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Episode 1 - Otto, a surgeon married to Elizabeth, has eyes for new nurse Angela. Angela’s sister, Jean, is engaged to Otto’s colleague Richard. Inspector Mulligan snoops around. Jean and Richard’s marriage gets off to a rocky start. Otto makes a breakthrough with Angela. Mulligan gives Elizabeth a menacing message.

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Episode 1

Follow the activities of hospital personnel and a suspicious chief inspector.

Episode 2

See how a forgotten incident keeps rearing its menacing head.

Episode 3

See how the intertwined fates of doctors, nurses, spouses and a police inspector converge.

About Breathless

In 1961 London, when abortion was illegal and the Pill a rare commodity, the brilliant, charismatic surgeon Otto Powell (Jack Davenport, Pirates of the Caribbean) presides over a busy hospital gynecology ward. With a passionate commitment to the women he treats, Powell provides safe and highly illegal abortions in private practice.

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