Emergency (1959 TV series) Emergency (1959 TV series) Emergency is an Australian television series produced by GTV-9 in 1959. The series was set in the busy casualty department of a major Melbourne hospital, and is notable for being one of the first-ever dramas shown on Australian television. Made by Melbourne's GTV-9 in co-operation with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and based on Britain's "Emergency Ward 10", "Emergency" starred Brian James as Dr. Geoffrey Thompson, Syd Conabere as orderly George Rogers, and Judith Godden as Nurse Jill Adamson. Moira Carleton also featured as Matron Evans. The series was produced primarily in the GTV-9 studio, with brief
City Hospital (UK TV series) City Hospital (UK TV series) City Hospital was a medical documentary television series that aired on BBC1, the United Kingdom's National Network from 1998 till 2007. It ran over nine series with over 360 hours of film broadcast every weekday from 10 am. It was the successor to "The General" and initially kept the same location, format and presentation team. The theme tune was an instrumental version of Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is". City Hospital was first broadcast live from Southampton University Trust’s teaching hospital, Southampton General Hospital but also featured Princess Anne Maternity Hospital. It then moved to