Sat, Jan 6, 1996
A car mechanic using the road as a workshop gets his gun when neighbours serve him with a court injunction; Josh & Liz's attempts to help the wounded man are thwarted by an off duty doctor. Rachel locks her keys in her car but the unwelcome Tim retrieves them. A small boy is sent on a sweeties hunt but finds his gran's supply of anti-depressants instead. Baz tells Robert she's moving into a hotel. Tim gives Rachel chocolates which she bins so Matt eats them.
Sat, Jan 13, 1996
Grange Hill star Stuart Organ appears as a building site worker drops a hod of bricks and later collapses at home, fortunately he has a caring young daughter to look after him. An Asian girl is bottled by her brother because she has posed for a gentleman's magazine. Righteous women Jude and Laura have a set to; Tim steps up his campaign of lustful harassment of Rachel with silent phone calls. An unusual man drops by the department claiming he wishes to donate the proceeds of his massive lottery win. Laura finds out that Reeve-Jones is a partner in his brother's company and has used hospital funds for his own profit. Baz tells Charlie he's the father of her baby. Ash asks Laura to marry him.
Sat, Jan 20, 1996
Reporters confront Laura about Reeve-Jones' underhand profiteering. An old woman farmer shoots herself in the foot. A woman under stress caring for a husband with Huntington's chorea falls on broken glass. Tim gets the sack because Rachel put in a complaint about him, but he still imagines his feelings are reciprocated. A Kurdish asylum seeker on hunger strike at a detention centre ends up in casualty when he bails out of a car. Laura says yes to Ash. Tim confronts Rachel in the car park at hometime, but Mike is on hand to offer Tim physical harm and he and Rachel are reunited for a night of sexual love.
Sat, Jan 27, 1996
After a night reunited in lust for Mike & Rachel, Tim chases her car and is later admitted with an attempted overdose. Battling babes Laura and Jude have another slanging match. Ash tells Charlie he is engaged to Laura but Ash's dad is unhappy his son intends to marry a white woman. Laura actress Lizzie McInnerny's brother and Blackadder star Tim appears as an alcohol dependant man whose woman, also a drinker, vomits blood while presenting a meeting. A gypsy woman believes she is blind but finds her sight loss is due to cataracts and is therefore operable. A JCB driver & unsuccessful gambler drops a massive stone block on another worker. Mike, furious about Henry Reeve-Jones' evading justice for his profiteering, hands in his notice. Gutless Charlie nearly soils himself when Baz's husband Peter comes in wanting information about the failure of his marriage & Baz tells him she is expecting Charlie's baby.
Sat, Feb 3, 1996
Mike wants Rachel to go to his new job in Somalia with him but she needs persuading. A trainee nurse at a care home has a baptism of fire when an old man in her charge dies suddenly. A very disturbed young man goes for a night run in just his underpants and later at casualty holds his mother hostage at knifepoint - man of action Trevor intervenes. Jude catches Daniel taking anti depressants and surmises that he is self prescribing. A young woman is knocked down by a motorcyclist which jeopardises her chances of donating bone marrow to her daughter. Rachel & Mike run off into the night together.
Sat, Feb 10, 1996
A jealous woman spies on her fiancé hoping for evidence he's two timing her and, believing she has some, causes Casualty Car Crash#43 to a soundtrack of "Careless Whisper". The younger brother of a mechanic on probation car jacks a Ford Sierra Cosworth but panics when he finds there's a baby on board; Charlie's car gets stolen for use as a getaway vehicle. An argument between two brothers results in one sustaining a head injury. Tim comes looking for Rachel and daft Daniel gives him her address. A woman asks for instructions on how to cook her frozen turkey - Kate gives her all the information she requires. Laura believes she's got away with informing on Reeve-Jones to the press.
Sat, Feb 17, 1996
Some pensioners turn vigilante when the wife of one is mugged. Carry On star Richard O'Callaghan plays a married business man who gets trapped in a lift with his young mistress. Daniel finally realises how useless he is. Matt tells his supplier he no longer wishes to sell dodgy goods and has his motorbike stolen in retaliation. Jude persuades Ash to let her attend his stag night. Some schoolgirls lock horns over their bus driver leading to another trip to Casualty Car Crash Street. Nasty Reeve-Jones implies to Laura he knows it was she who bleated to the press - and complications regarding her relationship with Ash are therefore implied. Trevor is the hero of the day when he uses his contacts to get Matt's bike back.
