Shot under clinical florescent light, the series depicted the NHS as a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of paperwork and political correctness, scant resources and desperate measures.
One of the earliest films to address conditions in British healthcare since its inauguration under Labour health secretary Aneurin Bevan in 1948 was White Corridors (1951).
Like a Bamforth postcard at the seaside, innuendo and double entendres at the expense of the pyjama-bound were a must.
Covering a range of different conditions from cancer to child abuse, the series won a Bafta in 1997.