A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series)

A Very Long Way from Anywhere (1986)

David Troughton: Dr. Bob Buzzard

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• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Top of the morning to you, Maureen!

  [turns to Stephen] 

  Dr. Bob Buzzard : Maureen, as you may guess, is our nurse. A simple Colleen from the bogs, aren't you Maureen. This is Dr Daker, Dr O'Hara's replacement.

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Maureen likes to think she does all the work 'round here, but of course she doesn't. Bone idle, aren't you Maureen, total waste of space!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Well! Mustn't keep you, Maureen! All those "oirish" aunties, waiting for you letters home!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : My personal view is, there's nothing wrong with Rose Marie that a damn good rogering wouldn't sort out. Come to think of it, you might be the very man!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Just thought it was worth mentioning in case you're that way inclined: Always get the totty on someone else's list.

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Let me tell you about this terrible place, Stephen. They call it a "New University", but it's 20 years old now. Concrete's crumbling, all those bloody silly flat roofs leak. We've got a repair budget four times the total salary bill!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : I'll tell you what it's like. It's like a very, very inefficient sector of British industry. Top management are totally corrupt and idle, middle management are incompetent and idle, and the workforce are bolshy. And idle. And of course, there's no bloody product!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Now then. What's your track record, old chap?

  Dr. Stephen Daker : Track record?

  Dr. Bob Buzzard : Absolutely right! Fair's fair: Mine first. Classical tale of a promising career gone sour. Shrewsbury. Trinity. Guy's. Royal Durham, ICI, Princeton. Spell in Saudi. Then, fatal mistake: Came here. What about you?

  Dr. Stephen Daker : Birmingham... Birmingham... Birmingham... Walsall.

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Oh, look here! You're not gonna give me a lot of tear-jerking stuff about your early days in a shoebox on the M6, I hope!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : You see, I'm not such a hard bastard as I seem, old chap! You're an idealist, and you've ended up in what's probably the worst practice in the British Isles. I'm really very sorry for you!

• Dr. Bob Buzzard : Get yourself settled, then shamble over to the University Pub. You can't miss it; it's in what's laughingly called the Piazza. Looks like the gents on Euston Station. Smells like it too.