
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae durin...
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae durin...

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Episode 1: It's All In The Mind
The year is 1928 and the place Glasgow. Alan Finlay, a hard-up young medical student with a passion...
Episode 2: A Taste Of Dust
An outbreak of scarlet fever leads Alan Finlay to investigate a local dairy, where he encounters the...
Episode 3: The Quack
Dr. Lestrange is a quack doctor - a striking character with flowing cape and hair. His methods upse...
Episode 4: Conduct Unbecoming
Dr. Finlay meets Miss Malcolm, the local schoolmistress, at the Village Ball.
Episode 5: What Money Can't Buy
A self-made financier who would cheat his own doctor - a wife with heart trouble who decides to have...
Episode 6: Cough Mixture
Episode 7: Carver Tam
Janet is keeping a strict eye on the domestic affairs of Dr. Cameron.
Episode 8: What Women Will Do
A fall of coal at the local pit traps Tannochbrae's star footballer and brings with it problems for...
Episode 9: Snap Diagnosis
Dr. Cameron is worried about his gardener, Alex Dean, and he has good cause to be. But it is Dr. Fi...
Episode 10: The Dragon Plate
Episode 11: A Spotless Reputation
Episode 12: Behind Closed Doors
Episode 1: A Time For Laughing
Meg McBain, the stock-breeder's wife, gives birth to a son. But who is the father? Is it McBain, o...
Episode 2: Clean Sweep
The 'dirty Fergusons' live like pigs and seem happy to do so. But by doing so they offend against A...
Episode 3: The Heat Of The Moment
Episode 4: Cup, Hands Or Cards
Dr. Cameron is concerned at the sudden increase in the number of women coming to the surgery with se...
Episode 5: A Time For Discretion
Episode 6: Alice, Where Art Thou?
Episode 7: Ride In a Wheelchair
Episode 8: A Questionable Practice

