A jolt of pure laughing gas!

This hilarious hospital-based sitcom, starring James Bolam (New Tricks), Peter Bowles (To The Manor born) and Richard Wilson (One Foot In The Grave), features a trio of very different patients forever playing a game of one-upmanship and getting into scrapes with each other, at the same time causing grief to the overworked and irritable hospital staff. A huge ratings success for the ABC when it originally aired from 1979-1982, Only When I Laugh was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp, Home to Roost) and directed by Vernon Lawrence (The Bounder).