Dr. Sylvia Gilbertson is a General Practitioner in Greendale. She is also the mother of Sarah Gilbertson.
Biography
Dr. Gilbertson was born in Wales and later moved to Greendale where her daughter Sarah was born. She is 35 years of age, and works as the main village doctor alongside a Dr. Pepperill. Their main place of work is the Surgery, located in the middle of town.
Personality
She is capable and efficient with a reassuringly competent “no nonsense” manner. She also has a good singing voice and is an important member of the Pencaster Amateur Operatic Society. Her husband, also a doctor, has a thriving practice in Pencaster. She is very wise and likes to make her patients do everything right.
Job
Dr. Gilberton works as a general practicioner in Greendale. The village's resident doctor/nurse, She holds a surgery three days a week in Garner Bridge and also does some work in the small hospital and maternity unit of Pencaster.
Attire
In the first and second series, she is shown wearing a white coat with a colourful flower shirt beneath it whenever she is at work. In other appearances throughout the first and second series, she wears a checkered suit above her shirt when she is out of the Surgery to either visiting her patients in their homes or if she is doing her shopping. She also wears a grey bowler hat with a black band and silver medical emblem on it.
In the third series onwards, she still wears the same outfit from series 1 and 2 but wears a plain beige shirt underneath and is no longer shown wearing her bowler hat.
Vehicles
Throughout her appearances, Doctor Gilbertson has owned different vehicles throughout, mostly cars.
In the books, she is shown driving a red Ford Sierra sedan with the numberplate DRG 400. She also owns a bronze coloured sedan with the numberplate DOC 1.
In the TV series however, she is said to own a yellow Renault, which was mentioned to be undergoing servicing in Pencaster as said in the episode, The Sheep in the Clover Field. The yellow Renault was never heard of afterwards; as a result, the only way Doctor Gilbertson went around is by walking on foot. It would not be until her birthday that she got a luxurious white coupe, with the registration SYLVIA 1, as a birthday present.
Appearances
Main Series
- Series 1 - The Sheep in the Clover Field, Postman Pat's Difficult Day and Postman Pat Goes Sledging
- Series 2 - Postman Pat in a Muddle, Postman Pat Follows a Trail, Postman Pat has the Best Village, Postman Pat Has Too Many Parcels, Postman Pat and the Big Surprise, Postman Pat and the Robot, Postman Pat and the Beast of Greendale and Postman Pat and the Mystery Tour
- Series 3 - Postman Pat and the Runaway Kite (cameo), Postman Pat and the Hungry Goat, Postman Pat and the Ice Cream Machine, Postman Pat and the Great Greendale Race, Postman Pat and the Jumble Sale, Postman Pat the Magician, Postman Pat and the Spotty Situation, Postman Pat and the Greendale Movie, Postman Pat Goes Football Crazy, Postman Pat at the Seaside (unseen), Postman Pat and the Job Swap Day, Postman Pat's Popstars (cameo), Postman Pat and the Great Dinosaur Hunt, Postman Pat and the Midsummer Market and Postman Pat and the Train Inspector
- Series 4 - Postman Pat and the Surprise Present, Postman Pat and the Spring Dance, Postman Pat and the Fancy Dress Party, Postman Pat and the Playful Pets, Postman Pat and the Pink Slippers, Postman Pat and the Pet Show, Postman Pat and the Tricky Transport Day, Postman Pat the Secret Superhero (does not speak), Postman Pat and the Bowling Buddies, Postman Pat and the Magic Lamp, Postman Pat and the Grand Custard Race, Postman Pat and the Lucky Escape, Postman Pat and the Potluck Picnic and Postman Pat and the Record Breaking Day
- Series 5 - Postman Pat and the Bollywood Dance, Postman Pat and the Stolen Strawberries, Postman Pat and the Fantastic Feast, Postman Pat Gets Stuck (cameo), Postman Pat and the Go-Kart Race (cameo), Postman Pat and the Lost Property, Postman Pat and the Talking Cat (cameo), Postman Pat Never Gives Up (mentioned), Postman Pat and the Popular Policeman, Postman Pat's Noisy Day, Postman Pat and the Cranky Cows, Postman Pat's Holiday Hobbies, Postman Pat's Spy Mission and Postman Pat's Christmas Eve
- Series 6 - Fruit Bats, A Movie Feast, A Magic Jewel and A Giant Cake
- Series 7 - Postman Pat and the Cheeky Sheep, Postman Pat and the Crazy Crockery, Postman Pat and the Runaway Bees, Postman Pat and the Identical Cats, Postman Pat and the Sculpture Trail (cameo), Postman Pat and the Scarecrow, Postman Pat and the Seaside Special, Postman Pat and the Chinese Dragon, Postman Pat and the Karaoke Night, Postman Pat and the Amazing Weather Machine, Postman Pat and the Super Skateboard Sizzle (cameo), Postman Pat and the Rubber Duck Race, Postman Pat and the Sticky Situation, Postman Pat and the Greendale Ukulele Big Band, Postman Pat and the Tremendous Tree, Postman Pat and the Great Greendale Website (does not speak) and Postman Pat and the Christmas Panto Horse
- Series 8 - Postman Pat and the Flying Shark (mentioned), Postman Pat's Pancake Party, Postman Pat and the Runaway Remote, Postman Pat and the Spring Lamb (cameo), Postman Pat and the Reckless Rollers (mentioned), Postman Pat and the Bouncing Bulb, Postman Pat and the Stormy Birthday, Postman Pat and the Bucking Bronco and Postman Pat's Pop Star Rescue
Specials
- Postman Pat and the Barometer
- Read Along with Postman Pat
- Postman Pat and the Greendale Rocket
- Postman Pat's Magic Christmas (cameo)
- Postman Pat Clowns Around
- Postman Pat and the Pirate Treasure
- Postman Pat's Great Big Party
Doctor Gilbertson also appeared in Postman Pat: The Movie.
Trivia
- In an earlier version of John Cunliffe's original descriptions for the BBC, a few things are different about her;[1]
- She is referred to as Nurse Gilbertson.
- She is given the age of 37.
- She drives an old Morris Minor.
- She has delivered every baby in the valley for the past fifteen years.
- She is joined by a doctor named Dr Pepperill who she runs the clinic in Garner Bridge with.
- On the Ivor Wood website, it is said that Dr. Gilbertson has a husband.[1] However, her husband was not mentioned at all or nowhere to be seen throughout the series. Despite this, P.C. Selby has a crush on Dr. Gilbertson.
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