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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Together

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    Southern Television’s Together debuted on 24 January 1980 with no small amount of fanfare for a daytime show from one of the smaller franchises.

    Created by Coronation Street scriptwriting mainstay Adele Rose (who would go on to also create Byker Grove), the series was based in Rutherford Court, a new low-rise block of housing association flats in an overspill suburb.

    Together was originally filmed three days before transmission, enabling topical references to Geoffrey Howe’s budget and Chris Bonnington’s Everest expedition to be subtly inserted into the dialogue, Drop the Dead Donkey style.

    For the second series in 1981, the show was broadcast live. Scenes had to be carefully coordinated (with occasional pre-recorded elements inserted) and fingers crossed.

    Storyline controversy was introduced with the introduction of openly gay tenant Peter Hunt (Stephen Churchett, later the Mitchell brothers’ solicitor in EastEnders).

    Phrases like “nancy boy” and “bent as a three-quid note” were hurled around Rutherford Court’s communal areas, while Southern readied the afternoon audience with some mollifying words; “Gays are now part of everyday life”, said a spokesman, “but we are ready for a few furious phone calls”.

    Together was eventually doomed to die off along with its parent company as franchise upheavals replaced Southern with TVS.

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    Dora Klein
    Hilda Fenemore
    Richard Dunn
    Richard Everett
    Julie Dunn
    Gillian Bailey
    Martha Finch
    Kathleen Byron
    Sarah Cunningham
    Delena Kidd
    Daphne Porter
    Margaretta Scott
    Mike Gowers
    Jonty Miller
    Trevor Wallace
    Paul Hastings
    Susi Powell
    Carol Hawkins
    Geoff Powell
    Brian Jameson
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