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
The Box (TV series) The Box (TV series) The Box is an Australian soap opera that ran on ATV-0 from 11 February 1974 until 11 October 1977 and on 0-10 Network affiliates around Australia. "The Box" was produced by Crawford Productions who at the time was having great success producing police drama series in Australia. "The Box" was Crawford's first soap opera, and was launched as a reaction to the enormous success of the rival adult soap opera "Number 96". "The Box" was a drama set in fictional television station UCV Channel 12. It featured elements that satirised the Australian television industry. Characters in