The BEST episodes of Holby City season 5
Every episode of Holby City season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Holby City season 5!
This series is a spin-off from the long running BBC medical drama Casualty. Set in the same hospital as its sister series, this show follows the everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of Holby City General Hospital.
#1 - House of Cards
Season 5 - Episode 46 - Aired 8/12/2003
As Ric is appointed the new Clinical Director, Mubbs' parebts set him up on a blind date.
#2 - Just Getting By
Season 5 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/23/2003
Griffin struggles to cope when Keller comes under the spotlight for its recent suspicious deaths. Owen's plan to keep his relationship with Tricia secret is endangered when holiday snaps fall into the wrong hands.
#3 - Accidents Will Happen
Season 5 - Episode 52 - Aired 9/30/2003
It is Jess's 21st birthday, and Ric is worried he cannot afford to buy her a decent present. But when the cause of the recent Kellar deaths is discovered, Ric is left reeling. Meanwhile, Owen and Chrissie have a good time together.
#4 - Going It Alone
Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/6/2003
Lisa's first day working in AAU proves to be difficult and Chrissie can no longer stand living with her mother.
#5 - A Tear in My Eye
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/2003
Chrissie's homeless, Owen's still fuming and Ben's got some bad news for Tony. Chrissie's been off work for days, and she's alarmed when she returns to find all her worldly belongings in her office. Ed's shocked to learn she's homeless and offers a bed at his but she flatly refuses. Things are less than rosy for Sandy, too. When Sean turns up blackmailing her again, she resorts to desperate measures and steals from a deceased patient. Danny catches her in the act again and tells her enough is enough and lures Sean into a trap. When he's confronted by Danny he scampers off like a coward. Tom pays a visit to the hospital therapist as part of his AA programme. When he fails to admit he has a problem, he's brought down a peg by the therapist and is forced to face up to the reality of his alcoholism. After Lisa's given an ultimatum by Owen to leave maternity, she goes for an interview at AAU. Jess isn't too happy with the prospect of working with her!
#6 - Love Nor Money
Season 5 - Episode 50 - Aired 9/16/2003
In a neat cossover, the wards of Holby City are bulging with patients from the train crash featured in Casualty's epic season-opener. So, back is Jason, the bitter widowed father of a newborn baby, and we now meet his mother-in-LAW (Anita Dobson). Peter Bowles guests as an old school surgeon whose competance is called into question by Zubin. And Eva Pope playes a professional escort who, it turns out, has Zubin as a client.
#7 - As the Day Is Long
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/2003
Tom's finding his sessions with Dr Forbes extremely therapeutic—he fancies her but he's careful not to disclose too much about his turbulent past. When he plucks up the courage to ask her out, he's interrupted by a phone call. Jess, meanwhile, is determined to sort out everyone's love lives as well as her own. When she sees Diane flirting with Alex, she concocts a plan to wean her off him by fixing her up with Steve. Steve fancies Diane but it looks like both Diane and Jess fancy Alex. Alex's shakes have returned: when Diane catches him taking relaxants, he nervously dismisses he has a problem, further arousing her suspicions. Tension mounts between Alex and Ed again when Alex tells him he's needs to sort out his attitude if he's to continue working with him.
#8 - The One You Love (1)
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/8/2003
Kaths trial for the assistance of Terry's suicide begins and everyone is surprised when she is charged with murder.
#9 - The One You Love (2)
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/2003
Kath's trial continues with unflattering revelations about the pasts of her and her son. Chrissie gives her a good character reference and she is let off on all charges.
#10 - Desperate Measures
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/22/2003
After the crash, Ben and Steve are trapped in a car severly injured. When the medics get to the scene, Ric realises that Steves leg is too damaged to save and they can't get to Ben because Steve is in the way. So Ric deides that Steve needs an amputation. When they get Steve out they can get to Ben but when they get Ben out, they discover that he is too badly injured to save and he dies.
#11 - Glass Half Empty
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/29/2003
While Kath starts her first day back after the trial, Lisa's Plans to go to Ben's funeral are thwarted.
#12 - By Any Other Name
Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/13/2003
Things get serious for Chrissie and Owen when the pregnancy runs into complications and a new midwife, Rosie Sattar starts her first day of work. Meanwhile, Danny returns from Australia.
#13 - Think Again
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/20/2003
Diane discovers that she is carrying the late Steve Waring's baby and requests for an immediate termination.
#14 - Seasons in the Sun
Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/27/2003
Alex refuses to take treatment for his tremor until he is persuade to by Diane who is back on her first day after her termination.
#15 - Mum's the Word
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/3/2003
On the day of the funeral of Chrissies baby, she asks Tricia to do the planning but asks her and Owen not to come, but they do.
#16 - Endgame
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/10/2003
The New health care assisstant Nic Yorke starts on his first day and gets a lot of attention from the female nurses but the only one that really catches his eye is Sandy Harper.
#17 - Private Lives
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/17/2003
Proffessor Zubin Khan joins the Holby Team.
#18 - Can't Always Get What You Want
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/24/2003
As Chrisie attends her daughters funeral, Elizabeth Woods is admitted to Holby where the attraction between her and Zubin grows.
#19 - Loss of Faith
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/1/2003
A new nurse Kelly Yorke starts work in Keller and Elizabeth Woods is admitted after a suppossed mugging. Her husband tries to convince her to say that Zubin raped her. When she does, Tom suspends him.
#20 - Crossing the Line
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 7/8/2003
While Tom juggles Anita and Diane, Alex has to decide if he should have Charles Merricks operation. Kath gets suspicious when she notices that Elizabeth Wood's Husband won't leave her side and Zubin manages to persuade her to tell the truth.
#21 - Eyes Wide Open
Season 5 - Episode 41 - Aired 7/15/2003
Charles Merrick operates on Alex Adas and Diane comes along for support. Meanwhile, Sammi Sattar is in for a sperm test to see why they aren't able to conceive.
#22 - The Parent Trap
Season 5 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/22/2003
Tricia is assigned to be Owens PA but she annoys Rosie and Tom tries dating both Diane and Anita and he tries to persuade Anita to turn down the job at Columbia University.
#23 - Carpe Diem
Season 5 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/29/2003
Tom stands up Diane to do something romantic for Anita and Ric's son Leo is admitted with pneumonia and is discovered to have traces of heroin in his blood.
#24 - Home
Season 5 - Episode 44 - Aired 8/5/2003
Alex Adams feels more deppressed about his Parkinsons when he attends his father's funeral and meets his estranged family.
#25 - On the Inside
Season 5 - Episode 45 - Aired 8/6/2003
Alex Adams returns to Holby and Ric is told unoficially that he is going to get the job of Clinical Director. Meanwhile Owen finalises his divorce papers with a bit of encouragement from Tricia.