I Watch Films: Nurse On Wheels

 

Nurse On Wheels

Johanna Jones is a nurse who passes her driving test despite (because?) her instructor swallows his pipe and she has to extract it. With this qualification she becomes a district nurse in the countryside. The locals complain and unfavourably compare her to the previous district nurse who had been there for 26 years. They are also a bunch of eccentrics with odd habits, so all her visits are various comedy skits and sketches. She deals with this and her medical responsibilities, also the flirtations, with a firm non-nonsense attitude.

In private she despairs of winning their confidence and respect, despite the support of her batty mother, until the old nurse comes for tea and tells her that it was exactly the same when she started.

At this point some plot arrives in the form of a couple in a caravan who are expecting a baby. The local landowner wants to move them on. This creates a wedge between Jones and the landowner who has emerged as her most likely love interest.

A light-hearted situation comedy of the sixties. Made by the team who did the Carry On films, including some of the same actors, but leaning a bit harder into the community and situation and a bit less into the bawdiness.

Watch This: Some gentle sixties nurse-comedy
Don’t Watch This: It’s a series of nurse-related comic skits