Peter Davison, following a four-year term as Dr Who, plays a very ordinary doctor who is recruited to the campus medical practice, where his first experience is a team meeting at which ominous signs of cultural change are evident.
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The BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–88), scripted by Andrew Davies, is set in an English midlands university where an ethos of 1970s radicalism and permissiveness is degenerating into a form of institutional psychopathology. Among the nominations were some vintage series that, viewed now, present sharply predictive scenarios. With nominations distributed across Scandi-noir, sci-fi, the western, the spy thriller, period dramas and political sagas, there was no convergence on genre either.įor all the diversity, though, one of the fascinations of revisiting past favourites is a refreshed awareness of how series talk among themselves, their themes and preoccupations often merging in counterintuitive ways. All of which serves to endorse my instinct that, as far as television is concerned, top-ten lists don’t mean much. Three dozen respondents nominated more than fifty programs, with only seven scoring more than one vote and none scoring more than three. So much so that I decided to turn this review into a double episode covering the widest possible range of suggestions. The fact that we can easily draw on a vast repertoire of fine programs means it’s worth revisiting some of the best series for a binge viewing experience that takes us into the more diverse realities of a world before Covid-19 monomania took hold.Īware of the variety of tastes and moods catered for in television drama, I asked friends on social media for their nominations.
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Haunted by the spectre of the couch potato consuming an endless diet of weepy soap operas and raucously unfunny comedies, many of us will avoid daytime TV just as we avoid (or try to avoid) opening the wine bottle before the sun is over the yard-arm.īut in these days of confinement, television has its place as a form of domestic escapism, and escapism doesn’t have to mean the televisual equivalent of a tray of donuts. Being housebound means Zoom meetings, yoga breaks, cake making, walking the dog and (in my case) binge sewing.
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