Help! Name the film/TV program

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Right, this has been bugging me for approximately 5-6 years now but somehow it never occurred to me to actually ask the vast repository of knowledge that is the OcUK forum!

It's a medical drama/thriller which was on TV, ooh about 10 years ago?, involving a guy working in a hospital and had people with progeria in (premature ageing) which was all a bit of a mystery and it transpired that some wacko doctor was harvesting the pituitaries or something to look younger than he was.

Any ideas? :p
 
Gilly said:
I watched it/have seen it. Nothing is coming to mind though.

Will think on it.
Aye that's the problem I'm having getting a name, I've tried Googling all sorts of terms but no hits so far...intensely frustrating, it's not that I even want to watch it just that it's been bugging me for so long :p
 
All i can find is on Wiki !

"* In the 1988 the Anime film Akira, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, the three children with very powerful telekinetic and telepathic gifts, as well as some alluded too precognative gifts, suffered from, what seemed to be, a progeria-like disease.
* The movie Blade Runner featured a character named Sebastian who suffers from a progeria-like disease which he refers to as "Methuselah Syndrome". This reference is somewhat counterintuitive, as progeria causes rapid aging and death, while Methuselah was known for living to a very great age.
* In the The X-Files episode "Young at Heart", a doctor created a method of reversing progeria and rejuvenating humans.
* In the science-fiction novel Otherland by Tad Williams, a young boy in his teenage years (Orlando Gardiner) is affected by progeria.
* In 1996, the movie Jack tells the story of a 10 year old boy (Robin Williams) with an aging disorder much like progeria, although depicted closer to an accelerated version of Werner syndrome.
* In the 1983 movie The Hunger, Dr. Sarah Roberts's work on aging, including a study of progeria, attracts the attention of immortal Miriam Blaylock, who fears her mate John will soon start fatal rapid aging.
* In season two, episode two of The Venture Bros., The Monarch insults Dr. Thaddeus Venture's attire (a short-sleeve jumpsuit) by saying their captors will "...think you're a three-year-old with progeria and take pity on us."
* In season four, episode seven (The Scientific Method) of Star Trek: Voyager, the Doctor briefly brings up progeria, stating it was a rare case in children and that it was eradicated centuries ago.
* In the novel Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, Brandon Whittier, who organizes the retreat, is a progeria sufferer.
* In the 2006 futuristic animated film Renaissance, the character of Claude Muller suffers from progeria. The disease also features as a significant plot point in the movie.
* In the animated series "Sealab 2021", numerous references are made about progeria being "nature's cruelest joke".
* In the book The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum, the children imprisoned in the "Clockworks" have progeria.
* In the filipino tv show "I-Witness", they documented 2 children with a real case of progeria."

Any of that ring a bell ???? :confused:
 
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