BBC television drama series
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
- "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]
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