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 National Health Service hospital during the post-World War II period. The show aired once a week between 2 November and 7 December 1997. The show was based on the meeting of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the writers of Steptoe and Son, in a Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947.

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)

External links

• Get Well Soon at TV.com
• Get Well Soon at the Internet Movie Database
• Get Well Soon at the British Comedy Guide