The Royal - Complete Series 1 - 2-DVD Set ( The Royal - Complete Series One )

The Royal - Complete Series 1 - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Royal - Complete Series One
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
341 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Paul Walker

Written By:
John Flanagan
Andrew McCulloch

Actors:
Julian Ovenden ..... Dr. David Cheriton
Zoie Kennedy ..... Staff Nurse Meryl Taylor
Amy Robbins ..... Dr. Jill Weatherill
Robert Daws ..... Dr. Gordon Ormerod
Michael Starke ..... Kenneth 'Ken' Hopkirk
Denis Lill ..... Mr. Rose
Linda Armstrong ..... Sister Brigid
Michelle Hardwick ..... Lizzie Kennoway
Andy Wear ..... Alun Morris
Wendy Craig ..... Matron
Ian Carmichael ..... T.J. Middleditch
Fiona Bruce ..... Mrs. Rutter
Rebecca Cawthra ..... Sally Rutter
Jamie Cymbal ..... Colin Pike
Tara Daniels ..... Jean Cragg
Mark Jordon ..... PC Phil Bellamy
Francis Matthews ..... Dr. James Alway
Bill Maynard ..... Claude Greengrass
Glynn Mills ..... Ambulance Man
Rob Parry ..... Geoff Entwistle
Tricia Penrose ..... Gina Ward
Duncan Preston ..... John Rutter
Mark Wadsworth ..... Mr. Cragg

Synopsis:

All episodes from the first series of the British medical drama set in the 1960s at the fictional St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital. The show follows Matron (Wendy Craig) and the other hospital staff as they tend to the sick and face challenges both in and out of the workplace. Episodes comprise: 'First Impressions', 'Second Time Around', 'Coffin Fit', 'Sister of Mercy', 'Immediate Care', 'Kiss and Tell' and 'Crash'.
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: First Impressions
Original Air Date-19 January 2003
Season 1, Episode 2: Second Time Around
Original Air Date-26 January 2003
Season 1, Episode 3: Coffin Fit
Original Air Date-2 February 2003
Season 1, Episode 4: Sister of Mercy
Original Air Date-9 February 2003
Season 1, Episode 5: Immediate Care
Original Air Date-16 February 2003
Season 1, Episode 6: Kiss and Tell
Original Air Date-23 February 2003
Season 1, Episode 7: Crash
Original Air Date-2 March 2003

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: First Impressions
Original Air Date-19 January 2003
The Royal is,in the 1960s, the local hospital for the North Yorkshire town of Elsinby. Its administrator T.J. Middleditch is a benevolent figure whilst the elderly matron is firm but fair with her nursing staff. Surgeon Mr. Rose is likely to light up his pipe whilst performing an operation and Dr. Jill Wetherill is a highly confident practitioner though she does come unstuck on a home visit and Ken the hospital porter comes a cropper trying to fit an aerial on the roof. Young doctor David Cheriton turns up for his first day at the Royal and is surprised not only at how ill-equipped it seems to be but because noone was expecting him so early.
Season 1, Episode 2: Second Time Around
Original Air Date-26 January 2003
A motor-bike crash brings a cruel end to a romantic escapade for a young couple but elsewhere Matron assists Dr. Ormerod in bringing marital harmony to patient Brian Lynson and his wife. The porters have to deal with a rodent infestation problem and unwisely turn to patient,Aidensfield wheeler-dealer Claude Greengrass for advice,though he keeps hallucinating that spiders are crawling all over him.
Season 1, Episode 3: Coffin Fit
Original Air Date-2 February 2003
Jill Wetherill comes to learn the folly of jumping to the wrong conclusion after she suspects that older Dr. Alway has misdiagnosed a patient. David Cheriton proves himself at a car accident despite Dr. Ormerod's fears that he may have been affected by an earlier crash and Greengrass arouses the porters' suspicions after asking them to store a coffin, supposedly containing his late sister, in the hospital.
Season 1, Episode 4: Sister of Mercy
Original Air Date-9 February 2003
Jill Wetherill helps the Heatons, an elderly couple, whilst Sister Brigid,a secular Irish nun working as a nurse at the Royal,discovers an abandoned baby which she believes is linked to missing teenager Susan. Whilst a Russian sailor is admitted to the Royal Greengrass attempts to play the system to ensure a longer stay for himself,whilst an official hospital inspection looms.
Season 1, Episode 5: Immediate Care
Original Air Date-16 February 2003
David Cheriton is faced with the unenviable task of telling young Francesca that she has only a short time to live, though it does lead to a wedding. Efficiency-mad Nigel Harper ruffles feathers with cost-cutting ideas but the arrival of a famous jockey as a patient in the hospital means that the basic fund-raising scheme of having a raffle to help hospital coffers gives way,thanks to Greengrass, to having a flutter on the horses.
Season 1, Episode 6: Kiss and Tell
Original Air Date-23 February 2003
Aidensfield copper Ventress comes to the Royal for a bunion removal and sees a supposed amnesiac,who is not what he claims. Doctors Wetherill and Ormerod get close at Cheriton's house-warming but Middleditch is faced with the news that the hospital may be forced to close and dreads having to tell the staff.
Season 1, Episode 7: Crash
Original Air Date-2 March 2003
It's Dr. Alway's last day at the Royal before retirement but he,and the rest of the staff,are kept busy,following a bus crash,one of the wounded being Dr. Ormerod's wife Caroline. Whilst Cheriton gets cosy with Staff Nurse Taylor, Bernard Hussey, the NHS administrator, gets in everyone's way and Greengrass is re-admitted,apparently suffering from malaria.

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