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The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the 1952 novel Doctor in the House by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school. It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain. Its success spawned six sequels, and also television and radio series titled Doctor in the House.
Doctor in the House is a collective name for seven separate British and Australian television comedy series inspired by the "Doctor" books of English author Richard Gordon. [ 1 ] The books had also previously been adapted as a series of cinema films .
The first film, Doctor in the House, was initiated by Betty Box, who picked up a copy of the book at Crewe during a long rail journey. She saw its possibility as a film, but Box and Ralph Thomas had a job convincing Rank executives that people would go to a film about doctors, and that Bogarde, who up to then had played spivs and World War Two ...
Doctor in the House may refer to: . Doctor in the House, a 1952 novel by Richard Gordon . Doctor in the House, a 1954 British film adaptation of the novel . Doctor in the House, seven British and Australian television series inspired by the film series
Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a film of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of medical students. [1] It was produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970. [2] The primary writers for the Doctor in the House episodes were Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.
Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), [1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist.As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine.
A film adaptation, Doctor in the House, was released in 1954, starring Dirk Bogarde; several of the subsequent books were also filmed. There were a number of TV series very loosely based on the books, and a 13-part radio series on the BBC in 1968 starring Richard Briers as Simon.
His first significant television role was in the sitcom Doctor in the House (1969–1970), based on Richard Gordon's novels, which had already been turned into a feature film series. [10] Evans starred as the young student doctor Michael Upton, to whom Evans felt he bore no similarities.