Doctors (BBC)

[Dame Starry]

Have any other regular viewers noticed that, while Dr Grainger has been in Greece looking after his Mum, his alter-ego, Matthew Chambers, has been in the director's chair?

....And wasn't that a weird one yesterday? Whoever wrote that script, didn't know Mrs Tembe's character at all - as a devout Christian, she would NEVER have exaggerated her job to her brother...would she?

[Dame Starry]

If you like the programme, this is a nice little interview with Elisabeth Dermot Walsh and Matthew Chambers:

OK! Magazine: First For Celebrity News :: Lifestyle :: Interview: Matthew Chambers and Elisabeth Dermot Walsh

[Freddy]

Doctors was a bit weird yesterday, nice to see Daniel Casey (Midsommer Sgt. Troy), though a strange and unrealistic ending. Seems to be going through a 'below par' phase. Dr. Cassidy always seems to be on the outside of things, not involved with the others at all. Could an overdose be on the cards.

[Dame Starry]

Doctors was a bit weird yesterday, nice to see Daniel Casey (Midsommer Sgt. Troy), though a strange and unrealistic ending. Seems to be going through a 'below par' phase.

Preferable, for me, to the black and white 'dream sequences' they sometimes come up with!

I quite enjoyed yesterday's and the day before's - I think they pack a huge amount of story and detail into half an hour, plus they have excellent guests; it's ideal for lunchtime viewing and, I'm sure, the reason why it's still so popular.

[woody123]

Disappointed with Friday's episode.The paintballing story with it's military overtones(cartoon ex squaddie running the place,spoofing military films/tv,even to using the theme from Band of Brothers) was just embarrasingly bad.To show it on Remembrance Day was ,for me,extremely distasteful.maybe the writers /producers thought it would be a fitting tribute,if that's the case maybe their next tribute should be to sign on for JSA and find someone who can write episodes of the standard of which doctors is capable.

[Freddy]

Disappointed with Friday's episode.The paintballing story with it's military overtones(cartoon ex squaddie running the place,spoofing military films/tv,even to using the theme from Band of Brothers) was just embarrasingly bad.To show it on Remembrance Day was ,for me,extremely distasteful.maybe the writers /producers thought it would be a fitting tribute,if that's the case maybe their next tribute should be to sign on for JSA and find someone who can write episodes of the standard of which doctors is capable.

I felt the same, I enjoyed Monday and Tuesday's double of the young girl who ran away from a loving family. Thankfully didn't fall into the trap of predictability by having an abusive father.

[Freddy]

Lovely cameo last week with Edmund Petherbridge as an elderly solicitor trying to give receptionist Karen some good news. Yesterday Zara went into labour and had some wonderful lines, equal to the Dowager Grantham.

'Look under Karen, if not try Gobby Hollins' and calling the nurse 'the nit tinkerbelle'. Great fun.

[Dame Starry]

Freddy - have you been watching too much Blackadder? It's Edward Petherbridge!

Look out for Hildegard Neil (I think this week) in her third appearance. Brian Blessed has been in it twice now - the last time with his daughter, so it must be time for all three to appear in it........as a dysfunctional family perhaps?

Perhaps Zara and Cherry's relationship might take a new turn now.....but this is Zara, so perhaps not!

It does have some daft episodes sometimes but, on the whole, I still like this series.

[Freddy]

Cheers Dame, I was concentrating so much on spelling his surname correctly .........

For a series of 5 episodes a week, about 48 weeks of the year I have a lot of respect for it, a nice way to unwind over a cuppa. Its weakest episodes are equal to other series going through a bad patch.

[Dame Starry]

I have to say that I was quite moved watching Elisabeth Dermot Walsh talking to the baby yesterday - such a pleasant contrast to her usual self!

Even after 9 months, I'm not warming to Freya's character - and I'm not sure if it's the scripting or the acting.

[RogerThornhill]

The stand-in best man, Franklyn (?) I found it very hard to believe that anyone could deliver such a toe-curlingly embarrassing speech. I know that he was supposed to have had too much to drink but he must have written it while he was sober and, surely, no one could be that crass.

[Dame Starry]

Sadly, there ARE people like that - but, thankfully, few and far between! Jimmi does have some weird mates in the programme though, doesn't he?

[Freddy]

I have to say that I was quite moved watching Elisabeth Dermot Walsh talking to the baby yesterday - such a pleasant contrast to her usual self!

Even after 9 months, I'm not warming to Freya's character - and I'm not sure if it's the scripting or the acting.

Yes, Freya's character simply does not come across well, whether she needs a good storyline as Kevin had and who seems to be in 'shot' more often than Freya does I'm not sure, at the start she seemed to have been put on this doctor's earth to be the feminist listener, but that sermonising can be boring and really the only topics for her to get her teeth into have been is her sexuality and her sexual deeds and desires. She is also the barmaid in Rev.

On another note I noticed the old doctor, Melody on a few adverts recently.

[Freddy]

There is a forum about Doctors, appears quite active as well

Doctors - Home

[Dame Starry]

Yes, Freya's character simply does not come across well, whether she needs a good storyline as Kevin had and who seems to be in 'shot' more often than Freya does I'm not sure, at the start she seemed to have been put on this doctor's earth to be the feminist listener, but that sermonising can be boring and really the only topics for her to get her teeth into have been is her sexuality and her sexual deeds and desires. She is also the barmaid in Rev.

On another note I noticed the old doctor, Melody on a few adverts recently.

Freya's had one or two storylines - as well as the current one thats running with Cherry's bridesmaid and Kevin's tattoo. She had one a while back about a domestic violence issue - but I think the wife 'duped' her or something....tbh, I can't really remember it now and she hasn't been in it a year yet!

I couldn't stand Kevin for a long time, with Lauren's (?) murder and the fall-out, they seem to have allowed him to mellow a little and I've warmed to him now.

Mind you, they were proposing to only keep one of them at the end of their trial period, weren't they?

I can barely remember Melody now, she's been gone nearly 3 years.......

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[Freddy]

Here she is

[waldo_lydecker]

Letherbridge seems like a cross between Brighton and Amityville. Half of the population appear to be in the process of coming out of the closet, and the other half can see dead people. I don't 'get' the Marina character at all - she looks like someone from Acorn Antiques and yet she's depicted as some kind of glamorous 'catch' for Heston, a man who likes everything she doesn't and gets beaten up whenever he's near her. It just bemuses me!

[Freddy]

Letherbridge seems like a cross between Brighton and Amityville. Half of the population appear to be in the process of coming out of the closet, and the other half can see dead people. I don't 'get' the Marina character at all - she looks like someone from Acorn Antiques and yet she's depicted as some kind of glamorous 'catch' for Heston, a man who likes everything she doesn't and gets beaten up whenever he's near her. It just bemuses me!

Compared to Heston's true love Seeta Indari she is a bit of a Morris Marina, and as you say the relationship just doesn't seem right, especially to the degree of her lover's besottedness.

[Dame Starry]

The storyline between Marina and Heston is highlighting domestic violence - in particular, they one where a man is being abused by a woman; the one that men seldom report because it's too embarrassing for them.
It's showing how, to the outside, world, they have a perfect relationship but, when they get home, everything changes..........
It's a good storyline actually.

Marian McLoughlin obviously isn't staying - because she's never been promoted from the last/guest section of the end credits!

I'm wondering, if Heston gets out of it all alive, whether he'll seek solace with Mrs Tembe who, obviously, adores him.

[batman]

Is this programme still going to be axed?