"Casualty" (1986) TV series 1986-????

Creators:

Jeremy Brock
Paul Unwin

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | unknown

Release Date:

28 September 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital.

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Accident | Doctor | Nurse | Birth

Awards:

6 wins & 18 nominations

Cast

Derek Thompson	...	Charlie Fairhead (356 episodes, 1986-2009)
Ian Bleasdale	...	Josh Griffiths / ... (301 episodes, 1991-2007)
Suzanne Packer	...	Tess Bateman (275 episodes, 2003-2009)
Simon MacCorkindale	...	Harry Harper (229 episodes, 2002-2008)
James Redmond	...	John 'Abs' Denham (213 episodes, 2003-2008)
Martina Laird	...	Comfort Jones / ... (205 episodes, 1995-2006)
Susan Cookson	...	Maggie Coldwell / ... (174 episodes, 1998-2009)
Janine Mellor	...	Kelsey Phillips (168 episodes, 2005-2009)
Catherine Shipton	...	Lisa 'Duffy' Duffin / ... (159 episodes, 1986-2006)
Kwame Kwei-Armah	...	Finlay Newton / ... (153 episodes, 1994-2004)
Jane Hazlegrove	...	Kathleen 'Dixie' Dixon / ... (147 episodes, 2006-2009)
Sam Grey	...	Alice Chantrey (144 episodes, 2006-2009)

Also Known As:

Casual+y (UK) (alternative spelling)
Front Line (UK) (working title)

Runtime:

50 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Bristol, England, UK

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

Radio D.J. Mark Burrows once played the part of a corpse, uncredited, but it took two hours to film it as he couldn't stop sneezing.

Quotes:

Charlie Fairhead: Now leave me alone or I'll call Security.
Colin Evans: I *am* Security.
Charlie Fairhead: Then kindly throw yourself out.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Comic Relief: The Invasion of the Comic Tomatoes (1993) (TV)

If this is the NHS?

Take a few Doctors, a few more haggard Nurses, People doing stupid things and bucket and buckets of blood and you have the recipe of a Hospital drama that will run for years and years. They even have time to show briefly what the Doctors and Nurses get up to when they are not up to their armpits in body parts. You can usually guess who is not going to have their heart restarted. It is an E.R. on a shoestring and more dirt.