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Season 1

  • S01E01 Beginnings

    • August 26, 1997
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue deals with an incontinent rabbit and a boxer dog called Jessica which has eaten some poison. Julie Richards has to put a dog to sleep. Steve Leonard adopts some orphaned kittens. Emma Milne finds herself with an emergency on her hands.

  • S01E02 Untitled

    • August 29, 1997
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue continues her battle to save the life of Jessica, the boxer dog. Meanwhile, Joe Inglis is put to the test by four Amazonian parrots.

  • S01E03 Untitled

    • September 2, 1997
    • BBC One

    Julie Richards has to treat a terrier with severe behavioural problems. Alison Lee performs a difficult operation on an old Siamese cat. Meanwhile, Steve Leonard is made one of Britain's 50 most eligible bachelors.

  • S01E04 Untitled

    • September 5, 1997
    • BBC One

    Mike Sandiford gets his dream job in Botswana, working for an animal orphanage. Fiona Green is back from Turkey with a new boyfriend and a new job. Julie Richards is on her last case, having finally quit her job. Trude Mostue becomes a celebrity.

  • S01E05 Untitled

    • September 9, 1997
    • BBC One

    Fiona Green and Trude Mostue face the difficult job of telling devoted owners that their cats have cancer. Hannah Pollard deals with Spot, a giant wolfhound. Mike Sandiford has to catch a crocodile in Botswana.

  • S01E06 Untitled

    • September 12, 1997
    • BBC One

    Emma Milne is upset when she has to shoot an animal for the first time. As Christmas approaches, Hannah Pollard is called out to treat a terrier that has eaten a raw cake-mix and twenty-four Christmas decorations.

  • S01E07 Untitled

    • September 23, 1997
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue operates on an alsatian puppy that has swallowed a toy tree. Alison Lee has to siphon the stomach of a lamb with a bloated belly, then she and her boyfriend Craig Beck have to make a big decision. Meanwhile Julie Richards starts a new job in Runcorn, Cheshire.

  • S01E08 Untitled

    • September 26, 1997
    • BBC One

    It's spring and Trude Mostue faces her first emergency lambing. Fiona Green attends a calf caesarean, treats a collie with a womb infection and meets a couple of boxer dogs. Mike Sandiford releases a wild cat. Then Trude fights to save the life of a poisoned dog while also thinking about finishing her dress for the vets' ball.

  • S01E09 Untitled

    • October 3, 1997
    • BBC One

    Joe Inglis is faced with a dilemma - a client who can't afford to pay her bills. Meanwhile, his relationship with girlfriend Emma Milne is beginning to look shaky, even though their parents are thinking about wedding bells. Elsewhere, Hannah Pollard is facing doubts about her practice.

  • S01E10 Untitled

    • October 10, 1997
    • BBC One

    The young vets are taking stock after their first six months in practice. Steve Leonard is playing tutor to his brother Keith. Alison Lee deals with a dangerous customer - a goose with a badly-broken wing. In Devon, Joe Inglis copes with a rowdy parrot. Trude Mostue treats a labrador with a swollen neck.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Untitled

    • February 5, 1998
    • BBC One

    The young vets have been at work for almost a year. Alison Lee performs an emergency blood transfusion on a kitten called Chip. Joe Inglis plays Cupid to tortoises Ben and Bluebell. Emma Milne has to deal with one of her regular and most troublesome patients, Reggie, a large Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.

  • S02E02 Untitled

    • February 6, 1998
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue gets more than she bargains for when she treats a Rottweiler puppy which has a painful limp in Bristol. Fiona Green tries to perform a dental operation on Rex , a police tracker dog in Bodmin. Mike Sandiford, back from Botswana, gets a job with a small practice and discovers he's made a mistake.

  • S02E03 Untitled

    • February 12, 1998
    • BBC One

    Steve Leonard devises an ingenious remedy for a calf struggling for breath, while his younger brother Keith prepares for his final exams at veterinary college. Meanwhile, Emma Milne has just returned from holiday when she sees an advert for a specialist surgery job at her old vet school in Langford near Bristol. It's her dream job, but will she get it? Also based in Bristol, Alison Lee is dealing with a case of poisoning; out-of-date flea treatment has made Blackie the cat extremely ill. That's not the only thing on her mind. Her wedding to fellow vet Craig Beck is just months away.

