Casualty 1906 | |
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Casualty 1906 title sequence
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Genre | Medical drama |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 1 |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
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Original network | BBC One |
Original release | 3 December 2006 |
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Followed by | Casualty 1907 |
Casualty 1907 | |
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Casualty 1907 title sequence
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Genre | Medical drama |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 3 |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
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Original network | BBC One |
Original release | 30 March – 17 April 2008 |
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Preceded by | Casualty 1906 (Pilot) |
Followed by | Casualty 1909 |
Casualty 1909 | |
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Casualty 1909 title sequence
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Genre | Medical drama |
Directed by | Bryn Higgins (eps 1–3); Mark Brozel (eps 4–6) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 6 |
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Producer(s) | Bryn Higgins |
Running time | 58 Minutes |
Production company(s) | Stone City Films |
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Original network |
BBC One BBC HD |
Original release | 14 June | – 19 July 2009
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Casualty 1907 |
Casualty 1900s (broadcast in the U.S. as "London Hospital") is a British hospital drama spin-off of BBC One drama Casualty.
It places the viewer in the Receiving Room of The London Hospital in London's East End. The drama is shot with the pace and action of its modern-day counterpart A&E (ER in U.S.). In the London Hospital 1900, every case and character is based on real cases, characters and events taken from the actual hospital records, nurses' Ward Diaries and intimate memoirs. Casualty 1909, like its preceding series, is an unbroken experience of life with pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago amongst the desperately poor.
It began with a single episode of Casualty 1906, followed by three episodes of Casualty 1907, and six episodes of Casualty 1909.
Nurse Ada Russell has to decide whether or not to take the job of Ward Sister of Wellington , as it threatens to spoil her engagement to Dr James Walton. The hospital is using a radical new technique, ultra-violet light, to treat skin disease caused by unsanitary living conditions in the East End. Queen Alexandra visits with her sister the dowager empress of Russia to see the hospital.
Probationer Ethel Bennett goes through a night of rising tension as she nurses Thomas Hooley, the injured docker whose leg wounds are not healing. She clashes with ward sister Ada Russell, who is overwhelmed by the strain of running of a large, busy ward and worried about her true feelings for her fiance. Nobby Clark, leader of the violent Blind Beggar Gang, is hospitalised with alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, aged just 15. Driven mad by cravings and nightmares, his path crosses with Ada with unexpected results.
With the hospital facing imminent financial collapse, chairman Sydney Holland launches an inspired campaign to raise money. The cost of building the modern city is revealed when workers on the new Rotherhithe Tunnel are admitted with agonising diver's bends. Ethel, working in the receiving room, contracts scarlet fever from a patient.