Australians axe ‘The Young Doctors’
NZPA Melbourne The long-running Australian television soap opera. “The Young Doctors" has been axed. The series — which also screens on New Zealand television at 6 p.m. every week night - will stop production on October 29. However. New Zealand viewers will have the saga of the lives, loves and tragedies of patients and staff at Alfred Memorial Hospital in their homes for some time yet. New Zealand television
screened the 163rd episode on Friday and is about five years and a half behind Australia. It is the second longrunning Channel Nine programme to stop production, in recent months — the other being “The Sullivans." In the past months fierce competition for the important 6 p.m. time slot has seen the programme . decline in popularity, and in a bid to retain the audience, Channel Nine recently moved it back to 5 p.m. in'Sydney, fuelling rumours that 'the show was about to fold.
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