  • S02E04 Untitled

    • February 13, 1998
    • BBC One

    Late summer brings a chance for Trude Mostue to take a well-earned rest when she goes back to Norway to see her family. Meanwhile, Emma Milne performs a cow caesarean while she waits to hear whether she has got her dream job, and in Devon her boyfriend, Joe Inglis, treats an injured fox.

  • S02E05 Untitled

    • February 19, 1998
    • BBC One

    Emma Milne discovers the result of her application to work at Bristol vets' school. Trude Mostue becomes attached to an eight-week-old Labrador puppy, Georgia, she suspects has a fatal disease; will she be able to save its life? Hannah Pollard attempts to save a cardiac arrest victim - an elderly Yorkshire terrier, Sophie.

  • S02E06 Untitled

    • February 20, 1998
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue is concerned about Georgia, a Labrador puppy she treated in Bristol, and 200 miles away, Steve Leonard's confronted with an epileptic terrier, Rex. Meanwhile, having both resigned from their jobs, Joe Inglis and Emma Milne enjoy the long hot summer at a grassboard competition near Brighton.

  • S02E07 Untitled

    • February 26, 1998
    • BBC One

    Being bitten is an occupational hazard for vets, but is one that Trude Mostue has managed to avoid - until she meets a retriever named Annie. Meanwhile Fiona Green settles into her new practice in Reading, where she encounters a homeless dog, Patch, who will need to change his ways if he is to find a new home.

  • S02E08 Untitled

    • February 27, 1998
    • BBC One

    Hannah Pollard starts her new job in Southend and has an unusual first patient - a lovesick chinchilla. After five years of study, Keith Leonard finally qualifies as a vet, but his first day in the Carmarthen surgery proves trying when he is bitten by a miniature pony. Meanwhile, his brother Steve decides on a date for the Bachelors' Ball.

  • S02E09 Untitled

    • March 5, 1998
    • BBC One

    It's early autumn and Alison Lee and Craig Beck are just a week away from their wedding, but the veterinary work goes on. Alison is faced with a Yorkshire terrier that may have cancer, and Craig helps a newly qualified vet treat a German shepherd with breathing problems. Things improve for Joe Inglis and Emma Milne when she is offered a job and the two of them decide to live together.

  • S02E10 Untitled

    • March 6, 1998
    • BBC One

    Alison Lee's wedding is only two days off, but she's still hard at work treating Pugsley, a puppy with a sore bottom. Joe Inglis is back at work in Halesowen faced with a dog who has eaten a wooden coathanger, while Trude Mostue's patient is a ginger cat with a limp tail. Back in Bristol, Alison's fiancé Craig Beck is getting anxious about the wedding, while Hannah Pollard and Emma Milne are just worrying about what to wear. The big day finally arrives and everyone is moved by Craig's speech.

Season 3

  • S03E01 New Beginnings

    • July 21, 1998
    • BBC One

    The young vets are now 18 months into their careers. Trude Mostue, Emma Milne and Joe Inglis each have a difficult case to deal with in their surgeries. Joe is attempting to remove an abscess from Gizmo the snake, a tricky enough procedure, but then his patient stops breathing. Trude has to remove a lump, too, which is attached to Wilbur the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig. Unfortunately pigs don't do well under general anaesthetic so it's a nerve-racking operation. And Emma has to open up a German shepherd dog who seems to have a large, chewed-up lump of carpet wedged inside her.

  • S03E02 A Family Affair

    • July 22, 1998
    • BBC One

    A Siamese kitten presents Steve Leonard with the most unusual case of his career, and his younger brother Keith is also facing a challenge: he's been hired as the minder for the new stars of a TV soap - two temperamental goats.

  • S03E03 New Faces

    • July 28, 1998
    • BBC One

    Joe Inglis struggles to save a pet rabbit with a life-threatening abscess. Flu-stricken Hannah Pollard wants a double makeover for herself and her dog. Joe's fiancée Emma Milne makes plans for their wedding day. Trainee horse specialist Sam Robinson investigates an intriguing case of poisoning.

