Fri, Jul 3, 1970
It's time for the lads to take their qualifying exams and Michael is so anxious to stay awake for them he takes pep pills - which turn out to be sleeping pills. Thus he falls asleep on the bus on his way to the exam and misses his stop. He flags down a motor-cyclist, who gives him a lift to the hospital and has a heart attack in the car park. Michael saves his life but misses the exam. Professor Loftus is extremely angry until the motor-cyclist comes forward to explain what happened - and Michael qualifies with the others.
Fri, May 15, 1970
Upton and Waring have been chosen to observe Loftus on a two week residency in surgery but Upton is terrified and has a nightmare about an operation. When his friends reveal his phobia to the professor, a plan is hatched whereby Upton is made to assist Loftus in a crisis to perform an emergency operation on Waring. After Loftus has told him that as a young student he also had a morbid fear of operations, Upton sees that it was all a trick for his benefit but it has cured his phobia.
Sat, Jul 19, 1969
Michael Upton is trying to move into his room and receives a few visitors. Dick Stuart Clark tries flogging him some old books that Duncan Waring ends up buying. He also leaves him a plastic skeleton on approval which later gets burnt. Dave Briddock makes his first appearance in the series as does Huw Edwards. Later on there is supposed to be a dance at the bar. Most of the lads get drunk and start hassling Alice. Michael jumps in to rescue her and they go to his room so she can dry off. Jealous that he might pull, his friends leave various unsuitable items around his room and then hide in the room next door. At first Alice wants to leave but then she and Michael work out what is going on and make suitable noises to fool the boys next door into thinking they are getting it on.
Fri, May 22, 1970
A Royal couple are to visit and unveil a plaque, commemorating the opening of a new ward. Anti-Monarchists Collier and Hooley, an Irish medic, steal the plaque and replace it with a toilet seat cover. Upton and Waring save the day by retrieving the plaque and replacing it but, as it is unveiled it is seen to be upside down - and then falls off the wall.
Fri, May 8, 1970
Waring volunteers to be hypnotized in a class by Dr. Towers but is actually faking it. Later Upton does successfully hypnotize him, getting him to mark at the mention of the word Dog. This annoys Towers, in whose class this happens. Waring dozes off and starts sleep-walking, ending up on the roof. The others get him down and take him to Towers, who gets him out of his trance but in the meantime Upton has hypnotized himself.
Fri, Jun 26, 1970
A cameras crew is to make a television documentary at St. Swithins and Professor Loftus asks Michael and Dick Stuart-Clark to appear. The other medics are riled and try to sabotage the show, such as Danny Hooley pretending to be an elderly female patient. The crew also capture Loftus and Dick disagreeing over a diagnosis and some very rowdy behaviour in the student bar. It is ultimately revealed when everybody watches the show that its point was to highlight failings in the N.H.S. but Professor Loftus has had enough and wants it switched off.
Sat, Aug 2, 1969
Michael Upton is fed up with various noises distracting him so decides to find a new room. He moves his stuff into one and resists the advances of the rather fit girl who let him the room for some reason. Her mother arrives home finds a skeleton in Michael's new room and think he is trying to murder his daughter. He doesn't even enter the next house he goes to see due to an extremely camp gentleman who answers the door. He is put off the third room due to the dead body of the previous occupant still being in the bed. He takes the rather spacious fourth room he visits for only two pound a week. After he moves in he finds it has also been let to Duncan Waring, Dick Stuart-Clark, Huw Evans, Dave Briddock and the latter's girlfriend Helga. As if that wasn't crowded enough Helga's cousin turns up to stay for two weeks.
Fri, Oct 3, 1969
Whilst the boys enjoy themselves at a local club reality starts to bite with the fact that their exams are only a fortnight away and no manner of excuses can alter the fact that if they want to get qualified they will have to act in a responsible fashion - the more so as Professor Loftus has cancelled his proposed trip to Australia and will be breathing down their necks all the way.
Fri, Jun 12, 1970
Though no good at first aid Upton and Waring spend a fortnight in casualty. A shop-keeper who was injured in a robbery is brought in by a policeman. Later another man, with an injured ear, arrives and Upton perceives that this is the robber. He runs away but returns later, threatening Upton and Professor Loftus, who has also come in as a patient, with a knife. They are to stitch his ear but they stitch it to a pillow and he is eventually knocked out by the policeman using the enormous bandage that the students have wound around his arm.
Fri, May 1, 1970
Without a car to take the lads to a rugby match in Cambridge, Collier invests in a hearse, which he parks outside the mortuary. Two orderlies load a coffin onto it and the lads drive off unaware of their cargo. The police, alerted by the mortuary attendant, give chase and Collier drives the hearse to some woods where the coffin is revealed to contain a curious poacher. After the match the coffin is returned.