A Young Doctor's Notebook (TV series)

A Young Doctor's Notebook
Series one DVD cover, featuring Hamm (left) and Radcliffe (right)
Also known as
  • Playhouse Presents: A Young Doctor's Notebook,
  • A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories
GenreBritish dark comedy
Based onA Young Doctor's Notebook
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Written by
Directed by
Starring
ComposerStephen Warbeck
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
  • Kenton Allen
  • Jon Hamm
  • Saskia Schuster (series 1)
  • Lucy Lumsden
  • Matthew Justice
  • Dan Cheesbrough
  • Jon Mountague (series 2)
ProducerClelia Mountford
EditorMark Henson
Running time30 min. (with commercials)
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release6 December 2012 (2012-12-06) –
12 December 2013 (2013-12-12)
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A Young Doctor's Notebook is a British dark comedy television programme based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov. The 1925–1926 short stories were inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor in 1916–18. Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe portray the show's main character (a doctor at the fictional Muryevo Hospital in Russia at different ages). The first series was broadcast between 6 December and 27 December 2012 on Sky Arts 1, and a second (and final) series aired from 21 November to 12 December 2013. The first series takes place in the year 1917 during the Russian Revolution, and the second series takes place in the following year during the Russian Civil War.