History Series / Casualty1906

Broadcast internationally as ''London Hospital'', this is a SpinOff InNameOnly of ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.

---> "[[SpotOfTea Tea]]."

* UnequalPairing: [[spoiler:Ethel and Dr. Culpin.]] It starts out as more towards HotForStudent but eventually segues into a slightly more equal TeacherStudentRomance.

* UnequalPairing: [[spoiler:Ethel and Dr. Culpin.]] It starts out as more towards HotForStudent but eventually segues into a slightly more equal MentorShip.

Broadcast internationally as ''Series/LondonHospital'', this is a SpinOff InNameOnly of ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.

Broadcast internationally as ''Series/LondonHospital'', this is a SpinOff InNameOnly of Series/{{Casualty}}.

This is a single episode (1906), 3 part series (1907), and a six part series (1909) dramatized from the hospital records of The London Hospital (located in Whitechapel in the East End) focusing on the equivalent location as its modern counterpart (The Receiving Room, although we see wards too) save that all the cases and characters are historically accurate. Perhaps of more interest to amateur historians than it is to drama fans it is still riveting and thoroughly enjoyable.

* AllergicToLove: Bedford Fenwick has a panic attack because he CannotSpitItOut [[spoiler:to Miss Luckes.]] The "love" part is not outright stated but implied by the sheer awkwardness of the scene.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Ada from ''1907'' through to ''1909''.
* BenevolentBoss: Sydney Holland.

* BrainyBrunette: Ethel.

* DangerousWorkplace: Both the cause of a lot of injuries and, in the pre-antibiotic era, the hospital itself.
* DocuDrama
* DrJerk: Mr Dean.
* [[invoked]]DudeNotFunny: {{Lampshaded}} by Dr. Ingrams after Culpin ropes him in to anaesthetise a patient [[spoiler:so they can treat her for the side-effects of an illegal abortion without alerting the police.]]
-->'''Dr. Culpin''': I'll buy you a pint tonight, two if you can bring her round.
-->'''Dr. Ingrams''': That is '''not''' funny.

* TheEdwardianEra: Complete with the hats (on occasion).
* EvilMatriarch: Matron has her moments. See the KickTheDog entry below.
* FalseStart: See the AllergicToLove entry.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[spoiler:Laura and Saul]]
* FromBadToWorse: The revelation of EverybodyKnewAlready that the viewers and most of the characters are in on [[spoiler: Dr. Culpin is training Ethel to be a doctor]] leads to the audience learning the hospital's [[BigSecret big]] [[EverybodyKnewAlready Not Secret]]: [[spoiler: They don't train female doctors because at some point in the past, Matron Luckes attempted to become a doctor and failed, and therefore propagates the view that [[IfICantHaveYou "The profession is not suited to women."]] ]]
* HeadbuttOfLove: [[spoiler: Miss Luckes and Sydney Holland]]
* HeroicBSOD: Ada, [[spoiler: when she loses her engagement ring in a vat of porridge.]]

--->'''Ethel''': (reading her letter of introduction in abject horror)... Condition - piles.
---> '''Matron''': Remember to warm your hands.

* MedicalDrama:
* MomentKiller: Subverted: [[spoiler:the aforementioned "Scrub" is seen at the end interrupting the kiss between Ethel and Dr. Culpin, although if anything this intensifies the moment rather than kills it.]]

* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Ada towards the end of ''1909''.

* OnlySaneEmployee: Miss Luckes somewhat, considering that she seems to spend most of her time attempting to steer the nurses, particularly Ada and Ethel, away from protocol-related disaster as well as nervous breakdowns and very little time on the wards.
** TruthInTelevision, Matron Luckes was a real person and in any case the Matron was more or less the manager of the hospital's medical staff at the time.

* SecurityCling: Inverted:
--->[[spoiler:'''Ethel''':What are you thinking now?]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Dr. Culpin''': How much I'd like to come over there...and hold you.]]

* ShowWithinAShow: ''The Merry Peasant'' - a light opera, back in the days when "Light Opera" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin really did mean]] "Light Opera".
* StockBritishPhrases: Natch.
* TeamMom: Ada in ''1909'' to the rest of the nurses.
* TimeSkip: Between the series.
* UnequalPairing: [[spoiler:Ethel and Dr. Culpin. Starts out as more towards HotForStudent but eventually segues into a slightly more equal MentorShip.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: [[spoiler: Ethel and Dr. Culpin]].

* [[OnlySaneEmployee Liz Lemon Job]]: Miss Luckes somewhat, considering that she seems to spend most of her time attempting to steer the nurses, particularly Ada and Ethel, away from protocol-related disaster as well as nervous breakdowns and very little time on the wards.
** TruthInTelevision, Matron Luckes was a real person and in any case the Matron was more or less the manager of the hospital's medical staff at the time.

* LizLemonJob: Miss Luckes somewhat, considering that she seems to spend most of her time attempting to steer the nurses, particularly Ada and Ethel, away from protocol-related disaster as well as nervous breakdowns and very little time on the wards.

* LondonTown

* KnightFever: The show includes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Head Sir Henry Head]]

----

* [[spoiler:Literature/GraysAnatomy: One of Ethel's medical books.]]

* ProfessorGuineaPig: Anton Lesser's psychiatrist character asks someone to perform an operation on him in order to experience the emotions the patients go through prior to operations. He also cuts a nerve in his arm, believing that it may never reconnect, [[spoiler:only to find that it does regrow]].