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]

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Deadline"[9]UnknownUnknown26 August 1975 (1975-08-26)
  • "Quiet Day"[3]
  • "Storm Clouds"[10]
  • "First Lion"[11]
  • "The Decision"[12]
  • "The Floating Bomb"[13]
  • "It Depends Where You Stand"[14]
  • "Shore Leave"[15]
  • "Workhorse"[16]
  • "Time of Hazard"[17]
  • "Headhunters"[4]
  • "The Fatal Hours (part 1)"[18]
  • "The Fatal Hours (part 2)"[4]

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. ^ a b "Quiet Day (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "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.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Strike_North
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