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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • February 14, 2008
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a student who has trapped his testicles under a 60kg gearbox; a pole dancer who's fallen off her pole and on to her head; a golfer who's smashed the ball straight into his girlfriend's teeth; and a man who has fallen into an industrial cement mixer.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • February 21, 2008
    • BBC Three

    Features a fisherman whose tackle is put in danger when an anchor is swung into his groin; surgeons operating on a five-year-old to remove some life-threatening lego from his nose; and a boy who ended up with toes on his hands after a freak bouncy castle accident.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • February 28, 2008
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a man who has a slip with his scissors while undertaking some 'pubic topiary', an oil rig worker airlifted from the North Sea when he swallows a toothpick and a victim of 'frozen food injury'. Plus, bloodsucking leeches are stuffed into a woman's mouth to keep alive her transplanted tongue.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • March 6, 2008
    • BBC Three

    There's an angler with a lead fishing weight buried inside his eye socket; a bout of arm wrestling which snaps one man's upper limb like a twig; a party animal whose night on the town has left him with a hole in his head; and a man who severs his spine but who walks out of hospital six weeks later.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • March 13, 2008
    • BBC Three

    There's a circus dwarf who superglues his penis to a hoover and a shoemaker who stitches up her thumb.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • March 20, 2008
    • BBC Three

    A gymnast literally falls head over heels for a girl, a vet is attacked by a cat while performing a particularly delicate procedure and a man is gored by a bullock. Plus, proof that beer can be bad for you comes in the form of a barman with an injured foot.

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    • March 27, 2008
    • BBC Three

    There's a boy who walked around for six weeks not knowing a pencil had punctured his lung; a prized pooch who breaks his owner's nose; a man whose ear is bitten off in a fight; and a patient whose body is engulfed by giant red spots. Plus a builder who has to be rescued from scaffolding after a slip up with breezeblocks splits his knee.

  • S01E08 Episode 8

    • April 2, 2008
    • BBC Three

    There are turkey traumas and a run-in with a reindeer as Christmas comes to the casualty department. Plus, a builder who nail-guns his finger to a wall; a farmer who 'de-gloves' his hand after a slip with a power tool; a clubber keen to carry on partying after falling off her own shoes and; the true meaning of Hasselhoff.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Episode 1

    • April 21, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A man whose nostrils are packed to bursting point with bandages and has to have the stuffing extracted, a housewife who has stitched up her husband's arm with a needle and thread and no anaesthetic, and a dog walker who has a finger pulled off after getting it caught in a lead. Plus, how surgeons saved a man impaled on a fence post.

  • S02E02 Episode 2

    • April 28, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A teenager who has literally shot himself in the foot; a walker bitten by an adder, Britain's only venomous snake; a woman left with her heel hanging off after trying to manoeuvre a boat with her foot; and a jogger struck by huge bolt of lightning conducted through the crucifix around his neck.

  • S02E03 Episode 3

    • May 5, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A man with bizarre ballooning lips; a frustrated farmer with an obliterated knee, courtesy of a runaway sheep; and a mechanic who has carved up his finger in a car fan belt. Plus, the stomach-churning story of a DIY enthusiast who nearly died after excavating his intestines with an angle grinder.

  • S02E04 Episode 4

    • May 12, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A man bitten by his landlord; a toddler attacked by a deckchair; a butcher who's made mincemeat of his own thumb. Plus the astonishing story of a woman whose eye was devoured by a flesh eating bug.

  • S02E05 Episode 5

    • May 19, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A teenager who has superglued her fingers together applying false nails, a granny who mangled her ankle after moshing in church, and a DIY enthusiast whose attempt at woodwork turned into the East Anglian Chainsaw Massacre. Plus a schoolboy skewered on a flagpole.

  • S02E06 Episode 6

    • June 16, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Includes a supermarket worker who has sliced off his fingertip and brought it to casualty in a carrier bag; a toddler who has hidden cash in his gullet for three months; and a carpet fitter knocked out after accidentally inhaling too much aerosol adhesive. Plus, a freak accident with a cow leaves a farmer with her jaw hanging off.

