Rockface

Rockface

BBC One Ended Drama

2 Seasons · 14 Episodes · Premiered March 13, 2002 · Ended July 27, 2003

Drama about the members of a Scottish mountain rescue team both on and off the hills.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

6 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Wed, Mar 13 2002 12:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
In this first episode we are introduced to some of the major characters. The first rescue involves Jamie ending up balanced on the edge of one of the rocks whilst attempting to rescue a photographer who has fallen. Two brothers are out walking when one trips and hurts himself. He ruptures his spleen , but the team have a long time to wait for a helicopter to arrive. Douglas has to rescue a diabetic who is in danger of going into a coma. Caroline wants to join the rescue team, but the others are wary of her because her father has donated money to the mountain rescue service.
E02
Episode 2
Wed, Mar 20 2002 12:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
In the opening sequence Douglas who is riding his bike collides into the car of nurse Helen, an argument follows and Douglas rides off and leaves her. Mike helps to rescue a girl trapped in a cave and the only way out is to crawl under tunnels. Jamie, Douglas and Annie have to rescue rope climbers who have fallen. Jamie is not very happy when he discovers his mother is now a consultant at the hospital. Despite their differences Douglas and Helen decide to go out for a meal together.
E03
Episode 3
Wed, Mar 27 2002 12:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Douglas and Helen have begun a relationship. The team rescue two boys who have become stranded above a waterfall. Caroline and Jamie get to talk at her fathers rather grand party. Gordon's daughter Kirsty returns from university . We discover that Douglas is her godfather, she borrows money from him and borrows Gordon's car without asking leaving him unable to get home. Ben still finds it difficult to accept Caroline onto the team and we think that he may have secret that he is keeping from his brother.
E04
Episode 4
Wed, Apr 3 2002 11:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In this episode some of the rescuers dress up as they would have done 100 years ago to raise funds for the rescue service. On their treck across the mountains they get involved in a real rescue, eventually helping a woman with MS to stand to see the views around her. Doug resigns as deputy as his boss has told him that he will have to take his rescue days of out of his annual leave. Caroline rescues a man who has fallen and whose wound is covered in flies and maggots. We find out that he is the son of Doug's boss Dennis and therefore Doug no longer has to resign. We discover that Jamie has a brother who has been missing for several years and is now believed to be dead. After her dramatic rescue of Dennis' son Caroline is voted onto the team, with a special recommendation from Ben.
E05
Episode 5
Wed, Apr 10 2002 11:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Episode 5 is part 1 of the final story in the series. Annie and Ben get into an interesting conversation about dreams whilst on the hills serching for a chopper which has crashed. When they find it they are taken hostage by the survivors, the leader is an escaped prisoner and he forces Annie and Ben to take them to his pick up point. The other rescue involves a man who is successfully rescued after falling from Dragon's Tooth Sea Stack. Mike gives the man chocolate with nuts in unaware that the man has a nut allergy.
E06
Episode 6
Wed, Apr 17 2002 11:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
The story continues from episode 5. Gordon's wife is planning a surprise party for his birthday. Peter begins to worry about Annie and Ben and sets off to look for them. Gordon and Doug go to rescue some monks trapped on a hill. First of all it seems to be a quite a humorous situation, but there is a rock-fall, both Doug and Gordon have fallen, only one can go up again.

Season 2

8 episodes
Clive Russell
Clive Russell as Dr Gordon Urquhart
Rupert Evans
Rupert Evans as Jamie Doughan
Richard Graham
Richard Graham as Mike Bayliss
Zoë Eeles
Zoë Eeles as Annie Craig
Brendan Coyle
Brendan Coyle as Douglas McLanaghan
Melanie Gutteridge
Melanie Gutteridge as Caroline Morrison
Cal MacAninch
Cal MacAninch as Ben Craig
Jamie Sives
Jamie Sives as Peter Craig

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