Get Well Soon (TV series)
Get Well Soon was a short-lived 1997 BBC television comedy series starring Matthew Cottle and Eddie Marsan. Lasting only 6 episodes, it was about the everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and other staff at a tuberculosis hospital in 1947. The show, aired weekly between 2 November and 7 December 1997, was based on the meeting of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the writers of Steptoe and Son, in a Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947. Although given a prominent early Sunday evening slot, the series failed to capture the public's imagination and only ran for one series.
| Get Well Soon | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Written by | John Antrobus Ray Galton |
| Directed by | Christine Gernon |
| Starring | Matthew Cottle Eddie Marsan Robert Bathurst William Osborne Michael Troughton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC1 |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 2 November – 7 December 1997 |
Situation
One day in 1947, Roy Osborne (Matthew Cottle) is admitted to a TB sanatorium. He thinks he'll only be there for a few weeks, then finds that it could be several years before he can leave.
Cast
- Matthew Cottle as Roy Osborne
- Eddie Marsan as Brian Clapton
- Anita Dobson as Mrs. Ivy Osborne
- Samantha Beckinsale as Mrs. Howell
- Patsy Rowlands as Mrs. Clapton
- Hugh Bonneville as Norman Tucker
- Robert Bathurst as Squadron Leader Fielding
- Michael Troughton as The Padre
- William Osborne as Jeffry Powell
- Kate O'Toole as Sister Shelley
- Julie Mullen as Lily
Episodes
- The New Arrival (2 November 1997)
- Snowbound (9 November 1997)
- Tucker's Gambit (16 November 1997)
- Sons, Mothers, Lovers and Others (23 November 1997)
- The Whist Drive (30 November 1997)
- Poison Ivy (7 December 1997)
Media releases
The complete series of Get Well Soon on DVD in one disc set was released by Simply Media on 21 September 2015.