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Written by
  
Frederic Raphael

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
7

Final episode date
  
19 December 1984

Networks
  
BBC, BBC Two

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Genre
  
Drama

Theme music composer
  
Richard Holmes

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
14 November 1984

Number of episodes
  
7

Executive producer
  
James Cellan Jones

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Cast
  
David Suchet, Joanna Lumley, Malcolm Stoddard, Ian Charleson, Ciaran Madden

Similar
  
A Perfect Hero, It's Awfully Bad For Your Eye, Up in Town, NCS: Manhunt, Life Without George

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Oxbridge Blues is a British television mini-series, produced by the BBC and first shown in 1984. It is an anthology of seven 75-minute teleplays, most of which focus on relationships of one kind or another. Most of the teleplays except one take place in England; "He'll See You Now" takes place in the U.S., and "Sleeps Six" takes place in England and France. The series won the 1987 CableACE Award for Best Dramatic Series, and individual episodes garnered several other awards and nominations.

Contents

The eponymous first teleplay in the series, "Oxbridge Blues", was nominated for a BAFTA television award for Best Single Drama. The series was broadcast in the U.S. on A&E in 1986 and on PBS in 1988. In Australia, the series was broadcast on ABC in 1987.

The seven teleplays are dramatized from short stories by the novelist Frederic Raphael, and he described the series as "mostly kind of chamber pieces — modest dramas about love and sex and honour and marriage". Raphael directed one episode, James Cellan Jones directed four, and Richard Stroud directed two.

In December 1984, the BBC published the seven teleplays together in book form, entitled Oxbridge Blues and Other Plays for Television.

Episodes

Each episode of Oxbridge Blues is a separate and unrelated story, with different characters in each.

Main cast

  • Ian Charleson – Victor Geary ("Oxbridge Blues")
  • Rosalyn Landor – Wendy ("Oxbridge Blues")
  • Amanda Redman – Maxine ("Oxbridge Blues")
  • Michael Elphick – Curly Bonaventura ("Oxbridge Blues")
  • Malcolm Stoddard – Philip Geary ("Oxbridge Blues"); Michael ("Similar Triangles")
  • Kate Fahy – Eileen ("Similar Triangles"); Lizzie ("Cheap Day")
  • Ciaran Madden – Laura ("Cheap Day"); Rachel ("Similar Triangles")
  • Norman Rodway – Alec ("Cheap Day"); Narrator ("Similar Triangles")
  • Geoffrey Palmer – Fred ("Cheap Day")
  • Christopher Good – James ("Cheap Day")
  • Ben Kingsley – Geoff Craven ("Sleeps Six")
  • Diane Keen – Sherry Craven ("Sleeps Six")
  • Jeremy Child – Philip Witham ("Sleeps Six")
  • Jackie Smith-Wood – Lady Jane Witham ("Sleeps Six")
  • Susan Sarandon – Natalie ("He'll See You Now")
  • Barry Dennen – Dr. Stein ("He'll See You Now")
  • David Suchet – Colin ("The Muse")
  • Frances Tomelty – Angela Lane ("The Muse")
  • Carol Royle – Tory ("That Was Tory"); Ellen ("The Muse")
  • John Bird – Clive ("That Was Tory")
  • Joanna Lumley – GiGi ("That Was Tory")

    • Music

    The series theme music was composed by Richard Holmes, and sung by the English group Cantabile.

    Awards and nominations

  • The series won the 1987 CableACE Award for Best Dramatic Series.
  • The first episode, "Oxbridge Blues", was nominated for a BAFTA television award for Best Single Drama.
  • Susan Sarandon won the 1987 CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series for her performance in the episode "He'll See You Now".
  • Frederic Raphael won the 1987 CableACE Award for Best Writing a Dramatic Series, for episode "Sleeps Six".
  • Ben Kingsley was nominated for a CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series for his performance in the episode "Sleeps Six".

    • References

    Oxbridge Blues Wikipedia
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