The Grimleys
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The Grimleys is a comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s.[3] It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series.[4]
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The Grimleys | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Created by | Jed Mercurio |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Granada Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV[1] |
Release | 5 July 1997 (1997-07-05) – 1 April 2001 (2001-04-01)[2] |
The show was written by Jed Mercurio, who had trained as a doctor and whose first series, Cardiac Arrest – written under the pseudonym 'John MacUre' – had attracted critical plaudits for its dark portrayal of life in a disintegrating British National Health Service.[5]
The filming of the school took place in Salford, Buile Hill High, Hope High, and Pendleton College, and the characters' homes were filmed in Langley, Greater Manchester.[6] Later series featured location filming in Dudley, including a scene at Dudley Zoo.