Upton goes after a job at Dr.Whiteland's Harley Street practice. He turns up for the interview in casual clothes. Dick, who works there already, gives Upton his suit and tells him what to say. Dr.Whiteland turns out to be a snobbish elderly woman whose patients are mainly rich hypochondriacs. He gets the job but soon becomes bored as there is no real work for him to do.
Paul is jealous at Mike's good fortune and turns up at the practice dressed as a smelly yokel. Furthermore, he has brought along a working class family - The Coates' - all of whom are covered in lice and sores...
Private medicine gets it in the neck in this Garden/Oddie scripted episode. Upton reveals himself to be a socialist, but to get the job has to pretend to be a Tory voter. This political stance fits in well with his later attack on the system. Rather than throw him out on his ear, Dr.Whiteland agrees with what he has to say, and tells him she has been simultaneously running a clinic in Brixton, as well as a drug treatment centre, a rare example of a comic character turning sympathetic.
Ivor Dean, seen as Dr.Whiteland's butler 'Jarvis', was best known for his role as 'Inspector Teal' in the Roger Moore 'Saint' series.
Funniest moment - Paul's yokel moment, which causes even Barry Evans to laugh!
Paul is jealous at Mike's good fortune and turns up at the practice dressed as a smelly yokel. Furthermore, he has brought along a working class family - The Coates' - all of whom are covered in lice and sores...
Private medicine gets it in the neck in this Garden/Oddie scripted episode. Upton reveals himself to be a socialist, but to get the job has to pretend to be a Tory voter. This political stance fits in well with his later attack on the system. Rather than throw him out on his ear, Dr.Whiteland agrees with what he has to say, and tells him she has been simultaneously running a clinic in Brixton, as well as a drug treatment centre, a rare example of a comic character turning sympathetic.
Ivor Dean, seen as Dr.Whiteland's butler 'Jarvis', was best known for his role as 'Inspector Teal' in the Roger Moore 'Saint' series.
Funniest moment - Paul's yokel moment, which causes even Barry Evans to laugh!
