Peak Practice

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 during the course of the series.

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.

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.

After the end of Peak Practice, ITV attempted to launch a follow-up series called Sweet Medicine, which extended the stories of different characters from the original show. It lasted a few episodes before it was dropped from the schedules.

List of Peak Practice Characters

Dr Jack Kerruish - Kevin Whately
Dr Beth Glover - Amanda Burton
Dr Will Preston - Simon Shepherd
Isabel de Gines - Sylvia Syms
Kims Beardsmore - Esther Coles
Ellie Ndebala - Sharond Hinds
Chloe White - Hazel Ellerby
James White - Richard Platt
Alice North - Margery Mason
Trevor Sharpe - Shaun Prendergast
Leanda Sharpe - Beth Goddard
Sarah Preston - Jacqueline Leonard
Douglas Hart - Maurice Denham
Laura Elliot - Veronica Roborts
Andrew Attwood - Gary Mavers
Erica Matthews - Saskia Wickham
Kate Webster/Preston - Shelagh Mcleod
Kirsty Attwood - Sukie Smith
Dr David Shearer - Adrian Lukis
Clare Shearer - Yolanda Vazquez/Fiona Gillies
Dawn Rudge - Sarah Parish
Dr Joanna Graham - Haydn Gwynne
Dr Martin Henderson - Christian Burgess
Dr Sam Morgan - Joseph Millson
Carol Johnson - Deborah Grant
Kerri Davidson - Susannah Corbett
Dr Tom Deneley - Gray O'Brien
Dr Alex Redman - Maggie O'Neill
Claire Brightwell - Eva Pope
Carl Clarke - David Kitchener

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ELWELL said ...

I purchased Chestnut Bank House in 1998 which was used a The Beeches surgery in this series. It has now been converted back to it's Victorian splender. Byron Elwell.

--ELWELL 14:37, 13 October 2008 (BST)

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