Rainbow City (TV series)
BBC television series from 1967 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rainbow City is a British television series made by the BBC and shown in 1967. It was created and produced by John Elliot.[1]
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Rainbow City | |
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Genre | Legal drama |
Created by | John Elliot |
Starring | Errol John Horace James Gemma Jones |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Producers | John Elliot Alan Rees |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 1 July (1967-07-01) ā 9 August 1967 (1967-08-09) |
The series was the first British TV series to feature a black actor, Errol John as the lead character.[2] John starred as John Steele, a black solicitor, and the series dealt with his personal and professional problems living and working in the multi-ethnic community of Birmingham. John Elliot had been approached by the head of programmes for BBC Birmingham to develop a series about the Caribbean community in Great Britain. Elliot wrote several episodes in collaboration with Trinidadian actor, Horace James, who was cast in one of the other main roles.[1] The series was shot at the BBC's Gosta Green studio in Birmingham. Five of the six episodes survive.[2]
Mary, Steele's white wife, was played by Gemma Jones, later the star of the BBC's The Duchess of Duke Street.