Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep22 – Take It Back
First Aired: 19 January 2008
Character: Harry Harper

Description: New nurse Jessica provides a surprise for Adam, while Maggie is shocked when she gets an unexpected visitor and Greg bonds with a little girl and her cyber pet.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep21 – Adrenaline Rush
First Aired: 12 January 2008
Character: Harry Harper

Description: As the work-to-rule continues, a keen agency nurse eases the load, much to everyone’s relief. But it soon becomes apparent he has a chilling agenda which leaves one of the team fighting for life.

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Playing a psychological game

ACTOR Simon MacCorkindale loves nothing more than a nail-bitingly good, edge-of-the-seat thriller, so he’s absolutely buzzing with enthusiasm ahead of his latest play, Sleuth, which opens in Windsor later this month.

First written by Anthony Shaffer, the Tony Award-winning play revolves around Simon’s character, Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer, who is fascinated by psychological games and game-playing.

He lures his wife’s lover, Milo Tindle (played by Michael Praed), to his countryside manor house, where he subjects him to a tangled web of intrigue and manipulation. But ultimately nothing turns out quite as it seems.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep20 – Broken Homes
First Aired: 5 January 2008
Character: Harry Harper

Description: It’s Noel’s first day on reception, and in protest of Charlie’s unfair dismissal, Abs starts his work-to-rule campaign amongst the nurses, leaving Tess furious.

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The cast of Casualty reckon that their colleague Simon MacCorkindale takes his role as top medic Harry Harper so seriously that they wish he was a real doctor!

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SIMON MacCORKINDALE

Andrew Wyke

Simon MacCorkindale is perhaps best recognized over the last few years as Harry Harper, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, in the BBC’s most popular and enduring drama series Casualty. Following his starring role in the successful 2007 tour of Agatha Christie’s Unexpected Guest, he now returns to the stage in Sleuth.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep19 – For Auld Lang Syne
First Aired: 30 December 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Dean’s actions at the nightclub put the party-goers’ lives in danger, but Abs and Kelsey appear to be safe – until the mental-health nurse decides to negotiate with the troubled teen. Back at the hospital, Tess misses Charlie as she struggles to run the department in the aftermath of the Paradise incident, while Alice and a claustrophobic Adam get trapped in a broken lift with a pregnant woman. However, there is some light relief courtesy of a bagpiper who refuses to let a chronic wind problem get in the way of performing Auld Lang Syne at midnight

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep18 – Take a Cup of Kindness Yet
First Aired: 29 December 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: In the first of a two-part special, Harry agrees to let his daughter Kizzy see in the New Year at a local nightclub when he learns Kelsey and Abs will be there too. However, a troubled teenager heads to the same place after causing a car crash. Nadia decides to sacrifice her own career rather than let Ruth take the blame for a misdiagnosis, and new doctor Zoe impresses the staff by arriving a day early

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep17 – (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
First Aired: 22 December 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Charlie witnesses a hit-and-run and thinks his day can’t get any worse. But when Lois goes missing and Charlie finds himself face to face with the hit-and-run driver, he is forced to confront his future as a working parent – with explosive consequences

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep16 – Snowball
First Aired: 15 December 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: It’s crunch time as Harry has to decide between Tess and Charlie. Greg once again finds himself in trouble with Dixie.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep15 – Behind Closed Doors
First Aired: 8 December 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: It’s Toby’s last shift. Adam allows him to successfully carry out a tricky procedure on his own, much to Ruth’s annoyance, but will this be enough to stop him leaving?

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep14 – Inheritance
First Aired: 1 December 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Tensions rise between Tess and Charlie but Louis’s growing delinquency forces them to come to a resolution. Toby’s mother turns up in the ED and drives him to make the decision to quit. TC is fired.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep – How Soon Is Now
First Aired: 24 November 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: There is a fire in Louis’s school. Greg is a hero when he risks his life to save children trapped in the blaze. Charlie is worried when Louis is among the children unaccounted for.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep11 – A House Divided
First Aired: 10 November 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Harry pushes either Tess or Charlie to accept redundancy. Adam discovers who is behind Toxicshark.co.uk.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep10 – Finding the Words
First Aired: 3 November 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Josh faces losing the woman he loves by working such long hours. Toby faces his worst day so far. Harry has to break some bad news to Tess and Charlie.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep – As One Door Closes…
First Aired: 27 October 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Josh comes face to face with his demons, putting his career on the line. Harry is put under pressure to make redundancies, and the gang discover the warts ‘n’ all blog, Toxicshark.co.uk.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep – My Aim Is True
First Aired: 20 October 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Harry’s new policy backfires. Adam tries to teach Toby the basics of intubation – on a dead body. Josh is stunned when he discovers Devika and Sajani are going back to India as soon as they can.

