Health and Efficiency

Season 1

1993 · 6 episodes · 3h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. ... but he never said he loved me

   30 Dec 1993 · 30 min

   Starting the series with an episode whose title draws on a quote from Cole Porter's song ""The Physician"" we meet the staff of General and Surgical ""B"", learn of the jilted romance between Michael and Kate, of Diana's cost cutting obsessions, Phil's non-existent love life and Rex's bizarre love of blood and cutting. Rex wants to amputate the leg of a patient, but Kate and Michael want to save it. Unfortunately, Diana has deemed keeping him in for treatment too expensive.

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   2. Brideshead Revisited

   6 Jan 1994 · 30 min

   It's the anniversary of when Michael jilted Kate at their wedding, and she has vowed he'll never sleep with another woman on that day ever.

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   3. Cinderella Rockafeller

   13 Jan 1994 · 30 min

   Diana and Rex have quarrelled about the forthcoming hospital dance, resulting in Diana's banning the use of expensive pain killers. The one chance of relieving the pain is to find someone else to take her to the ball.

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   4. The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God

   20 Jan 1994 · 30 min

   The visit of a notorious tabloid journalist intent on finding evidence of medical malpractise tests everybody's vow of silence to the full.

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   5. The Canvas

   27 Jan 1994 · 30 min

   Kate is determined that the boxing dinner due to take place in the hospital hall will not go ahead, but Michael has tickets.

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   6. Beware Young Girls of Five and Twenty

   3 Feb 1994 · 30 min

   An attractive new nurse causes a further complication to the wheel of relationships, particularly when Diana's plans for abolishing the Nurse's Home to build a multi-story car park become apparent.