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DOCTOR WHO? It's all getting out of hand in Doctor in the House

OH brother! It's going to be a laugh when a gorgeous reality TV show star joins forces with one of the funniest actors to have graced Coronation Street in recent years.

Yes, breathing new life into a comedy classic which will perk you up like a spring tonic will be Eric Potts from Coronation Street and Grace Adams-Short, who shot to fame in one of the most popular series of Big Brother.

If you remember with fondness the original rib-tickling films, or the TV series that followed later, then you'll know what to expect if you prescribe yourself some tickets to consult Doctor In The House.

Eric, who served up some great comedy moments as baker Diggory Compton in Corrie, will be taking the part of the irascible surgeon-with-a-short-fuse Sir Lancelot Spratt.

It is bound to be a riot because Eric, and Grace, who was a dancer on Top of the Pops and with Rod Stewart's live show before entering the BB House in 2006, are teamed up with one of theatre audiences' favourite funny men - Damian Williams.

Doctor In The House was one of the most well-loved comedy series of the 20th century. The original books by Richard Gordon, not only spawned several successful plays, but also a series of films and a TV sitcom that lasted over a decade from the mid-1970s.

The original film version was the most successful movie in Britain in 1954, and starred Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and a young Joan Sims.

This new Bruce James production follows the same inexperienced and hapless young medical student, Simon Sparrow, played by Damian Williams as he begins his five-year internship at St Swithin's Teaching Hospital. There, he continually falls foul of Sir Lancelot, who does not suffer fools, or junior doctors, gladly.

The humour is very similar to that of the famous Carry On' films as we follow the off-duty lives of the medical students - their happy triumphs and brave failures, love affairs and parties.

Doctor in the House is at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil from tomorrow until Saturday, May 3 with performances at 7.30pm and a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Tickets are £14 plus concessions from 01935 422884.

10:28am Tuesday 29th April 2008

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