Series from 1979
A trio of very different patients play a never-ending game of sickbed one-upmanship in a hectic NHS hospital.
Young Norman Binns is admitted to Dr. Thorpe's hospital ward.
Norman's nerves get the best of him before surgery when Figgis scares him with doom-laden talk.
Dr. Thorpe tells Gupte that "Victor" is at death's door and the nurse believes he's talking about his son.
Glover has a tryst with a woman named Anna, but her fiancé Nico arrives at the hospital for revenge.
The patients decide to go on a hunger strike to protest the abysmal hospital food.
Norman forms a crush on the new nurse Sally but faces stiff competition from Glover, Dr. Thorpe and Gupte.
