From comic writing team Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (whose STEPTOE & SON was remade stateside as SANFORD & SON) comes this short-lived sitcom about life in a National Health Service hospital after the war. Banished to a tuberculosis sanatorium in the country by his working mother Ivy (THE EASTENDERS' Anita Dobson) - who for whom TB to carry a social stigma in their neighborhood - twenty-year-old Roy (Matthew Cottle, Stan Laurel in Richard Attenborough's CHAPLIN biopic) is planning on a stay of a couple weeks and is soon dismayed to learn that most of his fellow bedmates have been there for months, and the ones who have left did so in coffins. Having already gone through two roommates already (including the last one that died in Roy's assigned bed), selfish mama's boy Brian (Eddie Marsan, THE ILLUSIONIST) demands to be moved to another room. He changes his mind when "merry widow" Mrs. Howell's (Samantha Beckinsale) inexplicable attraction to young Roy means a continued supply of imported goodies from Fortnum & Mason and Harrods. In between the machinations of his disapproving mother to split up him and Mrs. Howell - and her own hypocritical dalliance with Mr. Wolpole (Neil Stacy, THE QUATERMASS CONCLUSION) - Roy finds himself partnering with Brian, fey orderly Jeffry (William Osborne, COLD COMFORT FARM) and delusional Squadron Leader Fielding (Robert Bathurst, COLD FEET) against elistist, fascist roommate Tucker (a pre-DOWNTON ABBEY Hugh Bonneville), the hospital's ultra-penitent "Angel of Death" vicar (Michael Troughton), prison wardress-like Sister Shelley (Kate O'Toole, THE DEAD), Roy's own absentee father (Michael Feast, VELVET GOLDMINE), and snooping local police detective Trussler (Kenneth Cranham, HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II). The series nicely balances its episodic elements with continuity and, although it lasted only six episodes, concludes in a manner that simultaneously leave things open while offering a twist to one story thread that could be interpreted as a resolution.