Oil Strike North | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Gerard Glaister |
Starring |
Nigel Davenport Glyn Owen Barbara Shelley Angela Douglas |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Producer | Gerard Glaister |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 26 August 18 November 1975 | –
Oil Strike North is a BBC television drama series produced in 1975. [1] [2]
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]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | "Deadline" [9] | Unknown | Unknown | 26 August 1975 |