Casualty (Series 1) - 4-DVD Set ( Casual+y ) ( Casualty - Series One )

Casualty (Series 1) - 4-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Casual+y
Alternate Title: Casualty - Series One
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
732 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jeremy Brock
Paul Unwin

Written By:
Jeremy Brock
Paul Unwin

Actors:
Bernard Gallagher ..... Ewart Plimmer
Derek Thompson ..... Charlie Fairhead
Brenda Fricker ..... Megan Roach
Julia Watson ..... Barbara 'Baz' Samuels
George Harris ..... Clive King
Christopher Rozycki ..... Kuba Trzcinski
Debbie Roza ..... Susie
Catherine Shipton ..... Duffy (as Cathy Shipton)
Robert Pugh ..... Andrew Ponting
Lisa Bowerman ..... Sandra Mute
Colin Fisher ..... Brenner
Roger Ostime ..... Norman Parker
Phil McCall ..... Starchy Harris
Emma Watson ..... Dannie Bennett
Trevor Cooper ..... Ralph
Al Ashton ..... Robert Palmer
Juliette Grassby ..... Mrs. Jones
Madeleine Nash ..... Sophie Jones
Brian Haines ..... Mr. Cartwright
Nancie Herrod ..... Mrs. Price
Roy Evans ..... Relative
Helen Gwyn ..... TV Journalist

Synopsis:

The ground-breaking BBC series, presented here for the first time on DVD in Australia, and featuring all fifteen digitally remastered episodes from the first series. Like any accident and emergency department, Holby City General Hospital is a hectic, chaotic whirl of staff, patients and visitors. Casualty interweaves the intriguing, exciting and dramatic stories surrounding the loves and lives of the hospital staff in a compelling drama series that has continued for over 20 years.
Season 1
Gas
S1, Ep1 Sep. 6, 1986
Hide and Seek
S1, Ep2 Sep. 13, 1986
Night Runners
S1, Ep3 Sep. 20, 1986
Jump Start
S1, Ep4 Sep. 27, 1986
Blood Brothers
S1, Ep5 Oct. 4, 1986
High Noon
S1, Ep6 Oct. 11, 1986
Professionals
S1, Ep7 Oct. 18, 1986
Crazies
S1, Ep8 Oct. 25, 1986
Moonlight Becomes You...
S1, Ep9 Nov. 8, 1986
Teeny Poppers
S1, Ep10 Nov. 15, 1986
Drunk
S1, Ep11 Nov. 22, 1986
Quiet
S1, Ep12 Dec. 6, 1986
No Future
S1, Ep13 Dec. 13, 1986
Survival
S1, Ep14 Dec. 20, 1986
Closure
S1, Ep15 Dec. 27, 1986

Season 1
Gas
S1, Ep1 Sep. 6, 1986
When several patients start filtering into Holby hospital with similar burn wounds and all being tight-lipped about the details of their accidents, the staff become suspicious. Meanwhile, the medical personnel on the A&E ward are having to deal with managements justification of the night-shift routine which is under threat. Leaning slightly on the personal lives of the staff rather than the storyline contained within the episode, however, it was a decent pilot which sets up the interesting characters and their backgrounds nicely for further episodes.

Hide and Seek
S1, Ep2 Sep. 13, 1986
A young girl arrives on A&E after being knocked unconscious by a passing train. Her half-sister alerts the ambulance and accompanies her to Holby but refuses to talk as to the reasons behind the apparent attempted suicide attempt; but some clever coercion from staff member Clive King uncovers a family issue which could have been the cause. Meanwhile, a spot-check at the hospital by a member of the DHSS uncovers some interesting information when porter Kuba Trzcinski speaks without thinking.

Night Runners
S1, Ep3 Sep. 20, 1986
When a teenage football fan is found with wounds within short proximity of a badly-wounded police officer, the finger of suspicion begins to point in his direction. Meanwhile, a woman is admitted onto the ward who refuses medical treatment due to her strict belief in Christian Science.

Jump Start
S1, Ep4 Sep. 27, 1986
The night shift at Holby are called upon to deal with the several casualties from a motorway pile-up, which includes a young pregnant woman and her partner. Back at the hospital a drunken reporter is sniffing around for a story for his newspaper, and Kuba takes matters into his own hands when he discovers Clive is regularly drinking whilst on duty.

