4.8 /10 1 Votes
Genre Drama Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 1 Final episode date 18 November 1975 Number of episodes 13 | 4.7/10 TV Created by Gerard Glaister Original language(s) English First episode date 26 August 1975 Network BBC One Program creator Gerard Glaister | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starring Nigel Davenport
Glyn Owen
Barbara Shelley
Angela Douglas Cast Nigel Davenport, Angela Douglas, Barbara Shelley, Michael Witney, Glyn Owen Similar The Brothers, Howards' Way, The Borderers, The Man in Room 17, The Troubleshooters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oil Strike North is a BBC television drama series produced in 1975.
The series was created and produced by Gerard Glaister and dealt with life on Nelson One, a North Sea oil rig owned by the fictional company Triumph Oil. Eschewing the corporate power struggles of Mogul / The Troubleshooters and concentrating on more personal storylines, Oil Strike North was essentially a character study of how workers faced life on the rig and the impact it had on the lives of their families and loved ones.
Oil Strike North lasted for one series of thirteen episodes. Gerard Glaister later moved on to produce the Second World War resistance drama Secret Army, the air freight series Buccaneer and then onto the boating soap serial Howards' Way. Two of the leading actors in Oil Strike North, Nigel Davenport and Glyn Owen, also later appeared in Howards' Way.
The scenario was later revived by the BBC for the mid-1990s drama Roughnecks.