Holby City

Seasons

1999

UK

5.8

The everyday lives of the doctors, nurses, and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of the fictional Holby City General Hospital.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Whose Heart Is It Anyway?

Surgeons Meyer and Jordan race against time to carry out a transplant operation, while nurses Jasmine and Julie are interviewed for promotion.

S1 • E2

Happy Families

House officer Victoria Merrick attempts to conquer her nerves on her first day at Holby, and Julie has difficulty reconciling her personal life with her night shifts, while Jasmine Hopkins is called on to use all her diplomatic skills.

S1 • E3

Kill or Cure

The staff of Darwin ward struggle to prevent a deadly infection spreading beyond the confines of Casualty's famous hospital, while Dr Kirstie Collins inadvertently discovers Nick Jordan has a dark secret.

S1 • E4

Love and Death

Coma girl Nicola contracts pneumonia - leaving doctors McKendrick and Collins to help her parents make an agonizing decision. Anton Meyer faces an unusual problem with a transplant patient, and on the ward, the staff are delighted to hear that at least one person loves them.

S1 • E5

Never Judge a Book...

An emergency forces Victoria to think on her feet to bring a patient back from the brink of death and Nick is the victim of consultant surgeon Mr Meyer's razor-sharp tongue as they fight to save a baby born with a heart defect.

S1 • E6

Brave Heart

Nick's delay in attending a call results in the patient's death. To add to his problems, he then has to ask the victim's parents about the possibility of organ donation : but all they want to know is how such a minor injury could have led to their son's demise.

S1 • E7

Take Me with You

Meyer and McKendrick clash over the treatment of a female patient, and Dr Collins deals with an emergency situation in the cardiac ambulance.

S1 • E8

Staying Alive: Part 1

Sunny offers Victoria moral guidance, and comes up trumps in a radio quiz. Jordan and Meyer find themselves under increasing pressure, while Muriel McKendrick encounters a former colleague who proves a bit of a handful as a patient.