Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. It was the first major success for screenwriter Andrew Davies. The series stood out because of its surreal humour. It concerned an idealistic young doctor, Stephen Daker (Peter Davison), taking up a post as a member of a university medical centre. The centre is staffed by a group of misfits including the lesbian Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn) and self-absorbed Bob Buzzard (David Troughton), and headed by a decrepit Scotsman (Graham Crowden). Hugh Grant made one of his first television appearances in a bit part. In the first series, Daker had a romance with a policewoman, Lyn Turtle, who rescued him from drowning in the university's swimming pool. In the second series, she was replaced as love interest by a visiting Polish academic. In a follow-up series, A Very Polish Practice, Daker went to live with her in Poland, where he struggled with the Communist system's antiquated health service. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.