Nightingale's Boys

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Nightingale's Boys
Nightingale's Boys.jpg
Starring Derek Farr
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series1
No. of episodes7
Production
Running time50 minutes
Original release
Network Granada
Release14 January 1975 (1975-01-14)

Nightingale's Boys is a drama series of seven plays about the reunion of a group of friends from school, brought together after twenty-five years by their form teacher, Mr. Nightingale. [1]

Contents

Cast

Plot

A group of middle-aged men from Northern England who were each in the same class in 1949 are brought back together by their form teacher, Bill Nightingale, and find that each of them is at a turning points in his life.

Episodes

Tweety (by Arthur Hopcraft)

Izzy (by C P Taylor)

Big Sid (by Jack Rosenthal)

Flossie (by Colin Spencer)

Spivvy (by John Finch)

"A. J." (by Alexander Baron)

Decision (by Arthur Hopcraft)

DVD release

Network DVD released the complete series on DVD in 2012. [2]

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References

  1. British Video Association
  2. The Digital Fix