Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Pre-dating television favourites " Casualty" & " 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 & 1967 it regularly pulled in audiences in excess of 15 million & spawned two spin-off programmes & 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 High in dramatic content the series had a low mortality rate (patient deaths were strictly limited to five per year) & made stars out of the doctors nurses & indeed patients who walked the wards Actors Desmond Carrington Charles Tingwell Peter Howell Jill Browne & John Barron Certificate PG Year 1964 Languages English Duration 10 hours (approx)