Talk:Emergency Ward 10

Film?
I know nothing about this series, but there is film called Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) - is it directly related to, based upon, or just a cash in title to utilise good-will for the TV series? A cursory glance at the cast list shows Charles Tingwell as Dr. Alan Dawson, but there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of carry over from the TV cast. Jock123 (talk) 08:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Assassination of President Kennedy
Emergency Ward 10 was due to start on Friday 22 November 1963 when an ITN newsflash was broadcast that President Kennedy had been shot and taken to hospital. The programme was then started as normal. The programme always had an advertising break about half-way through and there was another ITN newsflash that President Kennedy was dead. The programme did not continue and a concert of sombre classical music was broadcast instead. As Emergency Ward 10 had a large viewing public it is likely that a large number of people learned of the assassination from those news flashes. News flashes did occur from time to time but were quite a rare occurrence and often were a report of some disaster such as an aeroplane crash. A news flash was usually about a minute in length, if that, and were single topic and consisted of a news presenter behind a desk making an announcement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:3190:D900:B91C:A71C:41D9:5B90 (talk) 15:33, 1 November 2020 (UTC)