A Very Peculiar Practice

Name: A Very Peculiar Practice
Genre: Drama

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A campus medical practice used as a way of writing about what was happening to universities.

A Very Peculiar Practice opens with a main title sequence of 43 seconds.

It arrived on BBC Two in 1986, when Yes, Prime Minister, Great Railway Journeys and The Old Grey Whistle Test were also on the network.

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The opening titles

43s

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