Emergency Ward 10

Nostalgia from the 60's. Remember this??

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• TV
• 1960s
• Hosptial
• drama

[stingfan1000]

Ha....I wonder if the producers of the show realised they had so many 'uber-fans'? - (risking fire and halting childbirth...) I would love to know the actual episode that aired on that fateful night....Friday Sept 13th 1963 - it must have been a cliffhanger for sure!

[gabbysbuddy]

@stingfan1000 Dunno about that, sorry....

[stingfan1000]

I'm too young to remember this - BUT (from Dad) - Friday Sept 13th 1963, and my mother's waters broke - (her first child). Dad was called home from work, ambulance arrived,  but my mother wouldn't go until the end of that evenings episode of Emergency Ward 10...she clung to the back of the sofa apparently. At 2am on Sat Sept 14th - I was born. That's how I learned of this show... (;

[gabbysbuddy]

@stingfan1000 That is quite a story! Doubt if Eastenders would get that reaction nowadays!!

[Soapking1965]

Was this Britain's answer to America's medical soaps THE DOCTORS and GENERAL HOSPITAL?

[gabbysbuddy]

@Soapking1965 Possibly, although you must realise that in the UK in the 60s we hadn't seen much US tv! Until 1955 we only had one channel, until 1964 we had just the two!!!

[RememberToday4ever]

The first interracial kiss on British television was in Emergency Ward 10 in 1964

[supernumery]

That was the end title theme. The opening theme was very morse-code like.

[ronhelf]

@ronhelf oops that should be 1957 for the EW10 debut...

[ronhelf]

@gabbysbuddy Uh Emergency Ward 10 first appeared on the Beeb in 1954. When did the Doctors and General Hospital debut? Well lets see. General Hospital and The Doctors first appeared in 1963 so, historically speaking, EW10 cannot be Britain's answer to either. With the cyber world at your fingertips you actually could have answered this question on your own. But I know historical literacy, particularly in the US, is low.

[tomservo56954]

I understand this was Britain's first television serial when it debuted in 1957, running twice a week until 1966, when it became a self-contained hour.

[405liner]

Those were the days! Great music too.

[Valeriepres]

@stingfan1000

I can remember my mum and I being addicted to the programme. In those days they didn't have video/DVD recorders like now.

One night we started watching and the picture went off on our TV but we sat LISTENING to the programme in sound only because we didn't want to miss it. When the repair man came out to our TV and we told him what we did, he was horrified. He said that it was a dangerous thing to do because the TV could have overheated and burst into flames!!

[phil1958uk]

@phil1958uk If the theme music had been better, the series might've carried on for longer. (Perish the thought).

[Nukethelotofthem1]

I remember the episode where a patient gets, ' Cat Scratch Fever. '