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The Clinic

TV·2003–2009·7 seasons, 64 episodes·RTÉ One·Drama·1h

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The Clinic is a multi award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The drama ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November 2007. The last ever episode aired on RTÉ One on Sunday 15 November 2009 and on YLE1 in Finland on Wednesday 25 November 2009. The complete series of The Clinic was released on DVD in November 2010 by RTÉ.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season018Episodes2003AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01The Clinic S01E01Episode 1October 12, 2003It's Ed's birthday and the day starts off with him catching a junkie breaking into the surgery. Mrs Fleming is rattled by the burglary as th
  2. S01E02The Clinic S01E02Episode 2October 19, 2003Today is the anniversary of the day Cathy gave birth to a stillborn baby. Cathy and Ed's grief is private so much so they can't even talk to
  3. S01E03The Clinic S01E03Episode 3October 26, 2003Keelin has to face up to the news about her mother's cancer. She realises that her family cannot cope and she has to give up her single life
  4. S01E04The Clinic S01E04Episode 4November 2, 2003Alex considers starting a thing with local barman, Michael. His carefree existence is abruptly shattered however by a needle stick incident.
  5. S01E05The Clinic S01E05Episode 5November 9, 2003Susie's life is changed totally with the unexpected arrival of her teenage daughter Moya, who has decided to leave her home with Susie's par
  6. S01E06The Clinic S01E06Episode 6November 16, 2003Dan becomes increasingly reliant on his drug habit. He turns to Susie for help but she calls him a coward. Patrick meets Sean's mother Ann C
  7. S01E07The Clinic S01E07Episode 7November 23, 2003Patrick's long-running case with Seán, plus his constant work load, takes its toll on his own mental health. In addition he has to face Seán
  8. S01E08The Clinic S01E08Episode 8November 30, 2003Cathy and Ed attend Mary's funeral. The event gives them a chance to talk about their own grief over the baby. Back at the clinic, confusion

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season028Episodes2004AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01The Clinic S02E01Episode 1October 17, 2004Dan returns to Dublin and looks to make up with Susie, but soon discovers she has gone to Thailand. Cathy prescribes penicillin to a patient
  2. S02E02The Clinic S02E02Episode 2October 24, 2004Clodagh, the new GP, has a bad start to her day when she knocks Ed over. Her day goes from bad to worse when she suspects a patient has an e
  3. S02E03The Clinic S02E03Episode 3October 31, 2004Brendan takes his grandmother home from hospital after she confesses that she knows she is dying, but wants to do so in her own bed.
  4. S02E04The Clinic S02E04Episode 4November 7, 2004Things are hotting up as affairs start rising to the surface. Paul tells Keelin he knows about her and Ed and begs her not to say anything t
  5. S02E05The Clinic S02E05Episode 5November 14, 2004Dermot asks Fiona to join him for lunch. Cathy is interested in buying next door and goes to her Dad in the hope of interesting him in inves
  6. S02E06The Clinic S02E06Episode 6November 21, 2004Ed finds Cathy's pills in her drawer and concludes that they have different ideas about wanting a family. Cathy visits the bank and realises
  7. S02E07The Clinic S02E07Episode 7November 28, 2004Ed wakes up in Patrick's flat. He walks home, hungover and meets Cathy out for a run but she ignores him. Cathy confides in Áine that she an
  8. S02E08The Clinic S02E08Episode 8December 5, 2004Cathy wakes up to see Dan in the next room and wonders what happened the night before. Ed meanwhile wakes up at Patrick's who tells him that

