Massacres at weddings! Naked buttocks! Jude Law! With the final episode of BBC medical drama Doctors airing this week, here are the finest melodramas that didn’t make it

Any chance of a second opinion? Afraid not: it’s terminal. At 2pm on Thursday 14 November, BBC medical soap Doctors airs its last ever episode.

After 24 years of aches, pains and plot twists, Mill Health Centre in the invented West Midlands town of Letherbridge will close its surgery doors for the last time. At least fans – it averages 1.6 million viewers a day – can console themselves with Doctors: A Celebration, which airs directly afterwards.