GBH (and other classic C4 drama)

Not watched it, but saw it advertised as on More4 - GBH.

It's a classic C4 drama and I assumed it was just a two parter or something, but according to http://www.epguides.com it actually ran for 7 x 90 minute episodes back in 1991.


So anyone got any details on more C4 (original) drama series from the eighties and early nineties - and do you think any more may crop up on More4?

The only ones I can remember are those Dennis Potter dramas which screened on both BBC1 and C4, premiering on one and then being repeated on the other.


C4's current wave of dramas really began with Teachers around 2000/2001 - though this was predated by legal drama North Square, which despite getting very positive reviews, didn't get a second series.

Dennis Potter's last series made in his lifetime 'Lipstick On Your Collar' was made by Channel 4 and was shown in 1993, 6x60 mins, 21/02/93 to 28/03/93.

'Porterhouse Blue', adapted from the Tom Sharpe novel, was a major drama serial on C4 in about 1987. I think it was 6 x 60 mins also. It starred David Jason and Ian Richardson among others.

There was also the adaptation of Anthony Powell's 'Dance to the Music of Time' novels, which was shown in about 1996/7. It starred James Purefoy.

And no matter what your opinions on the series 'Queer as Folk' was probably one of C4's best known original drama series. It was brodacast in February 1999, and in my opinion is one of the most important drama series ever made.

Forgot about Queer as Folk.

Also, just notice on epguides.com Lock Stock, which aired in 2000.

In the last few years it's been three or four major drama series a year for C4, but I'm guessing in it's earlier days it was just the one or two a year!

I've just seen a very young Jane Danson (from Corrie) in this. She was credited as Jane Dawson however.

I didn't get in until 11.30pm last night, but I caught most of it on More4 +1 and I've been meaning to catch it as it's looked really good from the trailers, and I'm glad I tuned in as it was really good, a good mix of comedy too, especially when the guy of the passing coach mixed up Robert Lindsay for Leslie Grantham, you'll get the joke if you watched it.

I told my dad it was on, as he liked watching it at the time, plus he told me parts of it were filmed in the Warrington area, so I was on the lookout....