A Very Peculiar Practice: The Complete Series

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Lowlands University is a swamp of fear & loathing. A showpiece Sixties campus looking increasingly anachronistic in the paranoid profit-driven Eighties it is staffed by angst-ridden academics desperate to hang onto their privileged status amid swinging cutbacks. It also houses what may well be the worst medical practice in the British Isles. Fresh-faced Stephen Daker (Peter Davison) sees his new job at the Medical Centre as a chance to pursue excellence among a dedicated team. He s somewhat shaken when he meets his colleagues: the once-great Jock Mc Cannon (Graham Crowden) practice head proponent of alternative psychiatry & a wildly unpredictable dipsomaniac; public school-educated fascist Bob Buzzard (David Troughton); & Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn) an uber-feminist who sees illness as something men do to women. Dark secrets sinister experiments demented academics STD epidemics the Yankee Dollar a desperate Creative with writer's block & a couple of nuns all conspire to make life on campus a hair-raising experience for Stephen. Andrew Davies surreal searingly funny look at sexual politics medical malpractice & academic rivalry at the height of the Thatcher era won huge acclaim & a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series. This set comprises both series & A Very Polish Practice the 1992 sequel film which finds Stephen coping with life in post-Communism Warsaw.