Porters - Episode Guide

In the opening episode when newbie hospital porter Simon arrives for work on his first day, he stands out like a sore thumb. Because to the great amusement of his mentors Frankie and Tillman, he thinks portering is just a stepping-stone to his true calling in life – being a doctor. However, a mix-up with a dead Rabbi means Simon is forced to impersonate a real doctor and somehow escape the suspicious scrutiny of a visiting consultant neurologist.

Newbie porter Simon is still coping with his unrequited love for nurse Lucy. Seeing her swoon over the heroic Doctor McKenzie prompts Simon to impulsively offer a kidney to a young transplant patient called Lewis. When Frankie steals a recently deceased patient's winning lottery ticket, Tillman warns that karma will be out to rebalance the universe – and it looks like Simon will have to pay the price.

Deputy Chief Executive of the Hospital Trust Jane Bison is running a fast-track management scheme, which Simon sees as a way to escape the world of portering and become the type of man nurse Lucy will give a second glance to. Although his idea is a hit with the management, it angers his colleagues – not least Tillman who ends up being tasered, and Frankie who is fired. It seems Simon needs to be taken down a peg or three, and Frankie is just the woman to do it.

A new Porter, Anthony, is in town as, unknown to Frankie and Simon, Tillman has headed off temporarily to a religious retreat. Anthony and Frankie have form and find themselves instantly in conflict when he tries to take a cut of her blackmarket perfume empire. Will he last the week? Meanwhile, Lucy presents Simon with a huge engagement ring – the ultimate nightmare, Dr McKenzie has proposed! Simon is a broken man but then secretly spots Dr McKenzie kissing another woman in the hospital. Things take a strange turn when it emerges the mystery woman is actually Dr McKenzie's sister…or is she?

Mr Pradeep spends a day as a Porter for charity. Simon's awe at his God-like power as a Surgeon unwittingly causes Mr Pradeep to have a fatal loss of nerve and hand in his notice just as he's about to operate on the husband of a Hospital Board director. Can Frankie and Simon get him back on track? Meanwhile, a woman dressed as an orc is admitted to the hospital with an extreme allergic reaction. No-one can work out why she continues to deteriorate until she comes into contact with Frankie and starts to scream. Does Frankie have a secret cosplay identity she's never shared with anyone at the hospital?

Simon's first night shift coincides with Halloween and an escaped prisoner roaming the wards - will he and Frankie survive?

Simon breaks the hospital's new multi-million-pound surgical robot. Will he manage to fix it before a YouTube star goes under the knife?

To escape his mother's zeal at bedding her new boyfriend, Simon begins secretly sleeping in the Porter's Lodge, and donates his sperm to make some extra money. But when his mum and boyfriend drop by the hospital for infertility treatment, Simon catastrophises and fears he may have inadvertently impregnated her!

Meanwhile Penny, the long-term coma patient Anthony has been regularly reading to receives a state of-the-art new operation and wakes up. Unfortunately, she still thinks she's a child and all of the trashy films and TV Anthony has been watching with her have now become part of her personality. Has he created a monster?

Simon is initially super excited by the annual Hospital Emergency Simulation Incident day where actors are brought in to pretend to be badly injured victims of a major disaster. But when he is accidentally knocked out he wakes up in the middle of a real disaster with real injuries and assumes it's all part of the simulation…with disastrous consequences! Anthony, though, is completely in his element as we learn he did a stint early in his career as an actor. Meanwhile, Frankie goes for a secret job interview. Is she about to leave the hospital?