The Grimleys (1999)

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

3 seasons, 22 episodes

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy drama set in a working class area of England in the 1970s. It follows the lives of a family and their neighbors on a council estate. The show mixes humor with the struggles of everyday life.

britishnostalgicmelancholicquirkydown-to-earthwrybittersweetgritty

What happens

The Grimleys is a comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series. The show was written by Jed Mercurio, who had trained as a doctor and whose first series, Cardiac Arrest – written under the pseudonym 'John MacUre' – had attracted critical plaudits for its dark portrayal of life in a disintegrating British National Health Service. The filming of the school took place in Salford, Buile Hill High, Hope High, and Pendleton College, and the characters' homes were filmed on Gatesgarth Road in Langley, Greater Manchester. Later series featured location filming in Dudley, including a scene at Dudley Zoo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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