Season 1
29 episodes
25 min. per episode
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A rookie doctor juggles chaotic jobs and personal dilemmas, discovering laughter and heartbreak in his quest for purpose.
Episodes
A newly qualified Michael applies for a top job at All Saint's hospital but finds the interviewing panel more interested in his rugby skills and, after an awkward moment with cross-dressing Dr. Bryce-Derry, fails to get in. Sycophantic Bingham beats him to the house officer job back at St. Swithins and he ends up on E.N.T. dealing with nose-bleeds and a hypochondriac vicar who won't stop singing.
Paul Collier is in practice with elderly Dr. Neilson and asks Michael to cover his night surgery so he can go on a date. After being importuned by Liz, the receptionist, Michael goes to the police station to see a drunk driver - Paul, who has given his, Michael's, name. Michael saves the situation by giving the police doctor a sample of his own, alcohol-free blood. On return to the surgery Paul catches a drunken Neilson at it with Liz and blackmails him into giving him a good reference to get out.
Michael and Paul go to work with Dr. Maxwell, an ex-Army type, whose pretty daughter Sue acts as his receptionist. Unfortunately many of the patients, including the mouthy Mrs. Baxter, refuse to be seen by Michael, whom they consider too young to be a proper doctor. Cunning Dr. Maxwell pretends to have a bout of malaria which Michael 'cures' in Mrs. Baxter's presence, thus reversing the patients' opinion of him.
Sue is not happy when her father gets Michael to give a sex education talk at a local girls' school, resulting in him being a sex fantasy object, attracting the girls' attentions. They even write him suggestive letters and when Paul replies to one as a joke, an angry father turns up to confront young Dr. Upton. Fortunately Michael has a school-mistress on his side, or is it fortunate?
Dick Stuart-Clark arrives and convinces Michael that the surgery is old-fashioned and needs modernizing. He provides an E.C.G. machine which explodes when used on Mrs. Baxter. He persuades Michael to turn Dr. Maxwell's study into a second surgery whilst he is on holiday, causing the older man to think he is being supplanted and question whether he is too old to be a doctor when he returns. However Michael appreciates that he acted rashly and assures his colleague he has no desire for Dick to take his place and the status quo is restored.
Newly qualified doctor Michael Upton navigates various general practice jobs, encountering hilarious mishaps along the way, before returning as a junior registrar to the hospital featured in Doctor in the House.