Name: Only When I Laugh
Released: 1979-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli

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Roy, Archie and Norman are long-term patients in a British hospital ward. Though they don't seem terribly ill, neither do they seem to be getting better and going home. So they pass their days side by side in the hospital ward, chatting and occasionally getting on one another's nerves.

Comedy · 1979 · 26 min

Starring James Bolam , Peter Bowles , Christopher Strauli

Director Vernon Lawrence , Graeme Muir

EPISODE 1

A Bed With a View

Naive Norman is admitted to the hospital and meets his roommates.

24 min · Jan 8, 2007
EPISODE 2

Operation Norman

Norman's doctor has a long day where everything goes wrong; Archie's appendix has to go.

24 min · Jan 9, 2007
EPISODE 3

The Rumour

Figgis panics when he overhears the staff discussing a patient's last days.

23 min · Jan 10, 2007
EPISODE 4

The Man With the Face

Archie believes that someone outside the building is watching him.

23 min · Jan 11, 2007
EPISODE 5

Let Them Eat Cake

Figgis is the ringleader of a "power to the patients" hunger strike.

24 min · Jan 12, 2007
EPISODE 6

Tangled Web

It's every man for himself when a pretty nurse is assigned to the ward.

24 min · Jan 15, 2007