The second series of the British medical soap opera Doctors originally aired between 2 October 2000 and 1 June 2001.
[1] Dan (Joshua Prime), Helen Thompson's (Corrinne Wicks) son, is reintroduced after a guest stint in the first series.
Numerous recurring characters were also introduced to Doctors in the second series, including: Helen's husband Phil (Mark Adams) and daughter Claire (Tara Coleman-Starr), Mac McGuire's (Christopher Timothy) son Patrick (Alan McKenna),[2] Candy Williams (Leanne Wilson), a receptionist at Riverside[3] and Faith Walker (Eva Fontaine), a talkative and kind nurse at the Riverside Health Centre.
[5] Her departure saw her help grandmother Jessie Helm (Marcia Ashton) to die in a euthanasia plot.
[6] The second series also saw the departure of four other regulars: Ruth Harding (Yvonne Brewster), Rana Mistry (Akbar Kurtha), Steve Rawlings (Mark Frost)[7] and Caroline Powers (Jacqueline Leonard).