Blood Brothers
S1, Ep5 Oct. 4, 1986
Staff at Holby are upset over the publication of a newspaper article which paints a very poor picture about their practice and procedures; meanwhile a homosexual man with significant blood loss and a teenage girl with a heroin overdose are among the patients admitted.

High Noon
S1, Ep6 Oct. 11, 1986
Duffy organizes a protest against the local cinema showing pornographic movies, Charlie has to deal with an elderly woman who was attacked by her goldfish, and Clive explains the rules of subbuteo table football to Kuba when the staff hold a secret tournament in one of the spare rooms. As for the patients, Holby takes in a young lawyer who refuses to accept the diagnosis that he has suffered an epileptic fit, and a pregnant teenage runaway gets run over by a truck.

Professionals
S1, Ep7 Oct. 18, 1986
Charlie and Baz take their work relationship one step further whilst Ewart complains to the cleaning company responsible for the recent poor hygiene in the hospital; and a woman ends up on the ward after suffering a fractured skull at the hands of her husband.

Crazies
S1, Ep8 Oct. 25, 1986
Taxi drivers are being randomly attacked by a non-paying female passenger, which puts Megan on edge when her husband Ted (a taxi-driver) cannot be contacted. Staff nurse Trish escapes an attempted rape in her friends' car and ends up at Holby as a patient. Mrs. Sherman's plans to modernize the hospital with the use of her own company are quashed when Ewart refuses her offer during their dinner date.

Moonlight Becomes You...
S1, Ep9 Nov. 8, 1986
An elderly gentleman is taken ill and transported to Holby but his friends at the nursing home feel he shouldn't be alone. They commandeer a company vehicle and make their way to the hospital. Shortly after, Kuba somehow manages to lose the patient whilst in the process of wheeling him to a new ward; and a man ends up on A&E boasting he suffered an injury whilst practicing judo turns out to be in discomfort due to something rather embarrassing!

Teeny Poppers
S1, Ep10 Nov. 15, 1986
A&E are on hand to deal with a young Asian man who has taken an accidental overdose and a woman suffering from post-natal depression who has made a suicide attempt. Megan becomes a patient as she begins to come to terms with her cancer, Kuba gets a ticking off when he tries to start a raffle with the patients in an attempt to raise money for a new ventilator, and Ewart is confronted by his estranged daughter.

Drunk
S1, Ep11 Nov. 22, 1986
The waiting room at the A&E is undergoing some decoration in preparation for a visit from the Royal family, but the lazy workmen are not doing much to impress the staff. Duffy has a good excuse for being late for work when she is attacked en route, and a young boy is found face down in a swimming pool by the girl who set him up.

Quiet
S1, Ep12 Dec. 6, 1986
Duffy is back at work after her attack and confides in Megan, who herself is on the ward undergoing treatment for her cancer. An amateur boxing match ends with the winner being rushed to Holby in a critical condition, and an elderly alcoholic woman suffers from internal bleeding. Whilst all this is going on, ambulance driver Ponting receives the news that his wife has left him for a 4'11" jockey and jetted off to Llandudno!

No Future
S1, Ep13 Dec. 13, 1986
Megan brings her elderly neighbour into A&E after an armed siege in her back garden results in him fighting for his life. Baz has a secret she is not sharing with Charlie, and a Dutch drug smuggler dies whilst in the company of his mistress whom flees the hospital when Ewart starts asking her some questions as to the mans identity.

Survival
S1, Ep14 Dec. 20, 1986
When Baz is seen leaving a specialist clinic with an attractive young man word quickly starts to spread around Holby which results in a frosty reception from Charlie. Kuba's good intentions are met with an equally frosty response. And an elderly man, known to the staff, finds his way onto the ward wanting to die and requests his daughter (a nurse) put him out of his misery.

Closure
S1, Ep15 Dec. 27, 1986
A&E is shut down at New Year when a missionary turns up carrying suspected Lassa fever. Kuba witnesses two men in a vicious brawl whilst he is cycling to work and stops to help one of them who is badly beaten, little realizing his own life is under threat just by being a witness.

One of the BBC's flagship dramas, Casualty depicts the lives of the patients, doctors, nurses and paramedics attending the frantically busy accident and emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Now approaching its twentieth year on television, this is where it all started: the hard-hitting storylines; the accurate portrayal of life in the casualty department; and that theme tune. At a time when medical dramas produced in the UK were thin-on-the ground, this was a truly ground-breaking show, often eclipsing equivalent drama programmes from the other side of the pond.

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