“Gentleman Jack meets Scrubs.”
A drama based on real-life 19th-century military surgeon and pioneer of contemporary medicine, Inspector General James Barry. Only after his death was it revealed that Dr Barry was, in fact, a woman: to fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, Miranda Barry spent nearly sixty years spectacularly deceiving the world.
In a repeating series that charts Miranda AKA “James” Barry’s extraordinary rise through the ranks of the British Army, we’ll see her performing medical feats and become embroiled in her personal dramas, as well as those of her patients and colleagues. During series one, we’ll see her disguising herself as a man to attend The University of Edinburgh; her acceptance into the military; and her arrival in Cape Town, where she catches the attention of Lieutenant General Lord Somerset when she saves his dying daughter. The remainder of the series will follow her illustrious and controversial career traveling throughout the British empire to her forced retirement and death, when all records relating Dr James Barry were sealed by military officials for 100 years.
Status: not yet commissioned