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
Time of Your Life (1988 TV series) Time of Your Life (1988 TV series) Time of Your Life was a Canadian television soap opera which ran production from August 1988 to May 1989. It was created by producer Harry Jakobs and Maryse Wilder, Rhea Cohen and Maurice Thevenet. The series was loosely based on the low budget Canadian independent feature "Rebel High" (a modern 1980s "High School Confidential"). It debuted on October 17, 1988 and was aired right after the American soap opera "General Hospital" at 4pm, daily Monday through Friday replacing Bob Barker's "The Price Is Right". Making it at the time Canada's first daily syndicated