Series 8
199324 episodes
8
Episode 3
The Final Word
October 2, 1993
Episode 8
Born Losers
November 6, 1993
Ash is robbed on his way to work but do the thieves realise what they have stolen? And why is a woman suffering severe abdominal pains?
Episode 9
High Roller
November 13, 1993
A grudge match between two stock car drivers creates excitement on the track and lethal behaviour off it. And a young girl seems to know as much about running the casualty department as the staff. There's a bed shortage in the ICU Ward and a wife dies because of it and a gambler who fakes a heart attack, then has a stroke when he finds he had a winning hand. A woman with a brain tumour, shuns her husband. Duffy and Andrew seek professional help to have another baby and Jane Scott finds her first day in administration, tough.
Episode 20
Care in the Community
January 29, 1994
Dark secrets are uncovered and powerful emotions released when a tortured servant, an unstable young man with a knife and an angry policeman end up in Holby's A&E unit.
Episode 21
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
February 5, 1994
It's a busy night for the paramedics when their call-outs include an attempted suicide, a boy hurt at the ice-rink, a young deaf woman hit by a van after an argument with her husband, and a drug addict who accuses Josh of assault.
Episode 22
Relations
February 12, 1994
How deep is beauty? The future suddenly looks very different for two women who have suffered dreadful head injuries. And what is really happening when the school bully gets his comeuppance?
Episode 23
Grand Rational
February 19, 1994
All the emergency services turn out in force and tempers run high after a disturbed man with a gun holds Lucy and one of his wife's clients hostage in his living-room. And an accident on a dry ski slope brings a teenager into an emotional confrontation with her parents.
Episode 24
Hidden Agendas
February 26, 1994
A blind girl has fallen down a fire-escape and a drug addict has been beaten up. The team struggle through a heavy workload, but where is Charlie? Matters reach crisis point when a man is found sitting in a cubicle pointing a pistol at his own forehead. Charlie's arrives late and he is in a bad mood, even though it's his 40th birthday. Disgusted with the running of the NHS, he's come in to hand in his notice but he gets involved and has second thoughts.
