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The Bionic Vet

Season 1 2010

  • 2010-06-30T21:45:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
The Bionic Vet is a BBC documentary television series following the work of vet Noel Fitzpatrick. The show details the work of Noel Fitzpatrick at his revolutionary veterinary practice in Surrey. The clinic, called Fitzpatrick Referrals, contains state of the art equipment and dedicated team of over 100 Vets, Nurse and Support Staff. Within his surgery and along with fellow surgeons and nurses he finds new methods and techniques to help pets within more unique problems that would often leave the only option to be put to sleep. Many of these techniques had not even been attempted before. Many pets that are brought to the practice are from all over the country. One such example being Oscar the Cat that was flown over from Jersey featured in the first episode.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-06-30T21:45:00Z

1x01 Give a Cat Two New Feet - Done!

Series Premiere

1x01 Give a Cat Two New Feet - Done!

  • 2010-06-30T21:45:00Z30m

Noel manages to help helps a cat with two missing feet. The X-Men inspire him to save a Labrador.

Noel manages to get rid of Charlie the Labrador's tumour and he replaces it with an implant.

2010-07-14T21:45:00Z

1x03 Game Over!

1x03 Game Over!

  • 2010-07-14T21:45:00Z30m

Border collie cross, Sasha suffers a set back after being given a total knee replacement when in a totally unrelated incident, a disc blows in her spine. Noel is forced to perform life saving surgery on her. A four year old cat called Lottie needs restructive surgery after being hit by a car.

2010-07-20T21:45:00Z

1x04 I Can Only Give You 50/50

1x04 I Can Only Give You 50/50

  • 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z30m

Puppy Ice is sent to Noel's referral centre having been trampled by a horse. There is also an update on Lottie.

1x05 One Grumpy Person Is Enough

  • 2010-07-27T21:45:00Z30m

There's no let up at the referral centre as the cases continue to flood in. Noel is presented with another major surgical challenge. Seven-month-old puppy Jolly has a painful bone deformity in both his front legs. His owner, Christine, agonises over whether it's fair to put him through an operation in which Noel proposes to use a new technique to treat the bone growth deformity.

Season Finale

2010-08-03T21:45:00Z

1x06 A Couple More Taps and, Hopefully, We're In

Season Finale

1x06 A Couple More Taps and, Hopefully, We're In

  • 2010-08-03T21:45:00Z30m

Noel attempts a rare operation which has only been carried out on two other dogs before.

Ianto, a nine-year-old corgi, has an infected cancerous growth which is eating away his foot. For Ianto's owner Gillian, it's heartbreaking: he's her sole companion and she can't imagine life without him. Noel decides that the only way to save Ianto's life is to amputate the diseased paw and give him a custom made prosthetic foot.

We also find out whether the groundbreaking surgery to correct puppy Jolly's bone growth deformity has been successful and whether he can now walk pain free. There's a rare visit from an unusual patient and a barn owl with a broken wing, plus the story of a stray Jack Russell terrier, Jade, who needs treatment on a dislocated elbow.

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