The BEST episodes written by Tony Mchale
#1 - Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Holby City - Season 2 - Episode 6
A mysterious man appears carrying a sick young woman and tries to persuade the sceptical staff to accompany him on a mercy mission.
#2 - Ghosts
Holby City - Season 4 - Episode 2
Anton Meyer proves not to be the ideal patient and his recovery suffers a minor setback. Alex Adams and Alistair Taylor have a clash of personalities. Keri McGrath finds herself in a compromising position with Liam Evans after Sandy Harper's 20th birthday party.
#3 - Ladies Night
Holby City - Season 5 - Episode 8
Mubbs Hussein is in trouble after a night out on the town when he seduced a drunk lady, Gina Wilson. The next day she appears at the hospital as a patient in for a hysterectomy, but she begins to have second thoughtsa about the operation. A woman, Parmita Ashar, brings her husband into Holby after he suffers a heart attack, but it is found that she has been Hurt in a rape attack. When Mira, her daughter, arrives, the truth starts show, thanks to help from Chrissie Williams. Owen Davis lays on a big surprise for Chrissie, but she is more interested in Ed Keating.
#5 - Heads You Lose (2)
Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 2
Dalziel and Pascoe’s case continues. Will a further death at the hospital be passed off as natural causes?
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#6 - Bent Moon On The Rise
Murphy's Law (2001) - Season 2 - Episode 2
Parmer, a promising young police officer, has apparently committed suicide. Murphy is sent undercover to find out whether he was a victim of racist bullying.
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Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 3
Foul play is suspected when the Wetherton Wanderers FC coach is involved in a fatal crash. Who had it in for club manager Martin Bendelow?
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Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 1
Is a serial killer on the loose at Wetherton Royal Infirmary? Body parts are dumped in a lake, patients are dying and staff are being murdered.
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#9 - Hippocratic Oath (2)
Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 6
With Nikki out of action and Alice's surgical team closing ranks, Harry and Leo dig deeper.
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Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 4
While investigating the Wetherton Wanderers crash, some skeletons come out of the Bendelow closet following a second murder.
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#11 - The Fall Out (1)
Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 1
Professor Leo Dalton and Dr Harry Cunningham join Sam Ryan in the investigation of a massive traffic accident in which not everything is as it seems.
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#12 - An Academic Exercise (1)
Silent Witness - Season 3 - Episode 1
Sam must investigate a case with a painful personal connection when a close friend is murdered after the Cambridge May Ball.
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#13 - Ghosts (2)
Silent Witness - Season 9 - Episode 2
As the police infiltrate a gang of identity thieves, Leo faces a choice between justice and revenge.
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Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 8 - Episode 2
Dalziel is investigating the disapperance of a teenage girl who was addicted to the Internet. He gets rough with the only suspect they have and gets booted off the case. Then a girl gets murdered at a holiday resort. Not any girl - a popular girl who won a TV reality contest. Then one of the holiday makers turns up dead as well. There are plenty of suspects but no real motive. Dalziel comes back onto the case. Another colleague is investigating a diamond heist. After Pascoe discovers a suspect from that case, by falling into a swimming pool, it looks like the cases could be linked
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#15 - Ghosts (1)
Silent Witness - Season 9 - Episode 1
When his wife and teenaged daughter are involved in a hit-and-run car crash, Leo begins a painful journey back to his native Sheffield.
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#16 - The World Cruise (1)
Silent Witness - Season 5 - Episode 1
Two elderly brothers are found dead in their home, with no apparent injuries. A post mortem discovers suspicious puncture marks and a possible racist connection.
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#17 - The Fall Out (2)
Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 2
Sam, Leo and Harry are at odds with the police investigators when a covert operation is exposed. But has Sam overstepped the mark this time?
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#18 - Hippocratic Oath (1)
Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 5
The murder of a John Doe leads the team to a hospital, where Nikki is investigating a top paediatric surgeon with an unusually high mortality rate.

#19 - An Academic Exercise (2)
Silent Witness - Season 3 - Episode 2
The case becomes entangled in Annabelle's romantic relationships when Sam discovers her friend may have had an affair with a student.

#20 - Closed Ranks (1)
Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 7
The murder of a probation officer leads the team to the doorstep of a police cadet college, as they quickly establish a link to a similar murder just months before.
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#21 - The World Cruise (2)
Silent Witness - Season 5 - Episode 2
A third death helps Sam realise that the motive behind the murders of the Davies brothers was not racial - but revenge.
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#22 - Closed Ranks (2)
Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 8
As the police investigate the possibility of a copycat killer among the students, a friend from the college pressures Sam to put loyalty above the truth as the case unfolds.
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#23 - In Sight of the Lord (2)
Waking the Dead - Season 4 - Episode 2
The Cold Case Squad discover that the victims were a group of friends who were all in the same army regiment during the war. It seems the murderer is killing as an act of revenge.
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#24 - In Sight of the Lord (1)
Waking the Dead - Season 4 - Episode 1
Boyd and the cold case team investigate the unsolved murder of a World War 2 conscientious objector. In 1948 George Western was found in his living room with a nine-inch nail through his head. When his grandson Adam finds new evidence and organises a media campaign, the case is reopened. Then the body of elderly William Davis is found in similar circumstances. And Grace uncovers the identical killing of Norman Taylor in 1961. The team discovers that Taylor and Western were in the same regiment during the war and trace surviving members to try to solve the murders.
