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1997 British TV series or programme

Get Well Soon

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	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	2 November (1997-11-02) – 7 December 1997 (1997-12-07)

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 (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.

External links

Get Well Soon at IMDb
Get Well Soon at British Comedy Guide

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Sitcoms	Hancock's Half Hour (1954–60) Citizen James (1960) Hancock (1961) Comedy Playhouse Series 1 (1961–62) Series 2 (1963) Steptoe and Son (1962–74) The Galton and Simpson Comedy (1969) Clochemerle (1972) Casanova '73 (1973) The Galton and Simpson Playhouse (1977) Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... (1996–97)
Films	The Rebel (1961) The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) The Bargee (1964) The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) Loot (1970) The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) Up the Chastity Belt (1971) Steptoe and Son (1972) Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
Galton with others	Spooner's Patch (1979–82) Room at the Bottom (1986–88) Get Well Soon (1997) Steptoe and Son in Murder at Oil Drum Lane (2005)
Related articles	Associated London Scripts Sanford and Son (1972–77) Fleksnes Fataliteter (1972–2002) The Last Fleksnes (1974) Albert & Herbert (1974–82) Skyll inte på mig! (1978)

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