The very first film in the ever popular Doctor series. Here we are first introduced to Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde), and follow his hilarious adventures as a student doctor in St. Swithins Hospital - from naive, bumbling trainee to his first day as a fully qualified doctor. In these early, formative years he learns how to cope with the occupational hazards of being a medical student, such as fiery ward sisters, frightening surgeons, over-knowledgeable patients, the eccentricities of his own colleagues, and of course, the pretty nurses.
With a superb supporting cast including James Robertson Justice as the inimitable Sir Lancelot Spratt and the combined talents of Kenneth More and Donald Sinden as Sparrow's fellow students, it's side-splitting laughs from start to finish. Just what the Doctor ordered.
Dirk Bogarde .... Simon Sparrow
Muriel Pavlow .... Joy
Kenneth More .... Richard Grimsdyke
Donald Sinden .... Benskin
Kay Kendall .... Isobel.
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