Staying Alive is a British television medical drama series written and created by Neil McKay, first broadcast on ITV on 1 November 1996.
The series, which follows a group of student nurses working in a London hospital, starred Jessica Hynes, Amanda Royle and Susannah Wise in the title roles, alongside Paul Higgins, Sophie Okonedo,[1] Jenny Bolt, Sean Blowers and Ayub Khan-Din.
Episodes were broadcast at 9:00pm on Fridays as part of LWT's new-look slate of British drama.
[3] For the second series, a number of new regular cast members were introduced, including Ian Fitzgibbon, Susan McArdle and Rupert Procter.
In 1996, a docudrama series with the same name aired on Channel 4, following the lives of six people from different countries around the world infected by the HIV virus.