Doctor — by Richard Gordon

• Dec-1952
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Richard Gordon's acceptance into St Swithan's medical school came as no surprise to anyone, least of all him -- after all, he had been to public school, played first XV rugby, and his father was, let's face it, 'a St Swithan's man'. Surely he was s...

• Dec-1953
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Richard Gordon's life was moving rapidly towards middle-aged lethargy - or so he felt. Employed as an assistant in general practice - the medical equivalent of a poor curate - and having been 'persuaded' that marriage is as much an obligation for a y...

• Dec-1955
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Dr Richard Gordon's first job after qualifying takes him to St Swithan's where he is enrolled as Junior Casualty House Surgeon. However, some rather unfortunate incidents with Mr Justice Hopwood, as well as one of his patients inexplicably coughing u...

• Dec-1957
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In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon awakes one morning with a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill -- after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. But amongst the bedpan...

• Dec-1959
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Recovering from the realisation that his honeymoon was not quite as he had anticipated, Simon Sparrow can at least look forward to a life of tranquillity and order as a respectable homeowner with a new wife. But that was before his old friend Dr Grim...

• Dec-1960
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Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine rather less congenial than he anticipated. But the ever-selfless Grimsdyke resolves to put the desires of others (and in particular his rather career-minded cousin) before his own, and settle...

• Dec-1961
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In this riotously funny comedy Dr Grimsdyke's genius for disaster is given full rein. He falls in love with a model, only to find she is already married. His much-anticipated cruise is an unmitigated disaster and his role as Sir Lancelot's biographer...

• Dec-1962
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Dr Grimsdyke was only too pleased to discover that he was sitting next to the luscious Lucy Squiffington on his flight home. Several hours in her company was bound to go well -- in fact it went rather too well seeing as how the long-suffering Anemo...

• Apr-1965
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Sir Lancelot Spratt, respected and much feared senior consultant at St Swithan's has finally taken the plunge and retired to enjoy the quiet life. No longer able to fill his days terrorising staff and patients alike, he turns instead to a new passion...

• Jan-1966
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St Swithan's Hospital keeps the rooms of its male and female students separate by an ingenious bricking up of corridors and staircases. However love will always find a way -- even if its path is not always smooth and it has to encounter a few locke...

• Oct-1970
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In Doctor on the Boil, Richard Gordon's prescription in as effervescent and hilariously stimulating as ever.The work-shy Dr Grimsdyke is still at St Swithan's -- the same as ever despite the world having moved on around him. Nurses are hitching up ...

• Jun-1972
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On a sunny morning in June, the dean of St Swithan's Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt. Yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale, Doctor on...

• Jul-1973
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Mrs Samantha Dougal is against it. Nudity that is. In a Soho strip-club, the Dean of St Swithan's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour -- and has just moved in with the Dean, who just happens to be his ...

• Apr-1976
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Heavens above! The staff of St Swithan's hospital on strike! Sir Lancelot can hardly believe it. And when the porters and tea ladies take charge and start ordering him about, it seems that all hell will break loose -- well from Sir Lancelot's quart...

• Feb-1979
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Sir Lancelot Sprat, surgeon and patriot, is finding that his faith in the British National Health Service is taking a bit of a battering -- especially when the ceiling of his operating theatre collapses. It had already been a bad day -- a call from...

• Sep-1981
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The arrival of the new bishop at Mitrebury and his orders for all clergy to take up jogging and a diet of boiled rice sends the men of the cloth scurrying to the Old Chapterhouse Surgery for their dose of sick notes. This added burden seems rather to...

• Oct-1982
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'Well, I see no reason why anyone should expect a doctor to be on call seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Considering the sort of risky life your average GP leads, it's not only inhuman but simple-minded to think that a doctor could stay sob...

• Jan-1985
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First there is the actor who confuses himself with his character. Then comes the man suffering from amnesia -- and the housewife who has spent all day wrestling with her washing machine. This is all in a day's work for the local GP in a Kentish town....

• Jan-1986
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This witty medical mystery sees the deeply ambitions MP for Churchford join the list of Richard Gordon's private patients. Gordon is surprised when the MP pays him a visit of particular delicacy, but agrees to refer him to a psychiatrist. The referra...

• May-1999
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Richard Gordon's hilarious novel concerns the second coming of Florence Nightingale, determined to recon struct the NHS and the antics of Sir Lancelot Spratt as he tries to prevent the closure of his beloved St. Swithin's Hospital....