Oil Strike North is a BBC television drama series produced in 1975. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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. John Leslie "Gerard" Glaister DFC, ( December 21, 1915 &ndash February 5, 2005) was a British Television The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. 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. The Troubleshooters (titled Mogul for the first season is a British Television series made by
The scenario was later revived by the BBC for the mid-1990s drama Roughnecks. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Roughnecks was a BBC television series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One.
Oil Strike North lasted for one series of thirteen episodes. The leading cast members included Nigel Davenport, Glyn Owen, Barbara Shelley, Angela Douglas, Andrew Robertson, Richard Hurndall, Sean Caffrey and Maurice Roeves. Nigel Davenport (born 23 May 1928) is an English stage television and film actor Glyn (Griffith Owen ( 6 March 1928 &ndash 10 September 2004) was a British stage and television Actor. Barbara Shelley (born August 15, 1933) is a British film and television actress Angela Douglas (born 29 October 1940) is an English Actress. She was born as Angela MacDonagh in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire Andrew Robertson is a British actor remembered for his performance in The Cement Garden and other roles on Television. Richard Gibbon Hurndall ( November 3, 1910 &ndash April 13, 1984) was an English stage radio film and television actor Sean Caffrey (born 15 April 1940 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) is an actor Maurice Roëves (born 19 March 1937 in Sunderland) is an English born actor raised in Glasgow, Scotland.
Gerard Glaister later moved onto to produce the Second World War resistance drama Secret Army, the air freight series Buccaneer and then onto the boating soap serial Howards' Way. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Secret Army is a BBC television drama series created by Gerard Glaister. Buccaneer is a short-lived Television series made by the BBC in 1980. Howards' Way was a Television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC1 between 1985 and 1990 Two of the leading actors in Oil Strike North, Nigel Davenport and Glyn Owen, also later appeared in Howards' Way.
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