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Nightingale's Boys

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Starring
  
Derek Farr

No. of series
  
1

Running time
  
50 minutes

First episode date
  
14 January 1975

Number of series
  
1

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
7

Original network
  
Granada

Number of episodes
  
7

Similar
  
Keep It in the Family, The Human Jungle, Armchair Theatre, The Fall and Rise of Reginald, Emergency – Ward 10

Nightingale's Boys is a drama series of seven plays about the reunion of a group of friends from school, brought together after twenty-five years by their form teacher, Mr. Nightingale.

Contents

Cast

  • Derek Farr - Mr Nightingale
  • Pauline Yates - Margaret
  • Terry Gilligan - Nick Selby
  • Michael Hawkins - Hal Crowther
  • Plot

    A group of middle-aged men from Northern England who were each in the same class in 1949 are brought back together by their form teacher, Bill Nightingale, and find that each of them is at a turning points in his life.

    Episodes

    Tweety (by Arthur Hopcraft)

    Izzy (by C P Taylor)

    Big Sid (by Jack Rosenthal)

    Flossie (by Colin Spencer)

    Spivvy (by John Finch)

    "A. J." (by Alexander Baron)

    Decision (by Arthur Hopcraft)

    DVD release

    Network DVD released the complete series on DVD in 2012.

    References

    Nightingale's Boys Wikipedia