Doctor at the Top is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors.

[1] With episodes written (though not jointly) by George Layton and Bill Oddie, the series follows directly from its predecessor Doctor Down Under, eleven years earlier.

[2] In this series the lead characters have all progressed in their careers: Waring and Collier are now surgeons, and Stuart-Clark is a professor.

According to Layton, it "depressed the whole nation", and Oddie dubbed it "Doctor Down The Drain".

[4] This was the final series of the Doctor in the House television franchise.