Feature-length episode in which the refurbished ED opens for the first time since the fire. The new facilities are put to the test when a traffic accident occurs on a nearby dual carriageway, and a pipe explosion causes a cloud of poisonous gas to engulf Holby. The staff are stretched to their limits despite the efforts of new paediatric doctor Tom Kent (Oliver Coleman), and as tempers fray, a patient lashes out at Dylan. Guest starring Marshall Lancaster (Ashes to Ashes) and Colin Buchanan (Dalziel & Pascoe).
Casualty is the world's longest running and most successful medical drama series on television. It depicts the private and working lives of the patients, doctors, nurses and all others attending a small but frantically busy accident and emergency department of the large Holby General hospital. By mixing episodic plots with longer, character-based stories it ensures that we get to know the characters as people with lives, not just doctors or nurses. With consistently superb storylines and great acting, Casualty is compulsive viewing. The show began in 1986 and since then only one character remains; the one and only Charlie Fairhead played by Derek Thompson.