Our Girl is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, which follows the lives of those in the British Army. The show's feature-length pilot episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. [1] Following the episode, a series was commissioned. [1] The show's first series consisted of five episodes and aired between 21 September and 19 October 2014. [2] The second series consisted of five episodes that aired from 7 September to 5 October 2016. [2]
Shortly before series 2 ended, Our Girl was renewed for a third series. [3] Series 3 consisted of 12 episodes that were split into two units: [4] the first consisting of four episodes that aired from 10 to 21 October 2017, [2] and the second consisting of the remaining eight airing from 5 June to 24 July 2018. [2] The fourth series, which was announced in 2019, [5] consisted of six episodes airing from 24 March to 28 April 2020. [2] [6] [7] In August 2020, after Michelle Keegan departed from the series, it was announced that Our Girl would not be renewed for a fifth series. [8]
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [9] |
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"Pilot" | David Drury | Tony Grounds | 24 March 2013 | 6.31 |
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [9] |
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1 | 1 | "Time" | Anthony Philipson | Tony Grounds | 21 September 2014 | 5.22 |
2 | 2 | "Feelings" | Anthony Philipson | Tony Grounds | 28 September 2014 | 4.90 |
3 | 3 | "Changes" | Richard Senior | Tony Grounds | 5 October 2014 | 4.81 |
4 | 4 | "Love" | Richard Senior | Tony Grounds | 12 October 2014 | 5.28 |
5 | 5 | "Heroes" | Anthony Philipson | Tony Grounds | 19 October 2014 | 4.92 |
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [9] |
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6 | 1 | "Lane" | Jan Matthys | Tony Grounds | 7 September 2016 | 6.23 |
7 | 2 | "Going On" | Jan Matthys | Tony Grounds | 14 September 2016 | 6.23 |
8 | 3 | "Look Now" | Jan Matthys | Tony Grounds | 21 September 2016 | 6.06 |
9 | 4 | "Ready" | Luke Snellin | Tony Grounds | 28 September 2016 | 5.79 |
10 | 5 | "Afterwards" | Luke Snellin | Tony Grounds | 5 October 2016 | 6.03 |
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [9] | ||||||
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Part 1 | ||||||||||||
11 | 1 | "Nepal Tour: Episode 1" | Tim Fywell | Tony Grounds | 10 October 2017 | 6.30 | ||||||
12 | 2 | "Nepal Tour: Episode 2" | Tim Fywell | Tony Grounds | 17 October 2017 | 5.73 | ||||||
13 | 3 | "Nepal Tour: Episode 3" | Jon Wright | Amy Roberts & Loren Mclaughlan | 24 October 2017 | 5.51 | ||||||
14 | 4 | "Nepal Tour: Episode 4" | Jon Wright | Tony Grounds | 31 October 2017 | 5.36 | ||||||
Part 2 | ||||||||||||
15 | 5 | "Nigeria Tour: Episode 1" | Rob Evans | Tony Grounds | 5 June 2018 | 5.00 | ||||||
16 | 6 | "Nigeria Tour: Episode 2" | Rob Evans | Tony Grounds | 12 June 2018 | 4.73 | ||||||
17 | 7 | "Belize Tour: Episode 1" | Noreen Kershaw | Tony Grounds | 19 June 2018 | 5.32 | ||||||
18 | 8 | "Belize Tour: Episode 2" | Noreen Kershaw | Tony Grounds | 26 June 2018 | 5.42 | ||||||
19 | 9 | "Bangladesh Tour: Episode 1" | Brian Grant | Tony Grounds | 4 July 2018 [a] | 4.18 | ||||||
20 | 10 | "Bangladesh Tour: Episode 2" | Brian Grant | Kelly Jones | 17 July 2018 [b] | 4.65 | ||||||
21 | 11 | "Bangladesh Tour: Episode 3" | Sarah O'Gorman | Tony Grounds | 23 July 2018 [c] | 4.47 | ||||||
22 | 12 | "Bangladesh Tour: Episode 4" | Sarah O'Gorman | Tony Grounds | 24 July 2018 | 4.67 |
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [9] |
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23 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Anthony Philipson | Tony Grounds | 24 March 2020 | 5.25 |
24 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Anthony Philipson | Tony Grounds | 31 March 2020 | 4.69 |
25 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Anthony Philipson | Tony Grounds | 7 April 2020 | 4.63 |
26 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Claire Winyard | Tony Grounds | 14 April 2020 | 4.35 |
27 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Claire Winyard | Matt Evans | 21 April 2020 | 4.29 |
28 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Claire Winyard | Tony Grounds | 28 April 2020 | 4.49 |
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