Season 4
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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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Whilst Tom is in New Zealand seeing his father Deborah and Donald, assisted by Nick Logan, a young doctor from Rattenbury, set up a blood bank at the hospital,which proves its worth when Donald has to find a match for teenaged haemophiliac Abel Marl. It's good news for Len,now set up in his own police station but devastating news for Deborah, when she learns that Tom drowned,trying to save a boy who had fallen overboard on the voyage home from New Zealand.
Helen returns to Ormston to join the villagers in paying their last respects to Tom. Nick Logan is settling in but has his patience tested by hypochondriac Albie Thwaites whilst Henry Williamson, the surgeon general from Rattenbury hospital, suggests to Deborah and Donald that they sell the cottage hospital to the N.H.S.
As Deborah continues to run the hospital with Donald, she becomes involved with the problems of local laundress Janette Locke, who likes a drink and appears to be ill-treating her son. Nancy Brisley, Deborah's flirtatious younger sister,arrives, to add to her worries and instantly sets her cap at Nick Logan. Jean and Eddie becomes temporary landlords at the pub whilst Phyllis recuperates from an injury.
The Cosgroves prepare for their latest foster child Laura whilst Nancy inspires the vicar to wax poetical. Nick shelters Albert Tooley, a young Army deserter and Mary Pilling, recently married to Cyril, fears that he has run away to be with her, unaware of her marital status. In the event it is Cyril Albert has come to see as the lads were once gay lovers. However,with homosexuality being illegal the relationship is doomed to failure.
Local festival Apple day arrives as does Len's tubby cousin Elton, to act as chef. However he has a medical condition and ends up in hospital. Phyllis and Donald start to get cosy as she asks him to be her escort for the day and Nancy loses no time in getting on the dance floor with Nick Logan.
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.