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Casualty

★ 6.2 4K votes 1986–present 40 seasons · 1403 episodes Returning Series BBC One
MedicalHospitals, medicine and doctors under pressure.This show: 10/10Long-runnerA show whose sheer longevity shapes how it's watched.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10Contemporary lifeRecognizably the present day, ordinary life included.This show: 7/10WorkplaceThe job and its social ecosystem as the stage.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Derek ThompsonTony MarshallSuzanne PackerWilliam BeckIan BleasdaleJane Hazlegrove
Written by
Jeremy BrockPaul Unwin
Starring
Derek ThompsonTony MarshallSuzanne PackerWilliam BeckIan BleasdaleJane Hazlegrove
Written by
Jeremy BrockPaul Unwin
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A national institution built on quiet endurance"

Casualty follows the staff of a busy hospital emergency department in a fictional English city, mixing the chaos of incoming patients with the personal lives and rivalries of doctors, nurses, and paramedics. As one of British television's longest-running dramas, it settles into a comfortable, episodic rhythm: medical crises resolved within an hour, slower-burning relationship arcs threaded underneath. It's warm, occasionally soapy, and built for long-term familiarity with its cast rather than binge-worthy tension, rewarding patience more than urgency.

Watch it for

the decades-long ensemble warmth that makes returning to it feel like visiting old colleagues.

Maybe skip if

you want tight, serialized plotting rather than episodic medical cases with soap-opera undercurrents.

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All Seasons

Showing the latest 500 of 1,403 episodes.

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Series 282013
6.39512
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Series 292014
6.049946
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Series 302015
6.336943
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Series 312016
6.5640447h 21m
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Series 322017
6.4545449h 53m
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Series 332018
6.88124624h 55m
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Series 342019
6.66524333h 45m
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Series 352021
6.74233019h 45m
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Series 362021
6.65224429h 26m
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Season 372022
6.86184333h 59m
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Driving Force2023
7.15603728h 7m
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A History of Violence2023
7.24343419h 1m
They're fighting to save patients while their personal lives are brimming with drama and intrigue. Everything's at stake on the emergency ward.
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Breaking Point2024
7.23983425h 24m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Derek Thompson Charlie Fairhead, Captain Hook
Tony Marshall Noel Garcia, Car Park Attendant, Roy
Suzanne Packer Tess Bateman, Candice Francis
William Beck Dylan Keogh
Ian Bleasdale Josh Griffiths
Jane Hazlegrove Kathleen 'Dixie' Dixon, Dixie Dixon, Angela Regis
Michael Stevenson Iain Dean, Corporal Ian Dean, Cpl Ian Dean
Charles Dale Big Mac, Billy Traynor, Larry Steadman
Catherine Shipton Lisa Duffin, Lisa 'Duffy' Duffin, Duffy
Amanda Henderson Robyn Miller, Jack

Crew

Jeremy Brock
Paul Unwin

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