All Saints (TV series)

All Saints is an Australian television series by Jo Porter, Di Drew and Mary Anne Carroll, which was produced from 1997 to 2009 on behalf of the Australian channel Seven Network. It deals with the nurses and doctors who work in Sydney's Hospital All Saints General Western Hospital. The broadcast of the series began on 28 February 1998 on the Seven Network and was stopped after over 490 episodes broadcast on October 27, 2009. This makes it the longest running to date doctors or hospital and after series Blue Heelers and Homicide on the third longest-running drama series in Australia. It is also known as the Australian rival to the U.S. hospital drama ER - called the emergency room.

In Australia, the series scored one of the biggest audiences for drama series and also enjoyed overseas, including the UK, Ireland and Belgium, very popular. In her eleven - year period the series was nine Logie Awards, which are comparable to the Emmys in the U.S., and won two AFI Awards. In addition, she has been nominated a total of 55 times for one of these two prices.

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All Saints is the work of the nurses and doctors in the hospital fictional All Saints General Western Hospital, which is located in a suburb in Sydney, from the perspective of the sisters, so that the viewer gets an insight into the work there. The series focuses on some sisters, doctors and other employees and their problems at work. In addition, it also shows the relationships between themselves and their private lives. A recurring elements are the bother of the hospital with litigation, or the connotation of: criminal charges and defendants. The episodes often begin with the admission of a new patient. The nurse explains to the doctor then the history and already carried out since the injury treatments. Then, unexpected or surprising diseases are diagnosed. In general, the stories in the individual episodes are completed.

The seasons one through seven deal mainly from the everyday life of the station 17, which is led by the nurse Terri Sullivan. The station is also commonly referred to as " waste station " since it absorbs most of the patients. In the middle of the seventh season, the station 17 is finally closed, after which the doctors and some nurses to continue working in the emergency room. The seasons seven to eleven show as everyday life in the emergency department, headed by Frank Campion. In these seasons also some doctors will be more discussed in the private lives of the main characters as well as the sisters. In the twelfth and last season in addition to the emergency room and the team of the Medical Response Unit is discussed. So doctors are flown by helicopter to the patient or to the hospital with this patient.

In the last episode the staff of the Emergency Department and the Medical Response Unit since the last opening of the hospital still operating Sister Yvonne judge " from" Ryan farewell on their last working day of a dinner.

Production

Production of the series began in early 1998 in Sydney. As an exterior set of the All Saints General Western Hospital served the Repatriation General Hospital in Concord Sydner suburb. In addition, the Ku-ring -gai Hospital, was used in Hornsby for other outdoor scenes and for some places in the interior, such as the operating rooms. In response to the decline in ratings, followed by the departure of Erik Thomson as Dr. Mitch Stevens, the producers decided the series the main setting of the station 17 the emergency department at All Saints Western General Hospital to change. The set for the emergency room was built at the turn of 2003/2004 and the shooting of this began in February, so the first episodes of the ER could be seen already in April 2004 on TV. The change gave the writers write out the ways some characters and introduce new for it. Was designated with the move, as " All Saints ' emergency surgery ' (English All Saints ' emergency surgery ), the sisters have now dealt with this in detail even with some doctors in addition to private life. This change of subject brought the series finally a the expected large audience.

At the beginning of the twelfth season in 2009, then the Medical Response Unit has been introduced. This has a helicopter and a vehicle with all-wheel drive, making it could get to place an ambulance would never come. So do some scenes with the paramedics were shown in the relay next to the daily work in the emergency room. As a paramedic Mirrah Foulkes was engaged. After due to high costs, the series was announced by the end of the current twelfth season in July, was the last day of filming for the series on 26 August 2009.

Occupation

Changes in the main cast of the series took place since the start of production in each season. For example, new character come to the beginning of the season and in the further course of this addition, some were previously introduced as a minor character. Leave disembarking character the series but not always with the season finale, with some even returned later as a guest performer. The main supporting cast are summarized supporting cast in the following section.

Main cast

Supporting cast

• Justine Clarke: Samantha O'Hara (1-2)
• Elizabeth Maywald: Sophie Williams ( 1-2)
• Jake Blundell: Tony Hurst (1-4)
• John Noble: Dr. John Madsen ( 1-7)
• Kim Hillas: Joan Marden (1-7, 9)
• Joy Smithers: Rose Carlton (2-6)
• Alan Flower: Morris the Florist ( 3-6)
• Melissa Tkautz: Andrea Stuart (4-5, 7)
• Rochelle Whyte: Cara Windom (4-6)
• Jack Rickard: Max Morgan ( 5-7)
• Troy Planet: Dennis Pool ( 6-9)
• Rachel McNamara: Francis Regan (6 )
• Elizabeth Alexander: Dr. Alison Newell (6-9)

• Jaime Mears: Kerry Lytton (7-9)
• Trilby Beresford: Kathleen Campion (7-9)
• Nicole da Silva: Sasha Fernandez ( 8)
• Guy Edmonds: Stuart Mapleton ( 8)
• Peter Phelps: Dr. Doug Spencer (8-10)
• Wendy Strehlow: Lorraine Tanner ( 8-11)
• Celeste Barber: Bree Matthews (8-12)
• Alexandra Fowler: Eve Ballantyne (9-10)
• Robert Jago: Luke Goldman (9-11)
• Lucy Bell: Sonia Moore ( 10)
• Mike Smith: Heath Velaga (10-12)
• Ben Wood: Troy Sanders ( 12)

Broadcast

The broadcast of the series began on 24 February 1998 with a double episode on the Australian TV channel Seven Network. The first season finale was broadcast on 17 November 1998. In the following years the new season always began in February and ended in November of the same year. The episode number was 40-43 episodes per season, which last only consists of 37 episodes. Due to high production costs was given in July 2009, the end of the series after the current twelfth season known, and this is reduced by three episodes. The broadcast of the final season was finally ended on October 27, 2009. All Saints with 494 episodes of the longest running doctors or hospital series and after Blue Heelers and Homicide on the third longest-running drama series in Australia.

A broadcast in Germany or German-speaking countries do not exist.

DVD releases

In 2005 EMI Australia acquired the rights to a DVD release and brought out the first five seasons between November 2005 and July 9, 2007 28. After EMI had lost the rights in 2007, acquired Universal Pictures Australia in 2008 and they released the seasons eight to twelve between 9 September 2009 and 29 September 2010. Seasons six and seven eventually followed with the new releases of the first five seasons on 2. March 2011.

Awards and nominations

Overall, the series was in its eleven - year term of nine Logie Awards in the categories of Most Popular Actress, Most Popular Actor and Most Popular Program and two AFI Awards for Best Episode in a Drama Series win. The actress Georgie Parker won in 2001 and 2002, the award in the category Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. In addition, the series has been twice honored by the Australian Screen Sound Guild in the category Best Achievement in Sound for a Drama Series. In 2009, the cinematographer Matthew Horrex win the ACS Award in the category Best Cinematographer in Tele Features, TV Drama & Mini Series.