A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
This special collector's set includes the entire first season of the popular and critically acclaimed BBC television series, A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE. Written by Andrew Davies, the show was a black dramedy about Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and its internal dramas and politics. Read more
| Starring | Peter Davison, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn, Graham Cowden |
|---|---|
| Director | David Tucker |
| Genres | Drama |
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A Very Peculiar Practice
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This special collector's set includes the entire first season of the popular and critically acclaimed BBC television series, A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE. Written by Andrew Davies, the show was a black dramedy about Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and its internal dramas and politics.
| Starring | Peter Davison, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn, Graham Cowden, John Bird |
|---|---|
| Director | David Tucker |
| Studio | NETWORK |
| Run time | DVD: 6 hrs 25 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: unknown Production year: 1986 |
| Format | DVD |
A Very Peculiar Practice (2 discs) (1986)
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
You think he's joking?
Anyone who has ever worked in a redbrick university will immediately recognise the world of Andrew Davies' rapier-sharp satire on modern British university culture.
The wilderness of brutal concrete buildings (the exteriors were shot at Keele), the vicious infighting and turf wars among academics who are supposed to be colleagues, the demoralised, ground-down staff trying to do their best with a constantly-rising amount of bureaucracy, interference and massive pressure to publish at all costs.
An all-time classic of TV drama. Davies admits on the commentary that a few characters were based more or less directly on people he had worked with at Warwick, and I can well believe it. The only part of this series which has aged is the wardrobe - the rest is as true today as it was back in the eighties. -
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
You think he's joking?
Anyone who has ever worked in a redbrick university will immediately recognise the world of Andrew Davies' rapier-sharp satire on modern British university culture.
The wilderness of brutal concrete buildings (the exteriors were shot at Keele), the vicious infighting and turf wars among academics who are supposed to be colleagues, the demoralised, ground-down staff trying to do their best with a constantly-rising amount of bureaucracy, interference and massive pressure to publish at all costs.
An all-time classic of TV drama. Davies admits on the commentary that a few characters were based more or less directly on people he had worked with at Warwick, and I can well believe it. The only part of this series which has aged is the wardrobe - the rest is as true today as it was back in the eighties. -
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A Very Peculiar Practice
This special collector's set includes the entire first season of the popular and critically acclaimed BBC television series, A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE. Written by Andrew Davies, the show was a black dramedy about Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and its internal dramas and politics....
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