Michael J Bird's Contribution to
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Michael J Bird's Contribution to
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Ian Fordyce, Royston Morley / Theme Music: Derek Scott In 1975 the show graduated to a primetime Friday hour long broadcast. Producer Royston Morely sought to put the accent more on drama and approached, amongst others, Michael Bird to contribute stories. Bird had worked with Morely at the BBC on Brett a few years earlier. |
DAVID GARTH as Dr Matthew Armstrong JAMES KERRY as Dr Martin Baxter LEWIS JONES as Dr William Parker-Brown MONICA GREY as Sister Edwards RONALD LEIGH-HUNT as Dr Robert Thorne TONY ADAMS as Dr Neville Bywater LYNDA BELLINGHAM as Nurse Hilda Price JUDY BUXTON as Nurse Katy Shaw PEGGY SINCLAIR as Sister Helen Chapman CARMEN MUNROE as Sister Washington IAN WHITE as Dr Peter Ridge |
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Broadcast 2nd July 1976 
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POINT OF INTEREST
Bird wrote only the one episode, "Red Alert". He hated anything medical, believing that most doctors were charlatans, and hospitals filled him with dread. He didn't want to do it. His wife recalls he felt he was pushed into it. "In revenge he wrote an incredible story about the hospital being inundated with victims of a motorway pile up, one of whom was woman about to give birth who had two broken legs, a surgeon held up getting to the hospital etc. etc. He thought it was so over the top the company would reject it. However they loved it!" Bird's episode was given pride of place in the schedule. They even named the show's new theme "Red Alert". |
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