Doctors is a British medical soap opera that premiered on 26 March 2000 on BBC One.[1] The series was created by Chris Murray and was filmed at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham until 2004 when production moved to BBC Drama Village in Selly Oak.[2] It follows the staff of Mill Health Centre, an NHS GP surgery in the fictional town of Letherbridge, set in Birmingham.[3]
Doctors has ran for twenty series, with a twenty-first series currently airing.[4] Each episode runs for 30 minutes and is broadcast on weekdays, originally in the 12:30 pm timeslot before moving to the 1:45 pm timeslot.[2][3] The show's first series ran for eight weeks and contained a special launch episode.[3] Subsequent series have continued to air throughout the year with series consisting of between 116 and 289 episodes. Some series have featured a summer break typically lasting nine to ten weeks.
- ^ "Matters of Life and Death; Doctors BBC 1, 12.30pm". Daily Record. 25 March 2000. p. 31. Retrieved 30 December 2019 – via Questia.
- ^ a b McMullen, Marion (4 February 2012). "Bard Medicine; Is This a Bandage I See before Me? the Cast of Doctors Have Been Making Themselves at Home in Shakespeare Country. TV Writer Marion McMullen Finds out How the Midlands Soap Opera Is Being Inspired by the Bard on the Box Doctors BBC1, 1.45PM". Coventry Evening Telegraph. p. 21. Retrieved 30 December 2019 – via Questia.
- ^ a b c Young, Graham (28 March 2000). "Doctors a TV Tonic; PEBBLE MILL LAUNCHES MIDLANDS' FIRST DAILY SERIAL SINCE CROSSROADS an Exciting Daily Drama Series Has Been Launched from Birmingham - Which Will Hopefully Spark a Turnaround in Fortunes for Pebble Mill". Birmingham Evening Mail. p. 12. Retrieved 30 December 2019 – via Questia.
- ^ "Episodes". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 30 December 2019.