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Doctor Finlay Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1995 - 1995
Episode 1
Old Flames
51 mins
There have been many changes at Arden House. The reconstruction is complete and Doctor Finlay now has a new surgery. Janet is now married and replaced by her husband's niece Rhona Swanson, but feels she needs to supervise the girl. Rhona is quite competent and would like to just go about her business but neither Finlay nor the retired Doctor Cameron want take Janet to task. Finlay is also pleased to see old school-mate Jennifer Stallard, a doctor in her own right who was recently widowed. Finally, the practice has a new junior partner, Dr. Sean McKenna. He's been there for a few months and Finlay has taken quite a liking to him. Things begin to go badly when Sean becomes infatuated with Fiona Sturges whose invalid husband is one of his patients.
Episode 2
Only Time Will Tell
51 mins
Problems begin when a young woman, Millie Cairns, gets chicken pox. Dr. Cameron is sure she had it as a child and can't help but wonder if something odd is going on. While not unheard of, getting chicken pox a second time is not a common occurrence. Cameron visits the mother and gets the truth out of her: Millie is not her real daughter, who died soon after she and her husband left Tannochbrae many years before. This girl is actually her husband's daughter from an affair he had with a woman in Glasgow. When Millie hears of her past she calls everything into question: her impending marriage to the son of one of Tannochbrae's 'top drawer' families and rejecting the woman who raised her. Cameron agrees to help find her birth mother but the information he obtains is devastating. Meanwhile, Janet anxiously awaits the arrival of Doctor Finlay's new partner.
Episode 3
Private Lives
50 mins
Newly arrived in the practice, Dr. Jennifer Napier, now using her own name, treats Annie Kirk who is suffering from a heart condition. She tries to arrange for the woman to see a specialist in Edinburgh, but the woman is reluctant to so. She later bemoans the fact that Annie's son never visits leading Doctor Finlay to ask his mother to come and visit him. He regrets it all somewhat when she regales everyone with photos and tales, some embarrassing, from his youth. Jennifer also feels that they aren't, as general practitioners, dealing with their patients psychological well-being. Finlay strongly disagrees leading her wonder if she'll be happy in a country practice.
Episode 4
The Earth's Sweet Being
50 mins
Dr. Napier starts to promote women's health issues by holding seminars and giving out information to her new patients. She particularly wants to ensure that they know about various approaches to birth control. Doctor Finlay is supportive but warns her to go slow. Not surprisingly, she gets a somewhat frosty reception from some of the older members of the community but some of the younger women seem more receptive to what she has to say. She also treats Greta Johnstone, someone who for years has suffered humiliation and pain for a condition that can easily be corrected with surgery. Meanwhile, Rhona is quite taken with a handsome young dance instructor but is upset when she sees him kissing someone else.
Episode 5
A Natural Mistake
50 mins
Angus Livingston and Dr. Cameron have a set to over a prescription the Doctor wrote. As a result of Cameron's scribbles, Angus gave a larger dose that he wanted. Neither agree to back down on the matter and Janet finds herself stuck between them with both expecting her support. Doctor Finlay is concerned when a new arrival in Tannochbrae, Michael, is severely beaten by three local ruffians who believe he is a homosexual. Michael works as a cook for Findlay's childhood friend George Renfrew who is afraid to call the police as it may bring his own sexual preferences into question. George himself has only recently returned, after living in London for many years, to care for his ailing mother and to run her tea room. When Michael is beaten a second time, the truth comes out however.
Episode 6
The Greatness and the Power
50 mins
When Dr. Finlay is called to the manse by Rev. Derek Gill, he arrives to find Martha Manderston, a teenager, in obvious discomfort on his sofa. Although discreet and avoiding any comment, he clearly comes to conclusions about just what Martha and Gill may have been up to and casts a wary eye on the older, but apparently not wiser, man of the cloth. When Martha comes to visit him at Arden House one evening, he realizes he may have gotten the wrong end of the stick. With Angus ill, Janet arranges for a temporary chemist to take over the shop for a few days. Dr. Napier deals with Mrs. Susan Henderson who panics when she learns that she is pregnant. Her husband has been away and she desperately wants to terminate the pregnancy but can't quite bring herself to tell the doctor. Her solution leads to tragic results.
Episode 7
No Time for Heroes
50 mins
Dr. Napier continues to lament that most of her patients are women and children but John feels it's up to her to establish herself in the community. When she's told that her first patient of the day, Mrs. Kennedy, is a bit of a fusspot she only cursorily checks her son who is anything but cooperative. When she is later called to the house because of his worsening condition, she realizes the boy has diphtheria. Everyone is pleased beyond words when Brenda Maitland, John Finlay's one time fiancée shows up to help immunize the local children. At the chemists, Angus is slowly recovering but seems to have difficulty keeping up with his work. A case in point is the diphtheria antitoxin he has is out of date as he's behind in putting in his order. Their daily trips to the hospital to get a supply has unexpected consequences when they are run off the road by the distraught husband of one of Dr. Cameron's patients.
