Starring Herbert Lom as Dr Roger Corder and Sally Smith as his daughter Jennifer, it comprised 26 50-minute episodes and ran for two series 1963–1965.

Each episode focuses on a different patient, whose psychological condition Dr Corder treats using a humane, yet idiosyncratic, approach that mixes Freudian psychoanalysis with the contemporary methods associated with the then-fashionable theories of R. D.

Frequently Corder's initial patient in a story turns out not to be the character with the pressing mental health issue.

[3] Several high-profile guest stars appeared in his surgery or as hospital patients, including Joan Collins, Margaret Lockwood, Flora Robson, Roger Livesey, Rita Tushingham and André Morell.

[5] The advisor on psychiatric content was Dr Hugh L. Freeman, on behalf of the National Association for Mental Health (now Mind).