Breathless - Season 1 (2013)

1961:-Suave Otto Powell is chief gynaecological surgeon at a London hospital, with his brash junior Richard Truscott about to marry former nurse Jean. Otto and his anaesthetist Charlie Enderbury are called upon to perform a lucrative but illegal abortion, which shocks new nurse Angela Wilson. Angela holds this over Otto to gain his help with buying time for Maureen Mulligan, a patient being forced into a loveless marriage. At her wedding gown fitting Jean confesses to Otto's wife Elizabeth and Lily, who is married to Charlie, that she is pregnant by Richard, hence the...

Charlie loses out on his promotion to Mehta whilst Richard, returning from honeymoon, is angry that Jean, with Otto's collusion, has kept her miscarriage secret and gone ahead with the wedding. At work he succumbs to the bullying Eric Smallwood, who is cheating on his depressed wife Valerie, by going along with Smallwood's suggestion that he gives Valerie tranquillizers, leading to Valerie threatening Eric's mistress. Jean, having been used to working, is not comfortable in her role as a housewife and yearns to return to nursing, even though married couples are not ...

Charlie, Otto and Jean go to Soho to perform an abortion on young Megan Grieve but complications arise, requiring an admission to hospital, where Jean encounters Angela - who keeps quiet about her sister's involvement. The police are brought in and, whilst Otto successfully fobs them off, Charlie is anxious that they will be found out and, distracted, blames himself when a patient dies. Richard resumes his affair with Margaret, lying to Jean that he has been working late but she notices the lipstick on his shirt. Jean visits Angela at the house, where she is hiding ...