Our Friends in the North

About Our Friends in the North

Over the course of four decades, the personal lives of a quartet of Newcastle friends—Nicky, Geordie, Mary, and Tosker—intertwine with various political machinations, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.

Our Friends in the North is a war and politics series that ran on BBC Two. It ran for one season of 9 episodes between January 1996 and March 1996.

The series is filed under northern england, 20th century, social history, and epic drama. Christopher Eccleston appears as Nicky Hutchinson, Mark Strong as Terry 'Tosker' Cox, and Gina McKee as Mary Cox (née Soulsby).

It streams on Britbox Apple TV channel in the United States.

For All Mankind, Twin Peaks, and The Spy make useful companions to Our Friends in the North, all filed under 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.