General Hospital (UK TV series) productions to fill in the extended schedules. Among the first of these shows, which were aimed at giving advertisers access to housewives, were the long-running rural soap "Emmerdale Farm" (YTV) and the twice-weekly medical drama "General Hospital". Set in a fictional Midlands town, the series followed the romantic and professional lives of its doctors and nurses. While the location and the characters names had been changed, in most other respects "General Hospital" was almost identical to its predecessor, "Emergency – Ward 10", a deliberate attempt to recreate its success. In 1975, after 270 twice-weekly episodes, "General Hospital" was given a
Prisoner (TV series) Prisoner (TV series) Prisoner (also known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the United Kingdom and United States and Caged Women in Canada), is an Australian soap opera set in a fiction women's minimum-security prison, called Wentworth Detention Centre, which was located in the fictitious Melbourne suburb of Wentworth (The mention of Wentworth as a municipality was first given in episode 160, when Lizzie Birdsworth Sheila Florance found a book on the Wentworth area). Other notable places that carry the name in this series included Wentworth General Hospital. The change of title for overseas broadcasts was brought about by a