About this season
Series about eye-watering cases which come through the doors of British A&E departments.
Episodes (8)
1. Episode 1
Aired 14 February 2008 • 30 min
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.
2. Episode 2
Aired 21 February 2008 • 30 min
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.
3. Episode 3
Aired 28 February 2008 • 30 min
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.
4. Episode 4
Aired 6 March 2008 • 30 min
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.
5. Episode 5
Aired 13 March 2008 • 30 min
There's a circus dwarf who superglues his penis to a hoover and a shoemaker who stitches up her thumb.
6. Episode 6
Aired 20 March 2008 • 30 min
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.
7. Episode 7
Aired 27 March 2008 • 30 min
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.
8. Episode 8
Aired 3 April 2008 • 30 min
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.