Only When I Laugh

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

TV Show · Comedy · Classics

A trio of very different patients play a never-ending game of sickbed one-upmanship in a hectic NHS hospital.

1979 · 25m

EPISODE 1

A Bed with a View

Young Norman Binns is admitted to Dr. Thorpe's hospital ward.
EPISODE 2

Operation Norman

Norman's nerves get the best of him before surgery when Figgis scares him with doom-laden talk.
EPISODE 3

The Rumour

Dr. Thorpe tells Gupte that "Victor" is at death's door and the nurse believes he's talking about his son.
EPISODE 4

The Man with the Face

Glover has a tryst with a woman named Anna, but her fiancé Nico arrives at the hospital for revenge.
EPISODE 5

Let Them Eat Cake

The patients decide to go on a hunger strike to protest the abysmal hospital food.
EPISODE 6

Tangled Web

Norman forms a crush on the new nurse Sally but faces stiff competition from Glover, Dr. Thorpe and Gupte.