Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a movie of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of medical students. It was produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970 and spawned numerous sequels with many of the same characters, which ran up to 1991.

The show was widely syndicated in the United States and Canada. The show also proved to be very popular in Australia, where the series Doctor Down Under was filmed and based.

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. It was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain, made Dirk Bogarde one of the biggest British stars of the 1950s. The film was seen by more people in its first year on cinema release than any other in British cinema history (Morley). Its success spawned six sequels and a television series.

Other well known British actors featured in the film were Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and Donald Houston. James Robertson Justice appeared as the irascible chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt, a role he would repeat in many of the sequels. Joan Hickson and Joan Sims starred, and Shirley Eaton played comedy, not just a dumb blonde.

The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Richard Gordon, and follows a group of students through their first year at medical school. Betty Box picked up a copy of the book at Crewe during a long rail journey, and saw its possibility as a film. But Box and Ralph Thomas had a job convincing Rank executives that people would go to a film about doctors, and that Bogarde, who up to then had played spivs and Service heroes, had sex appeal and could play light comedy. They got a low budget, and were only allowed to use available Rank contract artists.

Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950's medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose. Written by Jeremy Perkins

"Doctor in the House" follows the misadventures of medical students Michael Upton (Barry Evans), Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), Paul Collier (George Layton) and Dick Stuart-Clark (Geoffrey Davies). The lads basically mean well, but their habits of skyving off and attempting to chat up every available nurse drives the ferocious Professor Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark) to distraction. Written by Roseanne Hodge