Soap opera funeral in 1997 (32.1 million viewers) which were transmitted on both BBC One and ITV. An early television serial was "The Grove Family" on the BBC, which produced 148 episodes from 1954 to 1957. The programme was broadcast live and only a handful of recordings were retained in the archives. The UK's first twice-weekly serial was ITV's "Emergency - Ward 10", running from 1957 until 1967. In the 1960s "Coronation Street" revolutionised UK television and quickly became a British institution. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running television soap opera and was listed in "Guinness World Records". The
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