Bob Dylan

The Royal

Cast

• Andy Wear
• Wendy Craig
• Robert Daws
• Denis Lill
• Amy Robbins
• John Axon
• Linda Armstrong
• Michelle Hardwick
• Zoie Kennedy
• Michael Starke
• Natalie Anderson
• Scott Taylor
• Paul Fox

• Season 1
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: First Impressions
  The Royal is, in the 1960s, the local hospital for the North Yorkshire town of Elsinby. Its administ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Second Time Around
  A motor-bike crash brings a cruel end to a romantic escapade for a young couple, but elsewhere Matro...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Coffin Fit
  Jill Wetherill comes to learn the folly of jumping to the wrong conclusion after she suspects that o...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Sister of Mercy
  Jill Wetherill helps the Heatons, an elderly couple, whilst Sister Brigid, a secular Irish nun worki...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Immediate Care
  David Cheriton is faced with the unenviable task of telling young Francesca that she has only a shor...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Kiss and Tell
  Aidensfield copper Ventress comes to the Royal for a bunion removal and sees a supposed amnesiac, wh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Crash
  It's Dr. Alway's last day at the Royal before retirement but he, and the rest of the staff, are kept...
• Season 2
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: All at Sea
  Eve Peterson comes to the Royal requiring an emergency hysterectomy. She has had an illegal abortion...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Snakes and Ladders
  Middleditch is away and Nigel Harper, his stand-in, annoys everyone with his fussy ways. Equally ann...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Thicker Than Water
  Sister Brigid finds a clash between her faith and her profession when it becomes apparent that a dev...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Wishing and Hoping
  Mr. and Mrs. Barrie bring their young daughter Denise to the hospital for treatment for whooping cou...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: One of Those Days
  Dr. Ormerod answers a call for help following a boating accident but goes to the wrong location and ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: The Last Waltz
  The hospital's charity ball is being organized by Meryl and David with a band led by porter Andy's b...
• Season 3
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: The Unbreakable Chain
  Student nurse Samantha Beaumont makes quite an entrance, arriving in the middle of the night. The ho...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: If Not for You
  The rugby match between staff from the Royal and Ashfordly General is revived and the consequences a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Doing the Rounds
  New young doctor Jeff Goodwin arrives at the Royal to replace David, after a traumatic journey in wh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Consequences
  Jeff raises eye-brows but ultimately wins the day by letting a holistic therapist cure a patient's b...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Poison
  The porters persuade Harper to re-apply for his job following management re-organization and move hi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Famous for a Day
  Television presenter Lennie Lemarr brings a film crew to the hospital for a special Christmas broadc...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Skin Deep
  Jill and Gordon decide to call it a day but when they try and tell people they seem to know already....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Cliffhanger
  The police are called to the Royal after a man with a leg injury turns out to be one of two gun-men ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: All the Fun of the Fair
  The fair comes to town and the fortune-teller reveals staff futures though Gordon now knows his own....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Holding on Tight
  A group of drunken lads on a stag night arrive at the Royal very much the worse for wear but the dri...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: For Those in Peril
  Gordon is disturbed when he receives poison pen letters. The staff help Sally Bain, a girl whose par...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Reckoning
  Gordon is angry that the police feel the need to investigate his wife's death but Jeff and Samantha ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Doing Time
  Jeff's failure to spot post-natal depression in new mum Sheena almost ends in disaster when she ends...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Home to Roost
  Jeff discovers that he has a love rival for Samantha but Gordon and Jill are brought closer when his...
• Season 4
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: For Better, for Worse
  Jill and Gordon finally get married and invite their colleagues to the ceremony but there is an unwa...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Beggars and Choosers
  When young Stan Sanderson is brought to the Royal with an injury sustained at work Jeff decides he c...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: No Room for Ravers
  Jill's home visit to war veteran Patrick Maver, a psychologically damaged man, turns into a nightmar...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: The Rose Queen
  Jill and ambulance driver Frankie are literally in a cliff-hanging situation getting to young Anita,...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: It's What's on the Inside That Counts
  Jill finds herself in an ethical battle with the Howarths, who are refusing to allow their new-born ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Duty Bound
  Jeff finds himself in an unenviable situation, thanks to Chrissy, a friend of Lizzie, who sees herse...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Sins of the Father
  Gordon gets unwittingly involved with a domestic dispute which has got out of hand and Lizzie finds ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Everybody Needs Somebody
  Matron surprises a thief in the office, who attacks her and whose identity comes as a surprise when ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Say a Little Prayer
  Sister Brigid is deeply concerned for the welfare of Mother Peter, the head of the convent, who is v...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: The Way We Were
  Jeff takes the opportunity to set the record straight about himself and restores his reputation afte...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Sinking Feeling
  Gordon and Frankie are put in a dangerous situation when they go to the aid of an injured trawler-ma...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: While the Cat's Away
  Matron prepares to return to work, where Harper is putting into effect his cost-cutting schemes. Jef...
• Season 5
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Loved and Lost
  Gordon Ormerod returns to the hospital following his accident and is called to a girls'school where ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man
  Having secured the future of the Royal Mr. Middleditch hands over to the much younger Adam Carnegie ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Thinking Too Hard
  Gordon has still not regained all his old confidence as is evidenced when he attends a drunken farme...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Seeking Refuge
