| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | viewers(millions) |
| 1 | "Episode 1" | Lucy Forbes | Adam Kay | 8 February 2022 (2022-02-08) | 6.10 |
| Adam Kay is a doctor working in a labour ward, having slept in his car in the carpark but is late for work. His boss, Mr Lockhart, is not impressed and Tracy, the head midwife, watches over him. His next patient is racist and Adam threatens to kick her out despite her being pregnant. Adam struggles with his personal and professional life; he is best man at his friend Greg's wedding and is struggling to keep his relationship with his boyfriend, Harry, secret from his mother. Adam meets a trainee doctor, Shruti, and helps her deliver her first baby although the patient (the same from earlier) starts shouting racial abuse at her; as an act of subtle revenge, Adam stitches her caesarean section incision so as to misalign her dolphin tattoo. After an exhausted Adam finally makes it to Greg's stag do, he volunteers to take the night shift. At the shift, Adam discovers that a patient, Erika, who he had sent home as he was tired and found her irritating, is in danger, and he has to do an emergency caesarean. Lockhart is forced to take over from him and Erika recovers. Adam finally arrives again at the stag do at a club where he collapses asleep on a sofa. |
| 2 | "Episode 2" | Lucy Forbes | Adam Kay | 15 February 2022 (2022-02-15) | 5.02 |
| Adam is affected by the mistake, and during another caesarean they lose some swabs until Tracy manages to save them by turning up with the baby and the swabs. Adam struggles to sleep and finds it difficult at work. Although Lockhart wants to send a patient home that Adam believes is in trouble, Adam lets her stay the night. Meanwhile, Shruti becomes more stressed at work and covers for Adam. At dinner with Emma and Greg, Adam supposedly accidentally tells them the sex of the baby, but later reveals it was intentional. The patient who Adam had let stay the night is sent home and he is told off for disobeying orders. Shortly after, Adam smokes outside and spots the patient in discomfort. He brings her back in, managing to save her and is praised by Lockhart. Erika files a complaint against Adam, causing more stress. When Harry attempts to get him to open up, Adam impulsively asks him to marry him. |
| 3 | "Episode 3" | Lucy Forbes | Adam Kay | 22 February 2022 (2022-02-22) | 4.40 |
| Adam shows up late to the hospital due to struggling with Harry after revealing their relationship to his mother. Shruti is asked out for pizza by Ben, but they soon receive the news that they are having a ministerial visit for which the hospital is not ready. Adam helps a patient, Mrs Winnicka, who has a prolapse. Stickers on the hospital notes of a patient, Anna, are a warning of domestic abuse but she tells them that her son just loves stickers. Shruti does not believe her and finds out that her partner, Angus, has been abusive ever since Anna was pregnant, the result of work stress according to Anna. Tracy pulls an emergency cord, but accidentally pulls some of the roof down; it turns out Adam asked one of the workmen to help and he has brought the roof down. While this is going on, Adam heads out for dinner with his rude mother. Eventually Adam blurts out that he and Harry are engaged as a way to finally let his mother see sense. The next day, Adam's mother rings and congratulates Harry, who is not happy about this. Adam insists that it is the only way to be taken seriously. Adam ends up covered in blood during an operation and breaks down after hearing Mrs Winnicka has died. Angus arrives and Shruti manages to stop the situation from escalating before hospital security arrives. Anna does not press charges and Shruti, overwhelmed and stressed, cancels her date with Ben. Adam and Harry go to Mrs Winnicka's funeral where Harry decides they should get married. |
| 4 | "Episode 4" | Lucy Forbes | Adam Kay | 28 February 2022 (2022-02-28) | 4.23 |
| Lockhart ultimately decides not to take the blame for Adam's issue regarding Erika, but Adam has already submitted his report saying Lockhart agreed to send Erika home. Shruti, now in a difficult position, breaks down in the bathroom on the phone with her mother. Adam refuses to withdraw his report, risking his and Shruti's jobs. Following a joke in poor taste, difficult consultant Houghton forces Adam down to A&E – leaving Shruti to deliver triplets. Adam sneaks into Erika's room to try and convince her to drop the complaint; after Erika's sister arrives, Adam surmises that it was her, not Erika, who filed the case. Shruti successfully delivers the triplets as another patient shows up needing an emergency birth. Adam delivers the baby, still haunted by memories of Erika; after witnessing Adam saving the mother, Erika's sister decides to drop the case. Harry and Adam exchange rings. Shruti has dinner with Vicky, who warns her the job is very stressful. |
