Only When I Laugh
1979
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 29 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?"
A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.
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Seasons
Season 1
Young Norman Binns is admitted to Dr Thorpe's ward and is tricked by pessimistic Roy Figgis into swapping beds so that Figgis can have the bed with the window view. As a result, Thorpe and staff nurse Gupte confuse the two men's symptoms.
Season 2
Glover is thrilled when glamourous starlet Gloria Robins is admitted to a woman's ward and is before long romancing her with flowers. Characteristically, Figgis is cynical but even he falls under her spell – as do Norman and Thorpe.
Season 3
A TV crew arrive to shadow Thorpe for a day. He has primed Norman to give a glowing report but Norman keeps fluffing his lines, leaving Glover is only too keen to take over.
Season 4
Thorpe believes that Glover needs a blood transfusion and Figgis is the same blood group but Glover, being a snob, is not happy to be the recipient, especially when he hears that Figgis has received a transfusion himself from a West Indian.
Cast
Crew
Producer
Vernon Lawrence
Network
ITV1
Production
Yorkshire Television
Keywords
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