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Awards

• Number of award nominations: 21
• Number of awards won: 6
(2007, BAFTA Best Continuing Drama; 1999, TV Quick Awards Best Loved Drama; 1998 RTS Best Sound – Drama; 1992 RTS Best Drama Series; 1992 BAFTA Best Makeup; 1991, BAFTA Best VTR Editor)
• Number of BAFTA nominations: 11
• Number of BAFTA wins: 3

Characters

• Number of series regulars: 154
• Number of series nurses: 45
• Number of series doctors: 47
• Number of series paramedics: 21
• Number of series receptionists: 15
• Number of series porters: 5

Receptionists who got the job through nepotism: 2

• Sam Bateman (Tess's son)
• Shona Wark (mother of Charlie's granddaughter)

Regulars who were killed off: 20

• Sandra Mute (Lisa Bowerman) – stabbed to death by drunk patient (series 2, ep 4)
• Ewart Plimmer (Bernard Gallagher) – heart attack (series 4, ep 5)
• Kelly Liddle (Adie Allen) – suicide by drug and alcohol overdose (series 6, ep 9)
• Trevor Wilson (Michael Harbour) – fell down stairs (series 11, ep 10)
• Tom Harvey (Kieron Forsyth) – fell off fire-escape (series 15, ep 36)
• Andrew Bower (Philip Bretherton) – pushed down stairs (series 15, ep 36)
• Patrick Spiller (Ian Kelsey) – internal bleeding from an RTA (series 16, ep 28)
• Jack Vincent (Will Mellor)– boat explosion (series 17, ep 40)
• Anna Paul (Zita Sattar) – train derailment (series 18, ep 3)
• Barbara "Baz" Hayes (Julia Watson) – car crash (series 18, ep 18)
• Simon Kaminski (Christopher Colquhoun) – plane crash (series 18, ep 46)
• Finlay Newton (Kwame Kwei-Armah) – murdered by a grieving father (series 19, ep 5)
• Jim Brodie (Maxwell Caulfield) – sacrificed himself during hospital fire (series 19, ep 17)
• Claire Guildford (Leanne Wilson) – drowned trying to kill Luke and Charlie (series 19, ep 48)
• Paul "Woody" Joyner (Will Thorp) – toxic fumes poisoning (series 20, ep 17)
• Ellen Zitek (Georgina Bouzova) – hit by a motorcycle (series 21, ep 16)
• Selena Donovan (Elizabeth Carling) – shot (series 21, ep 48)
• Curtis Cooper (Abdul Salis) – fell off roof trying to stop hoodlum Callum (series 23, ep 48)
• Megan Roach (Brenda Fricker) – assisted suicide for terminal cancer (series 24, ep 47)
• Polly Emmerson (Sophia Di Martino) – stabbed by psych patient (series 25, ep 34)

Before joining the regular cast in 2007 as paramedic Jeff Collier, actor Matt Bardock appeared as a rioter in series 8 episode: Boiling Point.

Derek Thompson (Charlie) is the only original cast member in the series, and its lynch-pin. He also appeared in the series pilots of both contemporary spin-offs, Holby City and Holby Blue.

Charlie has been on the brink of death several times. As well as being menaced repeatedly in the ED, he's been:

• shot in chest (by Kenneth Cranham; series 5)
• hit by an ambulance on his wedding day (series 12)
• suffered a heart attack (series 14)
• nearly drowned (by a colleague; series 19)
• had a pulmonary embolus (series 24)

Episodes

Number of episodes from Series 1-25: 781
Number of episodes as of the anniversary: 785