Frankie

- Season 1

(2013)

Frankie Maddox, head of a team of district nurses at a Bristol doctors practice, is concerned that sixty-year old Jean Winters is running herself ragged, caring for a terminally ill husband and crossing town to look in on Walter, her father, who has Alzheimer's. Jean is resistant to outside intervention, fearing Walter will be institutionalized but Dr Zoe Evans tells Frankie she sees no alternative. However, when Walter, not knowing who she is, attacks Frankie, her colleague Andy insists she report it and ultimately she is unable to prevent the old man being taken ...

Ian returns from his one night stand, accusing Frankie of putting her job above their relationship. He gives her an engagement ring and reconciliation seems likely - until she realises he went with her work colleague Paula. Andy visits frustrated amputee Max Hall, dining out on his affliction as an excuse never to go out but after he has trashed his flat, Frankie makes him see how much his loyal partner loves him and he accepts therapy. Nurse Mary believes an elderly Indian diabetic, Mrs Khan, is being exploited by her relatives until an interpreter tells her ...

Wheelchair user Matthew Seren arrives as the nurses' administrator and receptionist. Initially grumpy he hits it off with nurse Karen and is soon standing his round in the pub. Frankie learns that she is to face a tribunal following Dr Evans' complaint of her handling Liana Corden's case. Andy visits stroke victim Kelly Fortune but falls foul of her husband because of his close contact with her whilst Frankie is seeing Robbie Preston, a young boy who has cancer. Jealous of the attention Robbie gets his brother steals his medication though Frankie, helped by Matthew, ...

Andy's patient Cheryl Fripp is worried when her daughter Bea, who has Downs Syndrome, announces that she and her disabled boyfriend Jake Gibson plan to move in together and the stress brings on an asthma attack which hospitalizes her. Andy manages to get Dr Evans on side to work out a compromise agreeable to all parties whilst cash-strapped Karen has trouble getting through to grumpy old Clive, who refuses to let people in his house though she succeeds by flattery. Frankie visits pregnant ex-hippie Rachel Ellis, desperate for a child after several miscarriages. Fear ...

Paula visits terminally ill Dee Olden, whose zest for life gives her confidence when Ian tells her he will support their baby materially but will not live with her. Mary helps Jess Madden, a surrogate mother suffering from post-natal depression by letting her have contact with the child but has to sort out her own wayward daughter. Orla Maguire is concerned that her partner Shane, an MS sufferer, has eschewed his medication for herbal remedies and a fitness regime and asks Frankie to speak to him. Frankie makes him see he must sort things out with Orla without her ...

Frankie discovers that her stalker has been in her house and done her washing and ironing. She calls Andy, who spends the night in the guest room before Frankie reports it to the police next day. In the supermarket she meets Nicky Humphries, a lupus sufferer, who despite being in pain has returned to work as she needs the money. Frankie persuades Dr Evans to consider an appeal but the two women end up rowing again after Nicky fails to show up. Andy is savaged by a dog belonging to a patient and rescued by Ian though they argue over Frankie. Next day Frankie and Andy ...