| Children's Ward | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Ward |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Paul Abbott Kay Mellor |
| Directed by | Steve Finn Alan Bell |
| Starring | Rita May Ian McCulloch Carol Harvey Andrew Hall Janette Beverley Tim Stanley Ken Parry Nina Baden-Semper Ross King Michael Bray Judy Holt Tom Higgins Margery Bone Jenny Luckraft Tim Vincent Rebecca Sowden William Ash Leyla Nejad Dean Gatiss Rachel Egan Paul Swaine Chris Bisson Chloe Newsome Carl Rice Kieran O'Brien Mark Dixon Sarah Cooper Gilly Coman Will Mellor Stephen Graham Ben Sowden Jamie Harrison |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 143 |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Granada Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV (CITV) |
| Release | 15 March 1989 – 4 May 2000 |
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Children's Ward (retitled The Ward from 1995 to 1998) 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 (known as Sparky's), 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 in 1989 and running from then until 2000.