Dr. Finlay's Casebook
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Dr. Finlay's Casebook

6.7/10 1962 8 Seasons 191 Episodes Ended

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.

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Season 4 Episodes

E1
The Phantom Piper Of Tannochbrae
50 min 1965

Lord Moorcroft is trying to persuade the Council to put up a memorial to the fallen of the 1914-18 war. But there is a …

E2
The Champion
50 min 1965

Kevin McDonald is Tannochbrae's shot-putting hope for the Highland Games. He is big, handsome and good-natured, but som…

E3
The Draper Of Dumfries
50 min 1965

Robert Finlay visits his son Alan at Tannochbrae for the first time. Left to his own devices for much of the time he fo…

S4E4
E4
The Longest Visit
50 min 1965

Alan Finlay is a poor sailor. So when he is called out to visit old Strachan, the lighthouse keeper, who has spiked his…

E5
Body And Soul
50 min 1965

Angus Hendry, like many others in Tannochbrae, has been out of work for three years. The partners at Arden House each h…

E6
The Vision
50 min 1965
E7
Miss Letitia
50 min 1966
E8
They Do It In Africa
50 min 1966

Jamie looks to young Willie Kemp to help him over his bout of crematorium melancholia.

E9
The Anxious Man
50 min 1966
E10
Hear No Evil
50 min 1966
E11
The General
50 min 1966
E12
Free Medicine
50 min 1966

Dr. Finlay dreams of a free National Health Service, but Dr. Cameron is sceptical and fears the extra workload free heal…

E13
The Seniority Rule
50 min 1966

The depression of the late 1920's was a time of sacrifice. Sacrifice for food, for principle and for solidarity.

E14
A Matter Of Confidence
50 min 1966

Peter MacNab is a medical student of great promise who for one reason or another seems to have lost all confidence in hi…

E15
For Services Rendered
50 min 1966

There are times when a private patient is more trouble than he's worth. Not many would dispute a doctor's moral right t…

E16
To Err Is Human
50 min 1966

When Willie Campbell returns after supposedly serving in the Army in India he finds that his wife Jeannie has given birt…

E17
Better Safe Than Sorry
50 min 1966

Hugh Armitage decides to stay at Lochend Guest House for a nice long holiday because of its reputation as ""one of the h…

E18
O Sole Mio
50 min 1966

John MacEwan, one time concert singer and now professional loafer, comes into conflict with Aldo Narduzzi, an amateur op…

E19
No Subsidy For Sin
50 min 1966

Annie Laurie sets the tongues of Tannochbrae wagging when she takes in Willie Gillespie as a lodger.

E20
Kate And Robert
50 min 1966

Dr. Cameron and Dr. Finlay successfully deliver Kate Sinclair's first child. Later Finlay warns Kate and her husband th…

E21
Written With The Left Hand
50 min 1966
E22
A Settled Man
50 min 1966
E23
Crusade
50 min 1966

School doctor Fay Beresford targets the primitive toilet facilities at the local school, which she insists must be repla…

E24
The Legacy
50 min 1966

Janet is preoccupied: it is the jam making season. Hordes of small boys are beating a path to Arden House bartering old…

E25
The Decision
50 min 1966
S4E26
E26
The Uninvited Guest
50 min 1966

A girl is thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious trying to cross a river in which Alan Finlay is fishing. When s…

Cast

Bill Simpson
Bill Simpson
Dr Alan Finlay
Andrew Cruickshank
Andrew Cruickshank
Dr Angus Cameron
Barbara Mullen
Barbara Mullen
Janet MacPherson

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