The ease with which Jack's career is blossoming is a pleasant surprise to him. It's not always been this easy. He comes from a working class background, a tough town, a mining and steel town where his father, Peter, still works as a fitter and turner having brought up his three sons on a diet of uncompromising honesty, swift kicks up the bum and terrible cooking. Jack's mother ran off shortly after his eighth birthday and hasn't been heard from since. The youngest of her three boys, ended up doing a lot of the kitchen duties and should, by rights, hate it now. Jack loves cooking. As long as its not just boring, staple-diet stuff.

Both Jack's brothers, Dave and Neville, became policemen and their kid brother might well have followed them into the force if Neville hadn't been almost killed in a petrol station hold up. He ended up stuck behind a desk for the duration and Jack opted for a less precarious career choice and one which might serve his brothers well if they get into any more strife.

At twenty-five, Jack's good looking, younger than his responsibilities would seem to dictate and, despite taking his work and his patients very seriously, has a healthy disregard for authority and can sometimes seem to be lacking in propriety. He has a great sense of humour.

Dr Jack Quade is played by Wil Traval