Episode 9: Odds On Johnny
Episode 10: The Face Saver
Young Elsie comes out in spots, and for Alan Finlay the root cause is quite clear. It must be the u...
Episode 11: Room For Doubt
Episode 12: Possessed Of Devils
Episode 13: Cry Wolf
Episode 14: The Deep End
To the grocers of Tannochbrae George Harris is simply a commercial traveller who sells biscuits. Bu...
Episode 15: The Polygraph
Episode 16: A Present From Father
It's Hogmanay in Tannochbrae. The two doctors at Arden House are busy and have also taken over Dr....
Episode 17: A Test Of Intelligence
Episode 18: Charlie Is My Darlin'
Episode 19: My Late Dear Husband
Braeside is Tannochbrae's most select residential hotel for elderly gentlefolk. The unexpected arri...
Episode 20: The Whit Hunter
Episode 21: The Whole Truth
When Denny Drummond loses his eyesight in a rock-blasting accident it appears that the local quarry...
Episode 22: A Shot In The Arm
Dr. Cameron is called out urgently to find his patient, Roderick McDougall, unconscious on the floor...
Episode 23: A Matter Of Proof
Tannochbrae's librarian, Thomas Fordyce, has problems of a very personal nature, complicated by an a...
Episode 24: A Call From Cogger
Urged on by Dr. Cameron, Dr. Finlay joins the golf club and meets a club member whose chronic hypoch...
Episode 25: A Man May Drink
Local tenant farmer Graham Mackenzie, once considered to be an intelligent and pleasant man, has now...
Episode 26: The Big Fight
Ben Hogan, out of work for a very long time, is offered a job as a sparring partner in a fairground...
Episode 27: Stranger In Town
Episode 28: The Yellow Streak
When a baby is abandoned outside Arden House it provokes typically different reactions in the househ...
Episode 29: Without The City
Episode 30: The Aristocrats
Episode 31: The Spirit Of Dr. McGregor
Episode 32: Mortal Sin
Episode 33: The Hallelujah Stakes
As it is elsewhere in Scotland in the 1920's, the war between the 'wets' and the 'drys' is a hard-fo...
Episode 34: Short Of A Miracle
Doctors Finlay and Cameron are not burying their heads in the sand when it comes to new techniques,...
Episode 35: The True Lochiel
Episode 36: The Old Indomitable
Episode 37: The Red Herring
A suspected case of salmonella leads Dr. Snoddie, as local Medical Officer of Health, to seal up a w...
Episode 38: The Confrontation
Episode 39: Dear Doctor
Episode 40: The Doctor Cried
Dr. Finlay is sorely troubled by a situation that runs out of control. Two boys inquisitively explo...
Episode 1: The Control Group
Alan Findlay runs into trouble when he is asked by the Ministry of Health to organise a free milk ex...
Episode 2: The Raiders
Roddy Munro is the envy of every lad in Tannochbrae. After giving up his clerical job it is the day...
Episode 3: The Eternal Spring
On a fishing expedition Dr. Finlay makes an unusual 'catch' when he attends to a stranger hurt in a...
Episode 4: A Right To Live
When Finlay delivers a baby at the Cottage Hospital the result is entirely unexpected and he finds h...
Episode 5: The Bull Call
When Alan Finlay is persuaded to act as midwife to a prize cow his act of kindness to a dumb animal...
Episode 6: Devils Dozen
Problems in one of the two local bakehouses have Drs. Finlay and Cameron taking a strictly professio...
Episode 7: Charity, Dr. Finlay
Episode 8: Laughing Gas
The meanest man in Tannochbrae is Mr. Cogger. When Dr. Finlay is called out to visit Cogger's house...
Episode 9: The Gate Of The Year
Episode 10: Off The Hook
Alan Finlay has been attending a course in medical hypnotism. Though Dr. Cameron refuses to let him...
Episode 11: The Next Provost But One
All seem set for Henry MacAlpine to be elected Treasurer of the Burgh Council, just one step away fr...
Episode 12: Soon Or Late
Old Mr. Lennox, a retired university lecturer, has been smitten with an incurable and painful diseas...
Episode 13: The Good Fisherman
A new minister, the Rev. Craig, arrives in Tannochbrae. A keen angler, he and Dr. Finlay appear to...
Episode 14: A Little Learning
Lucy Burns, a new young teacher at the local school, is giving the dominie Mr. Miller an uneasy time...
Episode 15: Belle
Dr. Finlay discovers that a sixteen year old girl has had an illegal operation, but she won't name t...
Episode 16: In Committee
Episode 17: Another Opinion
An outbreak of measles means extra work for Dr. Finlay, and Dr. Snoddie adds to the burden by demand...
Episode 18: The Spinster
Episode 19: Medical Finance
Doctors Finlay and Cameron are faced with the annual problem of sorting out their financial affairs....
Episode 20: Beware Of The Dog
Alan Finlay and local vet Lewis Gilbride team up when a local farmer shoots an Alsatian dog which ha...
Episode 21: Doctor's Lines
Episode 22: The Deceivers
Episode 23: The End Of The Season
Episode 24: A Woman's Work
Episode 25: The Immortal Memory
Episode 26: An Evening Out
An upper-crust English girl falls for Dr. Finlay.
Episode 1: The Phantom Piper Of Tannochbrae
Lord Moorcroft is trying to persuade the Council to put up a memorial to the fallen of the 1914-18 w...
Episode 2: The Champion
Kevin McDonald is Tannochbrae's shot-putting hope for the Highland Games. He is big, handsome and g...
Episode 3: The Draper Of Dumfries
Robert Finlay visits his son Alan at Tannochbrae for the first time. Left to his own devices for mu...

Episode 4: The Longest Visit
Alan Finlay is a poor sailor. So when he is called out to visit old Strachan, the lighthouse keeper...
Episode 5: Body And Soul
Angus Hendry, like many others in Tannochbrae, has been out of work for three years. The partners a...
Episode 6: The Vision
Episode 7: Miss Letitia
Episode 8: They Do It In Africa
Jamie looks to young Willie Kemp to help him over his bout of crematorium melancholia.
Episode 9: The Anxious Man
Episode 10: Hear No Evil
Episode 11: The General
Episode 12: Free Medicine
Dr. Finlay dreams of a free National Health Service, but Dr. Cameron is sceptical and fears the extr...
Episode 13: The Seniority Rule
The depression of the late 1920's was a time of sacrifice. Sacrifice for food, for principle and fo...
Episode 14: A Matter Of Confidence
Peter MacNab is a medical student of great promise who for one reason or another seems to have lost...
Episode 15: For Services Rendered
There are times when a private patient is more trouble than he's worth. Not many would dispute a do...
Episode 16: To Err Is Human
When Willie Campbell returns after supposedly serving in the Army in India he finds that his wife Je...
Episode 17: Better Safe Than Sorry
Hugh Armitage decides to stay at Lochend Guest House for a nice long holiday because of its reputati...
Episode 18: O Sole Mio
John MacEwan, one time concert singer and now professional loafer, comes into conflict with Aldo Nar...
Episode 19: No Subsidy For Sin
Annie Laurie sets the tongues of Tannochbrae wagging when she takes in Willie Gillespie as a lodger.
Episode 20: Kate And Robert
Dr. Cameron and Dr. Finlay successfully deliver Kate Sinclair's first child. Later Finlay warns Kat...
Episode 21: Written With The Left Hand
Episode 22: A Settled Man
Episode 23: Crusade
School doctor Fay Beresford targets the primitive toilet facilities at the local school, which she i...
Episode 24: The Legacy
Janet is preoccupied: it is the jam making season. Hordes of small boys are beating a path to Arden...
Episode 25: The Decision

