This comical, sophisticated comedy follows the adventures of for medical students as they enter the world of internship in a British hospital. Strict head nurses look on them in suspicion, younger ones laugh at their naivete and medical professors bark instructions at them like angry dogs. This is dry but pleasant, more character driven than plot driven, but filled with realistic and sometimes heart warming situations.
Dirk Bogarde leads the four interns as he faces an awkward first day, constant embarrassing corrections for understandable mistakes and suspicious looks from the prickly head nurse who cowers over his shoulder like a pesky giant bird. Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and Kenneth More are the other three of varying personalities and seriousness, several of them not adverse to practical jokes. Kay Kendall is one of the lovely ladies involved in the fun, with Muriel Pavlow as a sweet nurse who takes a sine to Bogarde.
Bombastic James Robertson Justice steals every moment he is on screen as a veteran doctor who barks out medical orders as if he was an admiral on a war ship in her majesty's navy. The most memorable scene involves Bogarde's delight from simple patient gratitude, in thus case a lonely wife and mother having her third child. The use of an actual hospital patient as a guinea pig for the interns is very funny, as is the timing of Bogarde's purchase of a skeleton in aiding him in his studies. Several more followed in this light hearted series which will never be compared to the more rambunctious "Carry On" series.
Dirk Bogarde leads the four interns as he faces an awkward first day, constant embarrassing corrections for understandable mistakes and suspicious looks from the prickly head nurse who cowers over his shoulder like a pesky giant bird. Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and Kenneth More are the other three of varying personalities and seriousness, several of them not adverse to practical jokes. Kay Kendall is one of the lovely ladies involved in the fun, with Muriel Pavlow as a sweet nurse who takes a sine to Bogarde.
Bombastic James Robertson Justice steals every moment he is on screen as a veteran doctor who barks out medical orders as if he was an admiral on a war ship in her majesty's navy. The most memorable scene involves Bogarde's delight from simple patient gratitude, in thus case a lonely wife and mother having her third child. The use of an actual hospital patient as a guinea pig for the interns is very funny, as is the timing of Bogarde's purchase of a skeleton in aiding him in his studies. Several more followed in this light hearted series which will never be compared to the more rambunctious "Carry On" series.