Set in a local medical practice in the fictional post-war Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the 1920s, this BBC medical drama became one of the most popular programmes of the 1960s, inspiring other popular series such as Doc Martin and All Creatures Great and Small. Very similar in format to James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small, each chapter revolves around a new medical case or community problem. I am glad that this site has been updated since I last looked in - when Effie Morrison was only credited with 4 episodes! And I am learning about disease diagnoses, though the emphasis is on the patients, their characters, treating the patient as a person. Image: Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay, Barbara Mullen as Janet and Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron in Dr Finlay's Casebook circa 1971.

J. Cronin's 1935 novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. A thoroughly readable book, each chapter is a separate story woven together to mould an account of general practice in a small Scottish town. Dr Finlay's Casebook is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A. The team encounter a suspicious car crash, an outbreak of the measles, a soldier in need of an amputation, a local dog infested with rabies – and Doctor Finlay tries his hand at hypnosis.

I can see how it very much worked for a weekly television serial but sadly, unlike the Citadel it doesn't seem to have stood the test of time as well. Although a doctor, he has a lot in common with Sherlock Holmes, using his guile and intelligence to solve his patients' problems. Neuware - Dr Finlay's Casebook brings together Adventures of a Black Bag and Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, A.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The weirdest part is that main character becomes some kind of infallible Byronic hero who can do no wrong and is adored by everyone who meets him, to the point I actually didn't finish the book but abandoned it three quarters through, which is a shame when I liked the first half a lot! This was followed by two series of Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag in 2002 and 2003, with Sinclair and Pettifer joined by Celia Imrie as Janet and Stella Gonet as Nurse Angus. Unfortunately some industry was attracted to the limited power of the river - leaving few postcard opportunities in the towns for the TV crews! Now I really want to read 'The Citadel', 'the book that inspired the NHS' before long because if that's true we owe AJ Cronin a huge debt of gratitude.Of the 191 editions, it is thought that only 56 are still known to exist; of these some installments no longer survive in their original format (e.

He first wrote "Country Doctor" in 1935 and followed by "Adventures of a Black Bag" and "Further Adventures of a Black Bag" on which the Dr Finlay is based - as well as a string of Oscar nominations from his "Citadel" and "The Stars Looked Down". The first 6 episodes were filmed on the edge of Glasgow at Milngavie's Tannoch Loch and on Tannoch Drive (A J Cronin's choice of name for the town was "Levenford" not "Tannochbrae") On such details does destiny spin! This omnibus is made up of two books by Cronin, Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, published in 1978 and Adventures of a Black Bag, published in 1943, both collections of short stories.

The stories were later collected and republished under several titles, including Adventures of a Black Bag, Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, Further Adventures of a Country Doctor and Dr Finlay's Casebook. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

Finlay’s Casebook,” actually contains two different books - Adventures of a Black Bag (1969) and Dr.

This book is really short stories of Dr Finlays medical cases with a common character tying them together. Frontline Noir, founded in 2008, is a publisher of current affairs and recent history titles covering controversial topics and events, often written by people who were participants or otherwise affected. The characters were revived by ITV from 1993-96 and were adapted again for BBC radio in 2001 and 2002. The stories in themselves are fine, the writing and moral issues covered are relevant to it being written in the 1930's. This omnibus edition of Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae and Adventures of a Black Bag revives Cronin's masterpiece for a contemporary audience – stories which are tragic, funny and wry and which are a celebration of Cronin's tremendous talent.