Rent General Hospital: Series 1 (1972)
15h 50min
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- Synopsis:
A huge success for ITV throughout the 1970's, 'General Hospital' carried on in the tradition of 'Emergency - Ward 10' and other medical shows of the 1960's. This highly popular series offers a dramatic insight into life at a busy hospital, featuring both compelling medical story-lines and those highlighting the often strained personal lives of the doctors, nurses and consultants. General Hospital initially ran for 270 half-hour episodes as a twice-weekly soap-style afternoon serial before being reformatted into a series of hour-long, self-contained dramas in 1975. Out of this first series, only a comparative handful remain in the archive and this set contains all episodes known to exist. Though the majority of these existing episodes consist of two sequential runs, there are some small gaps - alongside some standalone episodes which happen to have survived. Though made in colour originally, most episodes now only exist as black and white telerecordings made for overseas sales purposes. - Actors:
- Tony Adams, Linda Bellingham, Lewis Jones, Carmen Munroe, James Kerry, David Garth, Joanna Lumley, Monica Grey, Eric Lander, Irene Peters, Ian White, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Peggy Sinclair, Judy Buxton, Patsy Rowlands, Peter Hill, Jennifer Daniel, Anna Barry, Mark Rogers, Cynthia Powell
- Directors:
- Shaun O'Riordan, John Scholz-Conway, David Foster, Ron Francis
- Producers:
- Ian Fordyce, Victor Menzies
- Writers:
- Max Marquis, Donald James, Christopher Bond, Patrick Alexander, John Wiles, Dick Sharples, Roy Russell, John Pennington, Nick McCarty
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Medical, TV Romance, TV Soaps
