Dr. Finlay's Casebook of honour at the British Medical Association's annual dinner to speak on medical matters as if he were a real GP. Following the assassination of President Kennedy on 22 November 1963, the BBC screened "Dr Finlay's Casebook" as part of its regular programming. There were reportedly over 2,000 phone calls and 500 letters and telegrams complaining about the decision. Dr. Finlay's Casebook Dr. Finlay's Casebook is a television drama series that was produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella entitled "Country Doctor", the storylines centred on a general medical practice in
William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay by "The Times" as "like his father...a scholar, with a vein of old-world culture". As reader of the Middle Temple in 1933 he delivered a noted reading on "Law and Literature". In 1903, Finlay married Beatrice Marion Hall (1880–1942), daughter of Edward Kirkpatrick Hall. They had one daughter, the Hon Rosalind Mary Finlay (1914–2002), who married Vice-Admiral Sir John Hayes in 1939. William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay, (15 October 1875 – 30 June 1945) was a British judge and peer who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1938 to 1945. The son of