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The Royal
01:00 am - 02:05 am Friday, September 25
The Unbreakable Chain
Season 3 · Episode 1
A student nurse causes quite a stir when she arrives in the middle of the night, while Ken and Alun contend with a farming family suffering a crisis. Brigid and Jill deliver a Down's syndrome baby whose parents don't want anything to do with it, and Lizzie's crash diet has alarming consequences. Starring Wendy Craig, Robert Daws and Amy Robbins
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- Wendy Craig — Actor as Matron
- Michael Starke — Actor as Ken Hopkirk
- Robert Daws — Actor as Gordon Ormerod
- Amy Robbins — Actor as Jill Weatherill
- Julian Ovenden — Actor as David Cheriton
- Zoie Kennedy — Actor as Meryl Taylor
- Andy Wear — Actor as Alun Morris
- Michelle Hardwick — Actor as Lizzie Kennoway
- Phil Atkinson — Actor as Mr Brice
- Thomas Hudson — Actor as Walter Metcalf
- John Axon — Actor as Mr Harper
- Charlie De'Ath — Actor as Simon Wake-Palmer
- Rebecca Johnson — Actor as Venetia Wake-Palmer
- Linda Armstrong — Actor as Sister Brigid
- Sally Sheridan — Actor as Madame Joyce
- Laura Lonsdale — Actor as Denise
- Nicola Bolton — Actor as Ivy
- Ned Irish — Actor as Willie
- Helen Poveda — Actor as Daisy Metcalf
- Katie Dove — Actor as Elizabeth Wake-Palmer
- Anna Madeley — Actor as Samantha Beaumont
- Polly Maberly — Actor as Lucy Klein
- Janine Birkett — Actor as Mrs Troughton
- Katie Matthews — Actor as Clara Troughton
- Mark Jordon — Actor as PC Phil Bellamy
- Kirsha Southward — Actor as Charlotte
- Denis Lill — Actor as Mr Rose
- Judy Hawkins — Actor as Ms Prosser
- Maike Lynden — Actor as Sophie
- Adrian Bean — Director
- Ken Horn — Producer
- Sarah Bagshaw — Writer
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