Casualty series 22 | |
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Series 22 | |
No. of episodes | 48 |
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Original network | BBC One |
Original release | 8 September 2007 – 9 August 2008 |
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The twenty-second series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 8 September 2007 and finished on 9 August 2008.
Like any accident and emergency department, Holby City Hospital A&E is a hectic, chaotic whirl of hospital staff, patients and visitors. But scratch the surface and there are gripping stories on all sides. Casualty interweaves these intriguing, exciting and dramatic tales with the loves and lives of the hospital staff in a compelling hospital drama series that has continued for over 20 years.
Following the tragic death of Selena Donovan at the end of Series 21, the staff of Holby City's Emergency Department find themselves thrown back into the thick of the action. With Corporate Mangager Nathan Spencer (Ben Price) struggling to cope with looking after Angel and new Executive Director Marilyn Fox (Caroline Langrishe) determined to ring in the changes it looks as if the first casualty will be Nathan himself.
Series 22 saw the arrival of many new characters to the team which included F2s Ruth Winters (Georgia Taylor) and Toby De Silva (Matthew Needham), Consultants Adam Trueman (Tristan Gemmill) and Zoe Hanna (Sunetra Sarker), Porter Big Mac (Charles Dale), Receptionist Noel Garcia (Tony Marshall), Paramedics Snezana Lalovic (Ivana Basic) and Curtis Cooper (Abdul Salis), Orthopaedic Consultant Sean Anderson (Richard Dillane) and his wife, Staff Nurse Jessica Harrison (Gillian Kearney) and Clinical Nurse Manager Simon Tanner (Paul Fox).
Dramatic changes in Series 22 included the departures of many beloved characters such as the long serving Josh Griffiths (Ian Bleasdale) and Harry Harper (Simon MacCorkindale) and as the series drew to a close it seemed yet another loved character was due to leave as Dr. Maggie Coldwell (Susan Cookson) quit Holby following a vicious court case.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [1] |
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591 | 1 | "My First Day" | Andy Hay | Mark Catley | 8 September 2007 | 6.08 |
592 | 2 | "Charlie's Anniversary" | Andy Hay | Mark Catley | 9 September 2007 | 7.04 |
593 | 3 | "Meltdown" | Richard Signy | Sasha Hails | 15 September 2007 | 5.78 |
594 | 4 | "No End of Blame" | A J Quinn | Patrick Wilde | 22 September 2007 | 6.78 |
595 | 5 | "Sliding Doors" | Farren Blackburn | Rachel Flowerday | 29 September 2007 | 6.37 |
596 | 6 | "Core Values" | Robert Del Maestro | Al Smith | 6 October 2007 | 6.93 |
597 | 7 | "Inappropriate Behaviour" | Ian Barnes | Michael Jenner | 13 October 2007 | 5.75 |
598 | 8 | "My Aim Is True" | Jill Robertson | Jason Sutton | 20 October 2007 | 5.17 |
599 | 9 | "As One Door Closes..." | Julie Edwards | Stephen McAteer | 27 October 2007 | 6.91 |
600 | 10 | "Finding the Words" | Alan Macmillan | Katharine Way & Mark Catley | 3 November 2007 | 6.82 |
601 | 11 | "A House Divided" | Christopher King | Daisy Coulam | 10 November 2007 | 7.07 |
602 | 12 | "Strangers When We Met" | David Bartlett | Jason Sutton | 17 November 2007 | 6.66 |
