Awards
* Number of award nominations: 21
* Number of awards won: 6
* (2007, BAFTA Best Continuing Drama; 1999, TV Quick Awards Best Loved Drama; 1998 RTS Best Sound – Drama; 1992 RTS Best Drama Series; 1992 BAFTA Best Makeup; 1991, BAFTA Best VTR Editor) Number of BAFTA nominations: 11
* Number of BAFTA wins: 3
Characters
* Number of series regulars: 154
* Number of series nurses: 45
* Number of series doctors: 47
* Number of series paramedics: 21
* Number of series receptionists: 15
* Number of series porters: 5
Receptionists who got the job through nepotism: 2
* Sam Bateman (Tess’s son)
* Shona Wark (mother of Charlie’s granddaughter)
Regulars who were killed off: 20
* Sandra Mute (Lisa Bowerman) – stabbed to death by drunk patient (series 2, ep 4)
* Ewart Plimmer (Bernard Gallagher) – heart attack (series 4, ep 5)
* Kelly Liddle (Adie Allen) – suicide by drug and alcohol overdose (series 6, ep 9)
* Trevor Wilson (Michael Harbour) – fell down stairs (series 11, ep 10)
* Tom Harvey (Kieron Forsyth) – fell off fire-escape (series 15, ep 36)
* Andrew Bower (Philip Bretherton) – pushed down stairs (series 15, ep 36)
* Patrick Spiller (Ian Kelsey) – internal bleeding from an RTA (series 16, ep 28)
* Jack Vincent (Will Mellor)– boat explosion (series 17, ep 40)
* Anna Paul (Zita Sattar) – train derailment (series 18, ep 3)
* Barbara “Baz” Hayes (Julia Watson) – car crash (series 18, ep 18)
* Simon Kaminski (Christopher Colquhoun) – plane crash (series 18, ep 46)
* Finlay Newton (Kwame Kwei-Armah) – murdered by a grieving father (series 19, ep 5)
* Jim Brodie (Maxwell Caulfield) – sacrificed himself during hospital fire (series 19, ep 17)
* Claire Guildford (Leanne Wilson) – drowned trying to kill Luke and Charlie (series 19, ep 48)
* Paul “Woody” Joyner (Will Thorp) – toxic fumes poisoning (series 20, ep 17)
* Ellen Zitek (Georgina Bouzova) – hit by a motorcycle (series 21, ep 16)
* Selena Donovan (Elizabeth Carling) – shot (series 21, ep 48)
* Curtis Cooper (Abdul Salis) – fell off roof trying to stop hoodlum Callum (series 23, ep 48)
* Megan Roach (Brenda Fricker) – assisted suicide for terminal cancer (series 24, ep 47)
* Polly Emmerson (Sophia Di Martino) – stabbed by psych patient (series 25, ep 34)
Before joining the regular cast in 2007 as paramedic Jeff Collier, actor Matt Bardock appeared as a rioter in series 7 episode: Boiling Point.
Derek Thompson (Charlie) is the only original cast member in the series, and its lynch-pin. He also appeared in the series pilots of both contemporary spin-offs, Holby City and Holby Blue.
Charlie has been on the brink of death several times. As well as being menaced repeatedly in the ED, he’s been:
* shot in chest (by Kenneth Cranham; series 5)
* hit by an ambulance on his wedding day (series 12)
* had a pulmonary embolus (series 14)
* nearly drowned (by a colleague; series 19)
* had a pulmonary embolus (series 24)
Episodes
Number of episodes from Series 1-25: 781
Number of episodes as of the anniversary: 785
See also: 25th Anniversary : Guest Artists : Locations to Medical Facts : Props to Writers
(Source: BBC Press Office)
