The BEST episodes of Casualty season 29

Every episode of Casualty season 29, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Casualty season 29!

They're fighting to save patients while their personal lives are brimming with drama and intrigue. Everything's at stake on the emergency ward.

Last Updated: 12/15/2024Network: BBC OneStatus: Continuing
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8.40
10 votes

#1 - Forsaking All Others, Part Two

Season 29 - Episode 46 - Aired 8/23/2015

The day of carefree porter Max and senior consultant Zoe's wedding finally arrives, but it seems someone has developed cold feet. The drama continues at the reception when a drunk Louis lashes out at Max, and in all the commotion, a flame heater is knocked over, resulting in a deadly blaze. Meanwhile, back at the ED, a patient blames Louise for causing her miscarriage when she treated her as a nurse at another hospital, and Dylan tries to bring his anxieties under control after being diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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8.20
10 votes

#2 - Knock Knock Who's There?

Season 29 - Episode 44 - Aired 8/15/2015

Dylan creates a scene in front of his colleagues when he hits back at staff nurse Lofty, so Connie gives him one day to prove he is fit enough to carry out his medical duties. Tess's son Sam visits the hospital and introduces her to her first grandchild, meaning she has a difficult decision to make. Meanwhile, after helping Max out with options for the big day, Big Mac is overjoyed when he is asked to be best man at his wedding to Zoe, and Ethan takes the opportunity to ask Honey out after her unsuccessful date

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8.17
6 votes

#3 - The Golden Hours

Season 29 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/20/2015

Dixie tries to help an unstable mother, Suzy, who is grieving for her baby, but soon suspects that she has abducted another one to replace her own, leading to a dramatic turn of events that puts Suzy and the child's lives at risk. Cal reluctantly teams up with a leukaemia patient to work together to raise money for charity by producing a nude calendar, while Charlie finds Louis trying to take heroin and takes him to see the body of a dead addict for shock therapy, leading Louis to issue one more cry for help

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8.14
7 votes

#4 - The Road Not Taken

Season 29 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/28/2015

Zoe's day starts with a video call from Maggie. Zoe is then torn between treating a six-year-old girl who was run over by her father or a pregnant woman fearing her baby is coming. She prioritises the six-year-old girl; but she dies. Then, on the way home the pregnant woman suffers contractions, causing her ex-boyfriend to be distracted resulting in a car crash. When they return to the hospital, Zoe must choose whether to perform a caesarian or REBOA - she picks the REBOA, however both the mother and baby die. However Zoe then wonders what the outcome would be if she retook her day. Zoe retakes her day, this time prioritising the pregnant woman. The six-year-old girl dies. On the way home the pregnant woman is again involved in a car crash and is admitted again; however this time she performs a caesarian. The baby survives but the mother dies. Zoe then gets up half an hour earlier: this time everything goes right - the six-year-old survives, and so does the mother and baby.

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8.00
7 votes

#5 - The Last Call

Season 29 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/2014

A couple of old faces return to Holby as the team gathers for the funeral, on an emotional day that proves draining for most. Ash can't help but feel guilty about his colleague's death, Dixie throws herself into work and Cal worries when Ethan disappears from his hospital bed to attend the funeral. Meanwhile, Lofty treats an OCD sufferer and a new member of staff makes an impression on Noel. Chelsee Healey joins the cast

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8.00
6 votes

#6 - A Moment of Clarity

Season 29 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/27/2015

Charlie continues his efforts to help Louis manage his heroin withdrawal, but seems to be fighting a losing battle with his son, while Cal convinces a pushy mum to come clean to her daughter after she fails to reach a beauty pageant. Robyn and Zach finally share a kiss, Dylan's bad day suddenly improves after he mistakenly pockets a 'lucky' talisman, and Zoe and Max fall out over money, with Max choosing to spend a night sleeping in the car after his embarrassment becomes too much for him to bear

