G.B.H. S1E1

Episodes

1. It Couldn't Happen Here

2. Only Here on a Message

3. Send a Message to Michael

4. Message Sent

5. Message Received

6. Message Understood

7. Over and Out

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G.B.H.

Drama

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.

Date: 06/06/1991

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters, Dearbhla Molloy, Tom Georgeson, Andrew Schofield, Alan Igbon, Michael Angelis, David Ross, Philip Whitchurch, Daniel Massey, Jane Danson, Peter-Hugo Daly, Paul Daneman, Bill Stewart, Julia St. John, Gareth Tudor Price, Colin Douglas, Jimmy Mulville, John Henshaw, Anna Friel, Hayley Fairclough, Edward Mallon, Daniel Street-Brown, Serena Harragin, Stephen Hall, Michelle Atkinson, Ayesa Toure, Michael Fernandez, Paul Oldham, Gary Mavers, Wayne Foskett, Niall Tóibín, Steve Halliwell, Clifford Rose, William Gaunt, Amanda Mealing, Cliff Howells, Paul Butterworth, David J. Nicholls, Freddie Fletcher, Peter Armitage, Arthur Spreckley, Jean Anderson, William Franklyn, James Tomlinson, Jake Abraham, Noreen Kershaw, Chris Hargreaves, Judith Barker, Debra Gillett, Chris Darwin, Ken Kitson, Kulvinder Ghir, Norman Mills, Ray Emmet Brown, Anthony Benson, Keith Clifford

Michael Palin