Doctor in the House

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

• Ralph ThomasDirector
• Richard GordonScreenplay
• Nicholas PippsScreenplay

• Dirk BogardeSimon Sparrow
• Muriel PavlowNurse Joy Gibson
• Kenneth MoreRichard Grimsdyke
• Donald SindenTony Benskin
• Kay KendallMiss Isobel Minster
• James Robertson JusticeSir Lancelot Spratt
• Donald HoustonTaffy Evans
• Suzanne CloutierStella
• George CoulourisBriggs
• Jean Taylor SmithSister Virtue
• Nicholas PhippsMagistrate
• Geoffrey KeenDean