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 Affair the US on 29 September 2009. There are four books associated with the series. Alan Plater's first-ever book was a novelisation of "The Beiderbecke Affair" (Methuen, 1985) and then he originally wrote "The Beiderbecke Tapes" as a novel (Methuen, 1986) before dramatising it for ITV. Four years after the final serial aired, he novelised "The Beiderbecke Connection scripts" (Methuen, 1992). An omnibus edition "The Beiderbecke Trilogy" was released by Methuen in 1993. In 2012, the British Film Institute published a book about the series in its range examining key television shows: "BFI TV Classics: The Beiderbecke Affair" by William Gallagher