Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Series 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dr. Finlay's Casebook Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Phantom Piper Of Tannochbrae
Nov 21, 1965 · 50 min
Lord Moorcroft is trying to persuade the Council to put up a memorial to the fallen of the 1914-18 war. But there is a section of the community who feel that the money would be be
The Champion
Nov 28, 1965 · 50 min
Kevin McDonald is Tannochbrae's shot-putting hope for the Highland Games. He is big, handsome and good-natured, but something brings about a change in his temperament. Finlay's e
The Draper Of Dumfries
Dec 5, 1965 · 50 min
Robert Finlay visits his son Alan at Tannochbrae for the first time. Left to his own devices for much of the time he forms an association with Mrs. Hamilton. Mr. Finlay thinks he
The Longest Visit
Dec 12, 1965 · 50 min
Alan Finlay is a poor sailor. So when he is called out to visit old Strachan, the lighthouse keeper, who has spiked his finger, he dreads the trip. But Strachan is far worse than
Body And Soul
Dec 19, 1965 · 50 min
Angus Hendry, like many others in Tannochbrae, has been out of work for three years. The partners at Arden House each have their own theory on the best way to help him. What begi
They Do It In Africa
Jan 9, 1966 · 50 min
Jamie looks to young Willie Kemp to help him over his bout of crematorium melancholia.
Free Medicine
Feb 6, 1966 · 50 min
Dr. Finlay dreams of a free National Health Service, but Dr. Cameron is sceptical and fears the extra workload free health care might bring. But as usual the older man's attitude
The Seniority Rule
Feb 13, 1966 · 50 min
The depression of the late 1920's was a time of sacrifice. Sacrifice for food, for principle and for solidarity.
A Matter Of Confidence
Feb 20, 1966 · 50 min
Peter MacNab is a medical student of great promise who for one reason or another seems to have lost all confidence in himself. But this changes when Dr. Cameron asks him to examin
For Services Rendered
Feb 27, 1966 · 50 min
There are times when a private patient is more trouble than he's worth. Not many would dispute a doctor's moral right to be paid for services rendered, but how far should Finlay p
To Err Is Human
Mar 6, 1966 · 50 min
When Willie Campbell returns after supposedly serving in the Army in India he finds that his wife Jeannie has given birth to a child. Naturally there is a domestic explosion and D
Better Safe Than Sorry
Mar 13, 1966 · 50 min
Hugh Armitage decides to stay at Lochend Guest House for a nice long holiday because of its reputation as ""one of the healthiest spots west of Dumfries"". But when he finds himse
O Sole Mio
Mar 20, 1966 · 50 min
John MacEwan, one time concert singer and now professional loafer, comes into conflict with Aldo Narduzzi, an amateur opera singer. Caught up in the quarrel is young Tommy MacEwan
No Subsidy For Sin
Mar 27, 1966 · 50 min
Annie Laurie sets the tongues of Tannochbrae wagging when she takes in Willie Gillespie as a lodger.
Kate And Robert
Apr 3, 1966 · 50 min
Dr. Cameron and Dr. Finlay successfully deliver Kate Sinclair's first child. Later Finlay warns Kate and her husband that it would almost certainly be fatal for Kate to have anoth
Crusade
Apr 24, 1966 · 50 min
School doctor Fay Beresford targets the primitive toilet facilities at the local school, which she insists must be replaced by modern plumbing. It is a task at which both the Arde
The Legacy
May 1, 1966 · 50 min
Janet is preoccupied: it is the jam making season. Hordes of small boys are beating a path to Arden House bartering old jam jars for pennies while the air is thick with bees attra
The Uninvited Guest
May 15, 1966 · 50 min
A girl is thrown from her horse and knocked unconscious trying to cross a river in which Alan Finlay is fishing. When she comes round her memory is gone. The partners decide that