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Casualty is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the United Kingdom on BBC One. It was devised by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin. The programme is based around the fictional Holby City Hospital, situated in Holby, a fictional city bearing a close resemblance to Bristol where the show is filmed. Casualty is filmed 4 to 6 months in advance of broadcast. Bristol landmarks, including the docks and the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge, are regularly glimpsed in the outdoor scenes. The exterior shots of the hospital were formerly filmed at the city's technical college, but are now shot on a small industrial estate, not far from the interior set of the hospital.

The drama is concerned with a group of doctors, nurses and administrators who work in the Accident & Emergency department. At the centre of the action is Nurse Manager Charlie Fairhead (played by Derek Thompson), a dedicated and caring man frequently at odds with the demands of hospital management. This has been a recurring theme over the years, but especially in the early series, which were frequently criticised for endorsing criticisms of National Health Service management under the Conservative government of the day.

The programme has traditionally been transmitted on Saturday nights, although for a period in the late 1980s it switched to Fridays. Since 2001, popularity of the show forced a switch from a traditional seasonal format to an almost year-round production and transmission. Casualty usually airs in the 8.00pm slot on BBC1, and more often than not starts at 8.10pm, 8.20pm, or 8.35pm. A spin-off show, Holby City, depicts life elsewhere in the same hospital. Due to the large number of episodes, some viewers have felt the storylines are becoming increasingly repetitive and predictable, although it remains one of the most watched television shows.

In December 2004, a 2-part special Casualty @ Holby City was broadcast, with the two shows combining to cope with a petrol tanker crashing into the Hospital. Most of the filming was done on Holby City's interior & exterior sets, as Casualty is filmed in Bristol whereas Holby City is shot at the BBC Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. A second special (with the same name, but shot in Bristol) was broadcast in August 2005 to promote organ donation; viewers were asked to choose between two patients waiting for a heart transplant.

To draw more viewers over Bank Holidays, Christmas etc, two-part specials are shown, where the first hour is the build-up to a major accident, such as a train crash, nuclear waste spill, lorry explosion or so on, which inevitably stretches the hospital to the limit and results in multiple deaths and injuries.

Cast Deaths

In recent years, the number of deaths has risen dramatically:

• Series 2 - Sandra Mute, stabbed

• Series 3 - Ewart Plimmer, heart attack

• Series 6 - Kelly, suicide

• Series 11 - Trevor, fell

• Series 15 - Andrew, pushed; Tom, fell

• Series 16 - Rachel, mugged; Patrick, motorway crash; Eddie, transplant op

• Series 17 - Jeff, heart attack; Beth, car crash; Jack Vincent, boat explosion

• Series 18 - Anna Paul, train crash; Baz Wilder, car crash; Simon Kaminski, plane crash

• Series 19 - Fin Newton, murdered; Jim Brodie, hospital fire; Claire Guildford, drowned (suicide)