  • S02E07 Episode 7

    • June 23, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Features a women's rugby rout that lands a scrumful of players in casualty; a health and safety instructor with a hole in his head after walking into a car door; and a chef who serves pizza with a fingertip topping after an accident with a meat slicing machine. Plus, the shop fitter who had a two-metre steel rod plunge from the ceiling into his eye and who needed firemen in the operating theatre to get it out.

  • S02E08 Episode 8

    • June 30, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Features an agricultural lecturer who was poked in the eye by a knife covered in cow dung; a taxi driver left with a broken wrist after slipping on vomit left by a passenger; and a door glazer who shot himself in the finger with a nail gun. Plus, a man saved by surgeons after accidentally hacking his head in half with an angle grinder.

  • S02E09 Episode 9

    • July 7, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Features a butcher impaled on a meat hook, a woman who has broken her hip while killing a wasp and a gardener undergoing emergency surgery to salvage fingers lacerated by a lawnmower. Plus, how medics saved a man who was scalped after getting his hair caught in an industrial lathe.

  • S02E10 Episode 10

    • July 14, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Features a pig handler landed in casualty after being charged by a sow; a trumpeter who takes off the top of his finger in a bike chain; and a pensioner who is a sight for sore eyes after accidently using Olbas Oil instead of eye drops. Plus, a man whose scalp was shaved off in a car crash and how surgeons saved him by blowing up his head with balloons.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Episode 1

    • May 10, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a man who accidentally barbecued his own buttocks; a builder impaled through the thigh on a metre-long metal pole; and a footballer wheeled in with his kneecap facing the wrong way. Plus, how surgeons successfully reattached a farmer's severed arm by first stitching it into his crotch, and medical professionals confess the most bizarre and outrageous cases they've ever been confronted with in casualty.

  • S03E02 Episode 2

    • May 10, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a driver run over by the breakdown man sent to repair his car; a schoolgirl injured playing Wii tennis; and a man whose testicles required treatment after being squashed in a motorbike crash. Plus, how surgeons rebuilt a sailor's shattered skull by peeling off his face.

  • S03E03 Episode 3

    • May 17, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a teenager who stepped on a red-hot four-inch nail; a woman injured after punching her partner in her sleep; and a lumberjack who sliced into his own arm with a chainsaw. Plus, how medics saved a woman impaled on razor-sharp railings. And medical professionals confess the most bizarre and outrageous cases they have ever been confronted with in casualty.

  • S03E04 Episode 4

    • May 24, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a rugby player with a finger bent 90 degrees the wrong way; a group of students scorched by an exploding bonfire; a driver who fell flat on her face chasing her runaway car; and a DIY enthusiast who lopped off the top of his thumb with a circular saw. Plus, how skilled surgeons saved the shredded leg of a farmer mown down by a combine harvester.

  • S03E05 Episode 5

    • May 31, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a clubber crushed by a nightclub speaker; a teenager with a bulbous boil caused by a rubbing bra strap; and a schoolgirl with a piece of toy train track trapped on her finger. Plus, how surgeons repaired and rejuvenated a cyclist's face after the skin was ripped off in a freak fall.

  • S03E06 Episode 6

    • June 7, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a schoolboy smacked in the eye by a toilet doorknob, a student with a needle embedded in her leg and a man who accidentally immersed his hand in boiling hot tar. Plus, how a gardener lost a leg in a horror lawnmower accident and surgeons rebuilt his lacerated hand using parts of the severed foot.

  • S03E07 Episode 7

    • June 14, 2010
    • BBC Three

    A man's karate chop ends with his thumb bone poking out through the skin; a teenager preparing for a date passes out; and a charity worker ends up with a squashed foot after a colleague drove over it. Plus the extraordinary surgery that saved the life of a boat captain after an anchor catapulted into his face.

