Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.
4 seasons · 29 episodes
Blood Brothers
Nov 4, 198230 min
Thorpe believes that Glover needs a blood transfusion and Figgis is the same blood group but Glover, being a snob, is not happy to be the recipient, especially when he hears that Figgis has received a transfusion himself from a West Indian.
Conduct Unbecoming
Nov 11, 198230 min
Thorpe becomes an unlikely sex object when nymphomaniac patient Fiona demands they run off together and has written a complaint letter to the hospital board, whose chairman is her father, unless he agrees to her demand.
All in the Mind
Nov 18, 198230 min
Having borrowed a book on psychiatry, Figgis takes it upon himself to analyse his fellow patients, alleging that Glover has a persecution complex and Norman is sexually repressed.
In Sickness & in Health
Nov 25, 198230 min
A most reluctant Norman is to marry the dull and plain Deirdre, rather than Jenny. Glover decides to flatter Deirdre in order that she might blossom but rather overdoes it so that she transforms into a glamorous, confident woman with no nee
Escape
Dec 2, 198230 min
Glover is charmed by new admission Harry Bridgewater - until it transpires that he is a prisoner who has come in for an operation with a guard in attendance. Having tried to pass himself off as a hardened criminal, Bridgewater has to admit
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Dec 9, 198230 min
An elderly drunk named Charlie arrives, claiming to be looking for his son, from whom he has long been estranged. The assumption is that his son is Norman, though it turns out to be Glover, who, after initial disgust, starts to warm to the