  • S03E04 Birthdays

    • July 29, 1998
    • BBC One

    It's Trude Mostue's 30th birthday and she's planning a day out with her sister Lene, but first she must deal with a blind cat and a rabbit with sore eyes. Newlywed's Alison and Craig Beck are put to the test when their cat is taken ill - Alison diagnoses a thyroid problem and Craig agrees to operate.

  • S03E05 Highs And Lows

    • August 4, 1998
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue deals with a sick gerbil and it's distraught owner. Steve Leonard fights to save the life of a puppy with the deadly Parvo virus, while his brother Keith treats an injured pig.

  • S03E06 Moving On

    • August 5, 1998
    • BBC One

    Craig and Alison Beck leave Bristol having accepted new jobs with rival surgeries in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and Joe Inglis and his fiancée Emma Milne find the house of their dreams in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. At work, Emma treats a homeless puppy, and Alison rescues a cat.

  • S03E07 Holding On

    • August 11, 1998
    • BBC One

    A bemused budgie and an ailing Alsatian keep Trude Mostue busy, while Sam Robinson and her colleagues wait for the surgery's grey mare to give birth.

  • S03E08 Good Times And Bad

    • August 12, 1998
    • BBC One

    As Fiona Green struggles to save the life of a Staffordshire bull terrier that's swallowed rat poison, Steve Leonard treats a sick iguana and admits he knows little about this type of reptile. Steve's brother Keith is bracing himself for an important meeting with his boss.

  • S03E09 Full Speed Ahead

    • August 18, 1998
    • BBC One

    Alison Beck brushes up her surgical skills after a gun dog is run down by a car. Meanwhile Joe Inglis and Emma Milne set off on their stag and hen weekends.

  • S03E10 Vets Get Married

    • August 25, 1998
    • BBC One

    Emma Milne and Joe Inglis's wedding day arrives and the reception party aboard a river boat goes on late into the night. But for Trude Mostue and Sam Robinson it is just another working day. Trude is having to operate on a hamster - a tricky task on such a small creature. Its seven-year-old owner has perfect faith in Trude's powers. Equally stressed is Sam, in Hull, who has to perform a difficult operation on a very valuable, but hoarse, horse.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Breaking And Entering

    • January 7, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue faces a crisis when a disturbance causes her to make a potentially-fatal error in the operating theatre during a routine castration on a guinea pig named Pepper. In King's Lynn Craig Beck battles to save the life of a black and white farm cat named Boris, while his wife Alison tries to solve the mystery illness of a West Highland terrier.

  • S04E02 A First Time For Everything

    • January 8, 1999
    • BBC One

    Cheltenham vets Joe and Emma Inglis come back to earth with a bump after their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. Joe is forced to amputate a fawn's leg if it is to survive an injury, while Emma faces an ethical question of how best to treat a family cat which has seen its best days. In Hull, Sam Robinson has to deal with a guinea pig's mystery pregnancy and then helps when a show pony has to undergo a tail amputation.

  • S04E03 All Things Weird And Wonderful

    • January 14, 1999
    • BBC One

    Keith Leonard is called out to help a collapsed cow, and Fiona Green treats an injured woodpecker. Meanwhile, Keith's elder brother Steve, who is now happily settled in Lancaster, treats a litter of orphaned hedgehogs ready for release back into the wild.

  • S04E04 Under Pressure

    • January 15, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue fights to save the lives of a litter of kittens who have lost a large amount of blood. She tries heart massage, adrenaline injections and even mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Later she tells her friend Maria Lowe about a new man in her life. Meanwhile, Alison Beck works against the clock operating on a cat with severe internal injuries following a road accident and her husband Craig treats a rabbit with an ulcer.

  • S04E05 Bonnie And Clyde

    • January 21, 1999
    • BBC One

    Keith Leonard is called out to perform a blood transfusion on a cow, and Trude Mostue takes care of Bonnie, a dog with a skin irritation. Meanwhile, Fiona Green attends to Clyde, a cat who was hit by a bus.

