Oh, Doctor Beeching!

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Oh, Doctor Beeching!
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Created by	David Croft Richard Spendlove
Written by	David Croft Richard Spendlove John Stevenson Paul Minett Brian Leveson John Chapman
Directed by	Roy Gould
Starring	Paul Shane Jeffrey Holland Su Pollard Julia Deakin Stephen Lewis Perry Benson Barbara New Terry John Paul Aspden
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	20 (including pilot) (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producer	David Croft
Producers	David Croft Charles Garland
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	14 August 1995 (1995-08-14) – 28 September 1997 (1997-09-28)
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Oh, Doctor Beeching! is a BBC television sitcom, written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, and produced for the BBC. After a pilot for the programme was broadcast in August 1995, full production was green-lighted, with the sitcom running for two series from 8 July 1996 to 28 September 1997.^[1] The series focuses on the lives of the staff who run the fictional station of Hatley on a rural branch line who find themselves looking for the means to keep their station open in the wake of news that Dr. Richard Beeching has promoted plans for the closing of many branch lines and their respective stations.

Filming of the sitcom included exterior shots taken at Arley railway station on the Severn Valley Railway. The series was the last of three comedies that Croft co-wrote to feature many of the same actors from his previous works of Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord?, and the last full series sitcom for him to create. Despite good initial viewing figures, the show was axed after two series following extensive problems competing with other programming on the BBC.