  • S03E08 Episode 8

    • June 21, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Includes a woman wounded trying to kill a flea with a pair of pliers; a panto dame with an enormous elbow swelling; and a man whose leg has burst open like a Christmas cracker after falling out of the loft trying to retrieve decorations. Plus, how pioneering surgeons fitted an injured motorcyclist with a bionic bottom, and medical professionals confess the most bizarre and outrageous cases they've ever been confronted with in casualty.

  • S03E09 Episode 9

    • June 28, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Includes a schoolgirl with a sewing machine needle embedded in her finger, a go-karter left with a hole in his leg after a crash and a man who has sawed his fingertips off trying to prune a bush. Plus, how surgeons saved a man impaled on an industrial-sized corkscrew.

  • S03E10 Episode 10

    • July 5, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Includes a pheasant hunter who survives being shot in the head; a schoolboy with a broken elbow after a trampoline dare goes wrong; and a ten-year-old who has stapled his own finger. Plus, how skilled surgeons saved two lives after a heavily pregnant singer was impaled on a 5ft microphone stand.

  • S03E11 Episode 11

    • July 12, 2010
    • BBC Three

    Includes a cook left with bulbous blisters after spilling roast potato fat all over her arms; a schoolboy who has ripped open his armpit falling out of a tree; and a cheerleader injured after being dropped during an airborne manoeuvre. Plus, the two microlight pilots who crashed after a freak nosedive from a thousand feet and how surgeons rebuilt their shattered bones, and medical professionals confess the most bizarre and outrageous cases they have ever been confronted with in casualty.

  • S03E12 Episode 12

    • July 19, 2010
    • BBC Three

    A schoolboy cuts his head open after falling on a flower pot; a decorator lacerates his leg after trapping it in a stepladder; a boy gets a peanut stuck in his ear trying to perform a magic trick; and a woman is left with a hugely swollen knee after slipping while running for a bus. Plus, how surgeons saved the flattened foot of a bin man run over by a dustcart, and medical professionals confess the most bizarre and outrageous cases they have ever been confronted with in casualty.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Episode 1

    • March 28, 2011
    • BBC Three

    We meet a man who superglued a tiny top hat to his head; a patient who has been suffering with a nosebleed for a week; and a couple whose wedding day ended in surgery rather than matrimony after a bizarre motorbike accident. Plus, the Texan barber who survived a near-fatal attack by a swarm of more than 2,000 killer bees, and medical professionals confess the oddest and most outlandish cases they have been confrontred with in casualty.

  • S04E02 Episode 2

    • April 4, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring the American couple who nearly died from bubonic plague on a holiday to New York; a student who was struck dumb after she yawned so wide that she dislocated her jaw; and a model plane enthusiast whose hand was shredded by the propellers on one of his mini flying machines. Plus, a staff member ends up with a super-sized pout after a bizarre allergic reaction.

  • S04E03 Episode 3

    • April 11, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a woman who was injured when her boyfriend dropped a turnip on her foot; a retail assistant whose eyelid was ripped in half when she smashed face-first into the end of a clothes rail; a man with a fly-fishing hook stuck in his nose; and a schoolboy who swallowed a pound coin. Plus, we head down under to meet the New Zealander who survived being crushed by a leaping, half-tonne dolphin.

  • S04E04 Episode 4

    • April 18, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a woman who had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a Halloween mask; a carpenter who arrived with two of his fingers on ice after he cut through his hand with a circular saw; a six-year-old with a piece of lego stuck in his nostril; and an art student who had sewn a needle straight through the end of her finger. Plus, how doctors in the US saved a skateboarder with severe head injuries by putting bits of his skull into deep freeze.

  • S04E05 Episode 5

    • April 25, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a toddler with his favourite bath toy stuck on the end of his finger; a carpenter who nearly severed his own hand after a momentary slip with a chop saw; a teenager whose tumble into a quarry ended with him getting a stick stuck in his head; and a man who arrived with his finger at a right angle after he fell and dislocated it on the way to the pub. Plus, how surgeons rebuilt a New Zealand forest worker's shattered skull by peeling back his face, and medical professionals confess the oddest and most outlandish things they've been confronted with in casualty.

