@misc{ title = {Series: General Hospital}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {30 mins/60 mins}, month = {19 October 1972}, note = {19 October 1972 - 19 December 1979, 110 x 30 mins, then 54 x 60 mins episodes. Initially twice weekly afternoon. In 1975 it became an hour long programme and was seen in peak viewing time.}, abstract = {A series set in a large, modern hospital building and followed the oscillating relationships, personal and professionals, of the medical staff.}, year = {1972} } @misc{ title = {Series: Angels}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {50 minutes/25 minutes}, month = {1975}, note = {Drama television: 57 episodes x 50 mins (Ron Craddock) and 97 episodes x 25 mins (Julia Smith and Ben Rea). The 25 minute episodes were transmitted twice weekly (Monday and Wednesday)}, abstract = {A hospital based drama serial following the lives of a group of student nurses as they tried to cope with their work at St. Angela's hospital, their chaotic personal lives, and each other. It was a kind of gritty, semi-documentary look at the nursing profession.}, keywords = {Nurses hospital health}, year = {1975-1983} } @misc{ title = {The Network (about a maternity clinic)}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {20 December 1979}, abstract = {Play about an exclusive maternity clinic}, year = {1979} } @misc{ title = {Series: Boys from the Black Stuff}, publisher = {BBC2}, month = {10 October 1982- 7 November 1982}, note = {5 episodes 10 October - 7 November 1982}, abstract = {This black comedy-drama about the individual and collective lives of a Merseyside tarmac gang was based on Bleasdale’s 110-minute play The Black Stuff (BBC-2, 2/1/80). The play was produced by David Rose from BBC Birmingham.}, year = {1982} } @misc{ title = {Flying into the Wind}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {150 mins}, month = {26 June 1983}, abstract = {The second drama of Birth of a Nation features the problems of a family choosing to educate their children at home.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {Series: Birth of a Nation}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {150 mins}, month = {19 June 1983}, abstract = {First of four acclaimed dramas by David Leland looking at different aspects of young people and education. In the first play a comprehensive schoolteacher objects to the use of corporal punishment.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {Series: Auf Wiedersehen Pet}, publisher = {ITV then BBC1}, pages = {50 - 60 minutes}, month = {11 November 1983}, note = {TV drama:11 November 1983 – 29 December 2004, 50mins (1983-1986), 60 mins (2002-2004), Series 4, Episodes 40 ITV (1983-1986), Repeated on BBC-1 (2002-2004)}, abstract = {A popular comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site.}, year = {1983-4; 1986} } @misc{ title = {Series: District Nurse}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {30 mins}, abstract = {Megan Roberts was a district nurse trying to do her job around the villages of South Wales in the 1920s and often in conflict with the hypocrisy of the tight-knit communities. In the later series set during the 1930s she lived int he chaotic household of Dr Emlyn Isaacs who practiced in a Welsh seaside town.}, year = {1984} } @misc{ title = {Defence of the Realm}, publisher = {Channel Four (Film 4)}, abstract = {A tabloid journalist investigating a parliamentary sex scandal uncovers a darker story involving a top-level government cover-up.}, year = {1985} } @misc{ title = {Series:  Howards' Way}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {50 - 55 minutes}, abstract = {Set in the lush countryside of Hampshire and along the River Hamble: the wealthy world of swanky yachts, powerboats, and marine business originally centred on Tom Howard, a former aircraft designer who took his career and the family funds into the boatyard industry.}, year = {1985} } @misc{ title = {Series: A Very Peculiar Practice}, publisher = {BBC}, pages = {50 minutes}, month = {21 May 1986}, note = {21 May 1986-6 April 1988, 2 series of 7 x 50 mins each plus 1 special (A Very Polish Practice, 6 September 1992)}, abstract = {Satirical drama series about a crisis stricken university. A young doctor in his new job as part of a group practice at Lowlands University. But his enthusiasm takes a knock as he gets to know his new colleagues and observes life at the University.