Charlie is Leaving Casualty After 37 Years and Frankly, Who Can Blame Him?

1990 – Gets Shot in the Chest in a Hostage Situation

In series five’s “A Reasonable Man”, Kenneth Cranham played a schizophrenic patient who’d killed a man he wrongly suspected of having had an affair with his wife, and who, while being treated for injuries following a road accident, took nurse Megan hostage at gunpoint. In the ruckus that followed, Cranham’s character shot Charlie in the chest but thankfully, it turned out to be just a scratch.

1998 – Rescues his Kidnapped Girlfriend from a Gunman, and then Proposes

When Baz is taken hostage by an enraged gunman in series 12, episode 24 “We Can Be Heroes”, it’s Charlie to the rescue. He stopped her from being shot and watched her kidnapper killed by police sniper before asking Baz to marry him. She said yes, obvs.

1998 – Gets Run Over by an Ambulance on his Wedding Day

I mean, this is bad luck. In series 12, episode 24 “Everlasting Love”, Charlie and Baz’s wedding is interrupted when a local fire calls them and their guests back to work at the hospital, where Charlie ends up under the wheels of an ambulance driven by a murderous gangster in search of his runaway sister. Luckily, Charlie once again escaped with minor injuries and the wedding eventually went ahead. 

2001 – Emergency Delivers His Best Friend’s Baby

Charlie’s pal and future wife Duffy had a terrible run of it. In series 16, episode one “Holding the Baby”, she’s recently bereaved and heavily pregnant, but refuses to be taken to the hospital where her man died, so Charlie is forced to deliver her baby boy at home. Thankfully, it’s far from his first baby-birthing rodeo.

2003 – Saves His Ex-Wife’s Husband From a Skidoo Accident

On a blended family trip to Lapland in series 18, episode 16 “Eat, Drink and Be Merry”, Charlie reconnects with his ex-wife Baz but not before saving her new husband when he overestimates his ability on a skidoo. 

2005 – Gets Driven into the Sea

In series 19, episode 48 “Truth, Lies and Videotape”, Charlie goes on an ashes-scattering trip that ends in disaster when the bereaved drives the whole party off the harbour and into the sea. Charlie, of course, to the rescue.