Muriel Pavlow in Conversation with Jo Botting

One of my favorite British series, clever with strong sexual appealing!!!

University College Hospital, London, England, UK

Dirk Bogarde, Donald Houston, Kenneth More, and Donald Sinden in Doctor in the House (1954)

Brigitte Bardot, Dirk Bogarde, Brenda de Banzie, and James Robertson Justice in Doctor at Sea (1955)

Michael Craig, Liz Fraser, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, and Joan Sims in Doctor in Love (1960)

Hermione Baddeley, Paul Dupuis, Stanley Holloway, and Margaret Rutherford in Passport to Pimlico (1949)

James Robertson Justice and Donald Sinden in Doctor at Large (1957)

Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, and Donald Sinden in Doctor at Large (1957)

Dirk Bogarde, Edward Chapman, and Gladys Henson in Doctor at Large (1957)

Dirk Bogarde and Mervyn Johns in Doctor at Large (1957)

Dirk Bogarde and Shirley Eaton in Doctor at Large (1957)

Dirk Bogarde and Dilys Laye in Doctor at Large (1957)

Dirk Bogarde

Muriel Pavlow

Donald Sinden

Richard Gordon

Nicholas Phipps

Recent medical graduate Dr. Sparrow navigates humorous internships with eccentric mentors. After insulting a senior surgeon, he impresses hospital officials through timely intervention, securing a staff position.

Ralph Thomas

Doctor at Large

Dr. Sparrow comes home

After trying out being a ship&apos;s doctor in Doctor At Sea, Dr. Simon Sparrow returns home to Great Britain just looking for a place in the medical world. He gets a post at St. Swithins Hospital, but promptly insults the head honcho there James Robertson Justice. After that Dirk Bogarde as Sparrow for the third in the Doctor series gets to try and practice medicine in a variety of unusual and amusing situations.

Bogarde once again strikes the right note as the earnest, dedicated, but a little bit socially challenged Dr. Sparrow. He&apos;s got the knack of not bumbling so much as walking into these incredible situations and people and sometimes mucking it up. But somehow it all works out in the end.

Doctor At Large also boasts the usual memorable character players prominently as always James Robertson Justice as the tyrannical Dr. Lancelot Spratt who terrifies all who come within range of his booming voice. One guy who thinks he&apos;s got JRJ in his pocket is kiss up Dr. Michael Medwin who gains a coveted position on the surgical staff that Bogarde wanted originally. He screws up in the end though quite accidentally, still it&apos;s always good to see one of his kind lose out.

But the guy who actually steals this film whenever he&apos;s on the screen is Donald Sinden. That this guy could become a doctor should frighten everyone in the United Kingdom. You have to see his &apos;examination&apos; and how he gets his medical degree to believe it. Basically this guy became a doctor to get girls and he pursues that avocation quite avidly. Quite the rake Sinden, he does everything but twirl his mustache like some Snidely Whiplash villain. Most American audiences know him from being Grace Kelly&apos;s earnest, but dull husband in Mogambo. This is quite a change.

Watching the Doctor series from Great Britain I&apos;m struck by the fact that across the pond they seem to take a more lighthearted view of medicine than we do. It wasn&apos;t until after the Code was lifted that doctors were ever portrayed in a light hearted manner. 

Doctor At Large holds up quite well even for American viewers like myself who would not be acquainted with the fine points of the British health system. This series could easily be revived today, I could see someone like Hugh Grant playing Dr. Simon Sparrow.

Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women.

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After trying out being a ship's doctor in Doctor At Sea, Dr. Simon Sparrow returns home to Great Britain just looking for a place in the medical world. He gets a post at St. Swithins Hospital, but promptly insults the head honcho there James Robertson Justice. After that Dirk Bogarde as Sparrow for the third in the Doctor series gets to try and practice medicine in a variety of unusual and amusing situations.

Bogarde once again strikes the right note as the earnest, dedicated, but a little bit socially challenged Dr. Sparrow. He's got the knack of not bumbling so much as walking into these incredible situations and people and sometimes mucking it up. But somehow it all works out in the end.

Doctor At Large also boasts the usual memorable character players prominently as always James Robertson Justice as the tyrannical Dr. Lancelot Spratt who terrifies all who come within range of his booming voice. One guy who thinks he's got JRJ in his pocket is kiss up Dr. Michael Medwin who gains a coveted position on the surgical staff that Bogarde wanted originally. He screws up in the end though quite accidentally, still it's always good to see one of his kind lose out.

But the guy who actually steals this film whenever he's on the screen is Donald Sinden. That this guy could become a doctor should frighten everyone in the United Kingdom. You have to see his 'examination' and how he gets his medical degree to believe it. Basically this guy became a doctor to get girls and he pursues that avocation quite avidly. Quite the rake Sinden, he does everything but twirl his mustache like some Snidely Whiplash villain. Most American audiences know him from being Grace Kelly's earnest, but dull husband in Mogambo. This is quite a change.

Watching the Doctor series from Great Britain I'm struck by the fact that across the pond they seem to take a more lighthearted view of medicine than we do. It wasn't until after the Code was lifted that doctors were ever portrayed in a light hearted manner. 

Doctor At Large holds up quite well even for American viewers like myself who would not be acquainted with the fine points of the British health system. This series could easily be revived today, I could see someone like Hugh Grant playing Dr. Simon Sparrow.

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