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.

#4 - Private Lives

Holby City - Season 5 - Episode 37

Proffessor Zubin Khan joins the Holby Team.

#5 - Glory Days (1)

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?

#6 - 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?

#7 - 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.

#8 - Glory Days (2)

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.

#9 - Hippocratic Oath (2)

Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 6

With Nikki recovering from her attack, Harry and Leo continued working on the investigations without her. As they delved deeper, Alice’s surgical team began to show its cracks. Harry discovered that Alice had been forced into operating on a child after drinking, as no other surgeon was available. When the child died, Claire’s boyfriend had tried to blackmail Alice’s father, but he killed him to protect his daughter’s reputation. Harry told Alice, and they raced to confront her father, but trying to protect her still, he shot himself.

#10 - Fallout (1)

Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 1

Sam and Leo arrive on the scene of an accident, involving six vehicles. They begin to investigate the causes of the crash and attempt to identify all the bodies. Sam is called to where a girl's body has been found in the Thames, and finds that there is a connection.

#11 - Heads You Lose (1)

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.

#12 - An Academic Exercise (1)

Silent Witness - Season 3 - Episode 1

While Sam is giving lectures at the university, a fellow lecturer is found murdered and Sam is called to do the examination. She finds it difficult as she knew the victim, but she still strives to find the answers to unanswered questions.

#13 - Ghosts (2)

Silent Witness - Season 9 - Episode 2

#14 - Ghosts (1)

Silent Witness - Season 9 - Episode 1

Leo receives devastating news from home - his wife and daughter have been involved in a hit-and-run accident, prompting him to set off for Sheffield immediately. Meanwhile, Nikki is called out to the river when the bodies of two unidentified women are discovered, both shot execution-style.

#15 - The World Cruise (1)

Silent Witness - Season 5 - Episode 1

Two elderly brothers are found dead in their home, with no apparent injuries. When conducting the postmortem, Sam discovers puncture marks on their chests, as if something had been injected into their hearts, causing heart attacks. When the police have a suspect, Sam isn't convinced and believes that someone else is responsible.

#16 - Hippocratic Oath (1)

Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 5

When a hearse was involved in a crash and not one, but two bodies were found in the coffin, Harry was tasked with identifying the murdered John Doe. His search took him to a hospital, where Nikki was investigating Alice Huston – a pioneering pediatric surgeon with an unusually high mortality rate. After Harry discovered John Doe was the boyfriend of one of Alice’s nurses, Claire, the whole hospital came under investigation. The team fought hostility and closed ranks, until Nikki got a call from Claire – she had something she needed to tell her. When Nikki found Claire, she was dead, and then Nikki herself was met with a blow to the head.

#17 - Fallout (2)

Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 2

#18 - An Academic Exercise (2)

Silent Witness - Season 3 - Episode 2

#19 - The Price of Fame

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

#20 - Closed Ranks (1)

Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 7

A young man is found bound at his neck, wrists and ankles in the same location and in similar circumstances to a case Leo worked on. It is apparent that the cases are both linked, and they begin to look into the murders and find their killer.

#21 - The World Cruise (2)

Silent Witness - Season 5 - Episode 2

#22 - Closed Ranks (2)

Silent Witness - Season 6 - Episode 8

#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.

#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.

#25 - Mistakes Happen (2)

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