  • S04E06 On Call

    • January 22, 1999
    • BBC One

    Being on call at night is an integral part of a vet's job, and Sam Robinson spends an evening struggling to save a horse with a potentially fatal condition, while Emma Inglis is called out to help Megan, an epileptic dog.

  • S04E07 Love And Marriage

    • January 28, 1999
    • BBC One

    Craig and Alison Beck's celebrations of their first wedding anniversary are muted as Craig struggles to help Boss, a much-loved gun dog. Meanwhile, Emma Inglis turns inventor, and her husband Joe proves a reluctant father.

  • S04E08 Affairs Of The Heart

    • January 29, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue thinks her new boyfriend Patrick Evans could be Mr. Right, but then has to worry about a Doberman's possible pregnancy. Hannah Pollard has a new look after shedding three stones, and then puts an overweight rabbit on a diet. Sam Robinson, who has little time to socialise, has to castrate a young stallion.

  • S04E09 A Walk On The Wild Side

    • February 4, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue introduces her boyfriend Patrick to her sister Lene over a meal of Norwegian reindeer stew. Then Trude has a job interview with a practice whose clients include Longleat safari park. Meanwhile, Alison Beck tries to help a jaundiced cat called Lucky, and her husband Craig treats a dog with bladder stones.

  • S04E10 Making The Move

    • February 5, 1999
    • BBC One

    It's all change for Keith Leonard and Fiona Green. Keith is preparing to leave his job in Carmarthen but first, has to tackle his first hernia operation, on a calf. Fiona is off for a year on a working holiday as a diving instructor in the Caribbean but before that has to fit contact lenses on a King Charles spaniel.

Season 5

  • S05E01 A Day To Remember

    • July 27, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue refuses to let her anxiety about her application to the Garston Veterinary Group affect her concentration when performing a life-saving operation on a Labrador named Jenny. Meanwhile, Joe Inglis has to deal with the nastiest job of his career to-date. Pepe the cat has been missing for a week and has returned in deep distress and stinking the place out. It transpires that his bottom has been infected with maggots which have eaten away at the flesh.

  • S05E02 Jobs For The Boys

    • July 29, 1999
    • BBC One

    The Leonard family occupies a unique position in the world of veterinary medicine: all four brothers are vets. The youngest, Keith, has been qualified for a year but is jobless and his big brother Dennis is not impressed. Steve is experimenting with acupuncture on an arthritic golden retriever, and Tom has his hands full with the emergency delivery of twin lambs.

  • S05E03 A Dog's Dinner

    • August 3, 1999
    • BBC One

    Sam Robinson tries to put a 13-stone Great Dane on a diet, whilst Joe Inglis does battle with a golden retriever that has an appetite for rubber toys. Surgery is Joe's only course of action, but he finds more than he bargained for when he begins to operate.

  • S05E04 Running Out Of Time

    • August 5, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue has worked in Bristol ever since her graduation, and now it's her last day before she moves on to her new job, which involves treating the animals at Longleat Safari Park. In King's Lynn Craig Beck deals with an emergency: Katherine and Philip Ward have adopted a stray cat called Thomas who's having trouble breathing. Craig thinks Thomas may have feline Aids and might have infected the couple's pet cat Smokey. Meanwhile, Craig's wife Alison faces up to a challenge at RAF Marham, where the ferocious guard dogs are due for their annual check-up.

  • S05E05 In At The Deep End

    • August 10, 1999
    • BBC One

    Fiona Green's new life as a diving instructor in the Bahamas begins with a close encounter with a pack of sharks. In England, Keith Leonard is in the rural splendours of Northumberland and his first case is a cat called Kevin Keegan. Keith's brother Tom is busy, too, taking care of a lamb with a broken leg.

  • S05E06 Unfamiliar Territory

    • August 12, 1999
    • BBC One

    It's Trude Mostue's first day at her new job and she's thrown in at the deep end with a cat called Lucy. Hannah Pollard is also working in a new environment - a brand new veterinary hospital in Southend, where she has to treat a stray collie. Meanwhile, in King's Lynn, Alison Beck is puzzled by Soda the cat and a case of disappearing lumps.

