1982 - YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE, sort of funny comedy.

A spoof of those hospital drama TV shows, the formula is take a bunch of medical interns stick them in some dramatic situations and you have a hit.  Shows like Medical Center, MASH, House, Ben Casey, ER, and even the current flavor of the month the Pitt have been a reliable staple in the world of entertainment.

Young Doctors In Love was put together by some old comedy writers.  They were clearly trying to duplicate the success of The Zucker Brothers films particularly Airplane.  I would  say the ratio of hits to misses is roughly 40 percent and that's being generous.

The jokes are a scattershot mess with some slapstick, some "little people" humor, some sex jokes and this being an 80's comedy lots of gratuitous female nudity.  The film weirdly enough has some sentimental moments which seems like they should be in another film.

 

The director was television producer Gary Marshall who was certainly an old comedy pro running shows like Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, The Odd Couple and Joanie loves Chachi. But Marshall would probably be better off not mentioning that last one.  Marshall apparently got it into his head that it was time to be a film director.  Well, the really big bucks are in the movies if they turn into hits.

Marshall was smart enough to load his cast up with lots of funny actors and they certainly are experts at spinning straw into gold.  I am ashamed to admit I did laugh at the dancing Candy Stripers and Héctor Elizondo as a gender confused gangster.

The film was written by a couple of comedy veterans Michael Elias and Rich Eustis, the running time as 96 minutes.