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''The Young Doctors'' was an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, rather than typical medical issues and procedures. It screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March 1983. The program was shown in numerous international locations, particularly throughout the United Kingdom, North America and also in France and Spain. ==History== The series was created and produced by the FremantleMedia (then known as The Reg Grundy Organization) and started a week earlier than the Nine Networks sister soap opera, by Crawford Productions ''The Sullivans''. Channel 9 made it clear only one of the series would be kept after 13 weeks. After the 13-week trial period ''The Sullivans'' (which had a budget which was three times bigger than ''The Young Doctors'') emerged as the critical success, which resulted in ''The Young Doctors'' being axed. Fans of ''The Young Doctors'' lobbied Channel 9, who reversed their decision. ''The Young Doctors'' was placed at the 18:00 "graveyard" timeslot, which had a successful run. After several years, many long running characters left the series and in the final series several new cast members were added. Producer and creator Alan Coleman left, and was replaced by Sue Masters shortly before the series finished production in late 1982. Masters immediately went on to produce Grundy's stablemate ''Prisoner'' from 1983, along with several cast members, including Judy McBurney, Genevieve Lemon, Babs McMillan and Peter Bensley who had all been recruited for leading roles in ''Prisoner'' after ''The Young Doctors'' finished. The advent of one-day cricket led to Channel 9 moving the show around the schedules. These factors contributed to a decline in ratings which saw the series cancelled in late 1982. The final episode was aired in March 1983.〔http://www.theyoungdoctors.com/show/history.htm〕 When the series ended after 1396 episodes, it held the record of Australia's longest-running commercial television drama series, which was previously held by ''Number 96''. This was later surpassed by ''A Country Practice'' and then ''Neighbours'', which is the current record-holder of any longest-running Australian series. ''The Young Doctors'' also holds the distinction, rare among long-running Australian dramas, of having never won any sort of television award. Actress Peta Toppano who appeared in early seasons of ''Prisoner'' had also previously appeared in ''The Young Doctors''. One of the more popular cast members included Gwen Plumb, a recipient of the British Empire Medal and AM recipient for her service to the arts and communities service, who portrayed kiosk gossip character Ada Simmonds for the length of the series. The original cast members Lyn James who portrayed the doctors receptionist Helen Gordon and Tim Page who portrays Dr. Grahame Steele, appeared to the end of the series, as did Judy McBurney as Nurse Tania Livingstone The relatively long-running serial also achieved modest international cult success, particularly in the United Kingdom, where it aired in a daytime slot on the commercial ITV network. The programme was shown regionally, meaning each region was free the show the series as and when they liked. 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「The Young Doctors」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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