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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 ‘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.
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Episode 1 - Criss-Cross
Release Date: 1967-10-02Dr. Finlay concentrates on the case of a nervous novelist. Dr. Cameron tries his hand as an amateur electrician and Janet risks the fearful consequences.
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Episode 2 - The Emotional Factor
Release Date: 1967-10-09Motoring to stately Walton House to see a new patient Dr. Finlay 'rescues' Barbara Davidson from a herd of Highland cattle. Their mutual attraction causes Dr. Cameron and Janet some concern.
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Episode 3 - Come Back, Little Willie
Release Date: 1967-10-16 -
Episode 4 - Time Past - Time Future
Release Date: 1967-10-23 -
Episode 5 - Buy Now - Pay Later
Release Date: 1967-10-30 -
Episode 6 - Accidents Never Happen
Release Date: 1967-11-06Dr. Finlay finds that he has little to smile about when he returns to Arden House from a call on a patient.
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Episode 7 - Random Sample
Release Date: 1967-11-13 -
Episode 8 - Tell Me True
Release Date: 1967-11-20 -
Episode 9 - Persons Unknown
Release Date: 1967-11-27 -
Episode 10 - It's The System
Release Date: 1967-12-04 -
Episode 11 - Death Is A Colony
Release Date: 1967-12-11 -
Episode 12 - The McTavish Bequest
Release Date: 1967-12-18The McTavish Bequest, a relic from Victorian days, was set up to provide for the ""moral improvement of the poor and their decent Christian burial"". Finlay replaces Cameron on the committee and tries to get things changed to provide for the poor while they're still alive.
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Episode 13 - Unfit To Marry
Release Date: 1967-12-24 -
Episode 14 - The Public Patient
Release Date: 1967-12-31 -
Episode 15 - A Moral Problem
Release Date: 1968-01-07 -
Episode 16 - The Cheats
Release Date: 1968-01-14Dr. Finlay is cheated out of first prize in an angling contest by Willie McTaggart, so he decides to teach him a lesson.
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Episode 17 - Conscience Clause
Release Date: 1968-01-21A baby dies after Dr. Finlay persuades the mother to let him vaccinate her child. Meanwhile Craig, a Tannochbrae J.P., is campaigning against vaccination. The townspeople flock to support Craig - and cross to the other side when Dr. Finlay makes an appearance in the street.
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Episode 18 - The Dynamiser
Release Date: 1968-01-28 -
Episode 19 - The North Side Of Ben Vorlich
Release Date: 1968-02-04Dr. Finlay, after rising to an emergency while assisting a consultant surgeon in an operation, feels a renewal of the old urge towards the operating theatre. This means a return to medical school. Cameron tries to be impartial, but Janet is openly hostile.
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Episode 20 - Out Of The Blue
Release Date: 1968-02-11 -
Episode 21 - The Equilibrium
Release Date: 1968-02-18 -
Episode 22 - Is There Anybody There? Said The Traveller
Release Date: 1968-02-25 -
Episode 23 - For Richer, For Poorer
Release Date: 1968-03-03 -
Episode 24 - Sweet Sorrow
Release Date: 1968-03-10 -
Episode 25 - Scots Wha Hae
Release Date: 1968-03-17 -
Episode 26 - To Janet - A Son
Release Date: 1968-03-24The patter of tiny feet is suddenly heard in Arden House. Doctors Cameron and Finlay attempt to help Janet cope by feeding, changing, nursing and bathing the baby. But there is a serious clash of opinions about methods of upbringing. For the first time the two doctors realise that bringing up one's 'own' child is rather different from advising mothers how to bring up theirs.