• Series 20 - Paul "Woody" Joyner, chlorine poisoning

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Episode list

Series one, 1986

1. Gas

2. Hide and Seek

3. Night Runners

4. Jump Start

5. Blood Brothers

6. High Noon

7. Professionals

8. Crazies

9. Moonlight Becomes You

10. Teeny Poppers

11. Drunk

12. Quiet

13. No Future

14. Survival

15. Closure

Series two, 1987

1. A Little Lobbying

2. A Drop of the Hard Stuff

3. Shades of Love

4. Cry for Help

5. Anaconda

6. Lifelines

7. The Raid

8. Cross Fingers

9. Seeking Heat

10. Rock-a-Bye-Baby

11. Hooked

12. Fun Night

13. Peace Brother

14. Burning Cases

15. These Things Happen

Series three, 1988

1. Welcome to Casualty

2. Desperate Odds

3. Drake's Drum

4. Absolution

5. Burn Out

6. A Quiet Night

7. A Wing and a Prayer

8. Living Memories

9. Inferno

10. Caring

Series four, 1989

1. Chain Reaction

2. Accidents Happen

3. A Grand in the Hand

4. Day Off

5. Vital Spark

6. Charity

7. Victim of Circumstances

8. Deluge

9. Union

10. Taking Stock

11. Banking for Beginners

12. Hanging On

Series five, 1990

1. Penalty

2. Results

3. Close to Home

4. Street Life

5. Hiding Place

6. Salvation

7. Say it With Flowers

8. Love's A Pain

9. A Will to Die

10. Big Boys Don't Cry

11. Remembrance

12. All's Fair

13. A Reasonable Man

Series six, 1991

1. Humpty Dumpty

2. Judgement Day

3. Dangerous Games

4. Hide and Seek

5. Joy Ride

6. Something to Hide

7. Beggars Can't Be Choosers

8. Living in Hope

9. Making the Break

10. Sins of Omission

11. The Last Word

12. Pressure! What Pressure?

13. Facing Up

14. Allegiance

15. Cascade

Series seven, 1992/1993

1. Rates of Exchange

2. Cry Wolf

3. Body Politic

4. Will You Still Love Me?

5. Cherish

6. Profit and Loss

7. One Step Forward

8. Body and Soul

9. Tender Loving Care

10. Money Talks

11. Making Waves

12. If It Isn't Hurting

13. Act of Faith

14. Point of Principle

15. Silent Night

16. The Ties That Bind

17. Life in the Fast Lane

18. Everybody Needs Somebody

19. Getting Involved

20. Dividing Loyalties

21. Family Matters

22. Child's Play

23. No Cause for Concern

24. Boiling Point

Series eight, 1993/1994

1. Cat in Hell

2. Riders on the Storm

3. The Final Word

4. No Place to Hide

5. Sunday, Bloody Sunday

6. Good Friends

7. Kill or Cure

8. Born Losers

9. High Rollers

10. Deceptions

11. Give Us This Day

12. Wild Card

13. The Good Life

14. Out to Lunch

15. Comfort and Joy

16. Family Ties

17. United We Fall

18. Tippers

19. Value for Money

20. Care in the Community

21. Signed, Sealed, Delivered

22. Relations

23. Grand Rational

24. Hidden Agendas

Casualty Series 1 DVD release

DVD release

Casualty was released on DVD (Region 2, UK) by 2 Entertain/Cinema Club. The first series was released on 10 April 2006, and the second on 10 July. Series three was released on 11 September. BBC have confirmed that the first ten series will be released but dates are to be confirmed. 

