Holby City series 4

The fourth series of the British medical drama television series Holby City commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 October 2001, and concluded on 1 October 2002. The episode run for this series was actually commissioned for 26 episodes, however a further 26 episodes were given the go ahead and were bolted onto the end of Series 4 resulting in a 52-episode series run. In essence, it is a combination of two separate series, but classed as one. From here on, each series was commissioned as a full 52-episode run.

Reception
In 2002, the BBC was condemned by critics who felt that the network "no longer believed it had a duty to shape public taste." David Cox of the New Statesman commented that this became clear during the 2001 Christmas schedule, when BBC One scheduled Holby City against a contemporary version of Othello. On this basis, Cox advocated the abolition of the licence fee, explaining: "The BBC was invented in a period when the elite decided what the population should know. If that has gone, then the licence fee should go too."

Main characters

 * Ian Aspinall as Mubbs Hussein (from episode 8)
 * Luisa Bradshaw-White as Lisa Fox (from episode 13)
 * Colette Brown as Sam Kennedy (until episode 45)
 * Peter de Jersey as Steve Waring
 * Jeremy Edwards as Danny Shaughnessy
 * Tina Hobley as Chrissie Williams
 * George Irving as Anton Meyer (until episode 46)
 * Thusitha Jayasundera as Tash Bandara (until episode 37)
 * Dominic Jephcott as Alistair Taylor (episodes 1−46)
 * Verona Joseph as Jess Griffin (from episode 15)
 * Denis Lawson as Tom Campbell-Gore (from episode 45)
 * Adrian Lewis Morgan as Liam Evans (until episode 35)
 * Rocky Marshall as Ed Keating (from episode 45)
 * Mark Moraghan as Owen Davis (from episode 3)
 * Anna Mountford as Keri McGrath (until episode 41)
 * David Paisley as Ben Saunders (from episode 17)
 * Jan Pearson as Kath Shaughnessy
 * Patricia Potter as Diane Lloyd (from episode 39)
 * Hugh Quarshie as Ric Griffin (from episode 1)
 * Siobhan Redmond as Janice Taylor (until episode 44)
 * Laura Sadler as Sandy Harper
 * Jeremy Sheffield as Alex Adams

Recurring characters

 * Andrew Dunn as Simon Shaughnessy (episodes 8−52)
 * Ian Kelsey as Patrick Spiller (episode 11)
 * Martin Ledwith as Father Michael (episodes 8-33)
 * Ana Sofrenovic as Marija Ovcar (episodes 1–16)
 * Kulvinder Ghir as Anil Banerjee
 * Tilly Blackwood as Emma Waring (until episode 10)
 * Marvin Humes as Robbie Waring
 * David Soul as Alan Fletcher (episode 27)
 * Denise Welch as Pam McGrath (episodes 36–41)
 * Jan Anderson as Chloe Hill (episode 1)
 * Hari Dhillon as Sunil Gupta
 * Deborah Poplett as Anna Chandler
 * Christopher Colquhoun as Simon Kaminski (episode 43)
 * Christine Stephen-Daly as Lara Stone (episodes 28 and 31)
 * Zita Sattar as Anna Paul (episode 28)