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7.89
9 votes

#7 - Born Lucky

Season 29 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/2014

Connie celebrates the department hitting its targets by taking a few select members of her team out for the day. However, the medics soon lose their way, and as they focus on maps and sat-navs, minibus driver Ethan takes his eye off the road for one second too long - leading to a horrifying collision. Connie manages to get to her phone, but will the ambulance be in time to save her and the others? Back at Holby, as Jeff's relationship with Tamzin takes another step, he finally makes it clear to Dixie where she stands, while Cal faces embarrassment when two old flames turn up at the hospital

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7.88
8 votes

#8 - Heart over Head

Season 29 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/4/2015

A mother on the run from the police sacrifices her life for her pregnant daughter, while Dylan learns the power of belief through a patient who has a holistic therapist, and decides that the number four is unlucky for him. Charlie's continuing battle with Louis takes a dramatic turn when he finds his son in a drug den, and his threat to inject himself if Louis does finally leads to his offer of help being accepted. Meanwhile, Cal reveals he is taking exams with Ethan, Robyn breaks up with Zach, and Lily is on the hunt for a partner

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7.86
7 votes

#9 - Feeling Good

Season 29 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/6/2014

Ash disagrees with Dylan about how to treat a suspected overdose. Cal treats a patient with a large abscess, and Zoe gets annoyed when Cal flirts with her patient.

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7.80
10 votes

#10 - Forsaking All Others, Part One

Season 29 - Episode 45 - Aired 8/22/2015

Zoe visits Dylan and persuades him to get help for his OCD, and Lily desperately seeks her parents' approval after being promoted to registrar. Meanwhile, the team helps a father forgive his daughter after he discovers she gave her mother the pill that caused her untimely death. Elsewhere, a man lies to his girlfriend about an accident involving her seven year old son, but Ethan convinces him to come clean. Plus, Ethan and Cal find out they have failed their exams, and Louis refuses to see Charlie at rehab

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7.78
9 votes

#11 - Dark Horses

Season 29 - Episode 42 - Aired 8/1/2015

When a dad is given an ultimatum - move away with work or lose his job - Charlie helps him do the right thing for his daughter. A son attempts to break off his father's recent engagement to a younger fiancee and lands her in the Emergency Department, but Max is on hand to convince him to respect his father's decision. Meanwhile, Honey's plans to impress Ethan are ruined when Lily continues to pursue him, and Max and Zoe decide not to break the news of their engagement - but it soon gets out

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7.75
8 votes

#12 - The Long Haul

Season 29 - Episode 43 - Aired 8/8/2015

Following an accident in his truck, Dylan's father Brian is admitted to the Emergency Department. It is clear he and and his son are not on good terms, and Dylan takes out his anger and frustration on Dervla, causing the hound to run away. Louis steals Tess's crucifix so he can get money for drugs, but Charlie tracks him down and, realising he has developed deep vein thrombosis, takes him to the hospital. Meanwhile, Jacob's romantic side is revealed and Lily lets Ethan go

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7.75
8 votes

#13 - Deadfall

Season 29 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/2014

A suspicious death leads Lily on a murder mystery investigation that nearly costs her life.

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7.67
6 votes

#14 - Toxic Relationships

Season 29 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/2015

Due to having worked excessive hours, Lily falls asleep on her moped while driving home. In a blur, she crashes into a schoolgirl. When she is later interrogated by the schoolgirl's father she admits she was overtired, so the father angrily blames Connie and Lily. However, Lily is in the clear, as the schoolgirl later admits that she deliberately stepped out in front of Lily's moped to stop her father from going on a business trip abroad. Rita decides that enough is enough and tells the nurses to work to rule by doing only what is in their job descriptions instead of letting senior staff make them do porter's work and suchlike. A mother and baby are admitted, and when amphetamines are found in their blood the staff become concerned, but it is later found that a man was making methamphetamine in the flat below and letting drug vapour rise upstairs. He is later admitted to the hospital after his meth lab explodes.