Series nine, 1994/1995

1. Blood's Thicker

2. First Impressions

3. Keeping it in the Family

4. Chasing the Dragon

5. Love and Affection

6. Negative Equity

7. A Breed Apart

8. In the Black

9. Crossing the Line

10. Only the Lonely

11. The Facts of Life

12. Under the Weather

13. Talking Turkey

14. End of the Road

15. Learning Curve

16. Stitching the Surface

17. Heartbreak Hotel

18. Trial and Tribulations

19. Out of Time

20. Branded

21. Exiles

22. Nobody's Perfect

23. Not Waving but Drowning

24. Duty of Care

Series ten, 1995/1996

1. Family Values

2. Money for Nothing

3. Sacrifice

4. Outside Bulwayo

5. Halfway House

6. Compensation

7. Turning Point

8. Battling On

9. Hit and Run

10. When All Else Fails

11. Release

12. Bringing it All Back Home

13. All Is Fair

14. Shame the Devil

15. Lost Boys

16. Castles in the Air

17. We Shall Overcome

18. Land of Hope

19. For Your Own Good

20. Asking for Miracles

21. Subject to Contract

22. Cheatin' Hearts

23. The Way Lies Ruin

24. Night Moves

Series eleven 1996/1997

1. Chain Reactions

2. Relative Values

3. It ain't me babe

4. Thicker than Water

5. Waterwings

6. Still Waters

7. Nightfall

8. Vital Signs

9. Another day in Paradise

10. Flesh and Blood

11. Made in Britain

12. Mother's little helper

13. Trapped

14. Do yo still believe in Fairies?

15. The dying of the light

16. The homecoming

17. Hidden Depths

18. Tall Tales

19. Déjà Vu

20. Treasure

21. United... my blood

22. Make Believe

23. Monday, bloody Monday

24. Perfect Blue

Series twelve 1997/1998

1. Give my love to Esme

2. Private Lives

3. Nearest and Dearest

4. What friends are for

5. The things we do for Love

6. Counting The Cost

7. Always on my Mind

8. Finder's Keepers

9. Whatever it Takes

10. A taste of Freedom

11. Bad company

12. Moving On

13. Power of Persuasion

14. Out of Control

15. Love's Labour

16. Facing Up

17. The Golden Hour

18. An Eye For An Eye

19. Loco Parentis

20. Degrees of Separation

21. Secrets

22. Love me Tender

23. Taking Sides

24. We Can Be Heroes

25. Everlasting Love (1)

26. Everlasting Love (2)

Series thirteen 1998/1999

1. Internal Ferno (1)

2. Internal Ferno (2)

3. Honey Bunny

4. The ties that Bind

5. Toys and Boys

6. Eye Spy

7. A place of Safety

8. She Loved The Rain

9. Public Service

10. It's good to talk

11. Next of Kin

12. Home Truths

13. One from the Heart

14. Trust

15. No place like Home

16. Making A Difference

17. Miracle On Casualty

18. New Year and all that

19. Trapped

20. White Lies, White Wedding

21. Team Work

22. Human Traffic

23. Mother's Day

24. Face Value

25. Crazy Love

26. The hardest Word

27. Love Over Gold (1)

28. Love Over Gold (2)

Series fourteen 1999/2000

1. Calm Before The Storm (1)

2. Calm Before The Storm (2)

3. Truth or Dare

4. Words and Deeds

5. Crossroads

6. Lost Souls

7. Everybody Hurts

8. Seeing the Light

9. Off the Wall

10. Benny And The Vets (1)

11. Benny And The Vets (2)

12. Sins of the mother

13. Looking after Number One

14. To have and to Hold\

15. Freefall

16. Just a Kiss

17. Peace On Earth

18. The Morning After

19. Untouchable

20. Fall out

21. Full on

22. Mirror Image

23. Burned out Hearts

24. Tough Love

25. Not waving but Drowning

26. Seize the night

27. Life Support

28. Blood Brothers

29. Being There (1)

30. Being There (2)

Series fifteen 2000/2001

1. Phoenix

2. Accidents Happen

3. Getting to know you

4. Too Tight

5. Choked (1)

6. Choked (2)

7. Travelling Light

8. Sympathy For The Devil

9. No more Mr Nice Guy

10. States of shock

11. Marking Time

12. Starting Over

13. If You Go Down To The Wards Today...

14. Coming Clean

15. Chinese Whispers

16. A Turn of the Scrooge

17. Merry Christmas Dr Spiller

18. Epiphany

19. On the Edge

20. Girl Power

21. ear of Gold

22. Better safe than sorry

23. Something from the heart

24. Big Mistake

25. Ambulance Chaser

26. Scent of the roses

27. Breaking Point

28. Lost and Found

29. Kindness of Strangers

30. Only You

31. Allied Forces

32. Heroes and Villains

33. The Long road Home

34. Mix and Match

35. Breaking The Spell (1)

36. Breaking The Spell (2)

Series sixteen 2001/2002

1. Holding The Baby

2. Dirty Laundry

3. All's Fair

4. Crash Course

5. Bringing Up Baby

6. White Lies

7. Facing the Future

8. For my next Trick

9. Distant Elephants

10. It's a family affair

11. The morning after

12. Best Intentions

13. Someone to watch over Me

14. Happily ever after

15. Life And Soul

16. Consequences

17. Playing with Fire

18. Checking in, Checking out

19. Blowing The Whistle

20. You're Going Home In The Back Of An Ambulance

21. Only the lonely

22. In the heat of The Night

23. Acceptance

24. Nobody's Perfect

25. What becomes of the broken hearted

26. Life Incognito

27. You can't take them all home with you

28. Past, Present, Future

29. Memories

30. Hearts and Minds