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SUSAN GEORGE

PHOTOS SHOWCASE HER UNBRIDLED PASSION

(Mainly a Susan George article)

Formerly known for her work on the big screen, these days Susan George can be forgiven for horsing around behind the camera. The actress turned equestrian photographer has been celebrating her first major exhibition in Mayfair. The Straw Dogs star and film icon of the 1970s has latterly turned her attention to Arabian horses, which she breeds at the farm in Somerset that she owns with her husband of 23 years, Casualty star Simon MacCorkindale.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep7 – Inappropriate Behaviour
First Aired: 13 October 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Harry introduces a ‘no inappropriate attenders’ policy: a refusal to treat patients who can be seen by their GPs. Tess and Abs disagree with the move, but Harry says it will mean more time to deal with emergencies. When partygoer Diane is raped by mini-cab driver Perry, she lashes out causing him to lose control of the car, which collides with a lorry driven by a drunk driver. At the hospital, Ruth is called to deal with the drunk lorry driver – it’s her estranged father! When Ruth tells Nadia her mother died because of his abuse, Nadia realises they have something in common. Later, Tess admits to Harry that his new policy gave her more time to convince Diane to report the rape. Also, Josh bonds with Sajani, and Alice stands up to Kelsey

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Simon MacCorkindale

The Casualty star on his TV times in pictures

1977 – Simon in his ITV drama Romance. ‘In a way it was my breakthrough performance,’he recalls. ‘lt was shown to the director of Death on the Nile [1978] and I got the role of Simon Doyle in it.’

1984 – With the late, Oscar-winning actress JayneWyman in hit US soap opera Falcon Crest. ‘She was a fantastic woman. We stayed in touch for many years.’

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep06 – Core Values
First Aired: 6 October 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Harry is back as consultant manager and his job is to turn the emergency department around within six months. His new boss, Marilyn Fox, gives him his first task: to fire Nathan Spencer. Harry sympathises with Nathan’s recent loss and questions the timing, but he is committed to following his superior’s orders. However, his efforts to sack Nathan are thwarted by one emergency case after another. Earlier that day, two groups of soldiers are on a live firing exercise, led by their new Corporal, Neil Hobbs. Two men are shot – one in the chest and the other in the leg. Corporal Hobbs attempts to establish whether this was an accident – a negligent discharge – or something more sinister. At first, he fears the shot came from within his team, but soon realises it came from a different direction. Elsewhere, in a recording studio, some musicians are laying down tracks when the female singer, Bunmi, collapses into the drum kit. Ruth seriously misdiagnoses Bunmi with potentially fatal repercussions and makes an enemy in the department when she blames Nadia for her own mistake.

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Series: GMTV
First Aired: 3rd October 2007

Description: Simon appeared on GMTV to discuss The Unexpected Guest and his Casualty return

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Sad news for all those female fans who tune in to BBC1 on Saturday nights to gaze adoringly at Simon MacCorkindale. After five years playing consultant Harry Harper in Casualty the smoothy actor is hanging up his stethoscope.

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To the rescue

Harry is back to help – to Nathan’s horror!

Harry Harper makes a triumphant return to the A&E department -but not everyone is pleased. His new job as consultant manager means he’s now arch-rival Nathan’s boss!

The medic finally returns following Guppy’s pleas for him to come back to the troubled hospital.

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Series: Casualty
Episode: S22Ep5 – Sliding Doors
First Aired: 29 September 2007
Character: Harry Harper

Description: Returning from London without Harry, Guppy is lacking in confidence and feeling depressed. His train is cancelled because someone has pulled the emergency alarm, so he ends up waiting on a deserted platform. While waiting, he notices a child’s ball falls onto the train track. The child runs after it and gets his arm stuck. Guppy has to act instinctively and in doing so saves the boy’s life. Back at ED, Guppy investigates further. His diagnosis and subsequent life-saving treatment is praised by everyone and Maggie tries to persuade Guppy to stay, but he has made up his mind and says a quiet goodbye, leaving ED for good. Meanwhile, Toby experiences the first death in his care which leaves him devastated. Elsewhere, Charlie meets Devika and Sajani, and discovers they are Josh’s visitors. He questions Devika’s motives on learning that Josh has given them his compensation money. Josh is furious at Charlie’s suspicion. Harry returns and announces to the shocked department that he is back as the new Consultant Manager. Nathan is horrified – Harry will be his new boss

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