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Casualty series 28

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16206901 ↗
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The twenty-eighth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 3 August 2013, one week after the end of the previous series and finished on 23 August 2014. This series consisted of 48 episodes, the highest episode order since series 24.

This series saw the departures of Tom Kent (Oliver Coleman), Sam Nicholls (Charlotte Salt), Jamie Collier (Daniel Anthony), and Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher (Alex Walkinshaw), and temporary departures of Zoe Hanna (Sunetra Sarker) and Kathleen "Dixie Dixon (Jane Hazlegrove). This series also welcomed Lily Chao (Crystal Yu), Rita Freeman (Chloe Howman), Ethan Hardy (George Rainsford), Caleb Knight (Richard Winsor) and Ben "Lofty" Chiltern (Lee Mead); as well as the returns of Holby City character, Connie Beauchamp (Amanda Mealing), and paramedics Iain Dean (Michael Stevenson) and Tamzin Bayle (Gemma Atkinson).

Production

Nikki Wilson served as Series Producer until episode 18, the final episode of 2013. Erika Hossington serves as the Series Producer from episode 19, the first episode of 2014. Oliver Kent is the Executive Producer for the series.

Episode 43, "Falling – Part 2", depicts a train crash and derailment, causing Fletch to sacrifice everything to save Tess. Scenes were shot at the Great Central Railway at Swithland sidings over several nights in February 2014.

Alex Walkinshaw, who plays Fletch, commented in a behind-the-scenes video, "It's a massive setup.

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The public source identifies “Casualty series 28” as season of television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Casualty, series and season.

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