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Get Well Soon

  • TV Series
  • 1997
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Get Well Soon (1997)
SitcomComedy

The comic everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and ancillary staff at a National Health Service hospital during the post-war period.The comic everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and ancillary staff at a National Health Service hospital during the post-war period.The comic everyday lives of a group of patients, doctors, nurses and ancillary staff at a National Health Service hospital during the post-war period.

  • Stars
    • Matthew Cottle
    • Eddie Marsan
    • William Osborne
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    21
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    • Stars
      • Matthew Cottle
      • Eddie Marsan
      • William Osborne
    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Matthew Cottle
    Matthew Cottle
    • Roy Osborne
    • 1997
    Eddie Marsan
    Eddie Marsan
    • Brian Clapton
    • 1997
    William Osborne
    • Jeffry Powell
    • 1997
    Michael Troughton
    Michael Troughton
    • The Padre
    • 1997
    Robert Bathurst
    Robert Bathurst
    • Squadron Leader Fielding
    • 1997
    Hugh Bonneville
    Hugh Bonneville
    • Norman Tucker
    • 1997
    Anita Dobson
    Anita Dobson
    • Mrs. Ivy Osborne
    • 1997
    Patsy Rowlands
    Patsy Rowlands
    • Mrs. Clapton
    • 1997
    Neil Stacy
    Neil Stacy
    • Mr. Walpole
    • 1997
    Kate O'Toole
    Kate O'Toole
    • Sister Shelley
    • 1997
    Sarah Moyle
    • The Nurse
    • 1997
    Samantha Beckinsale
    Samantha Beckinsale
    • Mrs. Howell
    • 1997
    Edwina Ford
    • The Matron
    • 1997
    John Albasiny
    John Albasiny
    • The Patient Postman
    • 1997
    Christopher Webber
    • Arthur Bloomsbury
    • 1997
    Gabrielle Glaister
    Gabrielle Glaister
    • Doctor Ruggles
    • 1997
    Tom Karol
    • Bruno
    • 1997
    Michael Feast
    Michael Feast
    • Mr. Osborne
    • 1997
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    6istara

    Needs a dose of better writing

    Get Well Soon has a strong cast but very weak writing. The main weakness is the characters, none of whom are very likeable or funny.

    It's possible it was made a decade or so too late: the "wartime sitcom" probably had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s with Dad's Army and others, possibly to as late as the early nineties with Goodnight Sweetheart. But Goodnight Sweetheart combined the present with the past and had a more interesting and unique concept than Get Well Soon. The concept of long-term patients in a hospital also peaked in the 70s with Only When I Laugh and the Carry On films.

    But even taking its setting aside, too many of the characters are odd and unpleasant and weird. Matthew Cottle is basically playing Martin from Game On (no surprise, the two series overlapped) which might have worked if he'd had the right kind of characters around him. But Eddie Marsan as a fellow patient is aggressive and horrible. Anita Dobson as the mother is very unsympathetic. Samantha Beckinsale as a recently widowed wife is just weird and unconvincing. There's an overly silly vicar and Robert Bathurst is completely wasted as a unfunny-mentally-deluded former flying ace (compare to Rik Mayall's "Ace Flashheart" in Blackadder Goes Forth). The "comedy camp" hospital porter is more like a caricature of a "comedy camp" character (as in Ricky Gervais's show-within-a-show When the Whistle Blows/Extras).

    I have only watched the first episode of this, so it's possible the series improved. If I managed to see the others I'll give them a try and edit this review if so. But on the strength of this first episode, it's no surprise this "comedy" failed to make a second series.

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      The characters of Osborne and Clapton are loosely based on Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who first met in a tuberculosis sanatorium.

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    • Release date
      • November 2, 1997 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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      • English
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      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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      30 minutes
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