}, year = {1986} } @misc{ title = {Series: Blood Red Roses}, publisher = {Channel 4}, pages = {55 minutes}, note = {4-18-12/1986 3 x 55 minutes}, year = {1986} } @misc{ title = {Series: Casualty}, publisher = {BBC}, pages = {50 minutes}, month = {6 September 1986}, note = {1986-present, 18 series of 50 min episodes. see Sherryl Wilson's paper on the 'No Such thing as society' research website http://www.nosuch-research.co.uk/index.html}, abstract = {Casualty would become the longest running hospital drama series. The first series featured a night shift under threat of closure in the accident and emergency department of a busy general hospital in Bristol. Episodes presented multi-strand stories and many sub-plots.}, year = {1986} } @misc{ title = {Serial: A Very British Coup}, publisher = {Channel 4}, pages = {55 minutes}, month = {19 June 1988}, note = {19/6-3/7/1988 3 x 55 minutes}, abstract = {An elected leftwing Labour government begins a programme of radical change, including the removal of American nuclear weapons from British soil. But it soon finds itself underminded by dark forces in the Establishment.}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Serial: Campaign}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {50/55 minutes}, month = {6 January 1988}, note = {6 episodes x 50/55 minutes drama serial. 6/1-10/2/88}, abstract = {The main character is Sarah Copeland, a rising copywriter at the HFK advertising agency, who was pitching for the most prestigious account in the business.}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Serial:Capital City}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {60 minutes}, abstract = {The high-pressure world of City money traders at a London merchant bank and their professional and personal pursuits was the central theme of this drama series. Senior trader Declan McConnochie was one of the leading characters operating out of international bank Shane Longman.}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Series: Children's Ward}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {30 minutes}, month = {15 March 1989}, note = {15 March 1989- 4 May 2000                                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Ward Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor were Granada staff writers working on Coronation Street and theDramarama anthology strand.Kay Mellor went on to write numerous television dramas, includingBand of Gold ITV (1995) was awarded the OBE in 2009.Paul Abbott, who went on to explore his troubled childhood in Shameless (C4 2004-) originally wanted to set the series in a care home. Filmed at Bolton General Hospital (now Royal Bolton Hospital), Lancashire.}, abstract = {British medical drama set in a children's hospital and told the stories of the patients and staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addicton and child abuse in a sensitive manner. The programme won many awards, including in 1996 a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama, won by an episode in which a murderer lures children to him via the internet and is - highly unusually for children's television - not eventually caught.}, keywords = {hospital}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Series: Making Out}, publisher = {BBC1}, abstract = {Comedy-drama series about a group of defiant women toiling away at Lyne Electronics, a dilapidated factory making modern technological components.}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Series: Medics}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {50 minutes}, month = {14 November 1990}, note = {Started 14 November 1990, 50 mins x 40 episodes.}, abstract = {The everday lives and loves, trials and tribulations of the doctors, nurses, patients and administrative staff of a large teaching hospital in the north-west of England near the city of Manchester}, keywords = {hospital}, year = {1990} } @misc{ author = {Afriat, Alan}, title = {The Setbacks: Doctor's Orders (problems encountering the NHS)}, publisher = {Channel 4}, pages = {50 minutes}, month = {9 December 1985}, abstract = {Series in which the Setback family encounter the problems involved with dealing with the National Health Service and with doctors.}, year = {1985} } @misc{ author = {Armstrong, Moira}, title = {Minor Complications}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {18 November 1980}, abstract = {TV play by Peter Ransley, based on the actual case, about a divorced mother, with two children to support, whose sterilisation operation goes badly wrong. Follows her fight to get compensation.