Sat, Sep 14, 1996
Mike Barratt has returned; and we are introduced to new doctor Richard & nurse Gloria. Baz needs an emergency caesarean to deliver baby Louis. Future Casualty and Holby City top dog Jac Naylor actress Rosie Marcel appears as a woman who's lost a tampon internally. Eastenders' star Jake Wood appears as a villain involved in a warehouse robbery that goes seriously wrong. A husband leaves his wife who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and who takes extreme measures to keep her two children quiet.
Sat, Sep 21, 1996
Student Sam Colloby is interviewed for a job by Charlie & Kate. Following his staircase fall while pursuing a drug addict, Trevor is bedridden and in a vegetative state and Kate has the misfortune to walk in while Dr Elliott is telling a group of students the prognosis is that there will be no improvement. A mature bus driver is plagued by his thrash metal guitarist neighbour, so he bites his finger off during a Danes V Saxons re-enactment. A dangerous driver causes Casualty Car Crash#45 involving a woman undergoing dialysis for renal failure. A small boy has an inflamed penis and will only discuss it with Richard.
Sat, Sep 28, 1996
Matt is slightly worried when a former boyfriend of Jude's is admitted having sustained a head injury while trying to obtain a bent MoT. New boy Sam starts work. Casualty Car Crash#46 occurs when a man falls asleep at the wheel having been dosed up with pills by his wife. When a manipulative young woman requests that her boyfriend steals eggs from an eagle's nest, he and another climber fall from a rock face.
Sat, Oct 5, 1996
Mike carries out a difficult procedure with a tennis ball; a brother & sister go in search of their birth mother. Gloria is given the go ahead for a bereavement counseling service; Charlie is settled into domestic bliss with Baz and baby Louie; a pretty woman charms Richard with a request for treatment for jet lag; a small boy's pet ferret is on the loose; a wheel chair bound old woman finds her house has a new occupier and her husband a mistress. Matt is now after Gloria and we are introduced to Sam's boyfriend.
Sat, Oct 12, 1996
A man drops off Gloria's belongings at reception; a group of medical students observe the team treat a woman with a severe asthma attack. Chemical spillages at a swimming pool result in chlorine gas endangering disabled swimmers. Tension is evident between newbies Richard & Gloria. This Life star Jason Hughes appears as a junkie who moves in with his brother supposedly to kick the habit but attacks Liz & Josh and raids their ambulance in search of drugs. Matt asks Gloria out for a drink but ends up with Richard instead.
Sat, Oct 19, 1996
Grange Hill stars David Quilter & Martino Lazzero feature in a story where a group of horrid teenage boys are shoplifting from an Asian shopkeeper and also targeting an old soldier with a horde of WW2 items including a hand grenade which explodes injuring one of the boys. A young man is admitted having eaten poisonous mushrooms in the belief they are the magic kind.. Kate and Trevor's daughter visits and tries to persuade her mum to switch off her dad's life support. A randy solicitor tries it on with a sticky out ears junior and gets tossed across the room. Someone sends flowers to the very popular Gloria.
Sat, Oct 26, 1996
Cardiac Arrest Star Jacquetta May appears in an episode where Josh and Liz rescue and resuscitate a young girl who has fallen and got trapped in a disused boathouse; Josh has to operate on the girl with instructions from Mike over the walkie talkie. Gloria, Jude & a very reluctant Richard have a meeting about bereavement counselling which Richard has to put into practice immediately. A father intent on revenge on the drug dealer who supplied his daughter who died causes Casualty Car Crash#47 resulting in the wrong casualty. When a little girl gives her chronically ill baby brother Diazepam to stop his constant crying his mother and father debate whether or not to get medical attention.
Sat, Nov 2, 1996
In Guy Fawkes' night themed accidents an alcoholic, cantankerous old woman vagrant climbs up a bonfire pile and falls into a skip full of fruit & veg and a small boy with arguing grannies and a high flyer medic mum played by This Life star Amita Dhiri is burned by fireworks; an air force pilot has loads of things mental and physical wrong. It is revealed that Richard has MS and naturally wants it kept secret because it would mean losing his job. A time waster old man hopes to be diagnosed with an illness which will prevent him from working. Charlie is afflicted with sleep deprivation on account of baby Louis. The team celebrate getting a helicopter as an air ambulance.
Sat, Nov 9, 1996
A runaway Land Rover on a caravan site on a remote hillside leads to Casualty Car Crash#48; Josh and Liz are flown in to tend to the injured girls. A building labourer with a history of self harm followed by attempted suicide sets his sights on an attractive young woman. Kate's husband's condition gets worse and the family have a conference about what to do. Sam finds a puppy in a cardboard box and smuggles it into the department. A superb singer entertains the patients waiting for treatment but has a sad reward.
