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Features a lot of contemporary politics, particularly of the trade union variety.
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Features a lot of contemporary politics, particularly of the trade union variety.
variety. [[UsefulNotes/ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion Class differences run very thick through the entire series.]] There are also episodes dealing with UsefulNotes/TheTroubles and the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar.
* TheHeroDies: Jack Ford is ultimately killed [[spoiler:gun-running for the Republic in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar]] in the last two episodes.
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* UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar: [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Jack Ford]] is ultimately killed]] gun-running for the Republic in the last two episodes.
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* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles: Two of Jack's old war buddies arrive in Gallowshields. One is a member of the IRA. The other is part of the infamous "Black and Tans". Both end up being killed in a shootout at Gallowshields station.
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* UsefulNotes/ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion: Class differences run very thick through the entire series.
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* RealLifeRelative: Jessie Seaton, who Jack briefly has a relationship with is played by Susan Jameson, who was and still is married to James Bolam.
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cross-wicking
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* UsefulNotes/ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion: Class differences run very thick through the entire series.
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* UsefulNotes/ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion: Class differences run very thick through the entire series.series.
* WorthlessCurrency: Russian sailor Kaganovich comes to England to confront Jack Ford and to recover the money his father paid him to smuggle him out of revolutionary Russia. Ford hands over every penny, unspent; Kaganovich Senior had paid him in money issued by Kerensky's Provisional Government, which became worthless when Lenin's Bolshevik Government issued a new currency.
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* WorthlessCurrency: Russian sailor Kaganovich comes to England to confront Jack Ford and to recover the money his father paid him to smuggle him out of revolutionary Russia. Ford hands over every penny, unspent; Kaganovich Senior had paid him in money issued by Kerensky's Provisional Government, which became worthless when Lenin's Bolshevik Government issued a new currency.
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* UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar
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* UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWarUsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar: [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Jack Ford]] is ultimately killed]] gun-running for the Republic in the last two episodes.
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* BritishLaws: A good amount of play is had with period British divorce laws; which essentially require Tom Seaton and Jack's wife, pregnant by Tom, to live apart until her divorce from Jack is finalised and require "proof" of adultery on Jack's part.
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-->'''Extract from the ThemeTune''', based on a Northumberland folk song
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-->Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy\\
Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in.
Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in.
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Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in."''
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* BritishAccents: A lot of Geordie and associated accents here.
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* BritishAccents (a lot of Geordie and associated accents here)
* BritishLaws (a good amount of play is had with period British divorce laws; which essentially require Tom Seaton and Jack's wife, pregnant by Tom, to live apart until her divorce from Jack is finalised and require "proof" of adultery on Jack's part)
* TheChessmaster (Jack himself, who does prison time for theft to get himself elected as head of the local branch of the Amalgamated Union of Fitters, a £400 a year position. He gets industrialist Sir Horatio Manners to give his fitters an increase in one pence on the hourly rate by pointing out that if he goes for not doing it, his successor will strike. When Sir Horatio calls in the favour by asking him to use his union role to slow down a rival machining company, Ford identifies that the company is using unsafe machines- and so is Sir Horatio. So they're both shut down)
* NoOSHACompliance (One episode sees someone who is catching red hot rivets in a bucket as they're thrown down to him. It does not end well- he gets hit in the chest by one and dies as a result)
* OopNorth (the fictional town of Gallowshields)
* RealLifeRelative (Jessie Seaton, who Jack briefly has a relationship with is played by Susan Jameson, who was and still is married to James Bolam)
* BritishLaws (a good amount of play is had with period British divorce laws; which essentially require Tom Seaton and Jack's wife, pregnant by Tom, to live apart until her divorce from Jack is finalised and require "proof" of adultery on Jack's part)
* TheChessmaster (Jack himself, who does prison time for theft to get himself elected as head of the local branch of the Amalgamated Union of Fitters, a £400 a year position. He gets industrialist Sir Horatio Manners to give his fitters an increase in one pence on the hourly rate by pointing out that if he goes for not doing it, his successor will strike. When Sir Horatio calls in the favour by asking him to use his union role to slow down a rival machining company, Ford identifies that the company is using unsafe machines- and so is Sir Horatio. So they're both shut down)
* NoOSHACompliance (One episode sees someone who is catching red hot rivets in a bucket as they're thrown down to him. It does not end well- he gets hit in the chest by one and dies as a result)
* OopNorth (the fictional town of Gallowshields)
* RealLifeRelative (Jessie Seaton, who Jack briefly has a relationship with is played by Susan Jameson, who was and still is married to James Bolam)
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* TheRoaringTwenties (They're not that roaring in Tyneside)
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* TitleDrop (In a subtle way. The episode title is usually worked into dialogue or obviously referenced at some point. When the end credits begin, the episode title appears again, allowing you to go "Ah! So that's what it means!")
* UsefulNotes/ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion (Class differences run very thick through the entire series)
* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles (Two of Jack's old war buddies arrive in Gallowshields. One is a member of the IRA. The other is part of the infamous "Black and Tans". Both end up being killed in a shootout at Gallowshields station)
* TitleDrop (In a subtle way. The episode title is usually worked into dialogue or obviously referenced at some point. When the end credits begin, the episode title appears again, allowing you to go "Ah! So that's what it means!")
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Tyneside.
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British drama series, showing on TheBBC running from 1976 to 1981 (three seasons from 1976-77 and a fourth in 1981), starring James Bolam as Jack Ford, a FirstWorldWar veteran who returns to his Tyneside town of Gallowshields.
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British drama series, showing on TheBBC Creator/TheBBC running from 1976 to 1981 (three seasons from 1976-77 and a fourth in 1981), starring James Bolam as Jack Ford, a FirstWorldWar UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar veteran who returns to his Tyneside town of Gallowshields.
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* TheTroubles (Two of Jack's old war buddies arrive in Gallowshields. One is a member of the IRA. The other is part of the infamous "Black and Tans". Both end up being killed in a shootout at Gallowshields station)
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* TheTroubles UsefulNotes/TheTroubles (Two of Jack's old war buddies arrive in Gallowshields. One is a member of the IRA. The other is part of the infamous "Black and Tans". Both end up being killed in a shootout at Gallowshields station)
