The Royal - 3 ª Season

Student nurse Samantha Beaumont makes quite an entrance, arriving in the middle of the night. The hospital porters get involved with helping a farming family, whilst Brigid and Jill try to persuade a young couple not to reject their new-born child, who has Down's Syndrome. Lizzie goes on a crash diet and is surprised by the result.

Porter Alun gets involved in a road accident with a suspected drunk driver, while Samantha does not impress Matron, and a female patient makes serious allegations against Dr. Ormerod. The rugby match between staff from the Royal and Ashfordly General is revived and the consequences are tragic.

New young doctor Jeff Goodwin arrives at the Royal to replace David, after a traumatic journey in which he is involved in a car accident, punched by one of the other drivers and then robbed of his motor. Annette Cheriton calls in to collect her son's belongings and Meryl is taken by surprise to learn that he had a fiancee.

Jeff raises eye-brows but ultimately wins the day by letting a holistic therapist cure a patient's back injury, following a mining accident. Gordon's father-in-law Henry comes to the Royal and suggests that Caroline's life-support machine be turned off. Gordon agrees though feels some guilt, given his feelings for Jill.

The porters persuade Harper to re-apply for his job following management re-organization and move him into a plush office, where he accidentally puts insect powder in his tea instead of sugar. Romance is in the air for Ken as he meets an old flame on the ward and Alun as he goes after Samantha. Jeff almost commits professional suicide by ordering the closure of a café which he wrongly believes to have poisoned a jazz band - before Matron sees the real cause. Gordon and Jill have an awkward time at a dinner party when their host Frank Welborn tells them he suspects his wife of trying to murder him.