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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Band Of Gold

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    1 9 9 5 – 1 9 9 6 (UK)
    18 x 50 minute episodes

    Set in Bradford, Band of Gold introduced viewers to the miserable world of life ‘on the game’.

    It featured four women who had taken up prostitution for differing reasons and wrapped their stories around the hunt for the murderer of young mother Gina Dixon, who had turned to the game to pay off a loan shark.

    Carol (Cathy Tyson) was the matter-of-fact, hygiene-obsessed one, happy to be shocking the neighbours; Rose (Geraldine James) was the experienced matriarchal figure who continually failed to start a new life; Anita (Barbara Dickson) was selfish and scheming, and misguided teenage blonde Tracy (Samantha Morton) was a drug abuser.

    George Ferguson (Tony Doyle) was Anita’s married boyfriend and the villain who made the girls’ life even more difficult.

    By the end of the original six-part series, the foursome had decided to leave the grime of “the lane” and set up their own cleaning cooperative, Scrubitt International.

    When the series returned for another six episodes a year later, the girls found it difficult to shake off their past on the lane. A new arrival, a sadomasochism specialist named Colette (Lena Headey), joined the throng and more murders ensued, underlining again the programme’s core message, that prostitution is not a glamorous industry (although, contrarily, Bradford police claimed that the series had been responsible for an upsurge in activity in the city’s red-light area).

    A third series, of three two-part stories, arrived in 1997. Re-titled Gold, this time only Rose and Carol remained of the original four girls. Rose now had a job as a community liaison officer, working with the police to clean up the streets.

    Band Of Gold‘s theme song, a version of Love Hurts, was performed by star Barbara Dickson.

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    Rose Garrity
    Geraldine James
    Anita Braithwaite
    Barbara Dickson
    Tracy Richards
    Samantha Morton
    George Ferguson
    Tony Doyle
    Curly
    Richard Moore
    Bob
    Anthony Milner
    Steve Dixon
    Ray Stevenson
    DCI Newall
    David Schofield
    Dez
    Ahsen Bhatti
    Mr Moore
    Philip Martin Brown
    Colette
    Lena Headey
    Joyce Webster
    Rachel Davies
    Smiley
    Darren Tighe
    Vinnie Marshall
    Adam Kotz
    Brian Roberts
    Peter Firth
    Rabbit
    Justin Chadwick
    Brenda Taylor
    Margo Gunn
    Mrs Minkin
    Anita Carey
    Emma Johnson
    Laura Kilgallon
    Alf Black
    David Bradley
    Paula Graham
    Janet Dibley
    DI Cooper
    Fiona Allen
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    David Ross
    Lloyd
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    Lisa
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