About this season
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Episodes (26)
1. Give My Love to Esme
Aired 11 September 1997 • 75 min
Jack is now engaged to Jayne but overreacts when new nurse Tina Seabrook makes an unfortunate comment about a man who deliberately fell off a ladder to get into hospital. Josh and Liz try to get Ian and Esme, a couple who are having a baby to the hospital, but end up having to deliver the baby in the back of an ambulance. Young black couple Jason and Lou are arguing about her desire to join the police, who Jason sees as institutionally racist. After they part ways, Jason sees someone park a van in the car park at a shopping centre. A bomb in the van goes off, causing many casualties. An elderly man removes glass imbedded in his wife's stomach and she dies of internal bleeding. Lou seems to have minor injuries but in hospital a scan shows she has a bleed on the brain, which leaves her in a coma. Ian has been left trapped in rubble and when a second bomb is discovered Baz and Josh amputate his foot to get him out.
2. Private Lives
Aired 13 September 1997 • 48 min
An underage prostitute, Lucy, is lured to a garage by a client where she is beaten up by a group of men and dumped outside the hospital. Jack warns George about getting too involved in the case. Lucy's friend Julie turns up and it transpires she set up the beating because Lucy was planning on quitting the game. Lucy initially leaves with Julie but later returns to see George. Liz argues with her husband John, who thinks she is not spending enough time at home. A young woman brings in her older neighbour; they are involved in a dispute over a fence and the older woman tripped over. Sam manages to get them talking. A young man with a history of mental health issues pushes his mother (Brigit Forsyth) down the stairs. Richard and Kate convince her to have him sent to a psychiatric hospital.
3. Nearest and Dearest
Aired 20 September 1997
4. What Friends are For
Aired 27 September 1997
5. The Things We Do For Love
Aired 4 October 1997
6. Counting the Cost
Aired 11 October 1997
7. Always on My Mind
Aired 18 October 1997
8. Finders Keepers
Aired 25 October 1997
9. Whatever It Takes
Aired 1 November 1997
10. A Taste of Freedom
Aired 8 November 1997
11. Bad Company
Aired 15 November 1997
12. Moving On
Aired 22 November 1997
13. Power of Persuasion
Aired 29 November 1997
14. Out of Control
Aired 6 December 1997
15. Love's Labour
Aired 13 December 1997
16. Facing Up
Aired 20 December 1997
17. The Golden Hour
Aired 27 December 1997
18. An Eye for an Eye
Aired 3 January 1998
19. Loco Parentis
Aired 10 January 1998
20. Degrees of Separation
Aired 17 January 1998
21. Secrets
Aired 24 January 1998
22. Love Me Tender
Aired 31 January 1998
23. Taking Sides
Aired 7 February 1998
24. We Can Be Heroes
Aired 14 February 1998
25. Everlasting Love (1)
Aired 21 February 1998
26. Everlasting Love (2)
Aired 28 February 1998