}, year = {1980} } @misc{ author = {Armstrong, Moira}, title = {No Visible Scar (a nurse and a terrorist organisation)}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {17 November 1981}, note = {Based on the true story of Sheila Cassidy, arrested and tortured in Chile in 1975}, abstract = {A wounded member of a terrorist organisation is tended by a British nurse...she is imprisoned, interrogated and then released to face another form of interrogation.}, year = {1981} } @misc{ author = {Bevan, Tim}, title = {For Queen and Country}, abstract = {Reuben, a young black soldier, returns to his council flat in London after fighting in the Falklands war. He and his best friend, Fish, find themselves facing unemployment, poverty and powerlessness, while local tensions threaten to explode in violence.}, year = {1988} } @misc{ author = {Blair, Les}, title = {Series: The Nation's Health}, publisher = {Channel 4}, pages = {100 minutes}, month = {6 October 1983  21.30}, note = {See Sherryl Wilson's paper on the 'No Such thing as society' website:                         http://www.nosuch-research.co.uk/index.htmlalso see BFI Screen online: }, abstract = {Four-part drama series in which writer, G.F.Newman, presents his thesis that doctors under the present system do their patients more harm than good. He explores this through the character of Dr Jessie Marvill, a young hospital doctor who finds her work is causing her to question the attitudes of those around her and her own beliefs about the proper practice of medicine. Acute  6 October 1983 21:30;                         Decline  13 October 1983;                               Chronic  20 October 1983;                             Collapse  27 October 1983}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Blake, Gerald}, title = {Tishoo}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {9 March 1982}, abstract = {By the mid-1980's the economy has not improved. For 17 years Prof. Frank Merrick has been working on a cure for the common cold. He is very near success, but he has to avoid being a victim of the cutbacks.}, year = {1982} } @misc{ author = {Boswell, Ruth}, title = {Series:  Maybury}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {50 mins}, month = {12 May 1981}, note = {13 episodes x 50 mins/7 episodes x 50 mins. Shown 12 May to 4 August 1981 & 24 June to 5 August 1983}, abstract = {The first drama series to be set in hospital psychiatric unit, presenting stories reflecting typical case histories. The aim was to demythologize mental illness and psychiatry in an entertaining fashion.}, year = {1981} } @misc{ author = {Bruce, John}, title = {The Moneymen}, year = {1987} } @misc{ author = {Clarke, Alan}, title = {Made in Britain}, publisher = {ITV; Channel 4}, pages = {85 mins}, month = {10 July 1983; 2 May 1984}, abstract = {The fourth drama in Birth of a Nation features the articulate skinhead Trevor}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Clarke, Alan}, title = {Elephant}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {40 minutes}, month = {25 January 1989}, abstract = {The first of three dramas from Northern Ireland. It is said that for those who live in Northern Ireland the Troubles are easy to ignore as an elephant in your living room. Alan Clarke's film is a chilling commentary on the pitiless sectarian murders that have become an almost routine featuer of the news from Ireland.}, keywords = {Northern Ireland}, year = {1989} } @misc{ author = {Davis, Barry}, title = {The Cause (hospital worker and Spanish Civil War)}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {3 February 1981}, abstract = {George Harley reminisces about his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, during his involvement in a union dispute at the London hospital at which he is a union official.}, year = {1981} } @misc{ author = {Frears, Stephen}, title = {Walter}, publisher = {Channel 4}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {2 November 1982}, note = {Broadcast on the first night of Channel Four.  See Screen Online:  http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/510827/index.html}, abstract = {A mentally handicapped man, Walter, is taken to live in a long-stay mental hospital after the death of his mother.}, keywords = {mental health}, year = {1982} } @misc{ author = {Jarman, Derek}, title = {The Last of England}, abstract = {England in the future: a nightmarish journey through a dark landscape of totalitarianism and despair.}, year = {1987} } @misc{ author = {Konttinen, Sirkka-Liisa}, title = {Byker}, publisher = {Channel Four}, month = {1983}, note = {Financial assistance: Northern Arts; Channel Four Amber Films, founded in Newcastle 1968, became one of Channel Four's regional workshops.  