tlc

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
Creator Fintan Coyle

tlc (2002)

Created by Fintan Coyle
⭐ 3.1 / 5 (6 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 6 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

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'.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Staying Awake

Newly qualified junior doctor Laurence Flynn fights to stay awake during his first shift plus finds himself fearing a particular procedure.

E2 Sectioned

Whilst trying to find place to sleep in the hospital, Flynn finds himself sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

E3 Clean White Coat

Flynn has to get a clean white coat before the next ward round, but not before encounters with Jesus, tropical fish, the local priest and the Pet Shop Boys.

E4 Three Stars

South Middlesex loses all three of its NHS stars, and Flynn and Noble are charged with restoring the hospital to its former status... with predictable results.

E5 The Wrong Leg

Flynn saws off the wrong leg while operating on notorious criminal Frank Briggs, and there's a rooftop chase after a new directive is issued.

E6 Agency Nurse

An agency nurse stirs things up between Judy and Flynn plus a few missed lunch breaks lead Flynn on a mission to find food.