Release Date

06 Jun, 1991

Runtime

01:21: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

7/1

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

G.B.H.

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Specials

Season 1

06 Jun, 1991

Created By

Alan Bleasdale

Actors

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

Crew

Robert Young

Alan Bleasdale

Elvis Costello

Alan Bleasdale

David E. Jones

Verity Lambert