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 –
Prisoner (TV series) Prisoner (TV series) Prisoner (also known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the United Kingdom and United States and Caged Women in Canada), is an Australian soap opera set in a fiction women's minimum-security prison, called Wentworth Detention Centre, which was located in the fictitious Melbourne suburb of Wentworth (The mention of Wentworth as a municipality was first given in episode 160, when Lizzie Birdsworth Sheila Florance found a book on the Wentworth area). Other notable places that carry the name in this series included Wentworth General Hospital. The change of title for overseas broadcasts was brought about by a