After a run of four excellent episodes, it was back down to Earth with a bump with this one, which barely has a single funny moment in it.
It begins in Bingham's ward, where Duncan is showing around some students. He tries to examine elderly patient Mr.Hutton, but then Bingham appears, with more students in tow, and they begin arguing over who has the right to examine the old man first. Dick and Paul show up and the row escalates.
Loftus commissions the doctors to devise a new system for patient inspection. Duncan's version seems to be the best, involving the use of coloured magnetic counters on a blackboard.
But predictably even this new system winds up going wrong...
That's all the plot this Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna scripted episode contains, pretty thin even for a twenty-five minute show. No guest-stars either. If you find the sight of doctors bickering amusing, however, it might be right up your street.
Trying to find the funniest moment here was not easy, but the oft-repeated gag of Loftus wandering into the operating theatre just as the doctors are taking the rise out of him is trotted out yet again, and thank goodness for that, otherwise there would have been nothing to laugh at.
It begins in Bingham's ward, where Duncan is showing around some students. He tries to examine elderly patient Mr.Hutton, but then Bingham appears, with more students in tow, and they begin arguing over who has the right to examine the old man first. Dick and Paul show up and the row escalates.
Loftus commissions the doctors to devise a new system for patient inspection. Duncan's version seems to be the best, involving the use of coloured magnetic counters on a blackboard.
But predictably even this new system winds up going wrong...
That's all the plot this Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna scripted episode contains, pretty thin even for a twenty-five minute show. No guest-stars either. If you find the sight of doctors bickering amusing, however, it might be right up your street.
Trying to find the funniest moment here was not easy, but the oft-repeated gag of Loftus wandering into the operating theatre just as the doctors are taking the rise out of him is trotted out yet again, and thank goodness for that, otherwise there would have been nothing to laugh at.