Upton and Dick are at Stokely Manor Health Farm, run by the eccentric Stanley Moon. The patients are driven to near-insanity by the strict regimen he enforces. Endless cups of lemon-flavoured water and grapefruit are the order of the day. Dick bets Upton a fiver he cannot go without food for twenty-four hours. Unable to win the money, Upton leads a mass exodus of patients to a nearby country pub...
John Cleese's last 'Doctor' script is his weakest, though it has its moments.
'Stanley Moon' was the name of Dudley Moore's character in 'Bedazzled' ( 1967 ). John Le Mesurier plays him as a combination of 'Sergeant Wilson' and 'Private Godfrey' from 'Dad's Army'. Geoffrey Lumsden, who played 'Captain Square' in that series, appears here as 'Colonel Oliphant'. Jacqueline Clarke was familiar to viewers through 'Dave Allen At Large'. Wanda Ventham's 'Maggie' is a television actress, famous for her role in the sitcom 'The Abattoir Lads'. A sly dig at 'The Likely Lads', perhaps?
Funniest moment - two of Moon's patients squabbling like children over a grapefruit!
John Cleese's last 'Doctor' script is his weakest, though it has its moments.
'Stanley Moon' was the name of Dudley Moore's character in 'Bedazzled' ( 1967 ). John Le Mesurier plays him as a combination of 'Sergeant Wilson' and 'Private Godfrey' from 'Dad's Army'. Geoffrey Lumsden, who played 'Captain Square' in that series, appears here as 'Colonel Oliphant'. Jacqueline Clarke was familiar to viewers through 'Dave Allen At Large'. Wanda Ventham's 'Maggie' is a television actress, famous for her role in the sitcom 'The Abattoir Lads'. A sly dig at 'The Likely Lads', perhaps?
Funniest moment - two of Moon's patients squabbling like children over a grapefruit!
