Overview
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.
Cast
James Bolam
29 episodes
Peter Bowles
29 episodes
Christopher Strauli
29 episodes
Richard Wilson
29 episodes
Derrick Branche
22 episodes
Alexandra Brook
2 episodes
Patsy Smart
1 episodes
Elin Jenkins
1 episodes
Stephen Greif
1 episodes
Robert Gillespie
1 episodes
Pamela Cundell
1 episodes
Sally Osborne
1 episodes
John Junkin
1 episodes
John Moore
1 episodes
Arnold Diamond
1 episodes
Naomi Buch
1 episodes
John Rapley
1 episodes
Moira Lister
1 episodes
Patrick Troughton
1 episodes
Ronnie Stevens
1 episodes
Jenny McCracken
1 episodes
Julia Goodman
1 episodes
Margaret Courtenay
1 episodes
Pat Ashton
1 episodes
John Quayle
1 episodes
Brenda Cowling
1 episodes
Judi Maynard
1 episodes
Richard Morant
1 episodes
Jeremy Bulloch
1 episodes
Les Flanagan
1 episodes
Ian Langstaff
1 episodes
Rick Pickard
1 episodes
Dominic Field
1 episodes
Reginald Marsh
1 episodes
Rosalind Ayres
1 episodes
Ann Beach
1 episodes
Sylvia Kay
1 episodes
Mary Tamm
1 episodes
Karl Howman
1 episodes
John Ronane
1 episodes
Isla Blair
1 episodes
Gwen Taylor
1 episodes
Oliver Pye
1 episodes
Kay Garner
1 episodes
Sue Glover
1 episodes
Lee Gibson
1 episodes
Marian Davies
1 episodes
Jane Shackell
1 episodes
Susan Sheridan
1 episodes
Wanda Ventham
1 episodes
John Nettleton
1 episodes
Terry Diab
1 episodes
Diane Bull
1 episodes
Jacqueline Clarke
1 episodes
Neil McCarthy
1 episodes
Norman Mitchell
1 episodes
Frank Middlemass
1 episodes
Patricia Brake
1 episodes
Nicholas McArdle
1 episodes