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'''Doctor in the House''' is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain, made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s, and was followed by six sequels and a television series.
The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Richard Gordon, and follows a group of students through their first year at medical school.
Other well known British actors featured in the film were Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and Donald Houston.
James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels. Joan Hickson and Joan Sims starred, and Shirley Eaton played comedy, not just a dumb blonde.
Betty Box picked up a copy of the book at Crewe during a long rail journey, and saw its possibility as a film. But Box and Ralph Thomas had a job convincing Rank executives that people would go to a film about doctors, and that Dirk Bogarde, who up to then had played spivs and Service heroes, had sex appeal and could play light comedy. They got a low budget, and were only allowed to use available Rank contract artists. The film was seen by more people in its first year on cinema release than any other in British cinema history (Morley).

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Sequels - the films

Sequels - the television series

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Sequels - the films

The other films in the series were:

★ ''Doctor at Sea'' (1955) — (with Bogarde)

★ ''Doctor at Large'' (1957) — (with Bogarde)

★ ''Doctor in Love'' (1960)
:: — (with Michael Craig and Leslie Phillips instead of Bogarde)

★ ''Doctor in Distress'' (1963) — (with Bogarde)

★ ''Doctor in Clover'' (1966) — (with Phillips)

★ ''Doctor in Trouble'' (1970) — (with Phillips)

Sequels - the television series

A successful television series from London Weekend Television also followed:

★ ''Doctor in the House''

★ ''Doctor at Large''

★ ''Doctor in Charge''

★ ''Doctor at Sea''

★ ''Doctor on the Go''

★ ''Doctor Down Under'' — filmed, and set, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

★ ''Doctor at the Top''
:''See Doctor in the House for information about the television series''

External link

★ Doctor in the House at IMDb