Down to the bare facts for Barbara Windsor

      At the Long Hampton Hospital, Dr Nookey seems to attract trouble, beginning with an incident in the women’s washroom, which he’d mistakenly entered, frightening the highly-strung Miss Armitage out of her senses. Nookey’s carefree manner isn’t to everyone’s liking at the hospital, with Dr Stoppidge wanting Nookey sacked for the washroom incident; there isn’t any love lost between Nookey and Dr Carver either, but Carver ignores Stoppidge’s request for Nookey’s sacking.

      Carver, meanwhile, has his sights set on his own private clinic where he can treat affluent private patients, like Ellen Moore, a lonely widow who’s longing for a little romance in her life again; in Carver she sees a man who might provide that, but all he’s interested in is finding a way not to her heart, but her purse; he wants her to turn his dream into reality by financing the Frederick Carver Foundation and tries to woo her, courtesy of a few chat-up lines borrowed from Dr Nookey, at the hospital’s grand buffet and dance. His plans fail dismally.

      When she asks Carver to find a replacement for the doctor’s post in a medical mission she established on the far-off Beatific Islands, he thinks it’s impossible to find someone daft enough to work in such an outpost, but then his mind focuses on Dr Nookey. When the young doctor, who has his drinks spiked by Dr Stoppidge, causes more mayhem at the hospital, he faces the hospital’s disciplinary committee. Spotting an opportunity to fill Mrs Moore’s vacancy at her mission, Dr Carver appeases the committee’s concerns over Nookey by offering him a last chance to save his career. Within hours he’s flying off to the Beatific Islands, tiny specks of land battered by rain and hurricanes; he soon realises his life is in the doldrums, that is until he discovers something which will make his fortune in England. Courtesy of an unsuspecting Gladstone Screwer, a serum causing drastic weight loss within days makes Nookey a millionaire when he finally returns to home shores and forms his own private clinic in partnership with none other than Ellen Moore.

      Carver, meanwhile, who’d travelled to the islands to check on Dr Nookey, is lucky to escape with his life when the schooner he was travelling in, the Bella Vista, founders off the coast in a terrible storm. He faces more bad luck when he eventually returns home to find his dreams of a private clinic shattered by Nookey. Desperate to find out the constituent parts of the magic weight-losing serum, he hatches a plan to send his colleague, Dr Stoppidge, into the clinic disguised as a woman, but his scheme backfires. Dr Nookey’s good luck is challenged, too, when Gladstone Screwer, realising Nookey is on to a winner exchanging the serum for 200 cigarettes, turns up for a slice of the profits.

      A quick chat before the cameras roll

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