Doctor Down Under
Season 1
When Dr. Duncan Waring and Dr. Dick Stuart-Clark find positions at St. Barnabas Hospital in Sydney, they find that life in an Australian hospital is not much different to life in an English hospital.
Where to Watch Season 1
13 Episodes
- Thanks For The MemoryE1
Thanks For The MemoryDuncan is working in St. Barnabas hospital,Sydney,under fearsome Professor Beaumont and alongside the Australian answer to Bingham,Maurice Griffin. Dick Stuart-Clark is admitted as an amnesia sufferer,though this is a ploy,as he skipped St Swithins having sold off oxygen cylinders and is wanted in Sydney for not paying his hotel bill. Duncan takes him to see Beaumont about a job but before any deal can be reached Griffin,whose patient Dick is, has shoved a syringe full of sedatives up his bottom and knocked him cold. - A Bird In The HandE3
A Bird In The HandDick and Duncan both want to take physiotherapist Pamela Kincaid to a weekend beach party. Duncan plans to get Dick out of the way by sending him to a conference but Dick 'persuades' a philandering patient to take his place. When the man's wife turns up at St. Barnabas to see him, a heavily bandaged Duncan impersonates him, but his efforts to avoid Professor Beaumont leave Dick free to act as escort to Pamela. - Impatients
E6ImpatientsProfessor Beaumont is angry that the patients have been complaining about the three doctors,even Griffin,whose lengthy descriptions of operations have induced nausea and all must behave themselves. Unfortunately Griffin gets into a spat with a cantankerous old man,Dick is caught on the fiddle and Duncan gets a thump from a seven foot muscle man whose car he damaged earlier in the day. Duncan is relieved when the day is over - until he drives into Beaumont's car. - The Sydney SurpriseE7
The Sydney SurpriseDick and Duncan urge Professor Beaumont to have a day off, but Dick leaves Duncan in the lurch when he joins a friend on his boat, The Sydney Surprise. Duncan goes to find him but Griffin rings Professor Beaumont and sends him to the boat on a supposed emergency. The two doctors are found out - but so is the professor when a rich widow also on board turns out to be his bit on the side. - Identity CrisisE9
Identity CrisisThe animosity between Duncan and Maurice Griffin intensifies when Griffin gets slapped by a nurse's irate mother after she is told he is Duncan. Both doctors squabble over who should have priority in the operating theatre with their respective patients but it appears they have mixed the patients up and performed an operation on a man who does not need one. In fact the orderlies mixed up the name tags but Professor Beaumont allows the doctors to believe they are in the wrong so that he can transfer them - and Stuart-Clark - to Casualty. - I Gotta HorseE10
I Gotta HorseRetired jockey 'Chalky' White is on Duncan's ward. Whilst Sister Cummings misunderstands their conversation about horses, 'Chalky' persuades Duncan to invest in a race horse, Moonboggler, and Dick goes half shares with him. When the horse goes lame the doctors plan to put him for stud but unfortunately too much sex makes him go dizzy. - The Hawaiian OperationE11
The Hawaiian OperationDick's latest money-making scheme is a raffle with a trip to Hawaii as the main prize. Griffin wins it but goes down with a 'mysterious' illness and can't make it so Beaumont, who has bought most of the tickets, demands there is a second draw. The winner is Duncan but the trip is cancelled because the travel agent with whom Dick arranged it has been arrested for fraud. - It's All In The MindE13
It's All In The MindAn attractive young lady out-patient asks Dick and Duncan to her fancy dress party,where her 'costume' will be Lady Godiva. Duncan plans to go as a witch-doctor but Griffin,who has been reading a book on head-hunters of Borneo,mishears him ordering his costume and assumes that a witch-doctor is working in the hospital.He tells Beaumont, who believes he is over-doing it and sends him home,asking Duncan to replace him. Arriving in costume Duncan frightens the out-patients.
