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''A Very Peculiar Practice'' is a BBC comedy-drama series, which ran for two series in 1986 and 1988. The series a was a surreal black comedy, set in the health centre of a British university. The two series were followed by a 90 minute made-for-television film following some of the characters to a new setting in Poland. It was written by Andrew Davies, and was inspired by his experiences as a lecturer at the University of Warwick. In 2010, ''The Guardian'' ranked the serial at number 5 in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time".〔 http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/jan/12/50-best-tv-dramas-brideshead〕 == Storyline == The series is a black comedy with surreal elements. It concerned an idealistic young doctor, Stephen Daker (Peter Davison), taking up a post as a member of a university medical centre. The centre is staffed by a group of misfits including the bisexual Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn), self-absorbed Bob Buzzard (David Troughton), and decrepit Scot, Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden) who heads the team in the first series. One of the themes of the series is the increasing commercialisation of higher education in Britain following the government cuts of the early 1980s, with the Vice-Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway (John Bird) trying to woo Japanese investors in the face of resistance from the academic old guard. Hugh Grant made one of his first television appearances as an evangelical preacher; Kathy Burke also had a bit part. In the second series an American Vice-Chancellor Jack Daniels (Michael J. Shannon) took over from Hemingway, continuing the running joke of naming the VC after a famous American (although the whiskey distiller's name was Jack Daniel). In the first series, Daker had a romance with a post-graduate policewoman, Lyn Turtle (Amanda Hillwood), who rescued him from drowning in the university's swimming pool. In the second series broadcast in 1988, Daker is now head of the centre and has a new love interest in Polish academic Grete Grotowska (Joanna Kanska). Rose Marie is romantically interested in both Grotowska and Daniels, but only has an affair with the latter, In the sequel television film, ''A Very Polish Practice'' (1992), the couple are now living in Poland, where he struggles with the former Communist country's antiquated health service. Grete encounters an ex lover (Tadeusz Melnik played by Alfred Molina), who facilitated her getting out of Poland and to whom she had promised herself, should she ever return and should he ever ask. She battles to decide whether to stay with Stephen and their child or to go with Melnik (with or without the child), confessing that she still loves him as well as Stephen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Very Peculiar Practice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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