Series producer Peter Eryl Lloyd estimated that at least 800 guest stars are contracted on the soap per year. Alongside its regular cast, Doctors features numerous guest characters who typically appear in an episode as part of a self-contained "story of the day". The longest serving cast member is currently Adrian Lewis Morgan, who was cast in the role of Jimmi Clay in 2005. However, as the episode output heightened, the cast also increased to include more continuing storylines. Earlier episodes of Doctors featured a noticeably smaller cast, with episodes more self-contained. The programme has been nominated for and won numerous awards, with critics praising them for tackling issues that are considered to be controversial and taboo issues in British culture and social life that are typically unseen on British television. Since its inception, Doctors has consistently won the share of viewers in its daytime time slot, and as of 2022, it averages at 1.6 million live viewers in its daytime broadcast. The soap is typically broadcast on weekdays at 1:45 pm on BBC One and takes three annual transmission breaks across the year at Easter, during the summer and at Christmas. Episodes are filmed three months prior to transmission. Doctors was filmed at the Pebble Mill Studios until 2004 production then relocated to the BBC Drama Village. Initially, only 41 episodes of the programme were ordered, but due to the positive reception, the BBC ordered it as a continuing soap opera. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff of both an NHS doctor's surgery and a university campus surgery, as well as the lives of their families and friends. Doctors is a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000.
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