Rent Emergency Ward 10: Vol.2 (1962)
10h 0min
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- All series
- Synopsis:
Pre-dating television favourites 'Casualty' and 'Holby City' by decades, 'Emergency Ward 10' was Britain's first medical soap opera. Initially thought of (much like Coronation Street) as a filler programme, the twice-weekly serial rapidly became a favourite with the nation's viewing public. Between 1957 and 1967 it regularly pulled in audiences in excess of 15 million and spawned two spin-off programmes and a feature-film adaptation. Set in the fictitious Oxbridge General Hospital, 'Emergency Ward 10' concentrated as much on the private lives of the staff as it did on their jobs, setting the template for today's modern medical soaps. It also introduced the viewers to medical procedures, earning praise from the British Medical Council for helping to allay the public's fears of hospitals. This series, in common with many from the 1950's and '60's, no longer exists in its entirety. Included in this set are a selection of 24 further episodes from the early 1960's, including episode 724 which features television's first inter-racial kiss - a significant cultural milestone, highlighting the increasing maturity of both television programmes and their audience. - Actors:
- Ian Cullen, John Carlisle, Tricia Money, Bari Jonson, James Beckett, Carmen Munroe, Paul Darrow, Kenneth Keeling, Barbara Knox, Janet Lees-Price, Etain O'Dell, Terence Rigby, Rex Robinson, Sandra Skermer, Guy Slater, Irene Sutcliffe, Bernard Bresslaw, Bill Burridge, Pamela Duncan, Sonia Fox
- Directors:
- James Ferman, John Cooper, Geoffrey Stephenson, Vivian Matalon, Shaun O’riordan, Alastair Reid
- Producers:
- Hugh Rennie, Cecil Petty
- Voiced By:
- Peter Lorenzo
- Creators:
- Tessa Diamond
- Writers:
- Tessa Diamond, Rachel Grieve, Diana Morgan, Jean Scott Rogers, Michael Ashe, Basil Dawson, David Butler
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Medical, TV Soaps