They have produced a consistent output of documentaries and docudramas rooted in the working class life of the North East of England.www.amber-online.com}, abstract = {The changing face of a close-knit working-class community from the late 1960s to the early 1980s}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Leigh, Mike}, title = {Meantime}, publisher = {Channel 4}, pages = {102 minutes}, month = {1 December 1983}, abstract = {Memorably bleak Mike Leigh film about feuding East London families. The travails of an East London family, all of whose members are unemployed.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Lloyd, Innes}, title = {Going Gently}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {70 mins}, month = {5 June 1981}, abstract = {Thomas Ellice's psychologically and emotionally stunning play adapted for television from the novel, features a pair of terminal cancer patients and their nurse in a bleak hospital ward setting.}, keywords = {cancer: hospital}, year = {1981} } @misc{ author = {Lloyd, Innes}, title = {Talking Heads}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {35 minutes}, abstract = {A stockbroker's widow finds life stripping her of her assets.}, year = {1989} } @misc{ author = {Matheson, Margaret}, title = {Rhino}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {85 mins}, month = {3 July 1983; 26 April 1985;}, abstract = {The third drama of Birth of a Nation features a 14 year old playing truant from school to look after a 3 year old.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Millar, Gavin}, title = {Intensive Care}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {75 minutes}, month = {9 November 1982}, abstract = {Denis is determined to be there when his father dies. But Dad lingers on, the hospital wants Denis out of the way and maybe Denis wants his Dad out of the way...until night nurse Valery arrives.}, year = {1982} } @misc{ author = {Relph, Simon and Scott, Ann}, title = {The Ploughman’s Lunch}, abstract = {In 1982, at the time of the Conservative Party Conference following the Falklands War, an ambitious radio journalist researches a book about Suez, whilst pursuing an affair with a woman television researcher whose mother, a Socialist historian, has also written on the subject.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Relph, Simon and Scott, Ann}, title = {The Ploughman’s Lunch}, abstract = {In 1982, at the time of the Conservative Party Conference following the Falklands War, an ambitious radio journalist researches a book about Suez, whilst pursuing an affair with a woman television researcher whose mother, a Socialist historian, has also written on the subject.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ author = {Shivas, Mark}, title = {Series: Telford's Change}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {50 minutes}, month = {7 January 1979}, note = {10 episodes x 50 mins. 7/1 - 11/3/79}, abstract = {Drama series about Mark Telford, an international banking hotshot, who yearns for the simple life and achieves it, against his London-based, career-carving wife's wishes, by getting himself transferred to the managership of a small branch bank.}, year = {1979} } @misc{ author = {Stephens, Mike}, title = {Sharon and Elsie}, publisher = {BBC1}, pages = {30 mins}, abstract = {When Elsie decides that life would be more convenient if she and Sharon worked a flexi-time system, she doesn't realize that she is stirring up industrial unrest.}, year = {1985} } @misc{ author = {Wearing, Michael}, title = {Serial: The History Man}, publisher = {BBC2}, pages = {50/60 minutes}, month = {4 January 1981}, note = {2 eps X 50 mins, 2 eps X 60 mins satirical serial}, abstract = {Sociology lecturer Howard Kirk who with his wife Barbara were well known as Watermouth University’s most 'progressive' couple.}, year = {1981} } @misc{ author = {Williams, Sita}, title = {Series: The Practice}, publisher = {ITV}, pages = {30 mins}, month = {18 January 1985, 20:00}, note = {Compared by Vahimagi (British Television BFI 1996) to ATV's General Hospital (1972-79) which began as an 'afternoon stethoscope saga' at 30mins, then was transferred (1975) to peak viewing time at 1 hour, and dealt with 'oscillating relations' between the medical staff.}, abstract = {Life in a modern Health Centre - and another busy day as patients and staff face questions such as: Should a man with a bad heart drive a taxi? Is my vasectomy really necessary? Can the doctors help?}, year = {1985} }