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0310Episodes2005AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Episode 1September 25, 2005Fiona is deeply missing Ed and thinks that The Clinic is falling apart without him. In her attempts to save The Clinic she only manages to m
  2. S03E02Episode 2October 2, 2005Brendan's inheritance of his Nan's house worth 2.75 million euro has just become official. The other staff in The Clinic question Brendan on
  3. S03E03Episode 3October 9, 2005Patrick is lonely and everything around him is further illustrating how alone he is. Through a chance encounter with an old acquaintance, he
  4. S03E04Episode 4October 16, 2005Clodagh gets some shocking news, her father had an affair and she was the product of it. Daisy takes a fancy to Brendan's replacement, Will
  5. S03E05Episode 5October 23, 2005Keelin has to decide if her business is worth losing her friends. Paul turns up at the Clinic asking Keelin to build bridges with a pregnant
  6. S03E06Episode 6October 30, 2005Mr O'Callaghan's demise is revealed as he plummets from the high of the nomination for his Presidency to the depths of despair when he loses
  7. S03E07Episode 7November 6, 2005Richard is struggling to deal with his wife Annie's illness while trying to keep his home and work life separate. His daughter Flossie is de
  8. S03E08Episode 8November 13, 2005Daisy has fallen hook, line and sinker for Will, along with his drinking, drugs and fast living. They spend the night together in Cathy's fl
  9. S03E09Episode 9November 20, 2005Dan is terrified when he realises he could be caught out for dating both Cathy and Sinéad and tries to find a way to prevent them meeting. D
  10. S03E10Episode 10November 27, 2005Alex is shaken when he bumps into an old friend at a club, who calls him Chris. Alex tells the guy to get lost claiming he doesn't know who

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season0410Episodes2006AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01Episode 1October 1, 2006Cathy is confident that she'll finally be able to oust her manipulative business partner and ex-lover, Dan. But her plan backfires when she
  2. S04E02Episode 2October 8, 2006Aine finds it increasingly difficult to cope with her son Tommy and reacts in a shocking and distressing way. Meanwhile, Cathy deliberately
  3. S04E03Episode 3October 15, 2006The clinic's new nurse, Liam Smith, has a disastrous first day - and worst of all, he gets Dan's back up when he talks one of his patients o
  4. S04E04Episode 4October 22, 2006Keelin calls off her wedding to Ronan after an argument, while Cathy and Julia clash over Julia's bedside manner. Sinead is diagnosed with e
  5. S04E05Episode 5October 29, 2006Dan is devastated to discover he has a life-threatening and that the only operation that can cure him may also end his career. He tries to c
  6. S04E06Episode 6November 5, 2006Clodagh makes the decision to reveal her true identity to her birth mother Carol. What Clodagh hasn't taken into account is whether or not t
  7. S04E07Episode 7November 12, 2006Patrick refuses to take an agitated Conor for a session after Conor is rude and insults Bernie. Clodagh has had enough with her acupuncture
  8. S04E08Episode 8November 19, 2006Daisy thinks she may have been a cause of Conor's break up with his girlfriend, Siobhann, as well as his accident, after Siobhann warns Dais
  9. S04E09Episode 9November 26, 2006Jack creates a scene in the clinic after finding out that Daisy has accused him of sexual harassment.
  10. S04E10Episode 10December 3, 2006

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season0510Episodes2007AiredSeason avg
  1. S05E01Episode 1September 30, 2007Dan is back with a second chance after surgery but his life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers Cathy is pregnant. It's a tumultuous st
  2. S05E02Episode 2October 7, 2007Liam's son Ian wants the morning after pill for a girl he had unprotected sex with but, when Liam calls her parents, he is stunned to hear t
  3. S05E03Episode 3October 14, 2007Julia is tempted by her ex-husband Harry's overtures to win her back - until she discovers that he has cancer. Dr. Lorcan O'Brien buys Ed's
  4. S05E04Episode 4October 21, 2007Clodagh's birth mother Carol comes to see her with news that her husband Tom is on the warpath and looking for Clodagh's father, Frederick -
  5. S05E05Episode 5October 28, 2007Daisy's close friendship with Conor seems increasingly difficult for Adam to accept. But how will Daisy react when Conor admits that he is i
  6. S05E06Episode 6November 4, 2007Liam dramatically kicks Cara out of the house when he finds out that she gave his son Ian's girlfriend Lucy the morning-after pill. Clodagh
  7. S05E07Episode 7November 11, 2007Daisy and Cara vie for the position of Practice Manager, while two suitors - Conor and Adam - compete for Daisy's affections. Meanwhile, Dan
  8. S05E08Episode 8November 18, 2007Bernie moves in with Patrick, but she soon realises that he isn't ready to co-habit. Meanwhile, new practice manager Cara struggles to cope
  9. S05E09Episode 9November 25, 2007Lorcan's sister Alice, who's back using drugs again, begs Lorcan to help her go 'cold turkey'. Although Lorcan knows it's ethically inadvisa
  10. S05E10Episode 10December 2, 2007