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7.63
8 votes

#15 - If You Could Bottle It

Season 29 - Episode 40 - Aired 7/18/2015

An unlikely hero leads the team to a crucial diagnosis and things get worse for Dylan as he struggles with his obsessive behaviour compulsions. Rita helps a desperate man to realise that he needs help, and new nurse Jacob Masters makes quite an impression on the staff, especially with Connie

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7.57
7 votes

#16 - The Index Case

Season 29 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/2014

A man dies from a mysterious injury, leaving Connie wondering whether she missed something. Cal and Ethan discover a rare virus that connects two patients. Hospital drama, starring Amanda Mealing, George Rainsford and Richard Winsor as the emergency medics

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7.56
9 votes

#17 - Losing Grip

Season 29 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/2014

Ash is angered by a patient's lifestyle choice, Big Mac treats an old lady who seems confused after foiling a robbery on a shop and Ethan has a breakthrough. Connie is forced to bring her daughter into work

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7.56
9 votes

#18 - The Next Step

Season 29 - Episode 41 - Aired 7/25/2015

Jacob starts his first day at Holby's accident and emergency department, and he immediately has to put his powers of persuasion to use when a lie nearly costs a girl her life.

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7.50
8 votes

#19 - Asylum

Season 29 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/2014

An asylum seeker is admitted after a fall but when she refuses life-saving surgery because of her religious beliefs, Ash becomes increasingly frustrated in his attempts to convince the patient to change her mind. Big Mac experiences his first day as a health care assistant, and tries to help a Burmese man reunite with the daughter he hasn't seen since she was a young girl, and Ethan has trouble diagnosing a teenager who is convinced she has cancer like her mum - so Dylan steps in to help

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7.50
8 votes

#20 - Solomon's Song

Season 29 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/2014

Honey reveals a shocking secret which rocks Noel's world. Ash, Charlie, Dixie and Iain attend a call-out to a cathedral when a chandelier collapses leaving the congregation crushed under rubble. Lily treats a man who is insistent he is Jesus. Connie and Grace's relationship strains as Connie continues to prioritise patients over her own daughter.

What a Difference a Day Makes
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7.50
4 votes

#21 - What a Difference a Day Makes

Season 29 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/2015

A single father and his two teenage children are brought in after a car crash, but the dad only seems concerned about his daughter, leaving his son feeling neglected. Big Mac's money worries lead him to a pawn shop - where he encounters a window cleaner who appears to have been stabbed - and a man is admitted with abdominal pain, although the doctors become suspicious when they can find nothing wrong with the patient. A determined Connie throws herself into work after losing Grace, Tess returns to the department and Honey is upset when Ethan gives her the cold shoulder - especially after they had been getting so close.

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7.44
9 votes

#22 - Entrenched

Season 29 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/2014

It's football derby day in Holby and the fans are getting in the mood with a few pints in the pub - and before long a fight breaks out, requiring the paramedics to be called out. The ED staff are kept on their toes, however, when the violence spills over into the hospital corridors. Meanwhile, a young woman injured at the pub is hiding something from her fiance, Ash struggles to cope under pressure and Dixie continues to grieve for Jeff. Rita's promotion is announced to the team, and Mac makes a decision about his career.

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7.43
7 votes

#23 - The King's Crossing

Season 29 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/18/2015

A construction worker outside the hospital loses control of his digger, taking out the power in the ED and half-burying a young woman - who just happens to be his own daughter who had come to see him. Alfred is rushed in with pneumonia and when Connie insists the team don't intervene, Rita becomes suspicious. Cal receives a phone call from a distressed Taylor and finds her in a public toilet with a knife in her leg, having got mixed up with the wrong people. It's a bad wound and she is refusing to go to hospital, so he realises he needs Ethan's help. But things don't quite work out as expected

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7.43
7 votes

#24 - Front Line

Season 29 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/2015

Rita fights for a soldier, Robyn sees that even good deeds have consequences and Lofty confronts his fears. It's inspection day, what could possibly go wrong?

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7.40
5 votes

#25 - Something to Live For

Season 29 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/2015

Dixie convinces former drug addict Dave not to give up on himself, or his relationship with his father and son after an accident involving his caravan exposes drugs in a cupboard. Connie finds a friend in Alfred, a patient suffering from motor neurone disease who used to be a surgeon, and discovers he is finding life unbearable in a care home. Zoe and Max continue their secret fling, but the porter decides he wants everything out in the open and gives Zoe till the end of the shift to come up with a reason to stay private.

Directors: Julie Edwards