Scripted series · Sky Arts
A Young Doctor's Notebook
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Daniel Radcliffe
Young Doctor
8 eps
Adam Godley
The Feldsher
8 eps
Vicki Pepperdine
Anna
8 eps
Rosie Cavaliero
Pelageya
8 eps
Shaun Pye
Yegorych
3 eps
Tim Steed
NKVD Agent Kirill
4 eps
Neil Edmond
Professor of Obstetrics
1 eps
James Grogan
Private Erik
1 eps
Charlie Coletta
Katya
1 eps
Janine Duvitski
Belladonna Zbinka
1 eps
Rebecca Gethings
Margarita (Mother)
1 eps
Colin Hoult
Aleksandr (Father)
1 eps
Amara Mountford
Little Natasha
1 eps
Steve Speirs
Syphilitic Mikhail
1 eps
Jenny Galloway
Lidka's Grandmother
1 eps
Cara Horgan
Klara
1 eps
Rhianna Hosmer
Lidka
1 eps
Susy Kane
Beautiful Woman
1 eps
Tim Key
Pyotr the Patient
1 eps
Christopher Godwin
Leopold Leopoldovich
2 eps
Tayler Marshall
Young Boy
1 eps
Wendy Nottingham
Elena (Mother)
1 eps
Karina Fernandez
Syphilitic Woman
1 eps
Miles Jupp
Palchikov the Clerk
1 eps
Joshua McGuire
Even Younger Doctor
1 eps
Andy Apollo
Soldier in Question
1 eps
Daniel Cerqueira
Vlas
4 eps
Daniel Fearn
Standing Patient
1 eps
Adam Harley
Handsome Soldier
1 eps
Jake Mann
Officer of Rank
1 eps
Gareth Mason
Orderly
1 eps
Geoffrey McGivern
Pharmacist
1 eps
Adam McSorley
Zemstov Inspector
1 eps
Margaret Clunie
Natasha
3 eps
Charles Edwards
The Colonel
3 eps
Tom Forbes
Anatoliy
3 eps
Peter Svatik
Guard
1 eps
Mat Ruttle
Viciously Mauled Soldier
1 eps
Paul Popplewell
Yuri
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How A Young Doctor's Notebook actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
A Young Doctor's Notebook reads strongest on Character Depth, Humour and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 8 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20131 episode
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20124 episodes
6.5IMDbIn the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.
Best episode · S01E04 Episode 4
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20134 episodes
7.3IMDbBest episode · S02E04 Episode 4
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S02E04
Episode 4
The young Doctor delivers a self-serving eulogy at a funeral. The Bolsheviks take over. The Young Doctor is required to make a life-changing decision when a train is derailed.
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S02E03
Episode 3
Pelageya is sick with either malaria or typhus as the Young Doctor becomes more fixated with Natasha.
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S02E02
Episode 2
Freshly rehabilitated, the Old Doctor is attacked aboard a train for his morphine addiction. In 1918, the Young Doctor falls in love with a beautiful aristocrat.
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S02E01
Episode 1
It is 1918 and as the Civil War rages through Russia, quiet Mureyvo's Young Doctor is more concerned with hiding his growing morphine addiction from an inspection.
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S01E04
Episode 4
Balancing a heavy workload with a developing morphine habit, the young doctor finds it increasingly difficult to conceal his burgeoning addiction from his colleagues. After one humiliation too many, he resolves to make a clean start and a dedicated effort to combat the syphilis epidemic. But a blizzard-bound journey to visit a dying patient proves to be his toughest test yet.
- Directed by Alex Hardcastle
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S01E03
Episode 3
In spite of his success in the operating room, life in the snow-bound hospital begins to take its toll on the young doctor. His efforts to combat his feelings of boredom and isolation are defeated and he wonders how much longer he can last. Nursing abdominal pains and two harrowing cases, the young doctor is tempted by the allure of morphine...
- Directed by Alex Hardcastle
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E01
Series Two: Behind The Curtain
S02E04
Episode 4
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S02E03
Episode 3
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S02E02
Episode 2
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S02E01
Episode 1
- Directed by Robert McKillop
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
S01E04
Episode 4
- Directed by Alex Hardcastle
- Written by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kenton AllenExecutive Producer
- Clelia MountfordProducer
Writing
- Shaun PyeWriter
- Mark ChappellWriter
- Alan ConnorWriter
Direction
- Alex HardcastleDirector
- Robert McKillopDirector
Cinematography
- Simon VickeryDirector of Photography
Music
- Stephen WarbeckOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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