Casualty series 22

Series overview

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.

Cast

Main characters

• Daphne Alexander as Nadia Talianos (until episode 19)
• Matt Bardock as Jeff Collier (from episode 3)
• Ivana Basic as Snezana Lalovic (from episode 26)
• Ian Bleasdale as Josh Griffiths (until episode 10)
• Susan Cookson as Maggie Coldwell (until episode 48)
• Charles Dale as Big Mac (from episode 13)
• Peter England as Terence "T.C." Cockleton (episodes 4−14)
• Elyes Gabel as Guppy Sandhu (until episode 5)
• Kip Gamblin as Greg Fallon (until episode 23)
• Tristan Gemmill as Adam Trueman (from episode 3)
• Sam Grey as Alice Chantrey
• Jane Hazlegrove as Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon
• Gillian Kearney as Jessica Harrison (from episode 21)
• Joanne King as Cyd Pyke (until episode 3)
• Simon MacCorkindale as Harry Harper (until episode 28)
• Tony Marshall as Noel Garcia (from episode 20)
• Janine Mellor as Kelsey Phillips
• Matthew Needham as Toby De Silva (from episode 1)
• Suzanne Packer as Tess Bateman
• Ben Price as Nathan Spencer (until episode 6)
• James Redmond as John "Abs" Denham
• Abdul Salis as Curtis Cooper (from episode 27)
• Sunetra Sarker as Zoe Hanna (from episode 18)
• Georgia Taylor as Ruth Winters (from episode 1)
• Derek Thompson as Charlie Fairhead (until episode 17, from episode 28)

Recurring characters

• Robyn Addison as Joanne Coldwell (episodes 22−43)
• Richard Dillane as Sean Anderson (episodes 27−48)
• Danny Emes as Lucas Anderson (from episode 34)
• Miffy Englefield as Amelia Anderson (from episode 34)
• Gregory Foreman as Louis Fairhead (from episode 13)
• Caroline Langrishe as Marilyn Fox (from episode 4)
• Andrew Newton-Lee as Stacey Merrick (from episode 30)
• Sarah-Jane Potts as Ellie Merrick (from episode 30)

Guest characters

• Sudha Bhuchar as Devika (episodes 4−10)
• Sharon Duce as Sheila Denham (episode 30)
• Paul Fox as Simon Tanner (episodes 39−48)
• Stella Gonet as Jayne Grayson (episodes 28−29)
• Cherie Lunghi as Camille Windsor (episodes 14 and 47−48)
• Amanda Mealing as Connie Beauchamp (episode 2)
• Jack Smethurst as Stan Powell (episode 4)
• Julia St. John as Sarah Evans (episodes 9, 21 and 25)

Episodes

Note: First appearance of Ruth Winters and Toby De Silva as F2 Doctors

Note: First Appearance of Adam Trueman (Tristan Gemmill) as a Consultant Doctor, Return of Jeff Collier (Matt Bardock) as a Paramedic, Death of Angel Spencer and departure of Cyd Pyke

Note: Arrival of T.C. as a Receptionist and Marilyn Fox as a Trust Executive

Note: Departure of Guppy Sandhu as a Doctor and the return of Harry Harper as Senior Consultant

Note: Departure of Nathan Spencer

Note: Final appearance of Josh Griffiths as a Paramedic

The full script for the episode can be read on the BBC website.

Note: Arrival of Big Mac as a porter

Note: Departure of T.C. as a Receptionist

Note: Temporary Departure of Charlie Fairhead as Clinical Nurse Manager

Note: Arrival of Zoe Hanna as a Consultant Doctor

Note: Departure of Nadia Talianos as a Nurse

Note: Arrival of Noel Garcia as a Receptionist

Note: Arrival of Jessica Harrison as an Agency Nurse

Note: Departure of Greg Fallon as a Paramedic

The full script for the episode can be read on the BBC website.

Note: Arrival of Snezana Lalovic as a Paramedic

Note: Arrival of Sean Anderson as a consultant in orthopaedics and Curtis Cooper as a Paramedic

Note: Departure of Harry Harper as Clinical Lead and Return of Charlie Fairhead as a Nurse. This episode was billed on listings sites and even on the BBC's iPlayer "watch again" site as having the episode title 'To Serve and Protect'. However the definitive on-screen title was 'Thicker than Water'.

Guest Starring Craig Roberts as Darren "Daz" Smith, Ian Hughes as Terry Fishlock and Sarah McVicar as Sandra Chiltern

Guest starring George Young as Bruce Ellis, Shobu Kapoor as Hasina Hussain, Ian Lavender as Gordon Cunningham and Rosie Rowell as Julie Chantrey

Guest starring Meryl Hampton as Gill Florence, Alexander Morton as Mike Florence and Jo Eastwood as Rose Florence

Guest starring Joe Beech as Joey Merrick, Ibbi Andersen as Annie War and Tim Faraday as Justin Pritchard

Guest starring Richard O'Callaghan as Eddie Morris, Claire Vousden as Flora Denby and Susan Vidler as Cindy Abrahams

Guest starring Mark Little as Gary Forrester, Martin Crewes as Gary Forrester and Kazia Pelka as Sarah Brown

This episode sees the arrival of Simon Tanner.

Guest starring Orla O'Rourke as WPC Caryn Finnegan, Julia Joyce as Beth Elizabeth Grey and Ravi Aujla as Arjan Kasturi

Guest starring Keith Barron as Howard Coombes, Richard Hawley as Terry Geraghty and Alicya Eyo as Lissa Burrows

Guest starring Linda Armstrong as Jo Linden, Harry Morrison as Kris Kemp and Ellie Beavan as Sally Toner

Guest starring Nicole Lecky as Nazrin Malik, Holly Atkins as Trish Malik and Adam Astill as Nigel Greenway

Guest starring Rebecca Calder as Briony Grove, Gregor Henderson-Begg as Ben Grove and Louisa Clein as Holly Spellman

Guest starring Eoin McCarthy as Joseph Connor, Jessica Mann as Rachel Connor and Brendan Patricks as Graham Ireland

Guest starring Marjorie Yates as Val Barnaby, Maria Pajevic Merrell as Natasa Jovanovic and Georg Nikoloff as Marko Jovanovic

Guest starring Georg Nikoloff as Marko Jovanovic, Danny Webb as Rob Greyson and Carol Harrison as Pam Kemp

This episode sees the departure of Maggie Coldwell and Simon Tanner.

Notes

References

References

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3. "Casualty - Series 22, Episode 11 (Daisy Coulam)". BBC Writersroom.
4. "Casualty - Series 22, Episode 25 (Mark Catley)". BBC Writersroom.