Cardiac Arrest was a British medical drama series made by World Productions for BBC One. It was first broadcast between April 1994 and June 1996. The series was controversial owing to its cynical depiction of doctors, nurses and the National Health Service (NHS), although it has often topped polls of the UK medical profession as the best medical drama of all time.

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Cardiac Arrest was a British medical drama series made by World Productions for BBC One. It was first broadcast between April 1994 and June 1996. The series was controversial owing to its cynical depiction of doctors, nurses and the National Health Service (NHS), although it has often topped polls of the UK medical profession as the best medical drama of all time. The series was created by Jed Mercurio (writing under the pseudonym John MacUre), a doctor who had worked at a hospital in Wolverhampton. Mercurio drew on his experience to provide a more visceral, albeit wryly humorous, look at the NHS in the 1990s. At the time of airing, Mercurio was still a doctor. Mercurio later went on to create another controversial medical drama for the BBC in 2004, Bodies. Cast Doctors Andrew Lancel as Dr Andrew Collin Helen Baxendale as Dr Claire Maitland Ace Bhatti as Dr Rajesh Rajah Jonathan Dow as Dr James Mortimer Michael MacKenzie as Dr Graham Turner Tom Watson as Mr Ernest Docherty Andrew Clover as Dr Phil Kirkby (series 2–3) Peter O'Brien as Mr Cyril 'Scissors' Smedley (series 2–3) Jack Fortune as Mr Adrian DeVries (series 2–3) Pooky Quesnel as Dr Monica Broome (series 1) Danny Webb as Mr Simon Betancourt (series 1) Fred Pearson as Dr Barry Yates (series 2) Caroline Trowbridge as Dr Liz Reid (series 3) Selina Cadell as Dr Sarah Hudson (series 3)

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