Surgical Spirit

Clever but caustic... top surgeon Sheila Sabatini rules the roost

Nicola McAuliffe is the clever yet caustic surgeon, Sheila Sabatini in this hospital comedy. Follow the trials & tribulations of Sheila's dysfunctional life - on and off the job.

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Surgeon Sheila Sabatini finds it tricky to ask for favours.

The Lecture

Top surgeon Sheila Sabatini is famous for putting peoples backs up and that makes asking favours a rather tricky operation.

Sheila Sabatini gets very choosy about the anaesthetists she will work with.

The Locum

Sheila Sabatini is very choosy about the anaesthetists she will work with, but it is a surgeon's privilege to change her mind.

Why is Joyce so resistant to the idea of an operation at her own hospital?

Joyce's Ulcer

Why is Joyce so resistant to the idea of an operation at her own hospital? It takes a woman to woman confrontation before Sheila Sabatini can find out.

To the relief of the hospital, top surgeon Mrs Sabatini is persuaded to take a break.

The Country, Right or Wrong

To the relief of the hospital, top surgeon Mrs Sabatini is persuaded to take a break, and who better to teach her relaxation that an anaesthetist?

A fellow surgeon gets his picture in the paper and Sheila Sabatini takes a moral stand.

Fame

When a fellow surgeon gets his picture in the paper, Sheila Sabatini takes a high moral stand, a position from which it is hard to back down.

Could Sheila learn a thing or two about life from Sammy Eldridge?

Sammy Eldridge

Mrs Sabatini take life very seriously but Sammy Eldridge doesn't. Could Sheila learn a thing or two?

Sabitini arrives at the hospital to discover that Lillie has been given the sack.

Cold Cuts

Sabitini arrives at the hospital to discover that Lillie, her favourite domestic, has been given the sack. Sabitini vows to sort the matter out. Meanwhile everyone else in the hospital is freezing owing to the heating having been turned down.

Mrs Sabatini is getting very irritated by Dr Haslam.

The Copeland Affair

Mrs Sabatini does so much work and has so many patients waiting to see her that she is getting annoyed at Dr Haslam being very slow getting them off to sleep.

Sheila Sabatini asks her colleague Jonathan Haslam to talk to her erring son Daniel.

Educating Daniel

Sheila Sabatini asks her colleague Jonathan Haslam to talk to her erring son Daniel.  While Sheila is teaching, a class a pupil goes to sleep.

Sheila Sabatini has handed over her operating list.

Doubting Thomas

Sheila Sabatini has handed over her operating list. Her registrar Doctor Thomas is in the theatre while she attends to patients in her consulting rooms.

Sheila panics as she hears her soon-to-be ex-husband on the phone.

The Phone Call

Sheila Sabatini has a phone call at work. She goes rigid with panic as she hears the voice of her soon-to-be ex-husband and tells him he has a wrong number; desperate as she is to talk to him.

Sheila Sabatini has an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party.

The Garden Party

Sheila Sabatini has an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party.  She intends to be accompanied by Jonathan Haslam, but he has a date at another piece of London greenery.

Joyce is concerned people think she is not coping with her job.

Something in the Air

Joyce is concerned people think she is not coping with her job when she is given an efficient new assistant and fears no-one will need her anymore. However, with the help of a Spanish cleaner, she finds a way of dealing with the situation.

Surgical Spirit

Surgical Spirit

Series 1

1. The Lecture

2. The Locum

3. Joyce's Ulcer

4. The Country, Right or Wrong

5. Fame

6. Sammy Eldridge