Only When I Laugh (TV series) Only When I Laugh (TV series) Only When I Laugh is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It aired between 29 October 1979 and 16 December 1982 and was set in the ward of a NHS hospital. The title is in response to the question, "Does it hurt?" It starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, and Christopher Strauli as patients Roy Figgis, Archie Glover, and Norman Binns. Mr. Gordon Thorpe, their consultant surgeon, was played by Richard Wilson; and Gupte, the staff nurse from Delhi, was played by Derrick Branche. The show was one of many successes
The Beiderbecke Trilogy best known as the producer of the thriller serial "Harry's Game" (1982). "The Beiderbecke Connection" was broadcast in four parts in November and December 1988 and averaged 8.8 million viewers over its run. Frank Ricotti was again nominated and this time won the 1988 BAFTA Award for Original Television Music for "The Beiderbecke Connection". All three series are available as individual DVD releases, as a boxed set, "The Beiderbecke Trilogy", and as a boxed set "Beiderbecke Trilogy 21st Anniversary Edition" (containing "The Beiderbecke Trilogy" plus "Get Lost!", cast interviews, CD soundtrack and collectors booklet), released on Region 2. The stories