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Nearly 23 years after Doctor Finlay's Casebook made it's last appearance on Radio 4 (not counting repeats), the strains of Trevor Duncan's March from his "Little Suite" heralded the return of the characters created byA. J. Cronin to BBC Radio 4 in Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag, A 6 part series which was broadcast from 8 October to 12 November 2001. The characters returned in another 6 part series titled Dr Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Black Bag from 25 November to 30 December 2002.
issued
a double cassette of Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black
Bag, on November 18 2002.
 Dr
Finlay: Adventures Of A Black Bag
series dramatised by Sue Rodwell and produced by Jeremy Howe in Bristol. Monday
8 October 2001
Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 15 October 2001 2: Who Laughs Last Finlay meets his match with Miss Meg Mirlees, the stingiest meanest most cunning widow in Scotland. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 22 October 2001  3:
The
Day Dandini Came To Town
Finlay finds that a touring Cinderella has more in common with La Traviata than a pantomime. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
additional
material by
musical
director Nicola Skillbeck
Monday 29 October 2001 4: Wee Robertson Finlay gets caught in the middle when a husband escapes a hen-pecking wife by losing his memory. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 5 November 2001  5:
The
Wife Of A Hero
Finlay spoils the party by nearly killing two patients on the eve of Levenford United's Cup semi final with Glasgow Rangers. Cast
List
Monday 12 November 2001 6: The Sisters Scobie Finlay rashly decides he can cure the crabby Scobie sisters of both the flu and their personal differences. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
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issued
a double cassette of Dr Finlay: The Further Adventures
of a Black Bag, on June 2 2003, it was also
released as a double CD.
Dr Finlay:
The Further Adventures Of A Black Bag
 series
dramatised by Sue Rodwell
and produced & directed by Jeremy Howe
& Viv Bebby in
Bristol.
From
the BBC Press
Office release:
As the first story opens, Dr Finlay is still trying to bring the practice
into the 20th century (the stories are set in the Thirties). Each episode
reveals the extent of Finlay’s medical knowledge and the limits of his
understanding of the foibles of human nature when he is confronted by the
inscrutable maladies of the townsfolk of Levenford.
Monday
25 November 2002
Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 2 December 2002 2: The Fever When Scarlet Fever hits Levenford, Finlay tries his hand at being a private detective - with disastrous results. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 9 December 2002 3: Miracle By Lestrange When new fangled Alternative Medicine hits Levenford, Finlay and Cameron find they are losing all their patients, even Janet. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
 Monday
16 December 2002
4: Birth And Death As the squabble over who is the most up to date doctor gets more heated it takes a baby to teach Cameron and Finlay a lesson in humility. Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 23 December 2002 5: The Golden Fishbone Finlay is distracted from medicine by a fishbone that brings the promise of a fast fortune! Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
Monday 30 December 2002  6:
The
Match
Finlay plays with fire. In this case the fire is called Miss Georgina McNab and he may get his fingers burnt. But not if Nurse Angus has anything to do with it! Dr
Finlay ..... John
Gordon Sinclair
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Thanks to Ian Beard for the vintage book scans.
References: BBC Radio 4 "What's On"; BBC Press Office release.