Children's Ward (1989)
Children's Ward
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.
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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Episodes season 1
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1x0
Pilot
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Episode 1
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Episode 2
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Episode 3
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Episode 4
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Episode 5
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Episode 6
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Episode 7
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Episode 8
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Episode 9
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Episode 10
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1x11
Episode 11
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Episode 12
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1x13
Episode 13
Episodes season 2
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Series 2, episode 1
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Series 2, episode 2
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Series 2, episode 3
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Series 2, episode 4
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Series 2, episode 5
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Series 2, episode 6
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2x7
Series 2, episode 7
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2x8
Series 2, episode 8
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Series 2, episode 9
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2x10
Series 2, episode 10
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2x11
Series 2, episode 11
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2x12
Series 2, episode 12
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2x13
Series 2, episode 13
Episodes season 3
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Series 3, episode 1
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Series 3, episode 2
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Series 3, episode 3
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Series 3, episode 4
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Series 3, episode 5
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Series 3, episode 6
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Series 3, episode 7
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Series 3, episode 8
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Series 3, episode 9
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3x10
Series 3, episode 10
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3x11
Series 3, episode 11
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3x12
Series 3, episode 12
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3x13
Series 3, episode 13
Episodes season 4
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Series 4, episode 1
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Series 4, episode 2
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Series 4, episode 3
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Series 4, episode 4
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Series 4, episode 5
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Series 4, episode 6
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Series 4, episode 7
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4x8
Series 4, episode 8
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Series 4, episode 9
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4x10
Series 4, episode 10
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4x11
Series 4, episode 11
Episodes season 5
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Series 5, episode 1
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Series 5, episode 2
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5x3
Series 5, episode 3
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Series 5, episode 4
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Series 5, episode 5
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Series 5, episode 6
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Series 5, episode 7
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5x8
Series 5, episode 8
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5x9
Series 5, episode 9
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5x10
Series 5, episode 10
Episodes season 6
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Series 6, episode 1
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Series 6, episode 2
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Series 6, episode 3
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Series 6, episode 4
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Series 6, episode 5
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Series 6, episode 6
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6x7
Series 6, episode 7
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6x8
Series 6, episode 8
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6x9
Series 6, episode 9
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6x10
Series 6, episode 10
Episodes season 7
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Series 7, episode 1
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Series 7, episode 2
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Series 7, episode 3
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Series 7, episode 4
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Series 7, episode 5
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7x6
Series 7, episode 6
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7x7
Series 7, episode 7
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7x8
Series 7, episode 8
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7x9
Series 7, episode 9
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7x10
Series 7, episode 10
Episodes season 8
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Series 8, episode 1
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Series 8, episode 2
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Series 8, episode 3
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Series 8, episode 4
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Series 8, episode 5
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Series 8, episode 6
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8x7
Series 8, episode 7
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8x8
Series 8, episode 8
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8x9
Series 8, episode 9
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8x10
Series 8, episode 10
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8x11
Series 8, episode 11
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8x12
Series 8, episode 12
Episodes season 9
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Series 9, episode 1
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Series 9, episode 2
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Series 9, episode 3
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Series 9, episode 4
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Series 9, episode 5
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Series 9, episode 6
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Series 9, episode 7
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Series 9, episode 8
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Series 9, episode 9
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9x10
Series 9, episode 10
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9x11
Series 9, episode 11
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9x12
Series 9, episode 12
Episodes season 10
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Series 10, episode 1
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Series 10, episode 2
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Series 10, episode 3
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Series 10, episode 4
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Series 10, episode 5
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Series 10, episode 6
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Series 10, episode 7
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Series 10, episode 8
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10x9
Series 10, episode 9
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10x10
Series 10, episode 10
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10x11
Sseries 10, episode 11
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10x12
Series 10, episode 12
Episodes season 11
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Series 11, episode 1
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Series 11, episode 2
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11x3
Series 11, episode 3
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Series 11, episode 4
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Series 11, episode 5
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Series 11, episode 6
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11x7
Series 11, episode 7
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11x8
Series 11, episode 8
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11x9
Series 11, episode 9
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11x10
Series 11, episode 10
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11x11
Series 11, episode 11
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11x12
Series 11, episode 12
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11x13
Series 11, episode 13
Episodes season 12
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12x1
Series 12, episode 1
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12x2
Series 12, episode 2
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12x3
Series 12, episode 3
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12x4
Series 12, episode 4
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12x5
Series 12, episode 5
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12x6
Series 12, episode 6
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12x7
Series 12, episode 7
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12x8
Series 12, episode 8
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12x9
Series 12, episode 9
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12x10
Series 12, episode 10
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12x11
Series 12, episode 11
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12x12
Series 12, episode 12
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12x13
Series 12, episode 13
