Armchair Cinema 10 In Sickness And In Health

[@leonorebaulch6251]

Thank you for a movie reminding us of the original values of the medical profession and how far removed it is now from the moral responsibilities it was founded upon....

[@wleon4068]

'ORIGINAL VALUES'?! WHAT?! LIKE THAT RACIST PIECE OF CRAP THAT ELDER DOCTOR UTTERED NEAR THE BEGINNING?! THANK GOD WE CAN GET THESE BASTARDS FIRED NOW FOR THAT!!!

[@kathyflorcruz552]

The last 3 years shows us THAT.

[@newsbender]

GPs and doctors are now just sales agents for big pharma.

[@321bytor]

🤦‍♂️

[@kathybates1751]

It's worse than ever

[@wk1810]

Marrying the right person is one of THE most important thing you'll ever do! Your spouse will be your dearest friend or deadliest enemy; safest confidante or most fearsome gossip; ardent encourager or harshest critic; trusted adviser or a terrifying manipulator! This is the person you will be making serious, life-changing decisions with: home, finances, children. This is the one person who will see you at your most vulnerable: mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually. Choose wisely!

[@duantorruellas716]

Well said

[@vivianhamilton616]

Excellent advice, thank you very much.

[@ondinehd6889]

He should not have married that woman: she is horrible! Why doesn't she do something with her own life?! She might be less bored!

[@howardacquistapace5084]

Baby Bunny so good could be/should used as part of legal contract OR wedding vows (or something like that) somewhere to advise each of the couple a minimal context for consequences/responsibility of marriage.!

[@weepingwillow-ud6xl]

Your words full of wisdom illuminate the path of uncertainty.

[@stephenwitherington879]

'Never buy leasehold property - one feels like a weekend guest. Always freehold!' - J Beverley Nichols. My maternal grandfather echoed the great writer's words. On the subject of moving home, give Mower's wife a short time & she would soon tire of the 20 years' lease place; then, want to move on. My parents knew a couple & the wife had the husband finding a new abode every few years; the position resulted in moves up into double figures; at age 67, he knew no one during the final two weeks of his tormented life; he died, she never moved again; naturally, he was no longer on hand to do all the work. People need to be very careful before buying property, & before marrying.

[@hank1519]

Excellent domestic drama! Thank you so much!

[@ZenFox0]

They don’t have writing like this much anymore. It seems programs from the 1950s-1960s such as Armchair Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Twighlight Zone were much more literary than what you can find today.

[@marcellasheridan9263]

His wife is a very nasty woman, if she wanted the big house and the unlimited spending money she should have married a surgeon all I heard through the program from her was ME, ME, ME.

[@callithowiseeit5806]

That'll be the 70s, deep into the era of female empowerment with brave TV programming 'rescuing' women from the family unit back into the taxpool, replacing real love with timesaving granules, you could hardly taste the difference until the world broke

[@deegeraghty9426]

Trapped by a spoilt middle-class wife, who should have married a middle class man approved by her father.

[@skygazer6898]

Prunella Ransom was such a natural beauty. Died in 2002

[@yaramar34]

One (the only?) benefit of Corona Lock Down is finding this sort of gem - stay healthy everyone!!!! xx

[@ZenFox0]

As I finished watching I thought “This was a gem.” Then I saw your comment.

[@tommysteele9487]

What an oppertunity to become the senior GP at that practice.Stupid wife blew it all.

[@Anita67x]

Enjoyed this. Is there a part 2?

[@faithlinkministries]

I think he should have just sent her home to daddy to see if she would wake up and if she didn't good riddance

[@vivianhamilton616]

Great idea.

[@ondinehd6889]

Wonderfully said!!!

[@Kelly-nm4kw]

Hello Jennifer, How are you doing?

[@angliase]

Love the senior dr - beautiful music, my heart was breaking at the end..

[@mogger12345]

The music is 3rd movement of Brahms 3rd symphony, and it is nice.

[@johndean958]

Thankyou so much for naming the music. I love it .

[@None-zc5vg]

The senior doctor was played by Michael Goodliffe who had a mental breakdown and killed himself a few years after this was filmed.

[@alexdavies1662]

A very good play. Look out for the actress from "Star Wars: A New Hope" as Mark Hamill's aunt.

