Casualty A Day in a Life (1986– ) Online
- Original Title :
- A Day in a Life
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Drama
- Year :
- 1986–
- Directror :
- Patrick Harkins
- Cast :
- Tristan Gemmill,Gillian Kearney,Suzanne Packer
- Writer :
- Daisy Coulam,Dana Fainaru
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 1h 40min
- Rating :
- 6.8/10
Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tristan Gemmill | - | Adam Trueman | |
Gillian Kearney | - | Jessica Harrison | |
Suzanne Packer | - | Tess Bateman | |
Sunetra Sarker | - | Zoe Hanna | |
Ben Turner | - | Jay Faldren | |
Georgia Taylor | - | Ruth Winters | |
Michael French | - | Nick Jordan | |
Derek Thompson | - | Charlie Fairhead | |
Jane Hazlegrove | - | Kathleen 'Dixie' Dixon | |
Matt Bardock | - | Jeff Collier | |
Laura Aikman | - | May Phelps | |
Steven Miller | - | Lenny Lyons | |
Will Sharpe | - | Yuki Reid | |
Sophia Di Martino | - | Polly Emmerson | |
Charles Dale | - | Big Mac |
The second half of this two-part special was originally due to be transmitted as a 60 minute episode on 3 January 2010, with Part 1 being transmitted on 2 January 2010. BBC scheduling decided to move this episode to 9 January to accommodate a sporting event, which would have knocked on by a week the transmission of the rest of the episodes in the series. This would have caused the crossover episodes Casualty: Love Is a Battlefield (2010) and Holby City: Downstairs Upstairs (2010) to be mismatched, with the patient being treated in Holby before he was actually sent there from Casualty. So episodes 18 and 19 were edited together as a feature-length special transmitted on 2nd January - which ensured that the remaining transmission dates were not affected.
This episode was officially numbered 24.18 and 24.19 by the BBC, but it was originally transmitted as a single double-length episode with one set of opening titles and one set of credits; the writers were listed as "Written by Daisy Coulam and Dana Fainaru". However when the episode was repeated on the Drama channel in 2018, it was shown as two 50-minute parts "A Day in a Life - Part I" and "A Day in a Life - Part II" with separate writers Daisy Coulam for 24.18 and Dana Fainaru for 24.19.