Holby City series 4

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short description Template:Template other The fourth series of the British medical drama television series Holby City commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 October 2001, and concluded on 1 October 2002. The episode run for this series was actually commissioned for 26 episodes, however a further 26 episodes were given the go ahead and were bolted onto the end of Series 4 resulting in a 52-episode series run. In essence, it is a combination of two separate series, but classed as one. From here on, each series was commissioned as a full 52-episode run.

Reception

In 2002, the BBC was condemned by critics who felt that the network "no longer believed it had a duty to shape public taste." David Cox of the New Statesman commented that this became clear during the 2001 Christmas schedule, when BBC One scheduled Holby City against a contemporary version of Othello. On this basis, Cox advocated the abolition of the licence fee, explaining: "The BBC was invented in a period when the elite decided what the population should know. If that has gone, then the licence fee should go too."

Cast

Main characters

• Ian Aspinall as Mubbs Hussein (from episode 8)
• Luisa Bradshaw-White as Lisa Fox (from episode 13)
• Colette Brown as Sam Kennedy (until episode 45)
• Peter de Jersey as Steve Waring
• Jeremy Edwards as Danny Shaughnessy
• Tina Hobley as Chrissie Williams
• George Irving as Anton Meyer (until episode 46)
• Thusitha Jayasundera as Tash Bandara (until episode 37)
• Dominic Jephcott as Alistair Taylor (episodes 1−46)
• Verona Joseph as Jess Griffin (from episode 15)
• Denis Lawson as Tom Campbell-Gore (from episode 45)
• Adrian Lewis Morgan as Liam Evans (until episode 35)
• Rocky Marshall as Ed Keating (from episode 45)
• Mark Moraghan as Owen Davis (from episode 3)
• Anna Mountford as Keri McGrath (until episode 41)
• David Paisley as Ben Saunders (from episode 17)
• Jan Pearson as Kath Shaughnessy
• Patricia Potter as Diane Lloyd (from episode 39)
• Hugh Quarshie as Ric Griffin (from episode 1)
• Siobhan Redmond as Janice Taylor (until episode 44)
• Laura Sadler as Sandy Harper
• Paul Shane as Stan Ashleigh (until episode 20)
• Jeremy Sheffield as Alex Adams

Recurring characters

• Jan Anderson as Chloe Hill (episode 1)
• Tilly Blackwood as Emma Waring (until episode 10)
• Christopher Colquhoun as Simon Kaminski (episode 43)
• Hari Dhillon as Sunil Gupta
• Andrew Dunn as Simon Shaughnessy (episodes 8−52)
• Kulvinder Ghir as Anil Banerjee
• Marvin Humes as Robbie Waring
• Ian Kelsey as Patrick Spiller (episode 11)
• Martin Ledwith as Father Michael (episodes 8-33)
• Deborah Poplett as Anna Chandler
• Zita Sattar as Anna Paul (episode 28)
• Ana Sofrenovic as Marija Ovcar (episodes 1–16)
• David Soul as Alan Fletcher (episode 27)
• Christine Stephen-Daly as Lara Stone (episodes 28 and 31)
• Denise Welch as Pam McGrath (episodes 36–41)

External links

• "Design for Living" shooting script at BBC Writers Room