Tuesday, 4 June 2019

A Comedy On This Day: Doctor In The House - Hot Off The Presses (5 June 1970)


 This Garden & Oddie episode has particularly close affinities to The Goodies; the Doctors taking on a job assigned to them (revitalising the hospital magazine); a lot of choric reactions from the other Doctors to the one speaking; a filmed sequence of sight gags (the Doctors distributing their magazine on the streets); one character's changed circumstances immediately indicated by them returning to headquarters in a striking brand new costume.

 The depiction of female characters is particularly regrettable this week with only two women in the story - the one a dolly bird model for the Doctors to pursue and the other a plain spinster for them to avoid. Oddly, the spinster character, her status denoted by her short hair and ordinary clothes, now looks just like an ordinary woman to contemporary viewers.

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