High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Children`s Ward (retitled The Ward from 1995 to 1998) is a British children`s television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children`s ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children`s ward of the ficticious South Park Hospital (known as Sparky`s), and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children`s Ward was a long-lived series for a children`s drama, starting life in 1988as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000.