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Peak Practice for it's
medical selection
Peak Practice was a British
drama series about a
GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the
Derbyshire Peak District — and the
doctors who worked there. It ran on
ITV from 1993 to 2002, and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred
Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish,
Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover, and
Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Gary Mavers who starred in series 5 as Dr Andrew Attwood is the brother of Lee Mavers, lead singer of
The La's
The series was axed in 2002 and ended on a literal cliffhanger when two of the series main characters plunged off a cliff. Viewers wrote to ITV in their thousands and a petition for one last episode was set up by website Peak Practice Online. However, all pleas were unsuccessful and ITV said they would not make any more episodes.
Peak Practice was replaced by
Sweet Medicine, another medical series set in Derbyshire. It lasted a few episodes before it was dropped from the schedules.
Cardale was based on the Derbyshire village of
Crich, and the series was filmed there and at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably
Matlock and
Ashover.