Mike King

Appears in:
Series 2, The Christmas Special, Series 3

Played By:
Reece Shearsmith

Quickie Bio:
A radio DJ at Sr. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital. He offers to let Les fill in for him (so he can go play cards with Mr. Best and Dr. Simon, who he's known since they were kids together). He also serves as the emcee at the local line-dancing competition (in Charlie's dream, at any rate). He blackmails Dr. Westley to get him to attach a new arm to his friend, Lance (he pulled the arm out of a bin by the hospital's incinerator).

Useless Trivia:
  • In The Christmas Special Reece supplies the voice for Mike King, but Jeremy stands in on-screen.
  • The "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go" card game was based on a few different things. One was a couple of guys Jeremy sat near on a trip back from Leeds. One kept calling the other "Young Man", and the "Young Man" kept calling the other guy "Sir" -- and after a while it got really annoying. The other inspiration is Jeremy's childhood, when his older brother would try to teach him card games that he knew Jeremy was too young to understand with their wildly complicated rules.


    • Quotes:
  • When the shit's been shat...




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    Series 3
    Dr. Lucas Wesley

    Appears in:
    Series 2, Series 3

    Played By:
    Steve Pemberton

    Quickie Bio:
    A colleague of Dr. Fish. Gives Mr. Bamford a second opinion on his test results (which apparently say that he's terminal). Like Dr. Fish, prefers breaking bad news to patients by drawing parallels with popular movies. He also reluctantly performs Lance's arm-attachment surgery.



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    Series 3
    Dr. Fish

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Reece Shearsmith

    Quickie Bio:
    A doctor at St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital during the great nosebleed plague. He doesn't like breaking bad news to his patients. Apparently he watches a lot of movies though, and prefers talking to his patients using movies as an allegory for their situations.

    Quotes:
  • How old would you have been next birthday?




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    Mr. Best

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Steve Pemberton

    Quickie Bio:
    Les' boss at St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital. Plays cards with Dr. Simon and Mike King, who have all been friends since they were kids. Knows a lot of strange card games (Slippery Jack, Forty Card Drag, Hoover, Eight Men Down), but the favorite is Go Johnny Go Go Go Go.

    Useless Trivia:
  • The "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go" card game was based on a few different things. One was a couple of guys Jeremy sat near on a trip back from Leeds. One kept calling the other "Young Man", and the "Young Man" kept calling the other guy "Sir" -- and after a while it got really annoying. The other inspiration is Jeremy's childhood, when his older brother would try to teach him card games that he knew Jeremy was too young to understand with their wildly complicated rules.
    • Quotes:
  • McQueen, there's arses that need wiping!




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    Dr. Simon

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Mark Gatiss

    Quickie Bio:
    He plays cards with Mike King and Mr. Best. They've been friends since they were kids. Is not familiar with many of the games King and Best know.

    Useless Trivia:
  • The "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go" card game was based on a few different things. One was a couple of guys Jeremy sat near on a trip back from Leeds. One kept calling the other "Young Man", and the "Young Man" kept calling the other guy "Sir" -- and after a while it got really annoying. The other inspiration is Jeremy's childhood, when his older brother would try to teach him card games that he knew Jeremy was too young to understand with their wildly complicated rules.




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    Mr. Bamford

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Mark Gatiss

    Quickie Bio:
    Mr. Bamford is in the hospital during the great nosebleed plague. The test have been run and his doctors are ready to make a diagnosis, but Dr. Fish doesn't know a good way to break the news to him. Apparently he is going to die quite soon (in some amount of time involving a 2... definitely before he reaches his 45th birthday).



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    Owen Fallowfield

    Appears in:
    Series 3

    Played By:
    Mark Gatiss

    Quickie Bio:
    Mortician who really loves his job. Unfortunately for him, he gets let go after his new co-worker, Todd, observes things gone astray, and certain "activities" that took place in the morgue...



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