Episode 26: The Uninvited Guest
A girl is thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious trying to cross a river in which Alan Finlay...
Episode 1: The Gifts Of The Magi
Former radio producer Alison Bell goes talent hunting for the Cottage Hospital's children's Christma...
Episode 2: Resolution
Episode 3: The Comical Lad
Episode 4: Under The Hammer
Jeannie Cranston, an overweight teenager, is a worry to Dr. Cameron. Food is her obsession: though...
Episode 5: The Masterpiece
An artist causes a flutter in the Arden House dovecote.
Episode 6: Who Made You?
Episode 7: Bird Seed And Begonias
The arrest of Fergus Lammerton starts a chain of events that brings Dr. Finlay hastening back from L...
Episode 8: The Greatest Burden
Episode 9: The Forgotten Enemy
It's four legs and not two that cause considerable trouble for the partners at Arden House.
Episode 10: Possessed
Episode 11: Life Of A Salesman
Episode 12: Over My Dead Body
Episode 13: A Penny Saved
Episode 14: Call In Cameron
Episode 15: The Sons Of The Hounds
Episode 16: A Question Of Conflict

Episode 17: Advertising Matter
Episode 18: A Happy Release
Episode 19: Safety In Numbers
Episode 1: Criss-Cross
Dr. Finlay concentrates on the case of a nervous novelist. Dr. Cameron tries his hand as an amateur...
Episode 2: The Emotional Factor
Motoring to stately Walton House to see a new patient Dr. Finlay 'rescues' Barbara Davidson from a h...
Episode 3: Come Back, Little Willie
Episode 4: Time Past - Time Future
Episode 5: Buy Now - Pay Later
Episode 6: Accidents Never Happen
Dr. Finlay finds that he has little to smile about when he returns to Arden House from a call on a p...
Episode 7: Random Sample
Episode 8: Tell Me True
Episode 9: Persons Unknown
Episode 10: It's The System
Episode 11: Death Is A Colony
Episode 12: The McTavish Bequest
The McTavish Bequest, a relic from Victorian days, was set up to provide for the ""moral improvement...
Episode 13: Unfit To Marry
Episode 14: The Public Patient
Episode 15: A Moral Problem
Episode 16: The Cheats
Dr. Finlay is cheated out of first prize in an angling contest by Willie McTaggart, so he decides to...
Episode 17: Conscience Clause
A baby dies after Dr. Finlay persuades the mother to let him vaccinate her child. Meanwhile Craig,...
Episode 18: The Dynamiser
Episode 19: The North Side Of Ben Vorlich
Dr. Finlay, after rising to an emergency while assisting a consultant surgeon in an operation, feels...
Episode 20: Out Of The Blue
Episode 21: The Equilibrium
Episode 22: Is There Anybody There? Said The Traveller
Episode 23: For Richer, For Poorer
Episode 24: Sweet Sorrow
Episode 25: Scots Wha Hae
Episode 26: To Janet - A Son
The patter of tiny feet is suddenly heard in Arden House. Doctors Cameron and Finlay attempt to hel...
Episode 1: The Visitation
Miss Seymour is the headmistress of a boarding school for the daughters of gentlemen. She has stron...
Episode 2: The Honours List
There is justice in the world - at least Janet and Dr. Finlay think so - when it is announced that D...
Episode 3: The Times We Live In
Young and attractive Clare Simmons, who is the pianist at the local cinema, is on her way home from...
Episode 4: Pastures New
Mistress Niven, the local gossip and an unqualified nurse, is about to run into serious trouble with...
Episode 5: The Greatest Of These Is Charity
When the Reverend John Scott becomes the target for abuse and calls for his dismissal by the townsfo...
Episode 6: A Man Of Parts
In 1931, as today, outbreaks of violence were a disturbing social problem. Finlay sees it as a dire...
Episode 7: A Dove In The Nest
When a qualified District Nurse arrives in Tannochbrae, Mistress Niven realises her own job may be i...
Episode 8: Big Ben
One of the major issues of today is discrimination and when the wife of a dwarf is involved in an ac...
Episode 9: The Barrier
Janet is behaving a little out of character, showing irritation over even the slightest triviality....

