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Overview

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.

The scenario was later revived by the BBC for the mid-1990s drama Roughnecks.

Oil Strike North lasted for one series of thirteen episodes. The leading cast members included Nigel Davenport, Glyn Owen, Barbara Shelley, Angela Douglas, Andrew Robertson, Richard Hurndall, Sean Caffrey and Maurice Roëves.

Gerard Glaister later moved onto 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.

  1. Gerard Glaister

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Nigel Davenport as

    Nigel Davenport

    13 Episodes

  2. Michael Witney as

    Michael Witney

    13 Episodes

  3. Angela Douglas as

    Angela Douglas

    13 Episodes

  4. Richard Hurndall as

    Richard Hurndall

    13 Episodes

  5. Barbara Shelley as

    Barbara Shelley

    13 Episodes

  6. Glyn Owen as

    Glyn Owen

    13 Episodes

  7. Andrew Robertson

    13 Episodes

  8. Maurice Roëves as

    Maurice Roëves

    3 Episodes

  9. Noel Johnson

    3 Episodes

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Last Season

Season 1

1975 • 13 Episodes

Season 1 of Oil Strike North premiered on August 26, 1975.

The Fatal Hours: Part 2

(1x13, November 18, 1975) Season Finale

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Oil Strike North
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Status Ended

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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