` A Stitch in Time is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke and Jerry Desmonde.

[1] It was written by Jack Davies, Wisdom, Henry Blyth and Eddie Leslie, and produced by Hugh Stewart and Earl St. John.

Banned from the hospital, Norman is unable to visit Lindy, so he and Mr Grimsdale join the St John Ambulance Brigade, which gives him the opportunity to do so.

The slapstick sequences, however – though including the time-honoured dentist's chair farce and the inevitable female impersonation (this time as a nurse) – are inventive and smartly put over.

The script sticks closely to the winning Wisdom formula as he knots his cap in confused shyness in his attempts to declare his love for a pretty nurse.

[7] Sky Movies gave the film three out of five stars, noting the film "has just enough inspired tomfoolery – a madcap race on casualty trolleys down the corridors of a hospital; a hectic ride for a bandaged Norman on top of an ambulance; Norman messing up a St John's Ambulance Brigade concert – to ensure a decent quota of laughs.