Rocket Man (2005)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

3.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A recently widowed Welsh father tries to build a rocket to launch his wife's ashes into space. He raises his two kids in a small coastal town hit by economic hardship.

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What happens

Rocket Man is a BBC television drama series produced in 2005 by Philip Leach, about a recently widowed Welsh man who is struggling to build a rocket in which to launch his wife's ashes into space while raising his two children. It was created by Alison Hume, directed by Jon East (episodes 1 and 2), Jane Prowse (episodes 3 and 4) and James Strong (episodes 5 and 6), and stars Robson Green, Charles Dale, John Rhys Halliwell and Lucy Evans, with Alison Newman, Janine Wood, Kay Bridgeman, Kai Owen, Dave Hill, Philip Whitchurch and Marcus Smith in supporting roles, among others. The six hour-long episodes in the series were set in coastal Wales, in a town devastated by the closure of the local carriage works though filmed in Druridge Bay, Northumberland. According to the sign on the local chocolate bonbon factory appearing in Episode 1 where George, Barney, Diane et al. work, the exact location where the set is (fictional) Tonglas, in Newport. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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