History of the National Health Service Emergency Ward 10 was first broadcast in 1957 on ITV and ran until 1967 and followed the life and loves of the staff and patients of the fictionalised Oxbridge General. ITV later followed this up with General Hospital which borrowed much from Emergency Ward 10 in terms of its themes and focus. The idea of a medical hospital as a suitable and popular setting for a soap opera continued to take root in the 1980s. Casualty, set in an A&E department, was first broadcast in 1986 and has since become the longest running medical drama in the world. At a
Oxbridge Blues In December 1984, the BBC published the seven teleplays together in book form, entitled "Oxbridge Blues and Other Plays for Television". Each episode of "Oxbridge Blues" is a separate and unrelated story, with different characters in each. The series theme music was composed by Richard Holmes, and sung by the English group Cantabile. Oxbridge Blues Oxbridge Blues is a 1984 British television mini-series, produced and broadcast in the UK by the BBC. It is an anthology of seven unrelated 75-minute teleplays, most of which focus on relationships of one kind or another. Most of the teleplays except one take place