#when my neighbors house burnt down (years ago dw about it) a picture of it and my house was on the express&star website

[which-hospital]

this is kind of silly, I was being the way that I am about Casualty and looking for mentions in 80s newspapers

found this in the Express and Star:

which was just fun because the Express and Star is (AFAIK) a pretty big but also pretty localised newspaper in the West Midlands, like I only ever see it in the Black Country and Staffordshire these days so I had the fun idea of narrowing my search to mentions in this paper just to see what my local paper was saying about it

and THAT’S how I finally found what you might describe as primary sources for S1 Casualty being controversial, rather than a recollection from the 00s or later

this one is only actually about Casualty for the first paragraph but it shows that 1.) nurses didn’t necessarily like it and 2.) it was being called a soap from start - it also appeared next to an advert from my local council

THIS ^^ is finally a record of the Tories taking issue with it, and it’s honestly more of a big thing than I thought it would turn out to be

this one is intriguing cause the guy who wrote it is clearly The Worst, he kinda compares Casualty to Mein Kampf? anyway, you fucking bet Casualty was doling out blatant anti-establishment and anti-government messages, you bitch

this one mentions the Tories criticising Casualty and points out that by getting all obsessed about the BBC having a bias, the government risk doing the thing they are supposedly criticising, which feels obvious