Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Jonathon Coe's novel follow a group of Birmingham teenagers, and their families, through the 1970s.
Network
BBC Two
Status
Ended
Type
Miniseries
First Aired
2005-01-26
Last Aired
2005-02-09
Geoffrey Breton
Ben Trotter
Kevin Doyle
Colin Trotter
Rebecca Front
Sheila Trotter
Alice O'Connell
Lois Trotter
Alice Eve
Cicely Boyd
Rafe Spall
Sean Harding
Elizabeth Berrington
Irene Anderton
Hugo Speer
Bill Anderton
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Nigel Plumb
Mark Williams
Sam Williams
Nicholas Shaw
Doug Anderton
Rasmus Hardiker
Philip Chase
Sarah Lancashire
Barbara Chase
Christine Tremarco
1. The Chick and the Hairy Guy
60m
It's 1974, and fifteen-year-olds Ben, Doug and Philip are best mates at a Birmingham grammar school King William's. Ben's older sister Lois isn't much luckier in love, resorting to arranging a date through the personal ads. Her date is a guitarist and self-professed 'Hairy Guy'.For the parents, life is more complicated. Ben's father Colin has no romantic problems but plenty of work worries - he's middle management at the strife-ridden Longbridge car factory, where Doug's father Bill is shop steward and an active Union man. Meanwhile, clandestine love is in the air with Bill playing away from home with Miriam, a colleague, and Philip's mum Barbara being pursued by the charming Nigel Plumb, Philip's art teacher.... But will Barbara succumb to Plumb and risk her marriage to Sam? For Lois, life has got better and better. She's fallen for Malcolm and he's equally smitten. But his proposal of marriage ends in tragedy when the couple are caught up in the IRA bomb in a pub in Birmingham city c
2. The Maws of Doom
2005-02-02
3. Look Over Your Shoulder
