Casualty series 18

The series consists of 46 episodes, which focus on the professional and personal lives of medical and ancillary staff at the emergency department (ED) of the fictional Holby City Hospital.

Actors Kwame Kwei-Armah and Ian Bleasdale, who portray paramedics Finlay Newton and Josh Griffiths respectively, enjoyed filming the stunt.

Featuring a cameo appearance from Lord Lichfield, the story sees staff create a charity calendar, which was later sold commercially to raise money for Children in Need.

Having joined in the fourth series, Ian Bleasdale stars as Josh Griffiths, the operational duty manager at Holby Ambulance Service.

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Martina Laird and Matthew Wait play paramedics Finlay Newton, Comfort Jones and Luke Warren, respectively.

Luke and Nikki are called out to a couple giving birth on a ley line; the boyfriend panicked and phoned them but the woman refuses medical help, even though it turns out she never had tests and didn't know she was expecting twins.

Father Tom was out driving while mother Nina admits she has been working as a receptionist at a massage parlour and stayed late because a client gave her £250 to sleep with him.

A young woman returns from abroad to find her elderly father has handcuffed himself inside the house where he has lived all his life, which is due to be demolished.

Roger turns out to be working for an insurance company who believe Andy is faking the injury, which happened when Glen was about to dump him for a big contract, and is proved right.

A young woman brings in her boyfriend insisting he needs his stomach pumped; Simon and Tess learn he ate a pie that she had hidden an engagement ring in, which should pass naturally.

Roxy is suspicious and asks Abs to investigate; it turns out the father, once a violent drug addict, is banned from seeing her and her mother thinks she was at dance class.

Josh and Luke are called out to a set of flats where they find a man, Toby, collapsed from a drug overdose having just had a kidney removed and his pre-school son Zane with minor injuries.

It eventually transpires that Toby was clean; his estranged wife Tina gave him the drugs after he agreed to sell a kidney to pay off her debts to her dealers.

Guest starring Joel Dommett, Kate Duchêne and Joseph Aston Tally is rushed into Resus with Bex finding an empty pill bottle.

She tries to secretly record an interview with Terry, a prisoner who says they were protesting against over crowding, and Abs throws her out despite her threatening to run with the Mickey Driscoll story.

A gang member who faked an injury slips a stun gun to a prisoner who uses it on a guard and takes Roxy hostage but Matty saves her.

Claire finds the male resident forcing medicine down the woman's throat and is briefly held hostage by him until Lara talks him down: He was behind the abuse and is arrested.

The home owner, Lewis, who works nights, fell asleep and lost his young son Sean, who is found buried under rubble in a skip.

Guest starring Israel Aduramo, Jerome Willis and Mike Grady Abs returns to work after his beating and is placed in triage but annoys Jim by continually sending him minor injuries.

A woman who ran over and killed a boy five years ago turns up convinced it just happened; Charlie and Abs insist on admitting her for psychiatric treatment.

An elderly woman comes in with angina and there is no room in cubicles to give her an ECG; Charlie forcibly clears bed on the wards but she dies in reception.

Guest starring Geff Francis, Sandra Yaw and Dean Andrews Harry returns from leave to find Charlie and Abs in meetings with the union; Tally has stayed behind in South Africa.

An elderly woman, Miriam, has been left on a trolley in a corridor for hours and her son Tom has to resort to buying a pizza to get her a hot meal.

It is decided Karl and Damon will take Lara, Nikki and Lee to hospital then carry on in the ambulance, leaving Josh, Awais and Salma locked in the shop.

Guest starring Grant Gillespie, Bhasker Patel and Pip Torrens Nikki is the one thrown off the roof and Fin and Comfort are allowed to help her after the robbers have left with Lara in a van.

A girl, Kirsten, takes her baby son Sam to stay with her mother Carol while her father Gavin, a recovering drug addict, is away.

Guest starring Richard Ridings, Francis Magee and Paul Henshall Luke has returned to work and brings in Marcus, a teenager prodigy who cut his hands in a fall.

Simon discovers he has a degenerative optical nerve condition that will eventually leave him blind; Marcus already knew but didn't want to tell his father.

Guest starring Eric Barlow, Justin Salinger and Abbie Hurst A teenager, Sophie, is brought in after collapsing and signs show she has recently given birth and has an infection.

A woman is driving her son, who wants to go to college in Edinburgh, and paraplegic husband but hits another car head-on leaving the driveway and suffers severe head injuries.