Only When I Laugh
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Only When I Laugh

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.

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8. Away for Christmas

0.0Dec 24, 1981 · 30 min

On Christmas Eve, the ward gets a new patient, eight-year-old elected mute Danny, a known arsonist whose parents are abroad. Figgis dresses up as Father Christmas to steal presents for him from the Children's Ward but is rumbled and has to escape, getting the benefits of kisses from nurses who mistake him for the hospital's other Father Christmas.