[@jamesandolini1087]

Ah yes, a young Aunt Beru playing Mrs Heath. Well spotted!

[@HerFatherDidntLikeMe]

Brilliant drama with fine acting with Mr. Bronson from Grange Hill as the bank manager.

[@MrTang-qo9wm]

Yes, the acting is very persuasive.

[@marylynnkotis7246]

Good Movie, and that Baby was absolutely adorable!

[@jozeyjones7034]

I kept waiting for something to happen. All I got was a bickering couple. I could go and stay with my parents for that.

[@kathrynbrook9261]

😂😂😂😂

[@MrTang-qo9wm]

Very common with TV plays. Spot on!

[@surreygirl2075]

If she isn't happy she should leave I remember the doctor used to come to you there was no hospitals life was better then every one worked we had it all and holidays

[@warrenwilson4818]

I am always extremeyl interested in the other aspects of the cinems, especially the music, architecture, language, etc. Thank you somebody for noting the Brahms piece used throughout the film.

[@ondinehd6889]

Yes, the music is great! Something which does not happen often. Very few directors use great music from the classical music repertoire. Most are satisfied using second rate "movie music....."

[@weepingwillow-ud6xl]

Film buffs verses Trainspotting anoraks - Lust for life over settled down with a wife.

[@juib4294]

Enjoyed the program; thanks for sharing it. Can't say I hold out much hope for the young doctor's marriage as his wife sounds like a spoiled daddy's girl. She still depends on daddy to underwrite their finances and hasn't a clue on how to stick to a budget and seems bent on spending $$ faster than her husband can earn it; A pre-marriage discussion on the type of practice he wanted to have and where, and her expectations of his career and earning potential, where they were going to live, etc. might have helped to avoid some of the problems they have now. Instead, she wants to move back to the rural village where daddy practices and doesn't want to face the every day riff-raff of "those people" milling about and eventually spoiling her children's quality of life. Also, I suspect that she will always outspend her husband's income. Excellently written and acted portrayal of young marrieds, but it doesn't take a marriage counselor to pinpoint their passel of problems and unless adjustments are made on both sides, I don't see this marriage lasting. The baby isn't the only one who needs to grow up in this household.

[@mckavitt]

Agree. PS. Here, it’s spending ££, not $$ :-)

[@IvyRoad]

Thank you for these!

[@dadodydo]

Oh, those cheeky know-it-all patients! Unlike that cute baby... And what about all that garbage in the streets? That poor hard-working G.P.....

[@helenday5031]

If property prices weren't so insanely high, the doctor could afford to buy a decent little house for his family. While ordinary people suffer from this,who is becoming rich from these high property prices? Property developers? Estate agents? Landlords? Or, could it be the MONEY LENDERS due to the huge amounts of MONEY people have to borrow? Oh, I'm going to shut up now, politics is so depressing and NOTHING ever changes

[@pw191164]

Helen Day Snowflake!!!

[@kathleencampbell1138]

They weren't high then

[@mckavitt]

Helen Day I wonder who exactly those “money lenders” might be... that you refer to? Things really haven’t changed, you are right. Alas.

[@augustwalker5016]

This pair should not have got married. Also, the wife should have gone and got a job and just one child.....

[@johndrake2729]

Mower looks like a rock star in this.

[@deborahgonzalezknight168]

he was a huge sex symbol back then but I never thought so.

[@mikemichaels9590]

He didn't have rockstar ears. They stuck out like car doors which is why he grew his hair.

[@johndrake2729]

@@mikemichaels9590 Lol. I think he grew it out more when he was on Target.

[@brianhaskard1042]

Prunella Ransome is gorgeous

[@Raven4508]

Died in 2002 of natural causes at the age of 59.

[@mckavitt]

Raven4508 That’s not v old. Sad to read that.

[@Sweetpain87]

She died of throat cancer

[@roddale8412]

@0:22 Does anyone know where that location is? I like the solitary pub in the bottom right hand corner next to the bridge.

[@phillips742]

Rod, Did you find out the location?

[@richardp1156]

Looks like Paddington area...

[@richardp1156]

Or westbourne grove...

