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Born and Bred first aired on 21 April 2002. After 4 series, 1 Christmas special and 36 regular episodes it ended on 3 August 2005. Each episode is 60 minutes long and aired on BBC One at 8 pm on Sunday. Series 1, Series 2, Series 3 and the Christmas Special were shown on Sundays, while Series 4 was shown on Wednesdays.
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This is a list of episodes for the light-hearted British period drama Born and Bred, set in the 1950s. It aired from 21 April 2002 to 3 August 2005. There are 36 episodes in total: 35 in all 4 series including 1 Christmas special.
Episode NumberTitleAirdateOverview (ratings)7 (2-1)" Lost Souls"20 April 2003Alec suffers a heart attack (5.88m)8 (2-2)" Home to Roost "27 April 2003Deborah’s mother Dora arrives unannounced ...9 (2-3)" Blood Relations "11 May 2003Eddie’s uncle, Fred, the drayman, suffers ...10 (2-4)" Fertility Rites "18 May 2003Edie McClure’s eldest daughter Joanne ...Apr 21, 2002 · Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Bred's cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village in the 1950s.
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With Jenna Russell, Maggie Steed, Clive Swift, Naomi Radcliffe. A 1950s set, British drama series about life in the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston. The main focus of the series was the two doctors, father and son, who run the cottage hospital under the new National Health Service.
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was a BBC programme that aired from 2002-2006. Although completely unrelated in theme to Doctor Who, it had many production connections to the then-upcoming BBC Wales revival of the programme. Co-created and largely written by future Torchwood and Doctor Who head writer, Chris Chibnall, Born and Bred was a fairly typical "fish out of water" drama about a medical doctor who'd returned to the English village of his youth only to discover and be charmed by its colourful inhabitants.
Its twist — in a time when the schedule was crowded with "fish out of water" dramas like Dervla Kirwan's Ballykissangel, Peter Davison and Samantha Bond's Distant Shores and Martin Clunes and Ian McNeice's Doc Martin — was that it was set in the 1950s.
The show was produced in its first season by Phil Collinson, who would leave to go to Sea of Souls the next year, and then Doctor Who in 2004. He would therefore have had responsibility for hiring Ray Holman and Barbara Southcott as two of his heads of department —people he would take with him to Sea of Souls and ultimately to Doctor Who and Torchwood. Similarly, Born's production manager, Debbi Slater, would go on to work on The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Doctor Who. Then-future Dalek writer, Rob Shearman, wrote a script for the show.
A number of the regulars and key guest stars would also go on to parts in Doctor Who —mostly concentrated in the first two series. Female lead, Jenna Russell was featured in the series 1 finale. Annette Badland would become a recurring Slitheen. Roger Lloyd Pack eventually became John Lumic. And Clive Swift would, soon after production wrapped on Born, co-star as Mr Copper in Voyage of the Damned. David Troughton, about four years in advance of his turn in Midnight was the main guest star in an episode in which his character dealt with the complications of leukemia.
The show also had connections to the 1963 version of the programme. Its latter seasons were produced by ex-director, Chris Clough, Donald Gee was a part of the regular cast, and Julian Glover was once a special guest star.
In addition to the television connections, a number of the regulars, like James Bolam and Maggie Steed are connected to Doctor Who through voice work for Big Finish or AudioGo.
Sun, Apr 21, 2002. The 1950s :- GP Tom Gilder and his family leave Manchester to attend a wedding in Tom's native village Ormston, where his father Arthur is the doctor. Arthur's nurse Linda is marrying local copper Len, who wakes up nude in the centre of the village after a raucous stag night.
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Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Born and Bred is based around the village of Ormston in Lancashire. The lead characters are Dr Arthur Gilders and his son Tom, who together run the cottage hospital under the new National Health Service.
