EW10 on DVD

[Mike of CAS]

http://soapzone.co.uk/index.php?option= ... 2&Itemid=1

"The show ended over forty years ago, but now Emergency Ward 10 is back - released for the first time ever on DVD. The twice-weekly serial was Britain's first regular 'all-year round' drama series. Launching in 1957, it ran for a decade creating 1016 episodes...

...This series, in common with many from the 1950s and '60s, no longer exists in its entirety so Network DVD - who have previously released Emmerdale Farm, Crossroads and Coronation Street on DVD - have put together 24 of the earliest surviving episodes from 1959 and 1960."

Might be worth getting later on if any with Jane Rossington in appear. Also Richard Thorp comments on that page about Crossroads...

"In the 1970s he switched to the Birmingham-based soap Crossroads where he played Doug Randall, a merchant navy sailor who was the boyfriend of one of the other characters. "The pay was abysmal, but all the actors got London repeat fees," (Thames TV were behind in screening the soap from the rest of the UK) Richard told The Emmerdale Companion. "They then announced that London was going to take it all the time, so there weren't any repeats! I said I wasn't going to continue and all the other actors said, "Good on ya!" So I went to the producer, Jack Barton, and told him that if that was the case, I wasn't coming back. None of the others said a bloody word and I just left there and then."

Also a funny story of EW10 of the set falling down in a live broadcast.

[Rosemary Hunter]

Dear old Alan Turner is quite right, the pay wasn't up to much and one had to provide the tinfoil for my lovely blouses myself! The costume department couldn't even run to buying a roll of tinfoil darlings, how sinfully awful of them! But then darlings we should all be thankful we didn't switch to Emmerdale like Alan Turner or we would forever have been stuck in storylines about sheep going missing and people falling down wells - how frightfully boring, dull and repetitive darlings!

And a rumour went around the Motel that the 'actors' in Emmerdale had to provide their own sheep as the budget wouldn't stretch to renting sheep!

[Mike of CAS]

LOL I wonder if they still keep sheep as pets.

I hope they have kept some of the ones with the sets falling down, I'd like to see that!

BBC 4 showed a totally nuts one a few years ago with a woman bursting into song for no reason like our dear Meg.

[Crumbs]

With it ending forty+ years ago, will it still have the audience? Plus its all black and white.

Maybe ATV's General Hospital would have been a better idea.

[Mike of CAS]

Would be interesting to see Tony Adams as Dr Bywaters.