Only When I Laugh (1979)
- Genre
- sitcom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 4 seasons, 29 episodes
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
It follows three men who share a hospital ward. They pass the time joking and bickering with each other and the staff.
lightheartedhumorouswittybanteringbrisk-pacedwarmentertaining
What happens
Only When I Laugh is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It aired between 29 October 1979 and 16 December 1982 and is set in the ward of an NHS hospital. The title is a response to the question, "Does it hurt?". It stars James Bolam, Peter Bowles, and Christopher Strauli as patients Roy Figgis, Archie Glover, and Norman Binns. Mr. Gordon Thorpe, their consultant surgeon, is played by Richard Wilson; and Gupte, the staff nurse from Delhi, is played by Derrick Branche. The show was one of many successes for writer Eric Chappell, and has been repeated on ITV4 since 2019, having previously been repeated on ITV3 and was previously repeated on The Family Channel, UK Gold and on Plus and now Rewind TV (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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