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season0610Episodes2008AiredSeason avg
  1. S06E01Episode 1September 28, 2008Cathy continues to lie in a coma after being run over by Niall Boylan unaware that she lost her cherished baby girl - Rachel - in the accide
  2. S06E02Episode 2October 5, 2008Dan's grief over Cathy's death is overshadowed by hearing that Niall Boylan will escape relatively free from a serious conviction. Dan's sol
  3. S06E03Episode 3October 12, 2008St. Matthew's Hospital Director Michael Kinsella is keen for Julia to take over the job but she declines and tells him she is happy at the C
  4. S06E04Episode 4October 19, 2008Grace tells Ruairi about her missing sister Jasmine when he finds one of her flyer's on the photocopier. Lorcan asks Dr Kent about getting i
  5. S06E05Episode 5October 26, 2008Ronan and Keelin's lives are turned upside down when a senseless attack on Ronan by one of Ian's friends leaves him potentially paralysed. M
  6. S06E06Episode 6November 2, 2008Liam continues taking Rocusin, and even steals a prescription from one of Grace's patients. After giving wrong medication to another patient
  7. S06E07Episode 7November 9, 2008Alice secures a temporary role as the nurse in the clinic, and is keen to celebrate with Dan. Annie Ward brings her ex-boyfriend, Dave, to t
  8. S06E08Episode 8November 16, 2008
  9. S06E09Episode 9November 23, 2008Fergus Mitchell, a teenager claiming to be Patrick's son is mugged and beaten up and asks for Patrick when at the hospital.But Bernie doubts
  10. S06E10Episode 10November 30, 2008Dan and Daisy face Niall Boylan in court but later find out that he has been killed. After Alice lets slip about Lorcan's HIV status Dan con

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season078Episodes2009AiredSeason avg
  1. S07E01Episode 1September 28, 2009Dan is questioned by the Gardai over Niall Boylan's death but is eventually released only to incur the wrath of Daisy about his involvement
  2. S07E02Episode 2October 5, 2009Daisy starts monitoring the Clinic's cash-flow and is less than happy with her findings. Dan takes on the complicated surgery of a young Afr
  3. S07E03Episode 3October 11, 2009Dan is up against the Medical Council for his hearing. Alice is upset when she finds Dan has turned to Daisy for support on the day of his h
  4. S07E04Episode 4October 18, 2009Ruairi's dad Franny's condition deteriorates faster and after seeing his old friend Al in the early stages of dementia asks Grace to up his
  5. S07E05Episode 5October 25, 2009Having had his advances turned down by Daisy and having broken up with Alice Dan turns to gambling and meets the mysterious Lucille. Ruairi
  6. S07E06Episode 6November 1, 2009New general surgery doctor Edel Swift deals with a litany of emergencies that walk into the Clarence Street Clinic and Dan is quite taken by
  7. S07E07Episode 7November 8, 2009Rumour and speculation spread like wildfire about The Clinic's HIV-infected doctor causing cancellations and panic. Lorcan disappears and it
  8. S07E08Episode 8November 15, 2009Dan's last day at the Clarence Street Clinic is anything but uneventful as his nemesis Diarmuid and Lucille arrive at his surgery and demand

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

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