[@angienorthey]

Bloody hell, when working-class people lived in Notting Hill. Completely gentrified now.

[@britamagnusson5407]

Lovely music! Brahms 3:rd symp.

[@robindixon4814]

Post natal depression plus shattered illusions.

[@girishsavant2302]

Its not just about medical principles. Its a running conversation about 2 UKs. Aristocratic v/s guilt socialism. Predictable end but good episode.

[@augustwalker5016]

She does not like coloured kids nor families either. She is white middle class and should go and live in a different place. I grew up in the UK but in the North - in a rural area and back then things were different. My family were not well off but we had a house, etc. garden. People laughed at us because we lived in the North, but I am glad I grew up where I did, in Acklam, MIddlesbrough.

[@mckavitt]

August Walker And I am glad for you!

[@tehminashah836]

Wonderful ❤

[@mikedee1771]

Very tedious. Good performances but what else?

[@MrThecarebear]

A prime piece of THAMES.

[@johndrake2729]

... or Euston. They did all the work.

[@augustwalker5016]

this is just typical of back then. However, this just goes to show that people should not get married with not a lot of money - and they cannot afford those children at this stage. The girl is just like one my brother in law married to..... in the end he went skint and she left him anyway.....

[@rodericksloan1255]

What,s new then?

[@LurkingCrassZero]

A noble man marries a needy woman or vice versa. The story of most of our lives.

[@johndrake2729]

Yep. I'm finding that to be the case.

[@13699111]

Sadly I agree with your comment

[@violette4841]

He made the best choice he could to keep his wife and two children. Pity he hadn't figured her out a bit better before marrying her and told her his goal as a doctor. He married her for who she was and didn't quite work it out more. In Sickness and Health.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

I love dear Old Blighty, but I have to say it all looks so very ugly, cold and grim in this interesting show.

[@juliet7703]

"Community care" oh the concept

[@mikaelsnake]

What a selfish woman she was. She knew her husband's profession when she met him. Great watch, though. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to upload them!

[@123gooberpea]

Yep, she was selfish, but maybe she had a distorted view of what life as a GP's wife would be like. Her father's private practice would have been very very different.

[@ondinehd6889]

He should have told her to move back in with her "daddy!"

[@rukeyser]

Total class thing.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

my goodness. that house is so expensive. 60 - 70 thousand!!! 2nd hand probably worth less now.

[@chriswaring5565]

HOW DID THEY GET AWAY WITH SAYING WOGG TWICE? NORMAN BEATON DESMONDS HEIR GRIMWALD AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET AND HARRY CROSS FROM BROOKSIDE

[@jimmywalker1568]

Enjoyed thumbs up

[@housedubs1]

That wife is in denial! Time to get a job!

[@helenday5031]

SharonR, Yes, they could both get a job and farm out their beloved baby, that makes 2 wage slaves instead of just one, helping to further fill to overflowing the coffers of the money-lenders, when people have to buy extortionately priced property.

[@kathleencampbell1138]

Bullshit, totally different back then.

[@nhenriksen777]

Wonder if in 2023, the pledge M.D.’s make are the same. What do you think? Anybody?

[@IngenerateIngenue]

It was called the Hippocratic oath…I believe they still have to sign a pledge but it’s no longer named after the Greek physician.

[@HelloImNik]

The baby looks like a tiny Stephen Graham 😀

[@augustwalker5016]

Would be better off going back home to Mam and Dad..... and she should not have had children so soon...... Lesson to all of you.

[@jewels3895]

Dt Vernon Coleman Days

[@authorlydiagreen1862]

I was hoping for a scary ending

[@dizmop]

hahahaha so was I, did enjoy it though

[@arcturusgold8858]

"...a house like that would cost sixty or seventy thousand pounds....." When!!!!!?????? :-)

[@nlcrme]

My thoughts exactly!!😘

[@jazura2]

To be precise late 1960's. That was an enormous sum of money.

[@jazura2]

Just looked it up. This episode was made in 1975.when the average house price was £7000

[@mattmanjack]

Not so long ago believe it or not.

[@weepingwillow-ud6xl]

@@jazura2 1974 actually...made on location by Euston Films … MCMLXXIV [50:42/50:56]. House prices were interesting.

