[1] The first series of Casualty consisted of fifteen episodes with individual titles, which aired weekly on a Saturday night.
Unwin said in an interview with Radio Times that their pitch 'read like a manifesto', with the first sentence being: "In 1948, a dream was born - a National Health Service.
[5] After the commissioning of Casualty, the BBC decided to team Unwin and Brock up with television producer Geraint Morris.
[5][6] One of the reasons Casualty was produced was to help boost decreasing ratings for the BBC between 1984 and 1985 during peak viewing times on Friday and Saturday evenings.
[8] The fifteenth episode saw the last appearances of characters Baz Samuels and Clive King, whose respective departures were explained in the second series.