Get Well Soon (TV series)
Get Well Soon is a 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.
Situation
One day in 1947, Roy Osborne 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
- Snowbound
- Tucker's Gambit
- Sons, Mothers, Lovers and Others
- The Whist Drive
- Poison Ivy