[@hookbeak2321]

The actors rightly deserves their accolades, when the audience can easily empathise. An excellent medical drama. The grey haired G.P [06:02] says " I wouldn't be too hard on that wog if I were you ... " although thought of as a derogatory word, a black man called Sammy once told me, its an abbreviation for " Western Oriental Gentleman ".

[@misterteaification]

"Wily Oriental Gentleman". "Western" would be, quite literally, a contradiction in terms.

[@hookbeak2321]

@@misterteaification If you think that, trying looking up Western Oriental Gentleman there's plenty to read. I didn't use 'wily ' try turning your predictive text on, as your comment doesn't make sense. They've only highlighted your poor spelling.

[@misterteaification]

@@hookbeak2321 "They've only highlighted your poor spelling" I haven't spelled a single word incorrectly, yet you have attempted to type "try" and ended up with "trying". Presumably, from your nonsense about predictive text, you don't even know that "wily" is a word, so we can deduce that English isn't your native language. And regardless of what you say about there being "plenty to read" about it, Western Oriental Gentleman is a nonsensical phrase - there is plenty of nonsense on the internet, and you have added to it. Well done!

[@hookbeak2321]

Yes I did miss type 'try' but as for the rest I stand by what I said. Reading & comprehension are obviously not your strong points.

[@misterteaification]

@@hookbeak2321 you "miss typed" it so badly that you added a further three letters to it; no doubt you will claim that you were having a fit at the time. Your incompetent attempt to disguise your foreign origin is hilariously funny. Your stupid accusations toward me are simply ludicrous trolling. Go away; you are a cretin.

[@13699111]

Thank you

[@bronwynbrown2693]

Like movie you tell from the 5 mites in if going be good 😊

[@donnahaga1411]

They wheres the rest of the movie

[@pamelacorbett8774]

You can’t leave us stranded like this … what happened??

[@mollycuddle9990]

Thankyou xx

[@franzelias5368]

A doctor who does house calls! Well that died with the 1970s...

[@patriciallamas2050]

Cheers!

[@teviottilehurst]

Dr came over as a good socialist.

[@richardp1156]

Except when he said 'wogs' !!

[@hughiedavies6069]

Openly calling people Wogs 🙄 That s old British TV , especially 70s stuff I suppose at least its realistic in that way.

[@bernicecollins9641]

What a difference to 2024

[@michaelhughes4466]

And in those days one could speak to someone at your bank, not a recorded message.

[@МанушакОнищенко]

Не повезло с женой доктору😢

[@MrMystri]

I thought this was gonna be a Thriller as stated, it’s more like “Play for Today” nevertheless very good acting.

[@IngenerateIngenue]

It is called Armchair Theatre so much like Play for Today.

[@martas9283]

I do not like thee, Mrs. Bell..

[@paulpallott8302]

He's an idiot

[@ondinehd6889]

@@paulpallott8302 He should send her packing to move back in with "daddy." She is an idiot, she is spoiled, bored with her own life because she has no imagination, and she is a racist.

[@debrarufini6906]

@@ondinehd6889 Exactly. She's a right spoilt brat. X

[@robertadams2750]

lol rodney from emerdale

[@OIHANAMUSIKARI]

I hope he never knew....

[@stephanblack4558]

The wife is a controlling bigot snob and a arrogant conceited bitch.

[@vladkagreen1824]

God she is a whiner! Nonstop!

[@bardotbardo3633]

The wife is the one suffering for her Dr husbands social conscience as he takes on far too much putting his own life at the centre of the poor & unhealthy. That is his life not his wife & children. He should never have married.

[@housedubs1]

She knew he was a GP before she married him, but she was used to being a spoiled daddy's girl who had everything.

[@kathleencampbell1138]

Brat

[@paulpallott8302]

I agree with Bardot ,,what a tosser he is

[@mckavitt]

Sharon R If she’d had everything she needed, even before her marriage, she’d be a much happier & self-assertive woman now. Sorry to disagree w you.

[@mckavitt]

Bardot Bardo Righto!

[@neil5551]

shocking he used W word now he would be shot by the lovies! okay if they say it wrong if you do!

[@patricias5122]

YOu're a moron.

[@leahstern8972]

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