Get Well Soon (TV series)


Get Well Soon was a short-lived 1997 BBC television comedy series starring Matthew Cottle and Eddie Marsan. Lasting only 6 episodes, it was about the everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and other staff at a tuberculosis hospital in 1947. The show, aired weekly between 2 November and 7 December 1997, was based on the meeting of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the writers of Steptoe and Son, in a Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947. Although given a prominent early Sunday evening slot, the series failed to capture the public's imagination and only ran for one series.

Situation

One day in 1947, Roy Osborne is admitted to a TB sanatorium. He thinks he'll only be there for a few weeks, then finds that it could be several years before he can leave.

Cast

  1. The New Arrival
  2. Snowbound
  3. Tucker's Gambit
  4. Sons, Mothers, Lovers and Others
  5. The Whist Drive
  6. Poison Ivy

    Media releases

The complete series of Get Well Soon on DVD in one disc set was released by Simply Media on 21 September 2015.