Born and Bred - Season 1 - Eps 3: The Inspector Calls

Name: Eps 3: The Inspector Calls
Released: 2002-05-05
Rating: 4.3

2002-05-05 • ? min • ⭐ 8.5/10

With no cash available to pay builders the villagers rally to get the cottage hospital up to scratch before an N.H.S. inspector arrives to approve it.Despite being told the post is cursed Deborah becomes chair of the newly revived parish council and, whilst the villagers stall the inspector,who has arrived early, she tries to get cash from bombastic mill-owner Horace Trubshaw. He agrees providing Tom will pick three workers for him to sack,which Tom refuses. However he is 'persuaded' to provide funds when his put-upon chief clerk Jack Stubbs exposes him for embezzlement. Jack's son,who has diphtheria, goes missing and the inspector - who has been generally humiliated by the plan to stall him - is so impressed by the community's response to locate the little boy that he approves the hospital. Eddie finds he has somehow asked Jean AND Helen to the pictures and is dumped by both of them.

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About Born and Bred

Title: Born and Bred

First Air Date: 2002-04-21

Last Air Date: 2005-08-03

Status: Ended

Rating: 8.5/10 (from 2 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 5

Total Episodes: 35

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

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. Bolam and French's characters are later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.