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Homethroughthepuddles · 26/12/2018 11:51

Surprised there's no thread on this. Did anyone watch it last night or has the series reached its natural end and is no longer attracting viewers?

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ItsAHardKn0ckLife1 · 26/02/2019 22:23

Does anybody know where I’d be able to watch the Africa special? Had a little look on amazon but couldn’t see it.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 26/02/2019 22:27

Isitmybathtimeyet - exactly what you said. The Turners have ruined this programme. The writing is getting worse each week.

WitchSharkadder · 27/02/2019 00:19

It’s available on Netflix, HardKnockLife, i re-watched it recently.

ppeatfruit · 27/02/2019 08:51

I disagree about the Turners, they are of the time. Prostitutes must give GPs a hell of a lot of unnecessary work , why wouldn't Doc Turner counsel him.

BrieAndChilli · 27/02/2019 16:59

I do think that back along GPS had more of a relationship with thier patients. They were almost like counsellors to a lot and followed through on things a lot more unlike now where you see different doctors and people for every single little thing

AnneEyhtMeyer · 27/02/2019 18:07

Unfortunately Stephen McCann is not a great actor.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 27/02/2019 18:08

McGann - bloody autocorrect.

ItsAHardKn0ckLife1 · 27/02/2019 20:01

Thank you witch I foresee a weekend of binge watching coming up!

Ingesw · 27/02/2019 20:42

Doesn’t he have 3 brothers who are actors? It’s a shame one of them can’t be swapped in, I’m sure no one would notice....

Poor guy, he must hate mumsnet.

iklboo · 27/02/2019 20:51

Doctors were different then - even in the 70s. We came back from holiday abroad and my dad got really ill - fever, shivers, delirium etc. Went to doc who thought he had flu. Next morning at 7am the doc knocked on our door (no phone). He'd been up all night with his text books & thought my dad had Legionnaires Disease. Rushed him to hospital & it was confirmed.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 27/02/2019 21:09

Ingesw that would be brilliant. Dr Turner without the gurning Wallace & Gromitt expression. Paul McGann is the best of the 4. Can we have him please?

iklboo · 27/02/2019 21:14

Oooh Paul McGann comes in as Dr Turner's sexy louche brother & turns Shelagh's head with raffia bottles of Chianti and Black Magic chocolates Grin

AnneEyhtMeyer · 27/02/2019 21:23

Shelagh would put on her best teal nightie and flirt shamelessly with him and O'Patrick wouldn't even notice as he'd be so busy lecturing everyone about the latest topic listed in the "Lazy Scriptwriter's Big Book of Medical Breakthroughs in the 1960s".

MissEliza · 27/02/2019 22:45

The scene between Val and her man was perfect.
I don't wtf Trixie was wearing at the bingo but dd (10) adores her and calls her a 'fashionista'!

Housewife2010 · 28/02/2019 04:58

"Fontella

Also wanted to mention how beautiful Jenny Agutter is. There was one scene last night and she gave this absolutely radiant smile. She is so perfectly cast as Sister Julienne - the picture of serenity - not to mention that wonderful voice of hers."

  • Theresa May has the same voice as Jenny Agutter.
AppleKatie · 28/02/2019 09:42

Theresa May has the same voice as Jenny Agutter.
Shock

I wanted to say don’t be ridiculous but I’ve just popper on to YouTube to see what you mean... you’re right they are similar.

But! Teresa May sounds like Jenny Agutter recovering from laringytis and as if she’s completely forgotten the natural rhythms of speech.

Clawdy · 28/02/2019 10:12

Yes, they do have very similar voices.

Isitmybathtimeyet · 28/02/2019 14:01

GPs had more personal relationships with patients is definitely true, and I didn't mean that a GP might not tell a man who was catching STDs to use a condom or knock it off a bit, but to look at it as a moral issue or consider it needed discussing, for a GP in the East End? Men visited prostitutes and it was their own choice. GPs did medical stuff, not emotional.

MissEliza · 28/02/2019 18:19

But it was a medical issue as he didn't want the disease to spread further, surely.

Isitmybathtimeyet · 28/02/2019 21:26

So he tells him to stick a condom on. Or not do it. CTM is so enormously anachronistic in its treatment of psychological stuff. It was regarded as pretty normal for men to use prostitutes back then. A GP wouldn't have spent any time at all working out why he did it. After all, why wouldn't he?

glamorousgrandmother · 01/03/2019 07:37

It was regarded as pretty normal for men to use prostitutes back then.

I was only 9 in 1964 but I don't think it was regarded as exactly normal even a few years after that.

ppeatfruit · 01/03/2019 09:19

Interesting discussion about prostitution. No I don't think it was regarded as normal, in middling working families. Never discussed anyway. my father was never faithful but we only learned that when my parents separated in the late 60s, it wouldn't have surprised me if he had used them though.

SoupDragon · 01/03/2019 11:40

I wonder if it was just viewed as more "acceptable" because men have certain needs and if they aren't being met at home... Opinions have quite rightly moved on though!

SoupDragon · 01/03/2019 11:41

More "turning a blind eye" than accepting.

Isitmybathtimeyet · 01/03/2019 14:26

Well, not normal in that you announced it to your family at Christmas lunch, but normal in that GPs would have been perfectly used to blokes turning up with knob rot they'd contracted that way. As I said, they probably still are, and I doubt back then or now they sit those men down and start probing childhood traumas to work out why they're doing it. Prostitution has been a fact of life for the whole of human history. I only said 'back then' because my post was about the scene being anachronistic. I genuinely don't think that the medical profession's view on people paying for sex will have changed much, other than a much greater level of effort to make them aware of safe sex now.

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