  • S05E07 A Steep Learning Curve

    • August 17, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue's first case at Longleat Safari Park is a wolf with a serious eye infection. Elsewhere, Steve Leonard attends an acupuncture course whilst his brother Keith instantly recognises an operable condition other vets have missed for 10 years.

  • S05E08 Vets Have Pets Too

    • August 19, 1999
    • BBC One

    Craig Beck is used to dealing with other people's sick animals, but that doesn't make it any easier when he discovers that his own dog, Lady, may have cancer. Meanwhile, Craig's wife Alison adopts a cat who has been run over. In Cheltenham, Joe Inglis makes a little girl very happy by sorting out her hamster's broken leg. Joe's wife Emma goes to her local DIY shop for a hacksaw to fix Jasper the Yorkshire terrier's knee.

  • S05E09 Out Of The Pack

    • August 24, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue is faced with a lame wolf from Longleat Safari Park, and an abandoned baby blackbird which will starve to death unless she can persuade it to eat some worms. However, Trude has other problems to deal with when she is frog-marched to the dentist by her boyfriend Patrick Evans. Meanwhile, Craig Beck extracts a few teeth from a 16-year-old cat called Oliver, whilst his wife Alison examines a lame dog.

  • S05E10 Better Out Than In

    • August 26, 1999
    • BBC One

    It's Emma Inglis's first week in her new job in the Tewkesbury practice in Gloucestershire, and she's off to a nerve-racking start: Twiggy the greyhound has impaled himself on a stick and needs life-saving surgery. Meanwhile in Hull, Sam Robinson and colleague John Levison operate on a horse suffering from lameness and have problems with another patient - Fred the tortoise - as they battle to get him under anaesthetic. Elsewhere, in Southend, Hannah Pollard has to treat Freya, a sneezing rat, and sets off to visit some spiders.

  • S05E11 Blood, Sweat And Tears

    • August 31, 1999
    • BBC One

    In Cheltenham, Joe Inglis treats a Welsh springer spaniel called Harvey whose ears are bleeding due to polyps. On her weekly visit to Longleat Safari Park, Trude Mostue administers foot medication to an African antelope called an Oryx. In Hull, Sam Robinson operates on a ferret with a swollen testicle, creating serious implications for the animal's mate.

  • S05E12 Love Is All Around

    • September 2, 1999
    • BBC One

    Craig and Alison Beck treat an energetic little dog called Reggie whose sexual appetite has put him off his food, and Billy the cat, whose heart defect means he, on the other hand, must avoid too much excitement. Meanwhile, Fiona Green is taking a year's sabbatical in the Bahamas, where she meets some old friends - human and animal - at a local dolphin sanctuary.

  • S05E13 Trouble Ahead

    • September 7, 1999
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue treats a Jack Russell called Taffy who has been injured in an encounter with a postman. Steve Leonard attempts to help a cow who is reluctant to get to her feet, whilst his brother Keith treats a lizard who has gone off her food.

  • S05E14 Langford Revisited

    • September 9, 1999
    • BBC One

    Emma Inglis operates on a cat called Herbie that has been trodden on by a horse, whilst her husband Joe's patients include Cap the sheep-dog, who has been hit by a car. Meanwhile, Trude Mostue performs a tricky operation on a rabbit called Biscuit to remove an injured eye. Later all three vet's take a nostalgic trip back to the vets' school at Langford College, Bristol, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

  • S05E15 Vets In Practice At Christmas

    • December 26, 1999
    • BBC One

    As the Christmas festivities approach, the young vets' surgeries are packed with patients. Before heading home for a traditional Norwegian celebration, Trude Mostue treats a puppy that has been trampled by a horse. Steve Leonard deals with a cat who has swallowed a needle, while Emma and Joe Inglis find room for a severely injured abandoned cat.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Baby Boom

    • February 1, 2000
    • BBC One

    Joe Inglis' routine caesarean on a heavily pregnant foxhound produces puppy after puppy, but there's not an entirely happy ending. Meanwhile, his wife Emma treats and then releases a pheasant that has travelled four miles trapped in the grille of a car. Trude Mostue performs an operation on a Chihuahua with a malignant tumour, and gives a temporary home to an orphaned kitten.

