While festive cheer brightens up the busy hospital shift, there's little Christmas spirit for a wife who takes the law into her own hands. After years of abuse, she attacks her husband, leaving him suffering from multiple knife wounds. A young girl, seeks shelter for the night gets turned away but she's soon back, as she takes drastic action to get admitted. Sandra's having a hard time trying to cope, now that Julian's left.
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.