RESIDENT PATIENT of the Beeb’s early 70s schedules, spun off from THE DOCTORS and another attempt at a soap-lite goer (see THE NEWCOMERS). NIGEL STOCK was the eponymous quack, somehow losing an extra “S” at the end of his name in moving from his previous existence. Po-faced pronouncements on the pressures of running a piddly small practice usually resolved into lip-quivering emotional tear-fests.
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David Bowie – Five Years
Saturday, 21.20, BBC2Been a shitty week for deaths, one of the saddest being Trevor Bolder of the Spiders of Mars, which adds extra poignancy to this big new documentary. In it they’re going to take five turning points in the career of Dave Bowie of The Dave Bowie Band, and though we don’t think he’s interviewed for it, seemingly everyone who’s ever worked with him is and there are loads of rare clips.
Who wrote the above inane drivel, it’s not even good journalese. I doubt the writer actually saw these few episodes, for Owen was never ‘Po-faced’ and was from my own experience a typical village doctor of his time, white coats no – tweed jackets and pipe knocked out quickly and stuffed into pocket, lovely Welsh accent for an English actor who had fought the war as a Major in Malaya as well as on celluloid including ‘The Dam Busters’ (with Aussie accent!) and ‘The Great Escape’ As for ‘tear-fests’ (!) yes it was a very human series of dramas and I for one wish ‘Yesterday’ channel would show it.