Emergency – Ward 10 Emergency – Ward 10 Emergency – Ward 10 is a British medical soap opera series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. Like "The Grove Family", a series shown by the BBC between 1954 and 1957, "Emergency – Ward 10" is considered to be one of British television's first major soap operas. The series was made by the ITV contractor ATV and set in a fictional hospital called Oxbridge General. Growing out of what was originally intended to be no more than a six-week serial (entitled "Calling Nurse Roberts"), the series became ITV's first twice-weekly evening soap opera. "Emergency –
A World Apart (TV series) A World Apart (TV series) A World Apart is an American daytime drama that ran from March 30, 1970, to June 25, 1971, on the ABC television network. The initial stories were written by Katherine Phillips (adopted daughter of Irna Phillips, who created "Guiding Light", "As the World Turns" and "Another World"). The story concerned a soap opera writer who adopted two children, a fictionalized version of Irna Phillips' life. Soap opera writer Betty Kahlman (Elizabeth Lawrence, Augusta Dabney) raised her adopted children without a husband. Her sounding board and friend was fellow soap opera writer Meg Johns, played by