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Dr. Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella entitled Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
Episode 26 : The Uninvited Guest
May. 15,1966
A girl is thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious trying to cross a river in which Alan Finlay is fishing. When she comes round her memory is gone. The partners decide that she must stay at Arden House while she recovers from her injuries and amnesia. Both men, Finlay in particular, are attracted to her, but Janet does not share their admiration for their uninvited guest.
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Episode 25 : The Decision
May. 08,1966
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Episode 24 : Legacy
May. 01,1966
Janet is preoccupied: it is the jam making season. Hordes of small boys are beating a path to Arden House bartering old jam jars for pennies while the air is thick with bees attracted to the jam, much to the discomfort of two physicians busy healing themselves.
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Episode 22 : A Settled Man
April. 17,1966
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Episode 21 : Written With The Left Hand
April. 10,1966
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Episode 20 : Kate And Robert
April. 03,1966
Dr. Cameron and Dr. Finlay successfully deliver Kate Sinclair's first child. Later Finlay warns Kate and her husband that it would almost certainly be fatal for Kate to have another child. The resulting marital problem is a particularly acute one.
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Episode 19 : No Subsidy For Sin
March. 27,1966
Annie Laurie sets the tongues of Tannochbrae wagging when she takes in Willie Gillespie as a lodger.
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Episode 18 : O Sole Mio
March. 20,1966
John MacEwan, one time concert singer and now professional loafer, comes into conflict with Aldo Narduzzi, an amateur opera singer. Caught up in the quarrel is young Tommy MacEwan, whose stubborn case of acne is causing Dr. Finlay a certain amount of concern.
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Episode 17 : Better Safe Than Sorry
March. 13,1966
Hugh Armitage decides to stay at Lochend Guest House for a nice long holiday because of its reputation as ""one of the healthiest spots west of Dumfries"". But when he finds himself in the midst of an outbreak of food poisoning his opinion of Tannochbrae changes completely.
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Episode 16 : To Err Is Human
March. 06,1966
When Willie Campbell returns after supposedly serving in the Army in India he finds that his wife Jeannie has given birth to a child. Naturally there is a domestic explosion and Dr. Finlay becomes very concerned about the effect on the baby's health.
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Episode 15 : For Services Rendered
February. 27,1966
There are times when a private patient is more trouble than he's worth. Not many would dispute a doctor's moral right to be paid for services rendered, but how far should Finlay press this right in a case of a man whose wife has received urgent medical attention and does not feel inclined to settle the account?
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Episode 14 : A Matter Of Confidence
February. 20,1966
Peter MacNab is a medical student of great promise who for one reason or another seems to have lost all confidence in himself. But this changes when Dr. Cameron asks him to examine an ailing Dr. Finlay.
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Episode 13 : The Seniority Rule
February. 13,1966
The depression of the late 1920's was a time of sacrifice. Sacrifice for food, for principle and for solidarity.
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Episode 12 : Free Medicine
February. 06,1966
Dr. Finlay dreams of a free National Health Service, but Dr. Cameron is sceptical and fears the extra workload free health care might bring. But as usual the older man's attitude is not as rigid as it seems, and when a top consultant is summoned to Tannochbrae to see a rich hypochondriac Cameron is not above instituting his own 'Medical Service'.
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Episode 11 : The General
January. 30,1966
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Episode 10 : Hear No Evil
January. 23,1966
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Episode 9 : The Anxious Man
January. 16,1966
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Episode 8 : They Do It In Africa
January. 09,1966
Jamie looks to young Willie Kemp to help him over his bout of crematorium melancholia.
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Episode 7 : Miss Letitia
January. 02,1966
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Episode 6 : The Vision
December. 26,1965
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Episode 5 : Body And Soul
December. 19,1965
Angus Hendry, like many others in Tannochbrae, has been out of work for three years. The partners at Arden House each have their own theory on the best way to help him. What begins as an academic argument soon becomes a practical test of who is right.
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Episode 3 : The Draper Of Dumfries
December. 05,1965
Robert Finlay visits his son Alan at Tannochbrae for the first time. Left to his own devices for much of the time he forms an association with Mrs. Hamilton. Mr. Finlay thinks her a kind and generous person: the Doctor thinks exactly the opposite.
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Episode 1 : The Phantom Piper Of Tannochbrae
November. 21,1965
Lord Moorcroft is trying to persuade the Council to put up a memorial to the fallen of the 1914-18 war. But there is a section of the community who feel that the money would be better spent on such necessities as street lamps than on what the local schoolmaster calls 'vast marble eyesores'.
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