603 | 13 | "How Soon Is Now?" | Ian Barnes | Ian Kershaw | 24 November 2007 | 6.33 |
604 | 14 | "Inheritance" | Ian Barnes | Rachel Flowerday | 1 December 2007 | 6.92 |
605 | 15 | "Behind Closed Doors" | Lance Kneeshaw | Mark Catley | 8 December 2007 | 6.95 |
606 | 16 | "Snowball" | Lance Kneeshaw | Suzie Smith | 15 December 2007 | 6.76 |
607 | 17 | "(What's so funny 'bout) Peace Love and Understanding" | David O'Neill | Gert Thomas | 22 December 2007 | 8.18 |
608 | 18 | "Take a Cup of Kindness" | Paul Murphy | Sasha Hails | 29 December 2007 | 7.14 |
609 | 19 | "For Auld Lang Syne" [lower-alpha 1] | Paul Murphy | Sasha Hails | 30 December 2007 | 6.97 |
610 | 20 | "Broken Homes" | Diana Patrick | Steve Keyworth | 5 January 2008 | 7.76 |
611 | 21 | "Adrenaline Rush" | Diana Patrick | Stephen McAteer | 12 January 2008 | 7.83 |
612 | 22 | "Take it Back" | Nic Phillips | Rachel Flowerday | 19 January 2008 | 8.15 |
613 | 23 | "Where's the Art in Heartache" | Nic Phillips | Jason Sutton | 26 January 2008 | 7.69 |
614 | 24 | "Before a Fall" | Ian Barnes | Dana Fainaru | 2 February 2008 | 8.47 |
615 | 25 | "Sex and Death" | Ian Barnes | Mark Catley | 9 February 2008 | 8.31 |
616 | 26 | "Say Say My Playmate" | Julie Edwards | Abi Bown | 16 February 2008 | 7.71 |
617 | 27 | "Silent All These Years" | Julie Edwards | Laura Watson | 1 March 2008 | 7.63 |
618 | 28 | "Thicker than Water" "To Serve and Protect" | Robert Knights | Jason Sutton | 8 March 2008 | 7.09 |
619 | 29 | "Diamond Dogs" | Robert Knights | David Bowker | 15 March 2008 | 7.97 |
620 | 30 | "Face the World" | David Innes Edwards | Jeff Young | 22 March 2008 | 7.14 |
621 | 31 | "To Thine Own Self Be True" | Robert Bierman | Patrick Wilde | 29 March 2008 | 7.23 |
622 | 32 | "Bricks and Daughters" | Robert Bierman | Paul Jenkins | 5 April 2008 | 7.52 |
623 | 33 | "Someone's Lucky Night" | Jon Sen | Mark Cairns | 12 April 2008 | 6.76 |
624 | 34 | "Walk the Line" | Jon Sen | Rachel Flowerday | 19 April 2008 | 6.42 |
625 | 35 | "The Great Pretenders" | Piotr Szkopiak | Jack Kelsey | 26 April 2008 | 6.56 |
626 | 36 | "Love Is..." | Piotr Szkopiak | Sasha Hails | 3 May 2008 | 6.17 |
627 | 37 | "Saturday Night Fever" | Christopher King | Mark Catley | 10 May 2008 | 5.79 |
628 | 38 | "When Love Came to Town" | Christopher King | Jeff Povey | 17 May 2008 | 6.83 |
629 | 39 | "Opposing Forces" | Edward Bennett | Jason Sutton | 31 May 2008 | 4.15 |
630 | 40 | "Have a Go, Hero" | Edward Bennett | Martha Hillier | 7 June 2008 | 5.89 |
631 | 41 | "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" | Ian Barnes | Martin Jameson | 14 June 2008 | 6.19 |
632 | 42 | "They May Not Mean to, But They Do" | Ian Barnes | Paul Logue | 28 June 2008 | 5.88 |
633 | 43 | "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" | Peter Nicholson | Ian Kershaw | 5 July 2008 | 5.88 |
634 | 44 | "Salt and Sugar" | Peter Nicholson | Jason Sutton | 12 July 2008 | 5.69 |
635 | 45 | "Paradise Lost" | Simon Massey | Ellen Taylor | 19 July 2008 | 6.04 |
636 | 46 | "The Things We Do For..." | Simon Massey | Dana Fainaru | 26 July 2008 | 5.31 |
637 | 47 | "This Mess We're In – Part One" | Julie Edwards | Daisy Coulam | 2 August 2008 | 5.96 |
638 | 48 | "This Mess We're In – Part Two" | Julie Edwards | Sasha Hails | 9 August 2008 | 6.63 |
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