Episode 10: The Rat Race
In 1931, as today, one could not help being politically conscious and Dr. Finlay is no exception - a...
Episode 11: Put Your Cross Here
Dr. Finlay is a candidate in the forthcoming by-election. With only a few weeks to go his canvass r...
Episode 12: The Stick Of The Rocket
After his defeat in the by-election Dr. Finlay is not his usual self. It may be that he is just run...
Episode 13: Fresh Worlds
Dr. Finlay receives an offer of an appointment at a London clinic, initially for a one month trial p...
Episode 14: Conquest
As the days go by at his new post in a London clinic things run pretty smoothly until Finlay disagre...
Episode 15: The Facts Of Life
Dr. Finlay has received an offer to become medical superintendent of a fashionable London nursing ho...
Episode 16: Single Or Return
Among the passengers on the London to Perth midday express is Dr. Finlay. Like several of his trave...
Episode 17: Oak, Mahogany Or Walnut
When Tannochbrae's undertaker James Gibson finds convincing evidence that he himself is shortly to j...
Episode 18: The Call
Dr. Finlay, like most medical men, has no time for faith healers. But when one of them, Andrew Telf...
Episode 19: Lack Of Communication
Silence reigns supreme in Arden House. Neither doctor is talking to the other and it is left to Jan...
Episode 20: Monstrous Regiment
For a long time Dr. Snoddie has been trying to find a way of getting rid of his assistant Dr. Coutts...
Episode 21: Blood and State
Sgt. Gilbey is on holiday and unfortunately his replacement Sgt. renfrew is a stickler for regulatio...

Episode 22: Action, Dr. Cameron
A medical documentary film is being made in Tannochbrae. This causes a great deal of excitement loc...
Episode 23: The Will To Live
When Janet takes a holiday in the Hebrides the partners at Arden House find themselves having to tak...
Episode 24: The Evangelist
The arrival of Brother Jonas Jackson, a touring hell-fire and brimstone evangelist has immediate rep...
Episode 25: The Cheap Departed
When Dr. Cameron is followed on his rounds by a perpetually smiling young man he is puzzled. But th...
Episode 26: Opportunity And Inclination
When Peggy Davidson, the wife of a wealthy newspaper owner, returns to Tannochbrae Dr. Cameron is de...
Episode 1: A Late Spring
Dr. Cameron is afraid his partner means to leave him again: he's showing his usual alarming symptons...
Episode 2: Dead Fall
An accidental fall on to a stone floor and a baby is dead. The possibility that it was no accident...
Episode 3: Comin' Thro' The Rye
Dr. Finlay is concerned, and rightly so, when Dr. Cameron doesn't sleep at night, drives his car lik...
Episode 4: The Builders
It's natural for a man to retire to the town of his childhood. But a vital, energetic man like Elli...
Episode 5: Not Qualified
Kate Dobbie complains of palpitations and of not being able to sleep at night. She is also frighten...
Episode 6: Snares And Pitfalls
When Annie Dougan claims she has been attacked by a man Mistress Niven is convinced she is lying and...
Episode 7: Dorrity
When her father dies Dorrity is left all alone in a bothy in the hills. Dr. Cameron feels sorry for...
Episode 8: Winter's Traces
Episode 9: The Honeypot
Rich Americans can be very determined...
Episode 10: Made For Each Other
Home to Tannochbrae after five years away and young Ian Webster finds everyone against him. Except...
Episode 11: A Good Prospect
Eric Calder is a very clever young amateur boxer. But is he good enough to stay three rounds with t...
Episode 12: Responsibilities
David Hamil has devoted his life to his dead wife's wish that their son should become a doctor. The...
Episode 13: Dust
Episode 14: Itself And Friend
When Bob Dewar wants a loan from the bank to open a garage Dr. Finlay decides to act as guarantor....
Episode 15: A Question Of Values
Episode 16: The Burgess Ticket
Dr. Cameron tells a 63 year old patient: ""You're straining too hard, like an old horse teamed with...
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