The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether
Theatre Macabre · Season 1 · Episode 8
A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.
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Season
1
Episode
8
Air Date
19/Nov/1971
Air Time
—
Runtime
25 min
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A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.
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