Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.
A bed with a view
Operation norman
The rumour
The man with the face
Let them eat cake
Tangled web
Is there a doctor in the house?
Whatever happened to gloria robbins?
Where there's a will
It can damage your health
The cosmic influence
The visitors
The lost sheep
Last tango
A day in the life of
The right honourable gentleman
Adam's rib
Postman's knock
Accident
Dear diary
These you have loved
Away for christmas
Blood brothers
Conduct unbecoming
All in the mind
In sickness and in health
Escape
When did you last see your father?
The reunion
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