tlc(2002)
Comedy
First Air Date: 2002-11-17
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 6.2
Votes: 6
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
tlc is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom created and written by Fintan Coyle, set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality complex. Dr Laurence Flynn finds himself thrown in at the deep end when he gets his first job after leaving Medical School (where he failed his finals). Always the butt of jokes by other staff (being called on to revive dead people)he has to cope not only with the patients but mad colleagues too – an ex surgeon now the hospital chaplain and a German theatre assistant with a masochistic kink. The show never confirms what 'tlc' stands for, although it's presumed to be a sarcastic reference to the widely used abbreviation for 'tender loving care', but could equally refer to the alternative yet related abbreviation 'total lack of concern'.
Keywords
surrealismhospitalmedicalfarce
Seasons & Episodes
Series 1
Episodes: 6E01
Staying Awake
Air Date: 2002-11-17
Newly qualified junior doctor Laurence Flynn fights to stay awake during his first shift plus finds himself fearing a...
E02
Sectioned
Air Date: 2002-11-18
Whilst trying to find place to sleep in the hospital, Flynn finds himself sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
E03
Clean White Coat
Air Date: 2002-11-25
Flynn has to get a clean white coat before the next ward round, but not before encounters with Jesus, tropical fish, ...
E04
Three Stars
Air Date: 2002-12-02
South Middlesex loses all three of its NHS stars, and Flynn and Noble are charged with restoring the hospital to its ...
E05
The Wrong Leg
Air Date: 2002-12-09
Flynn saws off the wrong leg while operating on notorious criminal Frank Briggs, and there's a rooftop chase after a ...
E06
Agency Nurse
Air Date: 2002-12-16
An agency nurse stirs things up between Judy and Flynn plus a few missed lunch breaks lead Flynn on a mission to find...
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