Oil Strike North

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Oil Strike North
GenreDrama
Created by Gerard Glaister
Starring Nigel Davenport
Glyn Owen
Barbara Shelley
Angela Douglas
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes13
Production
Producer Gerard Glaister
Production company BBC
Original release
Network BBC1
Release26 August (1975-08-26) –
18 November 1975 (1975-11-18)

Oil Strike North is a BBC television drama series produced in 1975. [1] [2]

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The series was created and produced by Gerard Glaister and dealt with life on Nelson One, a North Sea oil rig owned by the fictional company Triumph Oil. [3] [4] Eschewing the corporate power struggles of Mogul / The Troubleshooters and concentrating on more personal storylines, Oil Strike North was essentially a character study of how workers faced life on the rig and the impact it had on the lives of their families and loved ones. [5]

Oil Strike North lasted for one series of thirteen episodes. [4] Gerard Glaister later moved on to produce the Second World War resistance drama Secret Army , the air freight series Buccaneer and then onto the boating soap serial Howards' Way . [6] Two of the leading actors in Oil Strike North, Nigel Davenport and Glyn Owen, also later appeared in Howards' Way. [7]

The scenario was later revived by the BBC for the mid-1990s drama Roughnecks . [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Oil Strike North (TV series)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Oil Strike North". 23 September 1975. p. 47 – via BBC Genome.
  3. 1 2 "Quiet Day (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Oil Strike North | Nostalgia Central". 22 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Oil Strike North". 26 August 1975. p. 32 – via BBC Genome.
  6. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Glaister, Gerard (1915-2005) Biography". screenonline.org.uk.
  7. ↑ "Howard's Way[02/10/88] (1988)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Roughnecks". 16 November 1995. p. 106 – via BBC Genome.
  9. ↑ "Deadline (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "Storm Clouds (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  11. ↑ "Oil Strike North (BBC-1 1975, Nigel Davenport, Angela Douglas)". 30 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "The Decision (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  13. ↑ "The Floating Bomb (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  14. ↑ "It Depends Where You Stand (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  15. ↑ "Shore Leave (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  16. ↑ "Workhorse (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  17. ↑ "Time of Hazard (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  18. ↑ "The Fatal Hours Part 1 (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.


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