List of Doctors characters introduced in 2017
JJ Kenwright (Neal Barry) was introduced as a love interest for Mrs Tembe (Lorna Laidlaw) in February.
Psychiatrist Megan Sharma (Ritu Arya) is introduced in April as a love interest for Sid Vere (Ashley Rice).
JJ was introduced as a love interest for established character Mrs Tembe (Lorna Laidlaw), when the two meet at a pheromone dating event.
They bond over a shared love of literature, but JJ is dismayed to find out that Mrs Tembe is romantically involved with Charles Gupta (Amerjit Deu).
[4] The pair introduce each other to their friends and Mrs Tembe is furious when Stevie Cocks (Brett Allen) jokes around about JJ's womanising ways.
[7] The pair go on a holiday together, and when they return, they find Rob Hollins (Chris Walker) waiting on their doorstep.
[12] Eve was introduced as the mother of established character Al Haskey (Ian Midlane) who is recovering from the death of her husband.
[14] Al arrives at Eve's house to stay with her during the Christmas period and he begins to worry about her health.
[16] Eve invites salesman George Popwell (Damian Myerscough) into her house, and when he learns that she is financially comfortable, he tries to get her to pay to fix her windows despite them not being broken.
[17] She signs a contract which leaves her £19,000 in debt to the window company, and when Al learns what has happened, he plants camera around her house.
Eve acts innocent in order to make him take advantage of her naivety and Al uploads the footage to the internet.
[19] Eve meets Ray Hopkins (Bruce Alexander) at a pottery class and the two begin dating.
[20] Ray proposes to Eve, to which she accepts, but it is later revealed that he has several other girlfriends, fiancées and wives, but forgets them since he too has dementia.
[23] However, at the end of her stay at Al's, as she is about to leave she falls ill. She is rushed into hospital and it emerges that she has fallen ill due to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Letherbridge.
While there to meet Mrs Tembe (Lorna Laidlaw), Jimmi Clay (Adrian Lewis Morgan) accidentally splashes milk over Megan's feet.
Sid Vere (Ashley Rice) begins having therapy with Megan, but feels awkward in the sessions as he has a crush on her.
He takes her on a date, but Megan is disgruntled when he repeatedly talks about his ex-girlfriend, Ayesha Lee (Laura Rollins).
Besa is a pregnant woman who has fled her home in Albania who Ruhma Carter (Bharti Patel) discovers in a rundown house where a group of Albanian women are living rough.
She explains to the immigration officers that she has experienced female genital mutilation at the age of 12, was repeatedly raped by a gangster in her city and, as a result, fell pregnant.
