History Series / DoctorInTheHouse

''Doctor in the House'' was the first series in the TV franchise, airing on [[Creator/{{ITV}} London Weekend Television]] for two series in 1969 and 1970. It starred Creator/BarryEvans as doctor's son [[TheEveryman Michael Upton]], eager to follow in his father's footsteps at the same hospital at which his father trained. His fellow students included self-styled comic Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), suave upper-class charmer [[TheCasanova Dick Stuart-Clark]] (Geoffrey Davies), academic struggler Paul Collier (George Layton), and hard-drinking rugby players Dave Briddock (Simon Cuff) and Huw Evans (Creator/MartinShaw); in the second series, Evans was replaced by Irish boxer Danny Hooley (Jonathan Lynn). The students lived in fear of the autocratic yet brilliant surgeon Professor Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark), who had no patience for their pranks or debauchery.

** George Layton left after ''Doctor in Charge'' to star in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', with Paul Collier leaving St. Swithin's after going out for coffee and simply not returning (though he apparently did return briefly while Waring and Stuart-Clark were at sea). He came back for ''Doctor at the Top''.

* MsFanservice: Dave Briddock dated two Scandinavian girls over the course of ''Doctor in the House'' - Helga (Yutte Stensgaard) in the first series, Ingrid (Kirsten Lindholm) in the second. Their roles mostly seemed to revolve around being provocatively dressed, and, in "Hot off the Presses", posing for racy photographs to spark sales of the St. Swithin's student newspaper.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Hospital administrator Adrian Quint, as played by Angus Deayton in the ''Doctor at the Top'' episode "The V.I.P.", refuses to spend much-needed money on improving the hospital's outdated wards and equipment until Waring tricks him into thinking the Prince of Wales is arriving at the hospital for surgery (it is, in fact, a young child who happens to be named Charles Windsor).

''Doctor in the House'' was the first series in the TV franchise, airing on [[Creator/{{ITV}} London Weekend Television]] for two series in 1969 and 1970. It starred Barry Evans as doctor's son [[TheEveryman Michael Upton]], eager to follow in his father's footsteps at the same hospital at which his father trained. His fellow students included self-styled comic Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), suave upper-class charmer [[TheCasanova Dick Stuart-Clark]] (Geoffrey Davies), academic struggler Paul Collier (George Layton), and hard-drinking rugby players Dave Briddock (Simon Cuff) and Huw Evans (Creator/MartinShaw); in the second series, Evans was replaced by Irish boxer Danny Hooley (Jonathan Lynn). The students lived in fear of the autocratic yet brilliant surgeon Professor Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark), who had no patience for their pranks or debauchery.

** Barry Evans was obliged to leave the franchise due to personal problems affecting his reliability; Upton was written out as having proposed to Nurse Willett (nicknamed "Nurse Willing") in a drunken haze, and then running away in embarrassment to join the Merchant Navy. The other characters still referred to him periodically right through to ''Doctor at the Top''.

''Doctor in the House'' was the first series in the TV franchise, airing on [[Creator/{{ITV}} London Weekend Television]] for two series in 1969 and 1970. It starred Barry Evans as doctor's son [[TheEveryman Michael Upton]], eager to follow in his father's footsteps at the same hospital at which his father trained. His fellow students included self-styled comic Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), suave upper-class charmer [[TheCasanova Dick Stuart-Clark]] (Geoffrey Davies), academic struggler Paul Collier (George Layton), and hard-drinking rugby players Dave Briddock (Simon Cuff) and Huw Evans (Martin Shaw); in the second series, Evans was replaced by Irish boxer Danny Hooley (Jonathan Lynn). The students lived in fear of the autocratic yet brilliant surgeon Professor Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark), who had no patience for their pranks or debauchery.