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Emergency-Ward 10

  • TV Series
  • 1957–19671957–1967
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
58
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
13,457
2,745
Emergency-Ward 10 (1957)
Drama
Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
58
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
13,457
2,745
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    • Stars
      • Jill Browne
      • Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
      • Frederick Bartman
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    • Stars
      • Jill Browne
      • Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
      • Frederick Bartman
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    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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  • Episodes992

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    Jill Browne
    • Nurse Carole Young…
    400 episodes400 eps • 1957–1964
    Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
    Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
    • Dr. Alan Dawson
    331 episodes331 eps • 1957–1962
    Frederick Bartman
    • Dr. Simon Forrester
    245 episodes245 eps • 1957–1962
    Desmond Carrington
    • Dr. Chris Anderson…
    240 episodes240 eps • 1958–1964
    John Carlisle
    • Mr. Lester Large…
    231 episodes231 eps • 1962–1967
    Peter Howell
    Peter Howell
    • Dr. Peter Harrison…
    161 episodes161 eps • 1957–1967
    Pamela Duncan
    • Sister Doughty…
    156 episodes156 eps • 1963–1967
    Anne Lloyd
    • Staff Nurse Jane Beattie…
    145 episodes145 eps • 1963–1967
    Rosemary Miller
    • Nurse Pat Roberts
    137 episodes137 eps • 1957–1958
    Glyn Owen
    • Dr. Patrick O'Meara…
    133 episodes133 eps • 1957–1961
    Pat Laurence
    • Nurse Michaela Davies…
    118 episodes118 eps • 1963–1966
    John White
    • Giles Farmer…
    115 episodes115 eps • 1963–1965
    Paula Byrne
    • Frances Whitney
    115 episodes115 eps • 1961–1964
    Kerry Marsh
    • Nurse O'Keefe
    106 episodes106 eps • 1958–1963
    Richard Thorp
    Richard Thorp
    • Dr. John Rennie
    98 episodes98 eps • 1959–1961
    Barbara Clegg
    • Nurse Jo Buckley…
    98 episodes98 eps • 1958–1960
    Pik Sen Lim
    Pik Sen Lim
    • Nurse Kwei-Kim Yen…
    92 episodes92 eps • 1964–1967
    Iris Russell
    • Matron Mary Stevenson…
    86 episodes86 eps • 1957–1967
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    • Trivia
      Patient deaths were strictly limited to five per year, later reduced to just two.
    • Connections
      Featured in TV Guide: 40th Anniversary Special (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Silks and Satins
      by Peter Yorke

      (closing theme tune)

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    Britain's First Medical Soap Opera
    Britain's first medical soap, which was also the first of the nation's twice-weekly serials, (airing on Tuesday's and Friday's), 'Emergency - Ward 10' started life as 'Calling Nurse Roberts,' a six-week filler which went on to become one of the nations best loved programmes, reaching an average audience of 16 million people a week and 24 million at its peak.

    Set in the fictitious surroundings of Oxbridge General Hospital, the series was an instant hit -with one million viewers tuning in to the first episode in February 1957, and running for ten years. In the process it made stars out of the actors and actresses who walked its wards, not least of all Jill Browne, who played pin-up nurse (later Sister) Carole Young. The series also won praise from the British Medical Association for allaying people's fear of hospitals, and in 1962 the then Minister of Health, Enoch Powell, congratulated the show on its 500th episode and commented on the useful job it did in reminding the public of the need for immunization.

    Although the series was high in drama it had a very low mortality rate (patient deaths were strictly limited to five per year), concentrating more on the lives of the men and women who staffed the hospital. There were, of course, none of the graphically visual blood and guts on show that audiences expect from medical dramas today especially in shows such as 'Casualty' or 'The Golden Hour.' Nevertheless, although sedate by today's standard the series did set a landmark in 1964 and courted a considerable amount of controversy with its portrayal of an interracial relationship between surgeon Louise Mahler (Joan Hooley) and Doctor Giles Farmer (John White) which included the first ever on-screen interracial kiss.

    The long list of patients who received treatment within 'EW10's' walls included Ian Hendry, Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney, all of whom went on to bigger and better things. There was a 1958 full-length feature film, 'Life in Emergency Ward 10,' and a brief spin-off series starring Richard Thorp, 'Call Oxbridge 2000,' but in 1967, with ratings beginning to fall, ATV supremo Lew Grade pulled the plug on the hospital's life support. Grade later admitted it was; 'one of the two biggest mistakes of my life.' In 1972 he tried to revive the series as 'General Hospital,' although this had far lesser impact on viewers.
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    • Release date
      • February 19, 1957 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Calling Nurse Roberts
    • Production company
      • Associated Television (ATV)
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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