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GBH [videorecording (DVD)].

Acorn Media, [2009?].

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

G.B.H. [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

4 videodiscs (588 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally aired on British television in 1991.

"The multi-award-winning British political miniseries"--Container.

Special features: Episode 1 commentary by Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin and Peter Ansorge; interview with writer Alan Bleasdale; biography of Elvis Costello; and cast filmographies.

Closed-captioned.

Channel Four Television ; Robert Young, director ; Alan Bleasedale, writer ; soundtrack by Elvis Costello and Richard Harvey.

Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters, Anna Friel.

It begins innocently enough: a politician calls a strike, and the headmaster of a local school inadvertently sabotages it. Soon the men are caught in a power struggle of epic proportions.

"GBH was a British television mini-series shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray (played by Robert Lindsay), the hard-left Labour leader of a city council in the North of England, and Jim Nelson (played by Michael Palin), the headmaster of a school for special needs children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council. In an interview in the G.B.H. DVD set Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm (i.e. beating someone up) - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday (as revealed by Bleasdale in an interview on the DVD)"--From wikipedia.org website.

Television mini-series

Television programs -- Great Britain.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Lindsay, Robert, 1949-

Palin, Michael.

Duncan, Lindsay.

Walters, Julie, 1950-

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