Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.
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- TriviaOrla Brady was very nervous about the nudity in Marcella's big love scene with Alex (Nigel Havers). To minimize the delay, director Audrey Cooke broke the ice by demonstrating how the scene would look. Cooke said afterwards that the crew, mostly male, did not know where to look when she undressed ("You should have seen their faces") and developed a sudden and deep interest in the wall behind them. The tactic worked and the scene was shot. "After seeing me topless," Cooke quipped, "she reckoned nothing could be worse than that." She says that she'd never done this before and "certainly won't be doing it again."
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A fine watch, with a great performance from Nigel Havers.
Top Heart Surgeon Doctor Alex Marsden is placed in a bizarre situation, when he's called on to operate in his best friend Larry, it just so happens he's having an affair with Larry's wife Marcella.
I really did enjoy this BBC production, at just over two and a half hours it was quite a long TV drama, but I'm glad I stuck with it, because it was defined worthwhile. An intriguing enough story, with some fine characters, and a curious plot.
It's surprisingly well paced, it moves by very quickly, and is entertaining from start to finish. It's full of tension, it builds well, and if course there's the big moment.
I watched an Edgar Wallace film only yesterday, called Never mention murder, in which a Surgeon gets his wife's lover on the operating theatre, I applauded its originality, this almost feels like a similar storyline, one I really do like.
Nigel Havers is excellent as the hard to like Surgeon, very well supported by Orla Brady and Lorcan Cranitch.
7/10.
I really did enjoy this BBC production, at just over two and a half hours it was quite a long TV drama, but I'm glad I stuck with it, because it was defined worthwhile. An intriguing enough story, with some fine characters, and a curious plot.
It's surprisingly well paced, it moves by very quickly, and is entertaining from start to finish. It's full of tension, it builds well, and if course there's the big moment.
I watched an Edgar Wallace film only yesterday, called Never mention murder, in which a Surgeon gets his wife's lover on the operating theatre, I applauded its originality, this almost feels like a similar storyline, one I really do like.
Nigel Havers is excellent as the hard to like Surgeon, very well supported by Orla Brady and Lorcan Cranitch.
7/10.
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- Jan 28, 2023
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