List of Doctors characters introduced in 2000
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Doctors is a British medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Riverside Health Centre, a fictional NHS doctor's surgery. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in Doctors in 2000, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the programme's executive producer, Mal Young. The original nine regular characters to be introduced in Doctors were Mac McGuire (Christopher Timothy), Kate McGuire (Maggie Cronin), Anoushka Flynn (Carli Norris), Joanna Helm (Sarah Manners), Steve Rawlings (Mark Frost), Helen Thompson (Corrinne Wicks), Caroline Powers (Jacqueline Leonard), Rana Mistry (Akbar Kurtha) and Ruth Harding (Yvonne Brewster). Later in the year, Patrick McGuire (Alan McKenna) was introduced.
Mac McGuire
Dr. Mac McGuire, portrayed by Christopher Timothy, first appeared on 26 March 2000 and made his final appearance on 26 May 2006. Mac is twice-married, first to Julia Parsons (Diane Keen) in 1968, to whom he had three children, sons Patrick (Alan McKenna) and Liam (Tim Matthews), and daughter Samantha. This marriage breaks down after Mac has an affair with a drugs sales rep, who returns in 2000 and ends up having a business meeting with Mac.
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