31. Dominoes

32. Waving not drowning

33. Big Rocks And Very Hard Places

34. Scapegoat

35. Too Close

36. The Sting

37. Denial

38. Taking it all back to The Streets

39. Broken Hearts

40. Code Red

Series seventeen 2002/2003

1. Déjà Vu

2. Protection

3. Judgment Day

4. Thicker Than Water

5. What little girls are made of

6. What's Love Got To Do With It?

7. Ties That bind

8. It's a Boy Thing

9. Innocence

10. Return Of the Native

11. Up to your neck in It

12. Gimme Shelter

13. Blame

14. Feuds and Feury

15. Some Comfort, No Joy, and a bit too much Love

16. Living for the Moment

17. Helping Hands

18. Collision Course

19. Sins Of The Father

20. Spiteful God

21. Flight

22. Love Hurts

23. Hitting Home (1)

24. Hitting Home (2)

25. Dire Straits

26. Fool For Love

27. Keep It In The Family

28. A Hard Day's Night

29. Side Effects

30. An Act Of God

31. The Point Of No Return

32. Stuck In the middle with You

33. Getting Through

34. Hurt the one you Love

35. An Accident Waiting To Happen

36. Out on a limb

37. Baby Blues

38. Last Man Standing

39. Three In A bed

40. A Special Day

Series eighteen 2003/2004

1. End Of The Line (1)

2. End Of The Line (2)

3. Breathe Deeply

4. Perks of the Job

5. Flash In The Pan

6. Against Protocol

7. Can't Let Go

8. Truth or Dare?

9. In The Frame

10. Black Dog Day

11. Falling for a friend

12. Second Best

13. First Impressions

14. Christmas Spirit

15. Never Judge A Book

16. Eat, Drink and be Merry

17. I got it bad and Ain't that Good

18. Ahead of the Game

19. Where there's Life

20. No Weddings and a Funeral

21. Emotional Rescue (1)

22. Emotional Rescue (2)

23. Passions and Convictions

24. Fallen Hero

25. Taking Care

26. What Parents Do

27. Love and Loathing

28. Finding Faith

29. Parenthood

30. Another Perfect Day

31. I Love You, I Hate You

32. Forget Me Not

33. Lock Down

34. Much Wants More

35. Breaking Point

36. Don't Go There

37. World Gone Wrong (1)

38. World Gone Wrong (2)

39. The Good Father

40. Dreams and Disappointments

41. And The Bride Wore Red

42. A Dangerous Initiative

43. Inside Out

44. Who Cares?

45. Love, honour and Betray

46. Ring Of Truth

Series nineteen 2004/2005

1. The Ties That Bind Us (1)

2. The Ties That Bind Us (2)

3. Out With A Bang

4. Love Labours...Lost

5. Facing Up

6. A Life Lost

7. When the Devil Drives

8. Three's a Crowd

9. Little White Lies

10. Dangerous Games

11. Horses For Courses

12. Past Imperfect

13. Responsibility

14. Love Bites

15. Who Knows Best?

16. Forsaking all others

17. Casualty @ Holby City (1 of 2, second episode under Holby City)

18. Secrets We Keep

19. Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Brothers

20. First do no Harm

21. Thrown Out

22. The Cost of Honesty

23. Truth Will Out

24. Hoping, Wishing, Longing

25. Naming Names

26. Boys Don't Cry

27. Family Day

28. Animals

29. Forbidden Love

30. And on that farm

31. Running out of Kisses

32. In the Dark

33. Cops and Robbers

34. Sweet Revenge

35. Desperate Measures

36. A Question of Loyalty

37. Fat Chance

38. Truth and Consequences

39. Baby Love

40. Swallowers

41. The long Goodbye

42. A Father's Love

43. There are worse things I could Do

44. Brief Encounters

45. Aftermath

46. You need friends

47. Smoke and Mirrors

48. Truth, Lies and Videotape

Special Episode - Something We Can Do (interactive episode about organ donation)

Series twenty 2005/2006

1. Holding On (1)

2. Holding On (2)

3. Deep Water

4. That's Amore

5. Paper Moon

6. Sticks and Stones

7. All's Fair in love and War

8. For Better for Worse

9. 9a Teacher's Pet (1)
   9b Crash and Burn (2) (the other 2 episodes are under Holby City)

10. Bing Bang Theory

11. Love and duty

12. Anti-social Behaviour

13. Getting Involved

14. Skin Deep

15. Enough's Enough

16. Do they know it's Christmas?

17. Casualty @ Holby City - Deny Thy Father (1)

18. Out of your Depth

19. Poisoned Love

20. Crossing the line

21. The Things We Do For Love

22. It's a man Thing

23. Trust in me

24. Out of the Past

25. The lost Boys

26. World's Apart

27. Nobody's Perfect

28. Heroes And Villains

29. Family Matters

30. Walk before you run

31. Going Under

32. Blind Spots

33. First Impressions

34. Lost and Found

35. No way Back

36. A Problem Halved

37. Secrets and Lies

38. Target Man

39. All at Sea

40. Abide With Me

41. Silent Ties

42. Needle

43. Perfect Day

44. Happy Hour

45. The truth game

46. Last Orders

47. Get what you Deserve

Series twenty-one 2006/2007

1. Different Worlds (1)

2. Different Worlds (2)

3. Waste Of Space

4. Sons and Lovers

5. Angels and Demons

6. What you See is What you Get

7. Born To Be Wild

8. To be a Parent

9. It's Now or Never

LINKS

• BBC Official Casualty website

• Casualty at the Internet Movie Database

• holby.tv - UK Casualty & Holby City website

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