Doctors

British television soap opera (2000–2024)

Started: March 26, 2000
Creator: Chris Murray
Network: BBC One
, British Broadcasting Corporation
Seasons: 24
Episodes: 4,389(October 19, 2023)
Genre: drama television series
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Original language: English

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Doctors is a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000 and concluded on 14 November 2024. Filmed in Birmingham and set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff of both an NHS doctor's surgery and a university campus surgery, as well as the lives of their families and friends. Initially, only 41 episodes of the programme were ordered, but due to the positive reception, the BBC ordered it as a continuing soap opera. Doctors was filmed at the Pebble Mill Studios until 2004; production then relocated to the BBC Drama Village, where it filmed until 2024. Episodes were filmed three months prior to transmission and were typically broadcast Mondays to Fridays at 2:00 pm on BBC One, as well as having classic episodes broadcast on Drama. It took three annual transmission breaks across the year: at Easter, during the summer and at Christmas.

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Website: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mh9v language: English
Color: color
Has list: list of Doctors characters
Social media followers: 15,627(February 6, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 3422132321
14,535(February 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 3422132321
13,239(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 3422132321
Members / parts: Doctors, season 1
Doctors, season 2
Doctors, series 3
Doctors, series 4
Doctors, series 5
Doctors, series 6
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Doctors, series 9
Doctors series 10
Doctors series 23
Doctors series 24
Set in environment: island

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