Doctor at Large

3/7/1971

Michael is subjected to spending an evening in the company of a sex-starved secretary when he stands in for a skiving Paul.

3/14/1971

Michael and Paul become partners in Doctor Maxwell's practice. But they find getting accepted by the patients much harder than getting accepted by Doctor Maxwell...

3/21/1971

Michael is asked to give a talk at the local girls' school. However, he finds it isn't just his medical knowledge that finds favour with the pupils.

3/28/1971

Paul and Michael decide the practice is behind the times and in need of revamping.

4/4/1971

Paul thinks he has stumbled on a winner by using toads for quick and efficient pregnancy tests.

4/11/1971

Sue is left unimpressed when Dick introduces Michael to his attractive lady friend.

4/18/1971

Michael invites Dick and Paul home to meet his parents. But having four doctors on the premises soon gets irksome.

4/25/1971

Michael's invovement with a nurse called Beryl escalates - much to his displeasure.

5/2/1971

A position becomes vacant at the private practice where Dick works, and Michael - tired of his tedious casualty job - decides to apply for it, leaving Paul unimpressed.

5/9/1971

Michael is left in charge of the practice when Dick skives off to see a girlfriend.

5/16/1971

Michael is less than delighted when one of his patients dies shortly after he treats him.

5/23/1971

Michael continues his quest for a job in surgery. However, once again he is up against Lawrence Bingham.

5/30/1971

Paul gets Michael a job with his uncle in general practice. But Mike still longs for the surgeon's scalpel.

6/6/1971

Glad to get away from his G. P. job, Michael visits Dick at his psychiatric practice.

6/13/1971

Paul and Michael are pleased when their patients are healing well. But they soon discover it is not entirely due to their efforts...

6/20/1971

Michael is driven to distraction by an overbearing mother's insistence that her healthy daughter is ill.

6/27/1971

With Dr. Griffin admitted to hospital, Michael is left in charge of the practice. Dissatisfied with Paul's work, Mike decides to replace him.

7/4/1971

Michael is totally smitten with the new doctor, Nicky. And when the Dean offers Mike a new job, it looks as though he might make a mistake he'll live to regret.

7/11/1971

Michael's much-awaited return to St. Swithin's is cause for celebration. The festivities are quickly curtailed, however, when Professor Loftus also returns to the hospital.

7/18/1971

7/25/1971

Paul and Mike decide to get jobs as anatomy demonstrators, whilst Dick's just in it for the money. However, none of them counted on Lawrence Bingham's competition.

8/1/1971

Michael and Paul find they have differing attitudes to women.

8/8/1971

Dick finds out he has inherited £50,000 following the death of his Uncle James.

8/15/1971

Michael is showing all the symptoms of mumps, and is immediately admitted to Lawrence Bingham's ward.

8/22/1971

Michael visits Dick at the health farm at which he is working, and makes a bet that he can stick to the patients' diet.

8/29/1971

The junior doctors are all preparing for their viva exams, but one of them in particular has particular trouble when it comes to taking his.

9/5/1971

Michael ends up in court after he injects a patient with some penicillin, to which he turns out to be allergic.

9/12/1971