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Oil Strike North is a BBC television drama series produced in 1975.[1][2]

Oil Strike North
Genre	Drama
Created by	Gerard Glaister
Starring	Nigel Davenport Glyn Owen Barbara Shelley Angela Douglas
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer	Gerard Glaister
Production company	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	26 August (1975-08-26) – 18 November 1975 (1975-11-18)

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

• Nigel Davenport - Jim Fraser
• Glyn Owen - Jack Mullery
• Barbara Shelley - Elaine Smythe
• Angela Douglas - Julie Ward
• Michael Witney - Frank Ward
• Calum Mill - Angus Gallacher
• Angela Cheyne - Shona Campbell
• Andrew Robertson - Donald Cameron
• Richard Hurndall - Charles Wayman
• Sean Caffrey - Evans
• Maurice Roëves - McGraw

Episodes

• Deadline[9]
• 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

External links

• Oil Strike North at IMDb

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