Cardiac Arrest
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 1994 - 1996
- 27 episodes (3 series)
Medical-set comedy series. Stars Andrew Lancel, Helen Baxendale, Ace Bhatti, Jonathan Dow, Tom Watson and more.
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Classic comedy dramas added to BBC iPlayer
Cardiac Arrest, Hamish Macbeth, Monarch Of The Glen and Making Out have been added to BBC iPlayer.
British Comedy Guide, 14th September 2023100 BBC TV gamechangers
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British Film Institute, 28th April 2022Everything here, and above all the sublime cynicism the characters lavish upon death and illness has the ring of truth. It seems a very long way indeed from General Hospital, for this is by a mile the best medical drama ever made here. If it came with subtitles, demystifying the technical stuff for the professional hypochondriac, Cardiac Arrest would be very nearly perfect.
Matthew Norman, Evening Standard, 3rd April 1996The picture seemed to fuzz and flare. This sort of thing brings sensitive critics out in spots. It is either artistic effect or your tube's gone or you're going. [...] Cardiac Arrest itself, written by a doctor John MacUre, is propelled along by medical jokes like timed explosions. That they are largely at the expense of the patients may make some of us at the sharp end of the syringe a bit twitchy.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 22nd April 1994