The Indian Doctor

Thursdays at 10 PM beginning March 24

Repeats Fridays at 3 AM beginning March 25; Saturdays at 8 PM beginning March 26; and Sundays at midnight beginning March 27 

Airs on Fusion on Wednesdays at 10 PM beginning March 30

This three-season comedy-drama is  set in the 1960s in a South Wales coal-mining community. When the village’s local doctor dies, he is replaced by high-flying Delhi graduate Dr. Prem Sharma (Sanjeev Bhaskar). Along with his wife, Kamini (Ayesha Dharker), the couple have eschewed a glamorous lifestyle in London for the sleepy Welsh village, a fact that the regal Kamini does not let her husband forget. 

In Season 1, the storyline revolves around the seemingly friendly colliery manager Richard Sharpe (Mark Williams) and the dark secret that he has deliberately ignored safety warnings to further his own career. Evidence to this effect exists in the previous doctor’s diaries, and Prem becomes determined to reveal the truth.

In Season 2, Prem faces a new adversary: evangelist preacher Herbert Todd. When an outbreak of smallpox threatens to bring catastrophe to the village, Prem finds himself fighting prejudice and incompetence while he tries to win the hearts and minds of the villagers over the bull-headed Todd. Also, Prem and his wife Kamini nervously await the arrival of his dreaded mother-in-law, Pushpa.

In Season 3, set three years after Prem and Kamini’s arrival, they have become very much a part of the Trefelin community. But their lives and those of everyone in the village are about to change when the wild and rambunctious sons of the mine owner return to bring a first real taste of the swinging ‘60s.