Dr. Finlay's Casebook - Season 4

Dr. Finlay's Casebook - Season 4

Season 4

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Episodes26
DatesNov 21, 1965 - May 15, 1966
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Episodes

The Phantom Piper of Tannochbrae
Season 4Episode 150 min

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 war. But there is a section of the community who feel that the money would be better spent on such necessities as street lamps than on what the local schoolmaster calls 'vast marble eyesores'.
Nov 21, 1965
The Champion
Season 4Episode 250 min

The Champion

Kevin McDonald is Tannochbrae's shot-putting hope for the Highland Games. He is big, handsome and good-natured, but something brings about a change in his temperament. Finlay's efforts to help him only earn him a black eye. The partners at Arden House each have their own theory but neither can convince the other that he is right. It takes a near tragedy to provide the truth.
Nov 28, 1965
The Draper of Dumfries
Season 4Episode 350 min

The Draper of Dumfries

Robert Finlay visits his son Alan at Tannochbrae for the first time. Left to his own devices for much of the time he forms an association with Mrs. Hamilton. Mr. Finlay thinks her a kind and generous person: the Doctor thinks exactly the opposite.
Dec 5, 1965
The Longest Visit
Season 4Episode 450 min

The Longest Visit

Alan Finlay is a poor sailor. So when he is called out to visit old Strachan, the lighthouse keeper, who has spiked his finger, he dreads the trip. But Strachan is far worse than anticipated and Finlay must be both doctor and nurse - cooped up with Strachan and two other keepers in a spot cut off by gales from the outside world. Dr. Cameron is equally displeased as he has to cope with both his own and his partner's work while the latter is stormbound.
Dec 12, 1965
Body and Soul
Season 4Episode 550 min

Body and Soul

Angus Hendry, like many others in Tannochbrae, has been out of work for three years. The partners at Arden House each have their own theory on the best way to help him. What begins as an academic argument soon becomes a practical test of who is right.
Dec 19, 1965
The Vision
Season 4Episode 650 min

The Vision

Dec 26, 1965
Miss Letitia
Season 4Episode 750 min

Miss Letitia

Jan 2, 1966
They Do It in Africa
Season 4Episode 850 min

They Do It in Africa

Jamie looks to young Willie Kemp to help him over his bout of crematorium melancholia.
Jan 9, 1966
The Anxious Man
Season 4Episode 950 min

The Anxious Man

Jan 16, 1966
Hear No Evil
Season 4Episode 1050 min

Hear No Evil

Jan 23, 1966
The General
Season 4Episode 1150 min

The General

Jan 30, 1966
Free Medicine
Season 4Episode 1250 min

Free Medicine

Dr. Finlay dreams of a free National Health Service, but Dr. Cameron is sceptical and fears the extra workload free health care might bring. But as usual the older man's attitude is not as rigid as it seems, and when a top consultant is summoned to Tannochbrae to see a rich hypochondriac Cameron is not above instituting his own 'Medical Service'.
Feb 6, 1966
The Seniority Rule
Season 4Episode 1350 min

The Seniority Rule

The depression of the late 1920's was a time of sacrifice. Sacrifice for food, for principle and for solidarity.
Feb 13, 1966
A Matter of Confidence
Season 4Episode 1450 min

A Matter of Confidence

Peter MacNab is a medical student of great promise who for one reason or another seems to have lost all confidence in himself. But this changes when Dr. Cameron asks him to examine an ailing Dr. Finlay.
Feb 20, 1966
For Services Rendered
Season 4Episode 1550 min

For Services Rendered

There are times when a private patient is more trouble than he's worth. Not many would dispute a doctor's moral right to be paid for services rendered, but how far should Finlay press this right in a case of a man whose wife has received urgent medical attention and does not feel inclined to settle the account?
Feb 27, 1966
To Err is Human
Season 4Episode 1650 min

To Err is Human

When Willie Campbell returns after supposedly serving in the Army in India he finds that his wife Jeannie has given birth to a child. Naturally there is a domestic explosion and Dr. Finlay becomes very concerned about the effect on the baby's health.
Mar 6, 1966
Better Safe Than Sorry
Season 4Episode 1750 min

Better Safe Than Sorry

Hugh Armitage decides to stay at Lochend Guest House for a nice long holiday because of its reputation as ""one of the healthiest spots west of Dumfries"". But when he finds himself in the midst of an outbreak of food poisoning his opinion of Tannochbrae changes completely.
Mar 13, 1966
O Sole Mio
Season 4Episode 1850 min

O Sole Mio

John MacEwan, one time concert singer and now professional loafer, comes into conflict with Aldo Narduzzi, an amateur opera singer. Caught up in the quarrel is young Tommy MacEwan, whose stubborn case of acne is causing Dr. Finlay a certain amount of concern.
Mar 20, 1966
No Subsidy for Sin
Season 4Episode 1950 min

No Subsidy for Sin

Annie Laurie sets the tongues of Tannochbrae wagging when she takes in Willie Gillespie as a lodger.
Mar 27, 1966
Kate and Robert
Season 4Episode 2050 min

Kate and Robert

Dr. Cameron and Dr. Finlay successfully deliver Kate Sinclair's first child. Later Finlay warns Kate and her husband that it would almost certainly be fatal for Kate to have another child. The resulting marital problem is a particularly acute one.
Apr 3, 1966
Written with the Left Hand
Season 4Episode 2150 min

Written with the Left Hand

Apr 10, 1966
A Settled Man
Season 4Episode 2250 min

A Settled Man

Apr 17, 1966
Crusade
Season 4Episode 2350 min

Crusade

School doctor Fay Beresford targets the primitive toilet facilities at the local school, which she insists must be replaced by modern plumbing. It is a task at which both the Arden House doctors and Dr. Snoddie have failed in the past. However, Fay's forceful personality and good looks stir up unheard of activity in the town. Only Dr. Cameron seems to be sitting on the fence.
Apr 24, 1966
Legacy
Season 4Episode 2450 min

Legacy

Janet is preoccupied: it is the jam making season. Hordes of small boys are beating a path to Arden House bartering old jam jars for pennies while the air is thick with bees attracted to the jam, much to the discomfort of two physicians busy healing themselves.
May 1, 1966
The Decision
Season 4Episode 2550 min

The Decision

May 8, 1966
The Uninvited Guest
Season 4Episode 2650 min

The Uninvited Guest

A girl is thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious trying to cross a river in which Alan Finlay is fishing. When she comes round her memory is gone. The partners decide that she must stay at Arden House while she recovers from her injuries and amnesia. Both men, Finlay in particular, are attracted to her, but Janet does not share their admiration for their uninvited guest.
May 15, 1966

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