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"A Prescription for Laughter"
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
22 Cast Members
Pamela Stephenson
Permanent Wave
Bert Newton
Mr Cody
Richard Meikle
The President
Drew Forsythe
Katz
Andrew McFarlane
Milligan
Graeme Blundell
Mr X
June Salter
Lady Cliquot
Terry Bader
Mr Gleeson
Bill Young
Agent 1
Lance Curtis
Agent 2
Bill McCluskey
Producer
Rebecca Rigg
Mercia King
Miguel López
Juan Peron
Jason Samuels
Bud Abel
Jeremy Larsson
Rupert Young
Brent Gowland
Bernard Christian
Sarah Lambert
Mary Grey
Julith Steer
Catrina Fellows
Simone Buchanan
Jane Gilmour
Roger Newcombe
Narrator (uncredited)
