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    1990s Television Drama Shows C 2 Mins Read

    Crocodile Shoes

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    1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 6 (UK)
    13 x 55 minute episodes

    Having completed his work on cop drama Spender, Jimmy Nail decided to make music an integral part of his new project in which a Geordie factory worker attempts to become a country and western singer.

    Set in post-Industrial Newcastle Upon Tyne, Jed Shepperd (Nail) is a lathe operator in the dying twilight of the shipbuilding industry. At home, he writes, performs and records catchy country and western songs.

    Jed’s sister sends one of his demo tapes to a major label for consideration (without his knowledge) and label executive Ade Lynn (James Wilby) likes what he hears.

    Ade guides Jed through the seedy world of recording studios, record executives, and radio industry nepotism to eventual airplay and fame in a rags-to-riches a la The Coal Miner’s Daughter.

    Both the series and its spin-off album were a huge success with the single spending 23 weeks on the charts.

    A second series (Crocodile Shoes II aired in 1996 and followed Jed as he worked on his “difficult second album”.

    Jed Shepperd
    Jimmy Nail
    Ade Lynn
    James Wilby
    Archie
    Sammy Johnson
    Bobby 
    Mike Elliot
    Emma Shepperd
    Melanie Hill
    Snotter
    Vincenzo Pellegrino
    Omo
    Jeffrey Knox
    Paul
    Christopher Nichol
    Tony 
    Trevor Fox
    Big Chrissie
    Paul Palance
    Ox 
    Oliver Haden
    Caroline Carrison
    Alex Kingston
    George
    Berwick Kaler
    Pep 
    John Bowler
    Sue Nbokei
    Ginny Holder
    Danny 
    Peter Wingfield
    Alan Clarke
    Christopher Fairbank
    Carmel Cantrell
    Amy Madigan
    Rex Hall
    Brian Capron
    Lou Benedetti
    Burt Young
    Jock Campbell
    Harry Jones
    Walter Fines
    Roy Pattison
    Max the Sax
    Matt Devereaux
    DI Machin
    Matthew Marsh
    Becky Shepperd
    Hannah Tipple
    Warren Bowles
    Robert Morgan
    Wendy
    Elizabeth Carling
    Connors 
    Trevor Byfield
    Lucy Lynn
    Sara Stewart

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