  Jeff is accused of becoming too involved when he goes out of his way to help Carol Buxton, who tells...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Fever
  An epidemic of typhoid breaks out, located to the wards, and the Royal has to be quarantined though,...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Letting Go
  Jean Westerley comes to the Royal, suffering from burns, and Gordon is anxious that she be admitted ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Love Is All You Need
  When a friend of the Ormerods complains of stomach pains, Jill diagnoses appendicitis and Mr. Rose p...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Waifs and Strays
  When Ella Hale brings baby Anne to the Royal and congenital syphilis is diagnosed, it is revealed th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Winners & Losers
  Nigerian locum Joan Makori encounters prejudice from patient's mother Mrs. Woodbridge but wins her r...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Price of Progress
  Due to signposts being changed in the war to confuse Germans Joan gets lost on her way to a remote h...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Keep on Running
  Chip shop owner Phil Granger comes to the Royal after a fire which the police believe he started in ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: From This Day Forward
  An elderly trawler-man collapses and his boat ploughs into and demolishes a pier on which a wedding ...
• Season 6
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Absent Friends
  Jill cuts short her maternity leave to return to the Royal because of staff shortages and Matron not...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Home and Dry
  Jeff returns from Africa with Nkeshi, whom he has smuggled into the country illegally. A shocked Mat...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Hoping for the Best
  Staff encourage put-upon wife Lesley Pinner to take a stand against her controlling husband who was ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Fear of the Expected
  Aristocratic Lady Isabella Martindale injures herself in a riding accident and is driven to the hosp...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Dr Who?
  Due to an administrative error two young men turn up as prospective successors to Jeff Goodwin, the ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Cursed and Blessed
  When expectant mother Lily Metcalfe arrives at the Royal, she is followed by her husband, intent on ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Starting Over
  Mr Middleditch makes a surprise return to the hospital in an ambulance after hurting his ankle while...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Coming to the Boil
  Two new nurses, Marian McKaig, who rooms with Stella, and Susie Dixon, who turns out to be Matron's ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Scabs
  The porters go on sympathy strike but this is bad news for Alun when he is in need of help. He also ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Laura
  The death of a baby in a train crash during a family day out makes Jill more determined than ever to...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Can't Buy Me Love
  Henry, Gordon's ex-father-in-law visits, bearing an olive branch and making a bequest to the Ormerod...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Love & Loss
  Susie makes a play for Frankie, telling him she does not mind his being married before. Jill discove...
• Season 7
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Against All Odds
  Marian is returning to the Royal by rail when the train crashes and, whilst she is trapped in the ca...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: On the Road
  Sister Brigid is giving out food to the homeless of the town when Nick suggests that they should be ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Blood's Thicker Than Water
  Penny Darnby is admitted suffering from pneumonia and is worried that her father should not be left ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Slings and Arrows
  Alun is disappointed that he has been passed over as Ken's replacement and Eric Fogle has been appoi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: To Love and to Lose
  Moira Kilgannon, Brigid's sister, arrives from Ireland and shocks the nun by revealing that she is p...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Stolen Dreams
  An amusement arcade in the town collapses, trapping youngsters in the wreckage. One is a boy with a ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Home from the Hill
  Jack Bell, a new head porter to replace the departing Eric, arrives and ends up as a patient. Bobby ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Pastures New
  Jack is thrown in at the deep end when the hospital's boiler breaks down and he has to find a new on...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Busman's Holiday
  Jack gets a fright when a 'corpse' comes to life in the mortuary - his old pal Duncan, the worse for...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: In the Air
  Having previously bet Lizzie that she could get Adam to date her, Susie dines out on her success but...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: The Best of Intentions
  Nick has to attend to two little girls who have been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes and Jill gets...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Compromising Positions
  Despite being advised against it by Nick, Bobby takes the law into his own hands with a local thug a...
• Season 8
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Safe as Houses
  The Ormerods accompany Sister Brigid to Ireland for Moira's funeral where married Sergeant O'Malley ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Counting Chickens
  The Ormerods relieve a troubled Sister Brigid, who was considering leaving the veil to bring up Aisl...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: These Foolish Things
  Matron is put in an awkward position when her married friend Margo appears to have syphilis, about w...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Any Old Iron
  Rag-and-bone man Lester Marsh is brought into the hospital after being knocked down and kicked by hi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Should I Stay or Should I Go Now
  Following the departure of Susie after her whirlwind courtship and marriage a new student nurse, Fay...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Please Release Me
  Sister Brigid helps Faye overcome her fear of needles and get revenge on Jack, who has been teasing ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Tutti Frutti
  Alun dates ice cream saleswoman Daniella but it is clear that she is only using him so Lizzie and Ja...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Manoeuvres
  Jean stays on and reluctantly agrees to accompany married Mr. Rose to a golf function. Jill and Sist...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Dead Air
  When a Girl Guide pack camps locally one of the elderly leaders goes down with a mystery illness whi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: A Hero for Our Time
  Jean faces an uphill struggle with the local District Health Authority after its chairman Sir Charle...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Below the Surface
  When an unexploded WW2 bomb goes off, Jill and Ralph have to operate on a tramp trapped in the wreck...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: The Enemy Within
  Aisling's adoption party ends in tears for most of the guests but Sister Brigid and Mr. Rose, appall...