Children's Ward (1989)
Plot.
Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set β as the title suggests β in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital, and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000.
The series was conceived by Granada staff writers Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor, both of whom went on to enjoy successful careers as award-winning writers of adult television drama. At the time, they were both working on the soap opera Coronation Street, and had recently collaborated on a script for Dramarama.
Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction 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 serial killer lures children to him via the internet and is β highly unusually for children's television β not eventually caught.
Where to Watch.
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Currently Children's Ward is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: BritBox Amazon Channel
Streaming in:π¬π§ United Kingdom
Cast & Crew.
Will Mellor
Ben Rowlingson
Janette Beverley
Sister Diane Meadows
Carl Rice
James Boyce
Rita May
Mags
Ian McCulloch
Dr. McKeown
Carol Harvey
Dr. Charlotte Woods
Jennifer Luckraft
Keely Johnson
Gilly Coman
Carol Jones
Tim Stanley
Nurse Gary Miller
Tom Higgins
Dr. Kieran Gallagher
Judy Holt
Nurse Mitchell
Tim Vincent
Billy Ryan
Robert Fenton
Alex Walker-Green
William Ash
Darren Walsh
Paul Abbott
Writer
Kim Burton
Ben Croft
Kay Mellor
Writer
Dean Gatiss
Matthew McCann
Elspeth Charlton
Mrs. Brett
Leyla Nejad
Dawn Khatir
Rebecca Callard
Fiona Brett
Chris Bisson
J.J.
Andrew Hall
Dave Spencer
Kieran O'Brien
Lee Jones
Media.
Details.
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Wiki.
Children's Ward (retitled The Ward from 1995 to 1998) is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set β as the title suggests β in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital (known as Sparky's), and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there.
Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series in 1989 and running from then until 2000.
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