  • S04E06 Episode 6

    • May 2, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a schoolboy who needed stitches after a bizarre joyride in an old lady's shopping trolley; a woodsman who ripped open his wrist with a machete; and a teenager who needed treatment after being terrorised by a terrier; and surgeons operating on a man after the metal plate on his collar bone popped out of his left shoulder. Plus, we meet the Norwegian adventurers who, on an Arctic expedition, were attacked in their sleep by a deadly polar bear.

  • S04E07 Episode 7

    • May 9, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a girl who split her head open after some ballroom dancing on a bouncy castle, a Bradford rag and bone man who carved into his hand with a Stanley knife, and an equestrian emergency after a horse-lover is trampled by her own pony and has to have a prosthetic implant put in her shoulder. Plus, the story of how a man in America became the first person ever to have a successful hand transplant, after losing his left hand in a freak firework accident.

  • S04E08 Episode 8

    • May 16, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a man who stabbed himself in the leg after using a carving knife as a mic during an impromptu karaoke performance; a woman who nearly lost her fingers when she mangled her hand in a printing machine; a plumber whose massive reaction to a wasp sting left him covered in bizarre blotches; and a toddler with a staple stuck in her gum. Plus, how surgeons used part of a man's ear to mend his mouth after his jaw was decimated in a catastrophic car crash.

  • S04E09 Episode 9

    • May 23, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a man who needed urgent treatment to save his sight after cement dust exploded in his face; a tree surgeon whose fingers were crushed by a log splitter; a man who slashed open his leg on a discarded toilet in his mum's back garden; and a schoolboy who arrived at the hospital complaining of a pencil stuck in his left ear. Plus, the story of how one woman broke her neck after falling 200 feet from a New Mexico mountain but lived to tell her tale.

  • S04E10 Episode 10

    • May 30, 2011
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a family who cut their Bonfire Night celebrations short when their youngest son ate a sparkler; a Bradford granny who was electrocuted by her own toaster; a Sunday league soccer player whose awkward tackle left him with a broken ankle; and a student who sliced her finger when she cut open a bouquet given to her by a mystery admirer. Plus, surgeons contend with an artist whose arm was skewered by a two-metre rod when she impaled herself on her own sculpture.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Episode 1

    • March 14, 2017
    • BBC Three

    a cyclist who is injured by his own bicycle; a soldier who takes a spill while in a bouncy castle; a man who has a run-in with a lawnmower; a patient who is nearly killed by a pigeon.

  • S06E02 Episode 2

    • March 21, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A man who changes the blade of his angle grinder with the motor running; a lady who harbors a creature in her ear canal; a man who cheats death not once but four times.

  • S06E03 Episode 3

    • March 28, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A lady who hooks a keyring through her finger; an aspiring sailor who loses a chunk from one of her appendages; a woman who runs her car into a fencepost.

  • S06E04 Episode 4

    • April 4, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A Coast Guard who rescues a young couple at the end of their first date; a DIY dad who nearly loses his foot; a person who has an industrial accident and is squeezed through a five-inch gap.

  • S06E05 Episode 5

    • April 11, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A young lady who pays the price for a discount piercing; a person who has an intimate shaving accident involving a blunt blade; a victim who survives a gruesome car crash.

  • S06E06 Episode 6

    • April 18, 2017
    • BBC Three

    An injured rope maker who gets tied up in knots; a squeamish patient who has a piercing that's gone wrong; a man who survives a car crash but wakes up convinced he is a Hollywood superstar.

  • S06E07 Episode 7

    • April 25, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A man who hurts himself helping his wife give CPR to a goldfish; a groom who has an injury that may mean he can't tie the knot; a kite surfer who falls from a great height and into a brick wall.

