Brimming with optimism, Charlie returns from his Greek holiday to find the ED backed up. Teenager Manisha Nepali has just died in resus from a drug overdose, having had to wait outside for more than 40 minutes. Patients from the dock fire are still being treated and there are no beds. Morale is at an all-time low, but Charlie refuses to let this news or Dylan's bad mood dent his good one. Elsewhere, David is not coping as well as he thought
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.