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The Young Doctors (1976)

The Young Doctors poster
Directed by
Alan Coleman
Genre
soap opera
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 56 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a soap opera set in a hospital. It follows the romantic relationships and personal lives of the young staff members. Medical issues are secondary to the personal dramas.

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What happens

The Young Doctors is an Australian early-evening soap opera originally broadcast on the Nine Network and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, it aired from Monday 8 November 1976 until Wednesday 30 March 1983. The series is primarily set in the fictional Albert Memorial Hospital, as well as the restaurant/nightclub Bunny's Place, and is fundamentally concerned with the romances and relations between younger members of the hospital staff, rather than typical medical issues and procedures. The program was shown and exported internationally including throughout North America and Canada and Europe including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France and Spain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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