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Get Well Soon: The New Arrival

on BBC One London

A new six-part comedy, written by Ray Galton and John Antrobus, set in a sanitorium in 1947.
Roy Osborne is admitted to a TB sanatorium in Surrey, his roommate is fellow Londoner Brian Clapton. Roy begins to realise just how bleak his future is.
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Pyjama party: Matthew Cottle and Eddie Marsan hope to Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon
6.40pm BBC1 This new sitcom takes us to another age when pleasures were rationed, postcards were saucy and tuberculosis was rife. Written by Ray Galton and John Antrobus, it is based on the story of Galton's meeting with his Hancock and Steptoe writing partner, Alan Simpson, in a TB sanatorium.
Things don't look good for Roy (Matthew Cottle) as his mother (Anita Dobson) dumps him at the sanatorium. With a combination of broad laughs and some downright bizarre characters this is not simple, nostalgic comedy, despite its 1947 setting. This scene-setter parades a deranged RAF officer, a mad vicar and a friendly widow, all providing fertile ground for humour to back up the central characters - two young men on the make.

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
John Antrobus
Director:
Christine Gernon
Producer:
Philip Kampff
Sister Shelley:
Kate O'Toole
Mrs Osborne:
Anita Dobson
Roy Osborne:
Matthew Cottle
Mrs Howell:
Samantha Beckinsale
Brian Clapton:
Eddie Marsan
Mr Walpole:
Neil Stacy
Sqdn Ldr Fielding:
Robert Bathurst
Mrs Clapton:
Patsy Rowlands
Jeffry:
William Osborne
Padre:
Michael Troughton
Nurse:
Sarah Moyle

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