[1] Peter Norris continued as producer in Series 5 and courageously chose to expose viewers to harrowing scenarios: a riot at a football stadium, a car race with drunk drivers, a negligent grandfather causing a child's death, a prisoner who has been raped, and an unemployed man driven to murder by jealousy.
[2] The series concluded with a dramatic end-of-series cliffhanger where an armed madman, portrayed by Kenneth Cranham, took Megan hostage and ultimately shot Charlie, but would he survive?
[2] The fifth series of Casualty features a cast of characters working in the emergency department of Holby City Hospital.
Geoffrey Leesley and Ian Bleasdale portrays paramedics Keith Cotterill and Josh Griffiths, while Robson Green plays porter Jimmy Powell.
[4] Nigel Le Vaillant, Mamta Kaash, Patrick Robinson, Maggie McCarthy and Eamon Boland joined the cast in episode one as registrar Julian Chapman, senior house officer Beth Ramanee, staff nurse Martin "Ash" Ashford, receptionist Helen Green and social worker Tony Walker.