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Casualty - Season 27 - Episode 44
#26 - Brave Heart
Holby City - Season 1 - Episode 6
Nick Jordan helps a family to make a difficult decision, but he can't escape a clash with Karen Newburn over their troubled past, as well as an altercation with an ex-boyfriend of Ellie Sharpe's. Anton Meyer and Muriel McKendick are still clashing over the allocation of beds.
#27 - Never Judge a Book...
Holby City - Season 1 - Episode 5
Nick Jordan has to assist Anton Meyer on a heart operation on a new-born baby, but he expresses his reservations to him. Julie Fitzjohn helps a young mother with a heart-breaking dilemma. Meanwhile, the pressure is building on house officer Victoria Merrick, after she saves the life of a patient, Chris Woodhouse, and she resorts to taking drugs at work.
#28 - Whose Heart Is It Anyway?
Holby City - Season 1 - Episode 1
In the surgical department of Holby City Hospital, surgeons Anton Meyer and Nick Jordan race against time to carry out a heart transplant operation, but first they have to make the difficult choice between two possible recipients, Alan Kenyon and Simon Harwood. Nurses Julie Fitzjohn and Jasmine Hopkins vie for the post of Deputy Ward Sister.
#29 - 1985-10-15
EastEnders - Season 1 - Episode 69
Ian is put out of his own bed, but doesn’t mind as much as he makes out. Pauline gets a message for Saeed, who also receives a letter from his father. Kathy is distracted and unwell. Dot’s behaviour attracts attention. Simon announces he intends to stay on in Walford. A visitor to the square attracts a lot of attention.
#30 - 1985-12-26
EastEnders - Season 1 - Episode 90
It is Boxing Day and there are more than a few sore heads. At the Vic, the missing money turns up. Naima and Saeed finally talk things out. Lou’s decorative outhouse is the talk of the town. Mary upsets Sue and Ali when she stands firm on the new babysitting arrangements. Tony is shocked by an unexpected visit from Cassie.
#31 - 1985-05-30
EastEnders - Season 1 - Episode 30
Sharon is in Michelle’s bad books. Nothing is going right for Andy and Kelvin may have pushed his luck too far with Tony. Ali goes to see Den about a car but Debbie makes a point that will throw a spanner in the works. Lou’s demands are getting everyone down and Pauline is still not getting the support she needs, leading to possibly tragic circumstances.
#32 - 1985-08-29
EastEnders - Season 1 - Episode 56
Angie worries about her image. Tony helps Arthur without realising it, and Dot may have the key to fulfilling Arthur’s allotment dream. A visit from the council upsets Lou, while Deb is charmed by Andy’s new friend. The knitting business hits another snag and Angie plays private detective.
#33 - 1985-11-14
EastEnders - Season 1 - Episode 78
Arthur is determined to keep Pete away from Nick. Mary has her first day of work. Cassie spends some time with Tony. Pete makes amends, and Andy comes home. A meeting is held about Nick. Lofty tries to benefit from Simon’s lucky streak.
#34 - Reliable Information
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 32
Nixon and McAllister investigate when the stolen digger turns up at a transport site. Manson's suspicions are proven to be correct, but nobody else knows that Manson's tip-offs are coming from Beech. The arrival of Peter Cavanaugh, an Australian inspector on attachment to the NCIS, sets hearts a-flutter, but Meadows is furious when Manson's liaisons with Beech are revealed. Powell arrests a black teenager on suspicion of shoplifting, but cops a warning from Okaro to tread more carefully with the black community in future. An angry Powell is fair game for Thatcher and Dunbar, who are both seeking to prove that Okaro has it in for his black officers. Best is stunned when Powell tells him that he is gay.
#35 - The Tunnel (Part One)
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 39
Hunter is desperate to find his daughter Madison, who has been abducted by Dennis Weaver. Meadows orders him not to get involved in the investigation, and assigns Nixon to keep an eye on him. They investigate when a kilo of cocaine is found following a car chase. Hemmingway arrests a 17-year-old girl, Shirley Moss, on shoplifting charges and forms a bond with the girl when Shirley tells her she's pregnant. Hemmingway convinces the shopkeeper to drop the charges, and when the father of Shirley's child turns out to be big-time drug dealer Rifkin, Nixon and Hunter organise an SO19 raid on Rifkin's flat, but with drug courier Sonny and Shirley both in police custody, Rifkin clearly has his bases covered.
#36 - The Start of a Problem
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 44
Thatcher is keeping a close eye on the Radfords, despite the warnings of his colleagues. He eagerly arrests David Radford for selling bootleg DVDs on the Cole Lane Estate, but when David's mother Irene turns up with a proof of purchase, Thatcher knows he's been set up. Hunter is running the CSU, and despite Carver's misgivings, his forceful manner gets results when he convinces a reluctant pregnant domestic violence victim to testify. When a casino punter is mugged after a large win, Carver organises an undercover operation with Tait and Harman. Young returns to the station to declare her love to Tait, but after being taunted by Kent, she discovers Tait and Harman sharing a kiss in the locker room.
#37 - Life Incognito
Casualty - Season 16 - Episode 26
#38 - Maria's Christmas Carol
Holby City - Season 11 - Episode 10
Struggling to deal with her feelings for both Sam and Kieron, Maria consults a clairvoyant. She is shown visions of her life in the past, present and future, which help her come to a decision. With only Faye offering her any assistance, Donna is missing the nurse's company as she prepares for the Christmas party and begins to doubt their friendship. Sam's bond with his newly discovered son is threatened by his awareness of Kieron's relationship with Maria, but with everything out in the open, the surgeon realises where his priorities lie