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| PRESTON
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- Written by Tim Firth
- Series 1
- Directed by Brian Farnham
- Produced by Chris Griffin
- Executive Producers Barry
Hanson and Chris Parr
- Series 2 & 3
- Directed by Chris Bernard
and Rick Stroud
- Produced by Bernard Krichefski
- Executive Producer Julian
Murphy
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Best
Comedy Drama, Comedy awards
RTS
Award for Best Series
Best
Series Award at the San Francisco Television Festival
Nominated
for BAFTA Award for Best Series
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Writer's
Guild of Great Britain Best Original Drama Series Award
RTS
Midlands Best Drama Series
Nominated
for British Comedy Awards
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- Starring:
- Series 1
- Colin Buchanan, Paul Haigh,
Stephen Tompkinson, David MacCreedy, Lucy Akhurst, Adrian Hood,
Kate Gartside, Kieran Flynn, Tony Marshall, Caroline Catz, Sam
Graham, Mark Fletcher, Darren Brown, Susan Wooldridge, Holiday
Grainger
- Series 2
- Colin Buchanan, Paul Haigh,
Caroline Catz, Lucy Akhurst, Alistair McGowan, Adrian Hood, Kate
Gartside, Tony Marshall, David MacCreedy, Susan Wooldridge, Holly
Grainger, Kieran Flynn, Sam Graham, Ozzie Yue, Nicky Henson
Series 3
- Colin Buchanan, Paul Haigh,
Corolyn Pickles, Oliver Cotton, Alistair McGowan, Caroline Catz,
Kate Gartside, Tony Marshall, Adrian Hood, David MacCreedy, Angela
Lonsdale, Keiran Flynn, Holly Grainger
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Many years ago .................
in the Lancashire town of Roker Bridge .............. two boys
called Hodge and Eric began a lifelong friendship.
Right from the first year infants
- when Hodge threw Eric's Thunderbird Two into the nettles and
then got seriously stung trying to get it back - thes good-looking
lad and his loser of a mate have pulled each other through life's
ups and downs.
Sixteen years later, with Eric
unemployed and Hodge selling grass seed and decoy ducks in a
garden centre, Eric talked Hodge into joining the Territorial
Army.
Thus the odd couple discovered
a whole new set of mates - Spock, the specky history teacher
who used to dodge rugby at school and avoid the showers; Lloydy
the man-mountain with the unhappy knack of messing up just about
everything; Ally, the soliciter's wife desperately searching
for her real self; Dawn, the gorgeous college student who hates
students and Diesel, the human dynamo with big ambitions.
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Lloydy & Spock (above),
Mel & Hodge (below), Hodge & Kirsty camping out and
(right) Jeanetta, Hodges former lover with her new man,
with Kirsty and Hodge.
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"I live in a town like
Roker Bridge and I'm surrounded by people just like the characters
in Preston Front."
"My old history teacher
was in the Territorial Army, but so were some fantastic looking girls.
I just thought it was a great way to put these people together.
The teacher became Spock and the girls became Dawn and Ally."
As one of a dwindling breed
of writers who are responsible for writing a whole series alone,
Tim is very protective of his creations: "There are elements
of me in all the characters. I always hoped I was like Hodge
(the handsome one played by Colin Buchanan), but if I'm
honest I have to admit I'm more like Spock, the pendantic teacher
or Eric the loveable loser."
"I've written every episode
of all three series - thta's 19 episodes in total. It would have
been much easier to have a team of writers, bit I feel that you
lose the original flavour of the writing. The down-side is that
it takes along time - I was asked to do a third series two years
ago, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to do it until
now."
And producer Bernard Krichefski
is full of praise for Tim's talent: "Much television drama
today is written to a formula dictated by script exedutives,
producers and even network controllers. It's not difficult to
spot the exceptions. Lloydy and Spock, Hodge, eric and Dawn and
the rest of the Roker Bridge crowd could not have been dreampt
up by a team of executives sitting in an office."
"They were conceived and
nurtured in the vivid imagination of Tim Firth. Presto Front
is the product of a single brilliant, creative writing talent.
I can only pray that they'll always be a bit of room in the schedules
for such originality."
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| Trivia |
Series 3 featured guest appearances
by the page3 model, Samantha Fox and racing driver Stirling Moss
as themselves
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| More... |
 ALL QUIET ON THE PRESTON FRONT -
All Three
Series are now available on DVD
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- TIMFIRTH.COM is pleased to announce that all three
series of the award winning ALL QUIET ON THE PRESTON FRONT
will be released on DVD this coming year. Series 1, series 2
and series 3 are available for purchase now.
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- Preston Front
was one of my favourite TV programmes ever. Please, please can
we have it available on DVD?!
Joan Sharman
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- I would love
All Quiet on the Preston Front to be released on DVD. It would
make my partners year!!!!
- Penny Collinson
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- Just wanted
to add my say to a release or re-run of Preston Front this was
one of the best tv series of the 90s I know a lot of people who
would love to see this wonderful comedy drama again and it is
criminal that there has been no DVD box set considering some
of the dross that does get released!
Scott Emery
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- I was lucky
enough to tape all 3 series when they were broadcast, still wonderful....after
all these years. come on do the decent thing and release them....see
what class writing does to a tv series.
Pete Webster
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- If All Quiet
On The Preston Front cannot be released on DVD yet (Why I don't
understand!), then why can it not be repeated on television,
so that we could at least record it for ourselves?!
Janice Williams
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- Please, please
please could we have All Quite on the Preston Front, Preston
Front II and III on dvd/video?? I loved watching them first time
around and after searching EVERYWHERE, I cannot seem to obtain
any of them on dvd or video! I for one would very much appreciate
them being available to buy. Thanks.
Julie King
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- Please can
you arrange to have Preston Front released on DVD? I loved that
program and I would love to see it again, it was so funny.
Kath Slaughter
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- Really need
Preston Front on DVD, Video just so I can explain to my husband,
who has never heard of it, just how fantastic it was. Also would
love to revisit my longstanding love for the series. Anyone with
influence please help. Many thanks.
- Krista
Felek
- "Preston
Front" just HAS to be given a general release on DVD for
the countless fans like
- myself who
loved every minute of the three brilliant series'. When you see
some of the dross released on DVD its hard to understand how
one of THE best dramas on TV in the past 20-odd years can be
ignored by the often namechecked "Powers That Be" -
but they've done it nevertheless ! Why was it so good ? I think
Lloydy put it best ......... "Makes Me Laugh !" Keep
trying guys - we'll get there one day.
No Name
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- Another request
for Preston Front on DVD. I was a huge fan of it at the time,
and when we see people like Colin Buchanan or Caroline Catz I
always go misty eyed for the days of Hodge, Eric, Dawn and the
others. My missus never saw it when it was shown, and it would
be great for her to see it, and I to be able reminisce about
this great series. Keep lobbying. We'll get there in the end!
- Natham
Spong
Absolutely
desperate to get Preston front on video (not quite modern enough
in our house for DVD yet!) - please somebody drop a hint to the
powers that be! Have a few of the last series from when they
were on way back in '97, and they always make me giggle! Can't
they at least repeat them on terrestrial TV?!
Sara R
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- I desperately
need Preston Front on DVD for a very much needed nostalgia boost,
so please, some pressure needed on "those in charge".
Toni Savage
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