The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick Specials

Festive edition of the documentary following the work of Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and his team. Charity worker Kerry brings in Maxi, a three-year old rescue greyhound with severely damaged front legs. Noel's dog Keira is rushed into the practice with sickness and diarrhoea. The team also treats River, a Border terrier puppy who has fractured both back legs, and Noel makes a surprise visit home to Ireland.

In this festive special, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick enters new territory when he is called upon to help a Humboldt penguin chick. Wall-e is from Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire and needs an operation to cure his unhappy foot. He also treats a three-legged Maine Coon cat that needs help with a mysterious swelling in its back leg and a husky from Thailand undergoes hip surgery.

As the festive season approaches at Fitzpatrick Referrals, Professor Noel and his team treat three special patients. A one-year-old crossbreed puppy rescued by a charity from Romania is in need of complex surgery, with no guarantee of success. An eight-year-old Dalmatian needs work on its spinal cord, and a Labrador from Switzerland is having trouble walking. Noel's investigations reveal problems with both shoulder and elbow, an unusual combination that requires dramatic intervention.

A special festive edition following Noel Fitzpatrick as he treats former rescue dogs who have found a new life as family pets, but are still plagued by medical problems. The patients include a shih tzu with damaged discs that are treated with special supports, small pins and cement, a bulldog puppy with a fracture that extends across a growth plate, and a German shepherd that has had a leg amputated, and has developed a hip problem from walking on three legs.

Can Noel get singer Will Young's and model Yasmin Le Bon's dogs home for Christmas?

The nation’s favourite vet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick returns for this sixteenth series with a Supervet Special ‘Saving My Dog’ in one of the most emotional and heart-rending stories ever filmed for the show: the story of Noel’s dog, Keira.

Britain’s favourite vet, The Supervet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, steps out of his comfort zone in this South Africa special, travelling a world away from his specialist referral practice in Surrey to use his thirty years of expertise to help the most majestic and powerful wild animals of South Africa.