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
Frank Hursley Frank Hursley Frank Hursley (November 21, 1902 – February 3, 1989) is an American soap opera writer. He was a writer on the Western series "Have Gun, Will Travel", but became famous in 1957 when he began writing for CBS Daytime's "Search For Tomorrow". He continued to write "Search for Tomorrow" even after the show that he co-created with his wife, "General Hospital" had premiered. Another married couple of television writer, Theodore and Mathilde Ferro, wrote the show in its early months. They created the medical drama "General Hospital", for ABC Daytime in 1963; it was the first serious effort