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==='''Aidensfield doctors'''===
 
==='''Aidensfield doctors'''===
 
==='''Dr Kate Rowan'''===
 
==='''Dr Kate Rowan'''===
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Maggie was a good friend to Kate and although they were on screen at the same time for a fraction of the series she obviously knew Kate quite well in that time. She also helped Kate during her final stages of pregnancy. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Maggie was a good friend to Kate and although they were on screen at the same time for a fraction of the series she obviously knew Kate quite well in that time. They first met in the episode [[Wishing Well]], where she also helped Kate during her final stages of pregnancy and discovered that Kate was anaemic and wasn't responding to the medical treatment very quickly. Kate later died from acute leukaemia during the night in [[Thief in the Night]]; at the funeral Nick blamed Maggie and Kate's doctors for not spotting the treatment sooner. Although Maggie explained to Nick that Kate kept the tests to herself.</span></p>
   
 
==='''Dr Neil Bolton'''===
 
==='''Dr Neil Bolton'''===

Revision as of 17:44, 1 May 2012

C H A R A C T E R

Nurse Maggie Bolton

Nurse Maggie Bolton 2
Kazia Pelka as Nurse Maggie Bolton

Episodes

99

First Episode

Wishing Well

Last Episode

Sylvia's Mother

Family

James Bolton (son, deceased)

Danny (brother)

Sam Bolton (son)

Relationships

PC Mike Bradley (dated)

Dr Neil Bolton (husband, deceased)

Graham Rysinski (dated)

Nurse Maggie Bolton was played by Kazia Pelka and appeared in 99 episodes from 1995 - 2001.

Biography

A caring district nurse. After her arrival in the series it was suggested that she would be paired off with the widowed Nick Rowan, though in the event they remained merely friends. She then had a very brief liaison with PC Mike Bradley, before her husband, Dr Neil Bolton, who had deserted her some years earlier, reappeared out of the blue. Maggie was at first hostile to Neil, but she later relented and the couple restarted their marriage. They went on to have a son, Sam, born after Neil's death. Maggie left the series after accepting a hospital job.

Kazia Pelka as Nurse Maggie Bolton in the 1997 Opening Titles

Kazia Pelka as Nurse Maggie Bolton in the 1997 Opening Titles

Personality and appearance

Maggie was a generally lovable person who got on with nearly everybody, she was good friends with Nick and Kate Rowan as well as getting on well with the rest of the village characters.

Relationships

An overview of Maggie's relationships with the charecters on screen.

Aidensfield village "bobbies"

PC Nick Rowan

Maggie was a very faithful friend to Nick particularly in the time after Kate had died. At first it looked as though they might be paired off together but in the end they eventually remained friends, even after Nick married Jo Weston, whom Maggie was also friends with. At first, Nick lashed out at Maggie and partly blamed her for not being able to do more. Later Maggie attened Nick and Jo's wedding.

PC Mike Bradley

Ashfordly Police sergeants

Sgt. Oscar Blaketon

Sgt. Raymond Craddock

Other Ashfordly Police

PC Phil Bellamy

PC Alf Ventress

Medical staff

Aidensfield doctors

Dr Kate Rowan

Maggie was a good friend to Kate and although they were on screen at the same time for a fraction of the series she obviously knew Kate quite well in that time. They first met in the episode Wishing Well, where she also helped Kate during her final stages of pregnancy and discovered that Kate was anaemic and wasn't responding to the medical treatment very quickly. Kate later died from acute leukaemia during the night in Thief in the Night; at the funeral Nick blamed Maggie and Kate's doctors for not spotting the treatment sooner. Although Maggie explained to Nick that Kate kept the tests to herself.

Dr Neil Bolton

Neil was Maggie's estranged husband, who first appeared in the episode, What the Butler Saw. At first, Maggie didn't want to see him after what had happened - they had already lost a baby son called James some years earlier but Neil confronted her about the situation with a photograph and she broke down. She wasn't very happy about him taking over Kate's old surgery practice and he also showed up at Nick and Jo's leaving party although he didn't accompany her to see them off on the train to Canada. They later got back together in the episode Love Me Do although things got complicated when it appeared that PC Mike Bradley was interested in her, but it was Neil that Maggie was really in love with. She still had feelings for him. Maggie later moved back in with him. Maggie became suspicious of Neil in Taking Sides, when a new female patient, Eillain Albery, began seeing him regularly - only to accuse him of indecent assault. Neil was taken in for questioning and obviously denied the whole thing - which was true. But their relationship came under strain when she began to believe it might be true. It turned out it was because of an event that happened nine years when Neil made evidence against Eillain's when a child died and she wanted revenge. In the episode, Echoes of the Past, she and Neil entered the Christmas charity dance competition but had to withdraw from the competition when Jane Hayes went into labour. In Twists of Fate, it was Maggie who was the one in trouble when she was treating a sick, elderly patient who made her a main beneficiary in her will - which also included a painting that was stolen. She was accused of medical negligence by the woman's son-in-law and Maggie found herself suspended from her job. Maggie was cleared when it turned out that it was the woman's son-in-law who didn't call an ambulence when she was dying and stole the painting. In The Angry Brigade, she and Neil took part in the protest to stop Lord Ashfordly closing a popular footpath with Ron and Doreen Tidy. Ron and Doreen went along a second time only this time Neil and Maggie went with them - in spite of it still being closed to the footpath. In the episode Fire and Ashes it was revealed that she was pregnant. She told Neil who obviously was pleased but it was clear that both of them didn't want anything to happen like it did last time with James. Maggie later went off on holiday with Gina after she and her husband had a row while Neil found himself involved in trying to rescue a child from a burning building. The child was brought out by his stepbrother while Neil ended up perishing. PC Mike Bradley had to meet Maggie off the train after she decided to rush home to apologise to Neil, unaware of what had actually happened to him. Maggie had the baby eventually and called their son Sam although she also had to come to terms with life as a single mother too. Neil never got to see Sam, who was born after his death. Sam made his first appearance in Manoeuvres in the Dark, when Maggie popped in to the police station to pay a visit.

Aidensfield Arms staff

George Ward

Gina Ward

Mary Ward

"Loveable rogue" lineage

Claude Jeramiah Greengrasss

Maggie saw beyond Claude being a dodgy charecter even though she knew of his habbits often describing him as a 'Lovable Old Rogue!'

Other regular characters

Jo Rowan

Jackie Bradley

Vehicles

Maggie was well known for driving a dark green Land Rover soft top this vehicle was handy for reaching patients that would be difficult to reach normally, it could also be a very vertasile tool for the winter months.