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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

Specials

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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