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Oil Strike North
BBC television drama series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Cast
- Nigel Davenport - Jim Fraser
- Glyn Owen - Jack Mullery
- Barbara Shelley - Elaine Smythe
- Angela Douglas - Julie Ward
- Michael Witney - Frank Ward
- Calum Mill - Angus Gallacher
- Angela Cheyne - Shona Campbell
- Andrew Robertson - Donald Cameron
- Richard Hurndall - Charles Wayman
- Sean Caffrey - Evans
- Maurice Roëves - McGraw
Episodes
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