Almost four decades since he clocked in for his first shift, the nurse has left Casualty. The prognosis for the soap is terminal
Whoever it was that first suggested all good things must come to an end has clearly never watched a soap opera. The thing aboutis that they tend not to end, but rather continue on, often in the face of eroding interest and diminishing viewers, simply because it’s too painful to pull the plug on a national institution.
But, last week, it was announced that Derek Thompson, the actor who has played Charlie Fairhead on BBC1’s longest-running medical dramahas long had an open-door policy with regard to its “staff” , some of them coming in and then departing so swiftly that we barely remember them at all, much less mourn their passing.will likely suffer for it. Charlie Fairhead was an anomaly within the hospital ward: not just a friendly face, but an enduring one. He was, simply, always there.
His retirement can hardly come as a surprise, given that the actor that plays him is 75 years old, and that Charlie himself can’t be much younger. Frankly, it’s a wonder he lasted so long, because if medical staff tend to burn out quickly then their television equivalents invariably have targets on their chests.Charlie certainly did. Since he arrived at Holby City in the autumn of 1986, he has clocked up over 900 episodes.
With his departure, then, the show faces a – well, a medical emergency. Who could possibly replace him in our affections – and do viewers even have the patience to learn to love someone else in his stead? One doesn’t step into a role whose shoes have been worn consistently by the same person for almost 40 years. The fit’s all wrong, nothing feels right any more; we switch over, or switch off.
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