
Vicki Pepperdine ..... Dr. Pippa Moore / ... (8 episodes, 2009-2010)
Joanna Scanlan ..... Sister Den Flixter (8 episodes, 2009-2010)
Ricky Grover ..... Matron Hilary Loftus (8 episodes, 2009-2010)
Peter Belgrave ..... Unnamed Part / ... (5 episodes, 2009-2010)
Joshua Mbaka ..... Unnamed Part / ... (5 episodes, 2009-2010)
James Statham ..... Unnamed Part / ... (5 episodes, 2009-2010)
Richard Watts ..... Unnamed Part / ... (5 episodes, 2009-2010)
Elizabeth Abastado ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Reba Dutta ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Ninette Finch ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Louise Freeman ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Janet Kendall ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Irene Leigh ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Usha Patel ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Wendy Wild ..... Unnamed Part (4 episodes, 2009-2010)
Haj Ibrahim Bassel ..... Unnamed Part (3 episodes, 2009-2010)
Peter Capaldi ..... Peter Healy (3 episodes, 2009-2010)
Jackie Avey ..... Unnamed Part (2 episodes, 2009-2010)
Dot Cosgrove ..... Unnamed Part (2 episodes, 2009-2010)
Alice Hsu ..... Unnamed Part (2 episodes, 2009-2010)
Nancy Kerr ..... Mrs. Fyvie (2 episodes, 2010)
Lindy Whiteford ..... Beedy Fyvie (2 episodes, 2010)

Synopsis:

Set in Ward B4 of King Edward VIIIth hospital, a run-of-the-mill female medical ward in an NHS outpost someway outside London, Getting On finds its humour in the daily grind faced by the staff - return-to-practice nurse Kim Wilde, the lowest form of life after the lino, Sister Den Flixter, balancing work and pleasure, Dr Pippa Moore searching for a way out, and modern matron Hilary Loftus, keen to make an impression. The black comedy flows thick and fast as Kim Den and Pippa wade through the bureaucracy, bickering and daily battles with life and death on this health care backwater.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date-9 July 2009
Sister Den Flixter,Nurse Kim Wilde and Dr. Pippa Moore work on a geriatric ward,where most of the patients go out feet first,such as Lily who dies on her eighty-seventh birthday - which allows the staff to eat her cake. A Pakistani patient who cannot speak English causes a problem,as does faeces left on a chair. New - male - matron Hilary Loftus,to whom Den has unburdened herself about her failed marriage to a fraudster,tells Kim to flush it away,which she does. Pippa is not happy as she wanted it for her research on stool samples.
Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date-15 July 2009
Whilst an interpreter is found for the Bengali lady and Pippa finds her lost stool samples,an aggressive,foul-mouthed patient called Ivy causes trouble,stealing from another woman and,when confronted,breaking a bottle and threatening to glass the staff. She is transferred to the psychiatric ward but Hilary is traumatised by events. However he agrees to a date with Den with whom he is starting to bond.
Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date-22 July 2009
The legacy of the Ivy fight has left a problem, with Hilary accusing Kim of making an inappropriate remark during the fight and insisting on disciplinary action. Kim has called in her union rep to defend her, but the meeting does little to sort out the mess. In revenge, Hilary demands the ward be shut down for a deep cleaning, forcing extra work on the staff. Pippa leaves for a health conference abroad, with her stool sample research complete.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1
Original Air Date-26 October 2010
An horrendously smelly,unidentified old woman is brought in and goes the rounds of all the other wards because nobody else will take her in,eventually returning to B4 and leading to friction between Den and Hilary. Meanwhile a Mrs. Fyvie is admitted and her daughter Beedy,who has read all about medication on the Internet, challenges Pippa's treatment of her mother's care.
Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2
Original Air Date-2 November 2010
New admission Peggy Lowe causes problems with her claim that she was ill-treated in her care home so the last thing over-worked Kim and Den want is an enquiry after Peggy gets dropped whilst being bathed. Den hopes that her influence on Hilary - their secret affair gradually coming into the open - will get them off the hook when Peggy's son comes to complain. And in a way it does.
Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3
Original Air Date-9 November 2010
Kim is on her own on the night shift when an elderly Italian woman with little English is admitted.Pippa is called away from a party to see her and is excited when she believes the woman is pregnant and could make medical history,bringing the ward fame. She is not happy when a whole posse of Italian medics take the woman away and Den is not happy,when,arriving from the agency where she moon-lights,she confides in Kim about her relationship with Hilary.Hilary shows up to have things out with her so,all in all,it is not the uneventful night Kim wanted.
Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4
Original Air Date-16 November 2010
Hilary announces his new initiative of Icing the Cake,which,to Kim's annoyance,is purely symbolic,the 'icing' representing excellent service. Hoping to apply a little icing Pippa apologizes to Den for giving a reference some years earlier which stopped her getting a flat. Den lets fly at her so,to atone,she offers to help her move house before enjoying a lunch date with Peter,unaware that she may have to reapply for her job. Den and Hilary,following the revelation of his outburst,agree to be friends and she offers to go to a gay bar with him.
Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5
Original Air Date-23 November 2010
Kim is doubly irritated by know-all student nurse Damaris Clarke and by a talking life size cut-out giving instructions on hand washing. Den,having scratched Pippa's car during the move,is surprised when Hilary fails to remember that they has anal sex after visiting the gay bar. Due to Pippa's varying diagnoses on ailing Mrs. Fyvie,her Edinburgh-based daughter Beedy is repeatedly called into the ward on false alarms and Den and Kim take sadistic pleasure in knowing that Pippa has had to reapply for her job. They even lock her in their office after she has been particularly annoying.
Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6
Original Air Date-30 November 2010
There is an even bigger air of gloom on the ward than usual. Pippa has failed to get the job she was after and Kim is angry that she will not be promoted and that Pippa has yet to pay her husband for work done. Beedy is understandably upset when her mother,only just dead,is moved out of the ward so another patient can have her bed. At least Den and Hilary have something to celebrate,as they decide to get engaged. But then Den's ex-husband reappears,to win her back.

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