Julian Lewis Jones

Anna, Sally and Beth decide to go on strike and let the men deal with Christmas, with disastrous results; a teenage daughter returns home and reveals she is pregnant; Beth meets an unusual patient.

Unable to put the tragic loss of her baby behind her, a heartbroken Beth calls off the wedding; the Scorpions decide to pose for a nude calendar to raise funds for the club's floodlights.

When an old man is discovered injured on the roadside, the nurses become involved in the hunt for a hit-and-run motorcyclist; Joe is less than happy when he finds out about Beth and Tom's secret romance.

Ozias Harding has Alan fired from the factory; Luke has an almost fatal accident while playing rugby.

Beth is fed up with Tom being too overprotective; Anna is torn between saving the factory and remaining loyal to her friends; Luke returns home from the hospital, but his attitude toward David has changed.

Karen decides to concentrate all her efforts on helping Russell battle his heroin addiction, even at the risk of destroying her marriage; she arrives in London to find her troubled son living in a squalid bed-sit.