Quacks - BBC2 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Quacks. Image shows from L to R: William (Mathew Baynton), Robert (Rory Kinnear), Dr. Hendrick (Rupert Everett), Caroline (Lydia Leonard), John (Tom Basden). Copyright: Lucky Giant

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2017

Channel

BBC Two

Episodes

6 (1 series)

Stars

Rory Kinnear, Mathew Baynton, Tom Basden, Lydia Leonard, Rupert Everett, Geoffrey McGivern and Ed Gaughan

Writer

James Wood

Director

Andy de Emmony

Producers

Imogen Cooper, Justin Davies, James Wood, Rachel Hillman and Ben Worsfield

Company

Quacks focuses on the extraordinary, daring and wild days of Victorian medicine. It follows the progress of four young medical pioneers fighting to make a mark on the world - beat their rivals - and save lives.

Quacks is set in the 1840s, when medical science as we know it was still in its infancy, when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when they experimented on themselves and each other. The show explores an era of surgery when the operating theatre was just that: a theatre, full of spectacle and showmanship, where people would come to watch revolutionary procedures, or a surgeon try to beat his amputation speed record.

It stars Mathew Baynton as a fledgling psychiatrist, Rory Kinnear as an arrogant showman surgeon, Tom Basden as a hedonistic dentist turned anaesthetist, and Lydia Leonard as a headstrong social campaigner. Rupert Everett plays the head doctor.

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Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Tuesday 15th August 2017 at 10pm on BBC Two

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