The Young Doctors - International Screenings

International Screenings

• The programme was acquired by 13 of the 14 weekday members of the ITV Network, Scottish Television never purchased the series. Most of the ITV regions initially screened The Young Doctors like Central at their own regional pace in their 15:30 slot on Mondays and Tuesdays with Sons and Daughters on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Granada Television and Border Television switched this broadcast pattern around, however, and screened The Young Doctors on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays instead.

• • Central Television pioneered the programme in their Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 slot in October 1982 (but was quickly moved to the 15:50 slot) while all the other ITV contractors were screening The Sullivans. This was then increased to a daily 15:30 slot until Sons and Daughters arrived in February 1983 and The Young Doctors shared the slot airing on Mondays and Tuesdays. This continued until 1988 when Central returned the programme to 12:30 to allow Sons and Daughters to be stripped Monday to Friday in the 15:30 slot. By January 1989, it was back to the daily 15:30 slot until Families began in April 1990, airing Mondays and Tuesdays. The Young Doctors was finally moved to 14:50, Monday to Thursday in 1990, and finished 15 August 1992. Central was the first region to complete the series.

• • Thames Television and LWT in London started screening the series initially at 17:15 on Thursdays and Fridays from 23 June 1983 until 1 September 1984, before switching the series to 15:30 slot, to allow Blockbusters the slot. From this point onwards, only Thames broadcast the series. When Carlton Television took over in January 1993, the series was dropped for 6 months to allow backlog of Blockbusters episodes to be aired, The Young Doctors returned daily on 7 June 1993 concluding the programme in December 1994.

• • TSW Started the series on 1 April 1985, Monday and Fridays at 17:15 until September, when it was moved to 15.30 slot. On 17 October 1988, the series moves to 12:30 on Mondays and Wednesdays but due to network programming resulted in the serices becoming weekly during 1989/1990, but returned to twice a week by the end 1990. Westcountry Television took over in 1993, and continued twice a week until early 1994 when it was increased to three times a week until 20 December 1994 when episode 1101 was broadcast. The series was never completed.

• • Years after most of the other regions Yorkshire Television started the series in October 1988, going out five times a week. In January 1993, they had to skip 215 episodes to enable them to catch up to Tyne Tees Television as from January 1993, both regions screened exactly the same material.

• • The Young Doctors was also aired in Sky One from Monday, 5th February 1989. It originally transmitted at 17:00, and from 1990 until mid-1992, The Young Doctors aired regularly at 10:00. When Sky purchased the newer Australian soap E Street in April 1992, they eventually cancelled The Young Doctors after around 600 episodes in July to accommodate an afternoon repeat of the American medical series St Elsewhere.

• The show was aired on RTÉ Two.

• It was named Los Jovenes Doctores which had a brief stint on TVE1 shortly after the launch of Morning television in Spain. The series aired for a short while in a 09:30 weekday slot.

• It was named Jeunes Docteurs which was scheduled on France, second national-wide channel Antenne 2, at 08:30, from 21 March 1986.

The Series was also broadcast in Trinidad, Barbados, Angola, the Netherlands and Canada.