  • S06E02 Horses For Courses

    • February 2, 2000
    • BBC One

    Tom Leonard discovers that a cow's chronic diarrhoea is caused by a twisted stomach, whilst his brother Steve faces a difficult decision over a cat whose leg has multiple fractures. Meanwhile, equine vet Sam Robinson undertakes a tricky operation to straighten a foal's legs.

  • S06E03 Stormy Weather

    • February 8, 2000
    • BBC One

    When Fiona Green decided to get a job in the Bahamas, she did not envisage battening down the hatches and taking cover from fearful winds. However, that is exactly what happens when Hurricane Floyd blows into town. In the aftermath of the storm, Fiona is kept busy with a steady stream of owners and their injured pets seeking treatment at the Bahamas Humane Society. Back in Wiltshire, England, a difficult case turns into a crisis for Trude Mostue when a breeder brings in an ill-fated German shepherd dog. Meanwhile, Trude's friend and fellow-Norwegian Maria Lowe - who, like Fiona and Trude, also trained at the Langford Vets' School - treats a collie dog with a mysterious lump. Trude and Maria are making plans to form a partnership and set up their own veterinary practice.

  • S06E04 Best Laid Plans

    • February 9, 2000
    • BBC One

    While Joe Inglis now divides his time between getting his Mountain Board business rolling and being a part-time vet, his wife Emma wants them to open up their own practice. So when the news arrives that Joe is soon to lose his job, Emma makes the big decision for the both of them. Emma operates on Bitsy, a cat with cancer, whilst Joe deals with a stray hamster discovered in a hi-fi shop. Meanwhile, Sam Robinson and her boss John Levison treat a horse with hoof problems.

  • S06E05 Decision Time

    • February 15, 2000
    • BBC One

    Emma Inglis continues her fight to save Bitsy the cat from cancer, while her husband Joe helps an abandoned dog. Back home, Joe has some upsetting news for Emma. Trude Mostue treats a rabbit with an overgrown tooth and a badly inflamed eye, whilst Maria Lowe helps a cat who's fallen into a pan of cold chip fat. Later, Trude and Maria visit a bank manager in search of financial support for their proposed veterinary practice.

  • S06E06 While The Cat's Away

    • February 16, 2000
    • BBC One

    Tom Leonard experiences the realities of farming when he spends a week looking after a farm for friends. Younger brother Keith is back working as a locum and performs emergency surgery on a cow with a displaced stomach. Meanwhile, Bahamas-based Fiona Green helps an injured goat and meets some baby racoons.

  • S06E07 Mum's The Word

    • February 22, 2000
    • BBC One

    Keith Leonard acts as a mentor to a work experience student, whilst Trude Mostue meets Benson, a Labrador with a taste for household goods. Meanwhile, Maria Lowe performs a Caesarean - with dramatic results.

  • S06E08 Road To Recovery

    • February 23, 2000
    • BBC One

    Emma Inglis finds herself on the other side of the operating table when she requires an endoscope examination of her knee, while her husband Joe treats a cat called Jelly whose injuries have left him paralysed. In Hull, Sam Robinson performs her own endoscopy on a young race horse.

  • S06E09 Wanderlust

    • February 29, 2000
    • BBC One

    While brothers Steve and Keith Leonard both plan to travel the world, with Steve resigning from his practice and Keith saving his locum's salary, their third brother Tom is happy in Lancashire, where he treats a collapsed pregnant cow and finds himself knee-deep in blood tests for 450 sheep.

  • S06E10 Family Affairs

    • March 1, 2000
    • BBC One

    Trude Mostue finally gets her hands on one of the famous lions at Longleat Safari Park, whilst her friend and future business partner Maria Lowe treats a puppy with a salivating problem. Meanwhile, Emma Inglis brings her surgical skills to bear on a mothering cat's broken leg, while her husband Joe bids farewell to his practice.

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