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 –
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