| 5 | "Episode 5" | Tom Kingsley | Adam Kay | 8 March 2022 (2022-03-08) | 4.16 |
| Shruti is growing more frustrated with juggling her studying, job and personal life and begins lashing out at others. Adam is worrying about the complaint as even though Erika's has been withdrawn an anonymous one has turned up; he discovers it was filed by a colleague. Adam attempts to invite people to his engagement party; surprisingly, Julian, one of his colleagues, agrees to come. The hospital becomes overwhelmed with patients; whilst a stressed Shruti manages to gently let down a couple who had long struggled with infertility and failed IVF treatment that they are unlikely to have children, she distresses another couple having telling them that they lost their baby and describing it as just a bunch of cells, with Vicky covering for Shruti for the latter. At the engagement party, Shruti mentions the anonymous complaint which Adam accuses her of filing and shouts about how she is a terrible doctor and person, Tracy admits she had filed the complaint and Adam runs out. A drunk Shruti reveals everything to Harry whilst Tracy calls Adam out for all of the things he had done – disconnecting the alarm, the tattoo and bullying Erika. Harry and Adam's relationship hangs in the balance. |
| 6 | "Episode 6" | Tom Kingsley | Adam Kay | 15 March 2022 (2022-03-15) | 4.42 |
| Shruti bumps into the father of the triplets she delivered at the supermarket; upset she can never escape from work, she eventually abandons her trolley and runs home. During a later conversation with her parents, she lies and says she has not received her exam results. Adam is staying with Greg and Emma as well as getting a locum shift at a private hospital, much posher and richer than his NHS job. Shruti and a trainee Al are the only people on call, and Shruti is forced to work on her own after Al faints at the sight of blood. Shruti grows increasingly stressed and impatient with all of the unhappy patients. A patient tells Shruti she is a good doctor, but it does not lighten her mood. Shruti is forced to do an emergency surgery on her own whilst Al phones for help; she panics and is scared that she will kill the patient. Adam starts delivering the baby Kathleen, but it goes wrong and the private hospital is not equipped for the emergency. Kathleen turns up at Shruti's hospital for help. Shruti avoids Adam under the pretences she is tired; for the first time she turns and addresses the camera, apologising. The next day, Adam shows up at work to find it in a mess and everyone distraught. Shruti has died by suicide. |
| 7 | "Episode 7" | Tom Kingsley | Adam Kay | 22 March 2022 (2022-03-22) | 4.13 |
| Two months after Shruti's death, the labour ward is packed and Adam is still haunted by Shruti's memory. At her memorial, they plant an oak tree and Vicky talks about Shruti's depression – revealing that she passed her exams – whilst Adam wants an investigation into the hospital's conditions. Lockhart tries to convince Adam to blame Shruti for the mistake in order to remain a doctor. Adam turns up at his tribunal and manages to keep his job. Adam meets with Harry and invites him as his date to Greg and Emma's wedding. Erika gifts Adam a mug with the inscription "World's Best Doctor", but she has one for Shruti, too; before he can explain her suicide, he is called to an emergency. After saving the patient, he sees Al sobbing in the changing room and, remembering Shruti, comforts him as well as giving him the afternoon off. Harry shows up at the wedding where Adam reveals the truth: he did not throw Shruti under the bus and instead honoured her by talking about how common suicide is among medical professionals. Harry and Adam are not sure where their relationship stands currently, leaving it ambiguous. As the episode ends, Adam arrives in the same hospital carpark where he slept at the beginning of Episode 1; standing in the payment queue, he spots a woman in labour in the back of a nearby car. He rushes to her and delivers her baby there, before returning to his car to find a penalty notice on the windscreen. |