  • S06E08 Episode 8

    • May 2, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A carpenter who nails his hand to a plank of wood; a woman who crushes her thumb in her boyfriend's car door; a fisherman who is submerged in freezing water for over eight minutes and survives.

  • S06E09 Episode 9

    • May 9, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A patient who slashes his scalp on a toilet paper holder; a young man who overdoses on holiday sun; a man who has an incredible near-death experience when he is almost decapitated by a passing bus.

  • S06E10 Episode 10

    • May 16, 2017
    • BBC Three

    A man who falls off a ladder and lands on his dad; a woman who can't walk after slipping on a potato chip bag; a driver who nearly dies when she is run over by her own car.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Best Of, Episode 1

    • August 3, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a housewife who performed haberdashery on her husband, stitching up his cut arm with a needle and thread and no anaesthetic, and a golfer who hit the ball straight into his girlfriend's mouth. Plus, how one remarkable little boy survived being skewered like a human kebab on a flagpole.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Best Of, Episode 2

    • August 10, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A&E mops up a massacre after a women's rugby match hospitalises half a team and surgeons operate on a five-year-old's nose to extract life-threatening Lego. Plus, how a man survived falling into a cement mixer.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Best Of, Episode 3

    • August 17, 2009
    • BBC Three

    There's the case of the pole dancer who falls off her pole and onto her head; taekwondo toe woe as a ginger ninja's awkward fall lands him in hospital; and the story of a man whose scalp was shaved off in a car crash and how the surgeons saved him by blowing up his head with balloons.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Best Of, Episode 4

    • August 24, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A rollerblader has a smashing smile after falling flat on his facial piercing; a fisherman gets injured when an anchor is swung into his groin; and how a man ended up with toes on his hands after a very improbable accident.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Best Of, Episode 5

    • August 31, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a man who has been gored by a raging bullock, a troublesome nail that is going to need more than a manicure to fix, and the chefs whose eyes were fried in their kitchen.

  • SPECIAL 0x6 Best Of, Episode 6

    • September 7, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Featuring a frustrated farmer whose knee has been smashed by a runaway sheep; the man who's feeling more than a little rash; and a man savaged by surgeons after accidentally hacking his head in half with an angle grinder.

  • SPECIAL 0x7 Best Of, Episode 7

    • September 14, 2009
    • BBC Three

    A plague of pus-filled boils; the man who slices off his finger at the supermarket and brings it to casualty in a carrier bag; and the man whose crucifix conducted a million-volt bolt of lightning through his body but lived to tell the tale.

  • SPECIAL 0x8 Best Of, Episode 8

    • September 21, 2009
    • BBC Three

    There's a nasty blockage involving an iPod that isn't music to the ears; a woman whose finger has been ripped off by a dog lead; and the story of a woman whose eye was devoured by a flesh-eating bug.

  • SPECIAL 0x9 Best Of, Episode 9

    • September 28, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Includes a man airlifted from a North Sea oil rig after he snorts up a tiny toothpick; a pig-handler who is injured by a sow; and a shopfitter who has a two-metre steel rod plunge from the ceiling into his eye which needed the help of firemen in the operating theatre

  • SPECIAL 0x10 Best Of, Episode 10

    • October 6, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Includes a DIY enthusiast whose ear was almost severed falling off a ladder; a toddler attacked by a deckchair; and an extraordinary hair-raising accident and how surgeons saved the victim's scalp.

  • SPECIAL 0x11 Best Of, Episode 11

    • October 13, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Includes an agricultural lecturer who has been poked in the eye by a knife covered in cow dung; a vet mauled by a cat in a clear case of self-defence; and a man who survived being impaled on a fencepost.

  • SPECIAL 0x12 Best Of, Episode 12

    • November 5, 2009
    • BBC Three

    Including how a night's drinking led to fears of a fractured skull, and the coffee break that broke a nose. Plus, the freak farmyard accident that left a farmer with her jaw hanging off - and the amazing surgery that put her back together.