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''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 1967, ''Emergency – Ward 10'' is considered to be one of British television's first major soap operas. ==Overview== 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. Although somewhat cosily genteel by modern standards, ''Emergency – Ward 10'' was the first hospital-based television drama to establish a successful format combining medical matters with storylines centring around the personal lives of the doctors and nurses. ''Emergency – Ward 10'' attracted attention for its portrayal of an interracial relationship between surgeon Louise Mahler (played by Joan Hooley) and Doctor Giles Farmer (played by John White),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John White )〕 showing the second kiss on television between black and white actors in July 1964,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emergency Ward 10 )〕 the first such kiss being in a Granada TV play ''You in Your Small Corner'' in 1962.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BFI discovers world’s first interracial TV kiss )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First interracial kiss on British TV rediscovered )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=20 November 2015 )〕 However, the producers wrote Mahler out shortly afterwards by sending her to Africa, where she succumbed to snake bite. ''Emergency – Ward 10'' ended in 1967 when ratings began to slide after the show had been on air for ten years. ATV executive Lew Grade later admitted that cancelling the series was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made in his career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emergency-Ward 10 )〕 The formula was subsequently revived with the (originally) afternoon series ''General Hospital'' (no connection with the American daytime soap ''General Hospital'') which was broadcast between 1972 and 1979. Australia's Charles "Bud" Tingwell starred in the series as surgeon Alan "Digger" Dawson, enjoying a heart-throb status because of his role. Its haunting closing theme tune was "Silks and Satins" by Peter Yorke. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emergency – Ward 10」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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