Long Running British and Australian TV Soap Operas and Dramas
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- CreatorTony WarrenStarsWilliam RoacheHelen WorthBarbara KnoxThe world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.
- CreatorKevin LaffanStarsChristopher ChittellLucy PargeterMark CharnockA soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales.
- CreatorGeoff McQueenStarsGraham ColeJeff StewartTrudie GoodwinPolice drama series following officers and detectives from Sun Hill Police Station in East London.
- CreatorTony HollandJulia SmithTony JordanStarsAdam WoodyattSteve McFaddenLetitia DeanThe everyday lives of working-class inhabitants of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. The square includes the Queen Vic pub and a street market.
- CreatorHazel AdairPeter LingStarsNoele GordonRoger TongeSusan HansonThe four-or-five-times-a-week adventures of a motel owner and her son, daughter and staff. Drama was never far away from the ringing of the reception bell.
- CreatorJeremy BrockPaul UnwinStarsDerek ThompsonTony MarshallSuzanne PackerThe everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City Hospital.
- StarsHugh QuarshieRosie MarcelJaye JacobsThe everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.
- CreatorPhil RedmondStarsNick PickardAshley Taylor DawsonKieron RichardsonHollyoaks takes a look at the lives, loves, and careers of a group of teenage friends and their families as they graduate through GCSEs, A-Levels, and College into the world of work.
- StarsEbony ThomasNicola DuffettDavid EasterBritish soap opera focusing on the lives of residents in the fictional London suburb of Charnham.
- CreatorPhil RedmondColin McKeownStarsDean SullivanPaul ByattClaire SweeneyThe everyday life and times of the residents, friends and enemies who live in a suburban street in the city of Liverpool in the north of England.
- StarsAdrian Lewis MorganJan PearsonMatthew ChambersThe daily lives of staff at a Birmingham medical practice, including their often-dramatic involvements with their patients.
- CreatorGlenn ChandlerStarsBlythe DuffJames MacPhersonRobert RobertsonThe Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.
- StarsWilliam SimonsDerek FowldsTricia PenroseThe 1960s lives and adventures of the police constabulary, medical staff, and residents of Ashfordly and Aidensfield.
- StarsLinda ArmstrongRobert DawsWendy CraigSet in the 1960s, this British medical drama follows the staff and patients of St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital.
- CreatorReg WatsonStarsStefan DennisAlan FletcherJackie WoodburneAustralian soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in a suburb of Melbourne called Erinsborough.
- CreatorAlan BatemanStarsRay MeagherLynne McGrangerEmily SymonsThis show chronicles the lives, loves, happiness, and heartbreaks of the residents of Summer Bay, a small coastal town jon the upper Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- StarsElspeth BallantyneBarbara JungwirthBetty BobbittThe lives of the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
- CreatorDavid SaleStarsPat McDonaldJeff KevinJoe HashamFollows the lives and relationships of residents in a Sydney apartment building, exploring adult themes and featuring risky content like sex scenes.
- CreatorReg WatsonStarsTim PageLyn JamesGwen PlumbThe lives, loves and medical complaints of the doctors, nurses and patients at Sydney's Albert Memorial Hospital.
- StarsPaul CroninSteven TandyReg GormanFollows the Sullivan family from Melbourne, Australia during the Second World War.
- StarsJudith McGrathGeorgie ParkerTammy MacintoshA drama series centred on the lives of the nurses at All Saints Western General Hospital.
- CreatorHal McElroyTony MorphettStarsJulie NihillJohn WoodMartin SacksThe series primarily focuses on the daily lives of Victorian police officers working at a police station in the fictional small town of Mount Thomas.
- StarsShane PorteousBrian WenzelLorrae DesmondThe highs and lows of the Wandin Valley residents, from the patients and staff at the rural town's hospital, to the locals and their everyday lives.
- CreatorReg WatsonStarsIan RawlingsLeila HayesBrian BlainDramatic incidents in the lives of the wealthy Hamilton family and working class Palmer family, linked by the long-ago secret affair of David Palmer and Patricia Hamilton and the offspring of that affair, twins John Palmer and Angela Hamilton secretly adopted into the respective families. Later more wealth arrived in the form of the Morell clan who managed to marry their way into the Hamilton family.
- CreatorForrest RedlichStarsCecily PolsonLes DaymanTony MartinAn Australian soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there.
- CreatorTerry StapletonStarsPaula DuncanGregory RossGil TuckerLife in a suburban Australian police station.
- CreatorReg WatsonStarsJune SalterMalcolm ThompsonKim LewisTragedy tinged story of various school-leavers entering the adult world of careers and relationships as overseen by matriarchal former teacher Miss MacKenzie.
- StarsCallan MulveyLara CoxEmma RocheA crash course in the turbulence of being a teen is always on the schedule for the students at Hartley High School in this 1990s series set in Sydney.
- StarsLeonard TealeGeorge MallabyJohn FeganThe cases and crimes actioned by the Victoria (Australia) homicide squad, with many cases based of true events.
- CreatorPosie Graeme-EvansCaroline StantonStarsAaron JefferyRachael CarpaniSimmone MackinnonEstranged sisters Claire and Tess are reunited after 20 years when they inherit their family's cattle station, "Drover's Run", in the outback of South Australia, following their father's death.