Casualty - How Traumatic Tonight.

[Ann]

I feel so shattered - have been sitting on the edge of my seat, it just seemed I was there willing poor Charlie to live. :(

[netibiza]

Duffy looked different to me.

[MargoTester]

She's like the rest of us - getting on a bit! I recognised her straight away.

[granny grump]

First saw Charlie (Derek Thompson) in Harry's Game in the 80s - and he was brilliant in that - perhaps he's ready to retire

[MargoTester]

So dear old Charlie lives to fight another day! All's well with the world:-)

[Mamyalynne]

There was certainly much baring of hearts,souls and minds- very deep tonight.

[Baldric]

Best comeback since Lazarus imo!

[jourdain2]

Charlie can't be allowed to die! (He comes from Keighley, b.t.w. - not far from my old stamping ground). I miss loads of Casualty, but he's the link that I can always latch on to.

[retrocop]

I was watching some hospital type drama in the pub. (muted sound)Might of been Casualty.
I was appalled. I thought how racist. There was a Black woman brandishing a Knife. Talk about stereotyping.

[Caran]

Tonight's episode was brilliant. So glad they didn't kill him off. I like Charlie, always have.
Not sure about Duffy, is it really her or a lookey Limey?

[Caran]

Likey not Limey.

[silliemillie]

So how did Charlie come back to life then? I got a bit confused, I know he was waiting to go to the heart place but then Connie injected him and he came back.

Also was he not out of it for too long to make that sort of recovery?

My wonderful Dad had a heartatack and the Paramedics said they only have four minutes to get him back or it would cause permanent damage.

[silliemillie]

Caran..it is the same actress playing Duffy but dont think she's aged much.

[Mamyalynne]

It is the same Duffy.

[Caran]

Thanks silliemillie and Mamya.

[campbellking]

Glad I'm not the only one who got confused, don't think I was concentrating hard enough.

[ummmm]

Well Silliemillie the footballer who nearly died on the pitch (can't remember his name) was worked on for a long time. His heart stopped beating for 78 minutes.

[silliemillie]

Ummmm, you're right they did but didn't he have heart failure? Apparently they are different. Either way he was in intensive care and took a long time to recover, Charlie is up and about already!

[Ann]

Brilliant couple of episodes. Glad it had a happy ever after ending for Charlie ..... but what about Zoe and Max, so sad about that storyline as they are good together, I couldn't work out if they have actually split? Has he left Casualty for good?

[Robinia]

Well they certainly put a lot of work into the last two weekend's episodes and they were brilliant.

Cathy Shipton (Duffy) then and now, not much difference and her voice and mannerisms are all the same...if she's staying I don't suppose it'll be long before she's having a mardy strop.

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6321373.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Cathy-Shipton-Main.jpg

[Peter Pedant]

// First saw Charlie (Derek Thompson) in Harry's Game in the 80s - and he was brilliant in that - perhaps he's ready to retire //

and also a very young Father in Lark Rise to Candleford - looked like a teen ager but then it was the eighties

Charlie played the rather gormless garda didnt he ?

and the technical term for his dystonia - it wouldne be articulatio lignea would it ?