Cast Offs - Season 1 (2009)

Six months in a wheelchair, Dan is sweet, slightly naive, and liable to have his pants nicked and stuffed into a post-box. Or at least he is when he's playing with the local wheelchair basketball team (which he's only doing because his Dad thinks it's a really good idea). Dan arrives on the island (also his Dad's bright idea) and meets the other cast-offs for the first time. He begins a journey that will involve quite a few bumps in the road. Particularly bump-some is Carrie, who is three-foot-tall, but has an ego the size of a small country, and she seems to be able ...

Sardonic, dry and very funny, Tom is so idle he has never bothered to make an effort for anything. The important factor for him has always been the avoidance of work. So what happens when a lazy man has to try? There are two things occupying his mind: one is Sylvia, a girl back home who is also blind, but she's tricky and very sexy. And on the island, there's a hungry fox that isn't at all sexy, but very busy killing off all the chickens. Luckily, Tom is a bit handy with a shotgun. Let's hope he gets his act in gear, but will he get the girl or the fox? Strong ...

Will, played by Mat Fraser, is campaigning to become the disabled community's answer to Barack Obama. But on the island, the only person who's happy to listen to him banging on about disability politics is Dan, played by Peter Mitchell, and he's starting to lose interest. It was the same story at home - ignored by everyone, apart from his son Jake, played by Thomas Turgoose. Right now, the immediate problem is that the food is running out for the group. Will is insistent that they shouldn't ask for help, as he wants to prove that disabled people don't need assistance....