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Our Friends in the North

Year:

1999

Duration:

623 min (9 parts)

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

8.7

Director:

Simon Cellan Jones

Awards:

9 wins & 6 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1999-09-30

Filming Locations: London, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Daniel Casey

Our Friends in the North

Christopher Eccleston

Nicky Hutchinson

Mark Strong

Tosker Cox

Gina McKee

Mary Cox

Daniel Craig

Geordie Peacock

Peter Vaughan

Felix Hutchinson

David Bradley

Eddie Wells

Freda Dowie

Florrie Hutchinson (7 episodes, 1996)

Alun Armstrong

Austin Donohue

Malcolm McDowell

Benny Barrett

Danny Webb

Detective Inspector Ron Conrad

David Schofield

DCI John Salway

Geoffrey Hutchings

John Edwards (4 episodes, 1996)

Donald Sumpter

Commander Harold Chapple

Frank Couchman

Patrick Soulsby

Rod Culbertson

Bede Connor

Tony Haygarth

Roy Johnson

Tracey Wilkinson

Elaine Cox / ... (3 episodes, 1996)

Peter Jeffrey

Commisioner Colin Blamire

John Dair

Charlie Dawson (3 episodes, 1996)

Mark Drewry

Michael Frisch (3 episodes, 1996)

Louise Salter

Julia Allen (3 episodes, 1996)

Anne Orwin

Mrs Weightman (3 episodes, 1996)

Saskia Wickham

Claudia Seabrook (3 episodes, 1996)

Val McLane

Rita Cox (3 episodes, 1996)

Tony Hodge

Brian Cox

Julian Fellowes

Claud Seabrook

David Begg

Billy Shaughnessy (2 episodes, 1996)

Terence Rigby

Berger

Trevor Fox

Harry (2 episodes, 1996)

Harriet Keevil

Helen Windsor (2 episodes, 1996)

Craig Conway

Christopher Collins

Granville Saxton

Commissioner Jellicoe (2 episodes, 1996)

Larry Lamb

Alan Roe

Leon Lissek

Walensky

Chris Walker

DCI Paul Boyd (2 episodes, 1996)

Andrew Grainger

Detective Constable Fred Black

Gavin Muir

Father Kyle (2 episodes, 1996)

Siobhan Burke

Lucille (2 episodes, 1996)

Pete Lee-Wilson

Colin Butler

Elspeth Charlton

Mrs Soulsby (2 episodes, 1996)

Jack McBride

Mr Soulsby

Harry Herring

Arthur Watson (2 episodes, 1996)

Sam Lathem

Bouncer / ... (2 episodes, 1996)

Mark Pegg

Detective Constable Tony Weir

Did you know?

Trivia

The first director approached to helm the production was Danny Boyle. Boyle was keen to direct all nine episodes, which concerned Charles Pattinson as he believed that for one director to take charge of the entire serial would be too punishing a schedule for whoever was chosen. Boyle had recently completed work on the feature film Shallow Grave (1994), and wanted to see how that film was received before committing to Our Friends in the North. When Shallow Grave proved to be a critical success and enabled Boyle to enter pre-production on Trainspotting (1996) he withdrew from Our Friends in the North. Peter Hall was also briefly considered, but he too had other production commitments.

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Because of earlier production problems the scenes of the polling station and most of the whole episode had to be shot again, originally this was shot in the winter months, but had to be re-shot in the summer months and made to look convincingly like it was cold.

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The episode titles "1964", "1966", "1967", "1970", "1974", "1979", "1984", "1987" and "1995" were the years in which the action took place. Many of these (1964, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1979 and 1987) were years in which General Elections took place in the UK, against which the events of the episodes were set.

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Quotes

Benny Barratt: Women are rubbish, Geordie. Most people are rubbish, but all women are.

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Nicky Hutchinson: [to the driver how dropped him off, first lines] Cheers mate

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Nicky Hutchinson: Tomorrow is too late.

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