This Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna
episode mostly consists of the kind of hi-jinks that you expect to find in a
routine Doctor episode - Doctors chasing nurses, fearsome matrons,
practical jokes and the like. Searching for trace elements of Chapman preoccupations,
there's a particularly absurd rustic patient who takes carrots and potatoes to
bed and a rather sharply drawn retirement party for the drunken retiring
matron.
There's also lots of conflict. You don't generally see the students disliking each other in these series, but Richard O'Sullivan's priggish Bingham is shown to be actively unpopular with his peers - the one large close-up that we get is of him and another doctor squaring up to each other, eyeball-to-eyeball. Its one of a handful of thoughtfully-directed visual moments, along with an unexpected overhead shot of Dr Waring grappling with a nurse on a couch, and an understated close-up insight into Bingham - who has just closed a door on his fellows after an argument about his lack of interest in pursuing women - the camera lingering on his pensive face.
There's also lots of conflict. You don't generally see the students disliking each other in these series, but Richard O'Sullivan's priggish Bingham is shown to be actively unpopular with his peers - the one large close-up that we get is of him and another doctor squaring up to each other, eyeball-to-eyeball. Its one of a handful of thoughtfully-directed visual moments, along with an unexpected overhead shot of Dr Waring grappling with a nurse on a couch, and an understated close-up insight into Bingham - who has just closed a door on his fellows after an argument about his lack of interest in pursuing women - the camera lingering on his pensive face.
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