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Children's Ward

Children's Ward

65
Balasaur Score
Mixed

1989–2000 · TV · 12 seasons · 142 episodes

DramaFamily

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A Balasaur Score of 65 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7/10. The series ran 12 seasons across 142 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

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 – as the title suggests – 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 – highly unusually for children's television – not eventually caught.

Ratings

IMDb7/10

4 audience votes

Seasons

1Season 113 ep1989
2Season 213 ep1990
3Season 313 ep1990
4Season 411 ep1991
5Season 510 ep1992
6Season 610 ep1993
7Season 710 ep1994
8Season 812 ep1995
9Season 912 ep1996
10Season 1012 ep1997
11Season 1113 ep1999
12Season 1213 ep2000

Cast

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TV
79

ER

1994–2008

Shares: Medical Drama · 1990s

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Themes

hospital