Season 2
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In a changing world, a father-son duo navigates medicine, family bonds, and the heartache of small-town life.
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Molly, a deaf six-year-old,is found on the hospital steps with a note asking that she be looked after. She is sullen and destructive but eventually Tom locates her single parent mother,who has given up in desperation, and reunites them with Molly's father,who was unaware she existed. Grumpy Alec Rossendale insists that his house is haunted and keeps pestering the vicar for exorcisms. Phyllis believes the ghost is that of his late wife, tormenting him for his adultery and rigs a fake exorcism, which achieves closure - thanks to a supernatural intervention. Helen is frustrated by Eddie's inexperience and also wants to quit secretarial college whilst Wilf and Jean find treasure - and mice - in a job lot of stuffed animals.
Deborah is less than pleased when her over-bearing mother,Dora, turns up unannounced to tell her that she is getting married again and wants to have the wedding in Ormston. After Michael believes he has seen a monster in the local reservoir Eddie investigates. The 'monster' is Wilf in an ancient diving-suit. Ever on the make he has heard that an Italian plane carrying the Papal Bull - which he wrongly assumes to be a statue - crashed in the reservoir in the war. Though disabused of the treasure by the Rev. Brewer his diving suit comes in handy. Shop-keeper Mr. Boynton has developed a condition called Pigeon Fanciers' Lung after years of rearing homing pigeons. He sends the pigeons away but, being homers, they return and Tom solves his problem by having him wear the suit when tending them. Helen goes to work in the shop after dropping out of college.
Eddie's uncle Fred, the drayman, has leukaemia and is anxious that Eddie, whose garage is beginning to thrive, should succeed him when he dies. When Rev. Brewer tells him to live his last few months to the full, Fred gets Arthur to help him fulfill his wish list of final acts including a race with Eddie to the top of steep Castle Hill, where he collapses. Eddie saves him with a blood transfusion but he dies next day. Arthur has persuaded him not to make Eddie leave the garage but Eddie is touched when Jean offers to take over driving the dray. Elsewhere a mysterious rash which has gripped the village is traced to Michael's love of itching powder and the vicar leads the revolt when Wilf discovers an ancient by-law allowing him to charge people to leave the station.
Edie McClure's eldest daughter Joanne falls pregnant after a one night stand. She goes into premature labour at her father's iron works but Tom delivers the baby and keeps it alive in a fish tank with hot water bottles round it. To the Cosgroves it is harsh to see others bear children as Linda has a condition, caught from a G.I. in the war,rendering her virtually barren.When the village water supply gets cut off Deborah,researching local customs, sees the opportunity to help Linda by staging a fertility rite,which involves village women dancing naked. The water is restored,not due to any ceremony but to Michael,who has climbed into the well. In the absence of water the vicar and his chums have been drinking brandy after two crates,destined for the bishop,have erroneously been sent to him.
German Hans Gothard comes to Ormston and tells Wilf he killed his brother Charlie in the war. Charlie wounded him but,as Charlie lay dying, he and Hans got to know each other. Wilf refuses to forgive Hans,who collapses. Charlie's bullet is still in his back and is slowly killing him. Initially he refuses to have it removed but relents having made his peace with Wilf after going to bury Charlie's gun under a bridge where Charlie and Wilf played as children. Arthur breaks his ankle and is a most troublesome patient whilst young artist Connor Docherty sets the girls' hearts in a flutter.He paints Jean,who thinks he is wonderful and is inspired to tell Eddie her true feelings for him but, before she can do it, Eddie drops Helen,feeling their relationship is going nowhere.
A 1950s set, British drama series about life in the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston. The main focus of the series was the two doctors, father and son, who run the cottage hospital under the new National Health Service.