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* PlayingGertrude: The four main actors play their characters way into middle-age. This required them being heavily made-up.
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* AdaptedOut: The series removed a number of scenes set in Rhodesia, including a subplot involving Geordie working as a mercenary putting down resistance.
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* AdaptedOut: AdaptationExpansion: The original 1982 stageplay was a three-hour production about a group of friends dealing with the fluctuations of British politics between 1964 and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's election in 1979. The series removed a number of scenes set in Rhodesia, including a is nine episodes long (although it also drops an entire subplot involving Geordie working as a mercenary putting down resistance.in Rhodesia) and continues to follow them through the Thatcher years and into New Labour. The 2022 radio version adds a tenth episode taking them into the 21st century.
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* TheGhost: Mary Benson, the girl Geordie got pregnant and is expected to marry at the start of the series. Neither she, nor her unborn child are ever mentioned again after the first episode.
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* HateSink: Amazingly, there are characters who are more despicable than a Soho porn baron - Geordie's father (an abusive drunkard), Colin Butler (a smarmy git who ruins Nicky's political chances with a smear campaign and undermines Eddie Wells) and Christopher Collins (a delinquent who treats his own son like shit).
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* HateSink: Amazingly, there are characters who are more despicable than a Soho porn baron - Geordie's father (an abusive drunkard), Colin Butler (a smarmy git who ruins Nicky's political chances with a smear campaign and undermines Eddie Wells) and Wells), Christopher Collins (a delinquent who treats his own son like shit).shit) and his stepfather (a sleazy neglectful lout who assaults the elderly Felix).
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* HorribleHousing: Austin Donohue and John Edwards tear down the slums in Willow Lane to make way for council flats. Mary and Tosker live in said flats, which decay over time. By the time Geordie is living there in ''1979'', they've deteriorated to the point where they're condemmed and demolished.
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* HorribleHousing: Austin Donohue and John Edwards tear down the slums in Willow Lane to make way for council flats. Mary and Tosker live in said flats, which decay over time. By the time Geordie is living there in ''1979'', "1979", they've deteriorated to the point where they're condemmed and demolished.
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* PrematurelyBald: A major source of angst for Tosker, who desperately tries to cover his bald patch with a combover.
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* PrematurelyBald: A major source of angst for Tosker, who desperately tries to cover his bald patch with a combover. By 1984, he's bald.
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* TheScapegoat: In "1970", Benny Barrett sends Geordie on a break to Brighton. When he comes back, he finds his drawers filled with pornography and he's arrested. It turns out that Benny set him up as a fall guy in retaliation for having an affair with his mistress.
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* SelfMadeMan: Tosker goes from wannabe musician to factory worker, to running a fruit and veg van, to becoming a successful businessman.
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Both Nicky and Geordie in their own ways. The former becomes embittered and cynical as he grows older, the latter [[spoiler:becomes a drunken vagrant. In a subtle bit of foreshadowing, Geordie even reassuringly asks Tosker if he's anything like his dad]].
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** Both Nicky and Geordie in their own ways. The former becomes embittered and cynical as he grows older, the latter [[spoiler:becomes a drunken vagrant. In a subtle bit of foreshadowing, Geordie even reassuringly asks Tosker if he's anything like hisdad]].dad]].
** Sean Collins is a juvenile delinquent from a broken home and neglectful parents just like his father Christopher was. The difference is that Sean is way more tragic than his father.
** Both Nicky and Geordie in their own ways. The former becomes embittered and cynical as he grows older, the latter [[spoiler:becomes a drunken vagrant. In a subtle bit of foreshadowing, Geordie even reassuringly asks Tosker if he's anything like his
** Sean Collins is a juvenile delinquent from a broken home and neglectful parents just like his father Christopher was. The difference is that Sean is way more tragic than his father.
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In 2022, Flannery remade the series for BBC radio, complete with a tenth episode set in 2020.
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* AbsenteeActor: Geordie doesn't appear in "1984". [[spoiler:The next episode shows him as a homeless vagrant]].
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* RaisedCatholic: Nicky. When his parents find a machine gun under his bed, Florrie goes to church, presumably to pray for his soul. Also, this exchange from the first episode:
-->'''Nicky''': Fuck me, Geordie.
-->'''Geordie''': No thanks, I'm not shagging any more Catholics.
-->'''Nicky''': Fuck me, Geordie.
-->'''Geordie''': No thanks, I'm not shagging any more Catholics.
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* VengeanceDenied: In "1974", Geordie tracks down Benny Barrett with the intention of killing him in revenge for setting him up and getting him imprisoned. Just when he's about to kill him at a restaurant, Benny gets arrested.
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* BludgeonedToDeath: Benny beats his treacherous henchman Cyril to death with a stick, then tells his rivals to take "that piece of rubbish" with them and dump him somewhere.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Benny beats his treacherous henchman Cyril to death.
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* SleepingWithTheBosssWife: Geordie spends 1966-70 working for Benny Barrett, but ruins it by having an affair with Barrett's mistress, Julia.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Colin Butler's smear campaign against Nicky and his extreme beliefs disgust Claudia Seabrooke and his fellow Tories so much that they sack him from the party.
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* FourElementEnsemble: Nicky is earth, Geordie fire, Tosker water and Mary air.
* FreeRangeChildren: Sean Collins is being allowed to run wild, neglected by both mother and father and spending his time joyriding.
* GenerationXerox: Christopher Collins' son Sean turns out like his father, a juvenile delinquent from a broken home who gets into trouble.
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-->"One last thing, Colin. ''Fuck off'', you scruffy little man. Back to your scruffy little friends".
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* AdaptationExpansion: The original play ended in 1979 with UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's rise to power. Given the amount of time that had passed when the series got made, Flannery expanded the story.
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* AdaptationExpansion: AdaptationalTimespanChange: The original play ended in 1979 with UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's rise to power. Given the amount of time that had passed when the series got made, Flannery expanded the story.
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* ResignInDisgrace: In "1987", Eddie Wells is planning on exposing corruption in the government. Nicky discovers that his researcher Francine is in fact a plant by Colin Butler, who has leaked false information to Eddie. Nicky manages to inform Eddie of this set up right before he is due to start questioning Butler in a Select Committee, and embarrassingly Eddie has to give up his planned exposé. Utterly humiliated, Eddie decides to retire with as much grace as possible.
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* ResignInDisgrace: ResignedInDisgrace: In "1987", Eddie Wells is planning on exposing corruption in the government. Nicky discovers that his researcher Francine is in fact a plant by Colin Butler, who has leaked false information to Eddie. Nicky manages to inform Eddie of this set up right before he is due to start questioning Butler in a Select Committee, and embarrassingly Eddie has to give up his planned exposé. Utterly humiliated, Eddie decides to retire with as much grace as possible.
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* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: Geordie is The Hunter (leaves Newcastle to find his fortune in London, but lacks clear direction), Tosker is The Lord (becomes rich and successful) and Nicky is The Prophet (had aspirations to change the world).
