The strain's beginning to tell on Norma over the welfare of her mother and Duffy has received a letter about a second smear test. The staff have problems dealing with a handicap girl and a father's worried about his daughter's appearance. Two elderly men argue over a lost love of 40 years ago and end up in Casualty. A squash game ends abruptly when a player is seriously injured and the staff battle to save her. Ash's finances are worse and news spread about Max joining the Territorial Army. Julian puts Sandra in an awkward position when he confesses he's attracted to her.
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.