Sat, Nov 16, 1996
A naughty schoolgirl runs away from home and hitches a ride with a trucker displaying a variable Geordie accent played by future Casualty bad boy Nathan Spencer actor Ben Miles who dumps her at the roadside when she is taken ill. Richard makes serious enquiries of Gloria into her love life situation and finally asks her out for dinner. Various staff give blood including Matt who tries it on with a married blood scheme admin woman but has better luck with Jude. Charlie reveals to an old woman patient his middle name is Rupert. Trevor's family hold a final bedside vigil and we also say goodbye to Mike.
Sat, Nov 23, 1996
There is an awkward atmosphere between Jude & Matt following their night of bliss. In a Watch This Space moment, Matt has a run in with an abusive patient. Actor Peter Birch debuts as top doc Jack Hathaway, partly reprising his role as obersturmfuhrer in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, but also establishing his professional skills by undertaking a risky surgical procedure. A young female patient reluctant to supply information and being given cash by a mature male leads Jude to believe she may be on the game. Legend Jean Anderson appears as a care home resident who suffers a massive stroke. A groom on his way to the register office is knocked down by a cyclist. Richard, Gloria and Sam deliver a baby - the groom's grandchild.
Sat, Nov 30, 1996
A small girl finds her pregnant mother unconscious and is savaged by a shop keeper's guard dog while seeking help; the girl is deaf mute but fortunately Sam knows how to sign. Matt is summoned to a meeting with an admin woman and Charlie regarding his altercation with the stroppy patient who is pressing charges. A rugby player has had a naval piercing for a bet which has turned septic - Richard gets him out of the brown stuff. A groom has an epileptic fit during his wedding but the ceremony is later reconvened in Casualty. The atmosphere between Matt & Jude remains tense.
Sat, Dec 7, 1996
Future Casualty star Suzanne Packer (Tess Bateman, Series 18 to 29) appears as a drug mule who gets thrown into a river by her partner in crime, a top cop, in an attempt to kill her. Gloria's ex boyfriend storms in demanding to see her and feigns pain when she turns him away - he backs down when Richard says he will need to examine his rectum but advises him not to expect a long term relationship with Gloria. Jude is surprised and sad to learn that a faulty condom means she's pregnant with Matt's baby. A pillion passenger is injured in a fall from the motorbike of his girlfriend played by future Casualty star Jane Hazlegrove (Dixie Dixon, Series 20 to 30) who later takes Matt for a spin. Kate stuns Dr Elliott by requesting to donate the entire £80,000 of Trevor's life insurance to medical research. Jude is heroine of the day by inadvertently videotaping an incriminating conversation. Grange Hill superstar Michael Cronin appears as an even more top cop.
Sat, Dec 14, 1996
Matt obtains a Christmas tree which later has its decorations stolen; Jude is not pleased when he tells her of his plans to emigrate. Richard asks Gloria to spend Christmas with him. A little girl, distressed when told Santa Claus does not exist, is badly cut by broken glass when she runs into a greenhouse. An irascible piano tuner injures himself when he smashes a violin to make a point to an apprentice. A priest reacts violently when his young niece is killed and sister are critically injured by a remorseless drunk driver. Richard has another meeting with his GP regarding possible treatment for his MS.
Sat, Dec 21, 1996
An old man with dementia and a fussing son has a violent outburst striking several orderlies much to the son's delight. A young woman solo singer from a group of theatrical stereotypes has a vocal problem. A pregnant woman with toxoplasmosis is worried it's karmic retribution for an earlier abortion. Jude at long last finds the opportunity to tell Matt she is expecting his child. The James Bond themed Christmas party means an unrelenting series of bad impressions of its characters by staff and other interested parties. Kate is exceptionally keen to enjoy herself and Jack shows a gentle side when it is apparent she is overcompensating for her bereavement. Liz as Rosa Klebb from With Russia With Love wins the fancy dress competition and the dame from the theatre group is the star of the Christmas party performing a saucy song.
Sat, Dec 28, 1996
A sex criminal is released from prison and faces the inevitable retribution - but not from the father of his victim who has a different viewpoint. Eastenders' superstar Perry Fenwick appears as an ex con with a pregnant wife who doesn't want her baby and will go to extreme lengths to secure a termination. A man comes in search of his son who has converted to Hare Krishna and been the victim of a traffic accident. On another morning after the night before for two staff couples, Matt and Jude chew things over and Jude decides she wants a termination, and Gloria questions Richard after finding his MS medication. The sex criminal, badly beaten by vigilantes, asks the father of the child he killed to suffocate him.