Program Title
Bramwell, Series 3

Episode number:
1 2 3 4

Description
An outbreak of cholera at the Thrift forces Eleanor to notify the local Medical Officer-ONeill. To her surprise, ONeill decides to treat the victims at the Thrift rather than cart them off to a fever hospital. With Roberts experience of cholera from his army days, he knows that there is little he can do except palliative care and that most of his patients will die. ONeill believes that he has a cure and starts to inject all the patients with a new anti-cholera serum. Thrown together by the epidemic and his pioneer work, Eleanor and ONeill fall in love. But when one of the patients dies not from cholera but from an arsenic compound, it appears ONeill is experimenting blindly with the patients

Original broadcast date
1997-11-30

Cast	Characters
Jemma Redgrave	Dr. Eleanor Bramwell
David Calder	Dr. Robert Bramwell
Andrew Connolly	Dr. Finn O'Neill

Credits

Producer: Tim Whitby, Harriet Davison
Director: Kate Cheeseman, Paul Murton, David Tucker, Paul Unwim, Tim Whitby

Intro
BRAMWELL/Episode 3/Intro by Russell Baker

Science can be a cruel master. Eleanor Bramwell is about to discover that, and if you have been following these stories about her you know there's no room for cruelty in Eleanor's soul.

When tonight's story opens, she's turned down an important job at a big teaching hospital rather than leave her small charity clinic in East London.

The hospital job was offered by Dr. Finn O'Neill, and Dr. O'Neill is all scientist. He is just as passionately devoted to science as Eleanor is to London's suffering poor.

However, he is one of the few men -- except for Eleanor's father -- who treat her with respect and admiration…even affection.

An earlier episode gave us hints that Dr. O'Neill and Eleanor might eventually become lovers.

Both have overlooked the one important difference between them: Dr. O'Neill has a passion for science and Eleanor has a subconscious yearning for sainthood. If their relationship is to get on, each will have to yield a little something.

The conflict in their character breaks into the open tonight when a deadly epidemic starts spreading through Eleanor's clinic.

Bramwell. Episode Three.



Episode number: 1 2 3 4




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