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
Thomas Matthew Finlay Thomas Matthew Finlay Dr Thomas Matthew Finlay FRSE EGS (17 September 1879-31 January 1954) was a Scottish geologist and palaeontologist. He was born at Sotrigarth in Sandwick, Shetland on 17 September 1879, the son of Frederick Souis Finlay (1852-1918) and his wife Mary Bruce Smith (1857-1937). From 1891 he lived with his maternal grandfather, Robert Smith, still in Sandwick. He was sent to Edinburgh in 1900/1901 and lodged in a tenement at 99 Montgomery Street at the top of Leith Walk. Here he attended the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1903. He then travelled to South Africa