Wormwood

 This was inspired by a post from the former podcaster, Trial of a Timelord

Basically a 70's TV series based on you, and your neighbourhood. Using your surname. I have tweaked this a bit 

Mine is Wormwood. 

Medical Doctor, goes to jail for a crime he does not commit. He get sent to Wormwood scrubs- Which is also his name. So this is to quote Mr. Partridge a regional detective series, like Bergerac or Shoestring 

Wormwood  does a bit of bird. His appeal comes through. We see him being released from the gaol, with the opening titles. He is however struck off by the British Medical Council. 

Possibly for giving someone an abortion? Euthanasia?  Something that would be controversial and more so in the 1970s.

Child abuse  Dr Wormwood, denounced someone for child abuse?

So he scrapes a living-Mediator? Doing something like P,I work?  He often works for a local villain as something close to a mob Doctor. 

Lots of 1970s issues. NF ?Immigration in Southall. IRA, Paedophilia. Mental health- Beginnings of care in the community. 

I think Wormwood, is RC-He's Polish or Maltese. Making him Irish changes things. Maybe English nominal convert father? Polish or Italian mother? Or Anglicized 

One episode, NF try pushing in on the local villain who turns out to be Jewish



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Song for today ``There’s gotta be more…’’

I am borrowing this content for a moment. Yes I am aware I have a child’s musical taste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUOcQnWbk_U&feature=related I used to catch this song,on one of the music channels, a few years ago.  I liked it. Its a nice enough song.  Stacey O, is a sweet young lady. Who tired of the music business and became a volunteer in Africa. I have been listening to it all day today. I downloaded if from Amazon. It catches a moment in adolescence when, you start working, and its mopping floors, or loading books onto barrows. You go to college and its waiting around all day for three hours of lectures, eating instant noodles, and maybe watching Star trek, or the Simpsons  and going to bed. So you go to the club on the weekend. You go to the underwear party. You get drunk, but that’s it isn’t it
Read more

Malchera in High school

Image
Will from the in-betweeners, with bad skin, look at the area arround my left eye. I have just had a bout of conjuctiveitis. That and my half smile, to conceal my cracked incisor and dirty teeth... I don't know why I actually possess this picture. School Photographs, now there is racket. They take you out of class, and take your picture, and charge you for the picture. Anyway, my mother never paid for the school photographer. She had 4 children in the same school,  and paying for 4 photographs, would not have been cheap. I do remember the day though. Before me, the busty Kelly Panei, had gone first. The photographer had made a crack about beauty and the beast, so I knocked over his stand on the way out... But for years after, this was my mental image of myself...
Read more