Crabbe's Practice (TV episode 1967)
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Inside the lost 1967 BBC TV series 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', by Mark Jones.
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Crabbe's Practice, A Comic Tale is the 5th episode of the British TV series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written by John Hawkesworth and directed by Piers Haggard, it was released on 19 february 1967 on BBC, starring Keith Buckley as Tom Crabbe.
Tom Crabbe, now married to Vicky, has set up in practice in Brisport, but competition for patients is fierce and his surgery is empty. Vicky calls in Philip and Lee to help and the boys hatch an ingenious plan to drum up trade...
This is an adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : Crabbe's Practice (1884).
Cast
- Tom Crabbe : Keith Buckley
- Monkhouse Lee : Christopher Matthews
- Philip Hardacre : Michael Latimer
- Vicky Crabbe : Michele Dotrice
- Dr. Markham : Iain Cuthbertson
- Dr. O'Connell : Mike Pratt
- Norah : Adrienne Frame
- Blonde girl in pub : Lynne Ashcroft
- Schoolboy : Robert Gill (as Alan Williams)
- Landlady : Nora Gordon
- Woman in pub : Kathleen Heath
- Woman in hat : Mary Hignett
- Waiter : Larry Martyn
- Boatman : Norman Stanley
- 1st Reporter : Timothy Harley
- 2nd Reporter : Roger Worrod
- 3rd Reporter : Fred McNaughton
- 1st Policeman : Dennis Adams
- 2nd Policeman : James Donnelly
Crew
- Director : Piers Haggard
- Screenplay : John Hawkesworth
- Producer : Harry Moore
- Music : Norman Kay
- Production Design : Derek Dodd
