Emergency – Ward 9
Emergency – Ward 9 is a Dennis Potter television play first broadcast on BBC1 in the Thirty-Minute Theatre series on 11 April 1966.
Potter had praised the storylines and sense of urgency of the ITV hospital soap Emergency – Ward 10 in his television reviews for the Daily Herald. He was inspired to write a play that connected his experiences in a National Health hospital with events depicted in the series. Potter's script specifies an "Alf Garnett-type" character who suddenly finds himself sharing a ward with a black man. The play was controversial for its unflinching depiction of institutionalised racism but was critically applauded.
The play was repeated eighteen months after its first transmission.[1] For many years, a recording was thought not to have survived, but a recording of the play resurfaced and was screened at the BFI's Missing Believed Wiped event in December 2011.[2]
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plays
- Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965)
- Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965)
- Emergency – Ward 9 (1966)
- Shaggy Dog (1968)
- A Beast with Two Backs (1968)
- Moonlight on the Highway (1969)
- Son of Man (1969)
- Traitor (1971)
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972)
- Joe's Ark (1974)
- Double Dare (1976)
- Where Adam Stood (1976)
- Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
- Blade on the Feather (1980)
- Rain on the Roof (1980)
- Cream in My Coffee (1980)
- Brimstone and Treacle (1987)
serials
- Casanova (1971)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978)
- Pennies From Heaven (1978)
- Tender Is the Night (1985)
- The Singing Detective (1986)
- Christabel (1988)
- Blackeyes (1989)
- Lipstick on Your Collar (1993)
- Karaoke (1996)
- Cold Lazarus (1996)
- Pennies from Heaven (1981)
- Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
- Gorky Park (1983)
- Dreamchild (1985)
- Track 29 (1988)
- Secret Friends (1991)
- Mesmer (1993)
- The Singing Detective (2003)
- Hide and Seek (1973)
- Pennies from Heaven (1981)
- Ticket to Ride (1986)
- Blackeyes (1987)
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