Truckers

1987

Truckers

8.1 | en | Drama

Comedy Drama about a Northern Haulage Firm struggling in the recession hit 1980's in the UK

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Seasons & Episodes

EP8 Going Under

Oct. 27,1987

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EP7 The Heat of the Moment

Oct. 20,1987

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EP6 Rollo Solo

Oct. 13,1987

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EP5 Stinking Fish

Oct. 06,1987

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EP4 Breaking The Eggman

Sep. 29,1987

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EP3 Shoot, If You'll Pardon My French

Sep. 22,1987

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EP2 One Night In Grimsby

Sep. 15,1987

Cowboy gets more than his heart broken in Grimsby...

EP1 Hired Guns

Sep. 08,1987

Picard resorts to a spot of blacklegging to get out of O'Brady's bad books

8.1 | en | Drama , Comedy | More Info

Released: 1987-09-08 | Released Producted By: BBC , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

Comedy Drama about a Northern Haulage Firm struggling in the recession hit 1980's in the UK

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Cast

Phil Davis , James Hazeldine

Director

Jeremy Summers

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Cast

Phil Davis

as Lonesome Cowboy

Knuckledust Hampstead Juliet, Naked Riviera Golden Years Black Work Age Of Kill Peterman Mr. Holmes

James Hazeldine

as Peter Picard

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death The Last Train Emma Business as Usual Truckers Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage One Summer Macbeth Kids

Reviews

mariostoyles The truck a ford transcontinental was originally owned by Philip Britain a truck driver and Roy Rigby who ran a fleet of trucks for pioneer concrete,sadly they fell out and Roy repossessed the truck.He was a boy racer and asked me to add to the paintwork to make it personal .So one Christmas eve we borrowed a workshop on Portsdown hill and i worked through the night spraying it with quick drying truck paint in multi colour's.Just as i finished to go home he said the front looks to bland ,what it needs is a eagle on the front,i said you must be joking its Christmas day, he persuaded me and using masking tape as a template i cut out a block eagle and air brushed it with multi coloured paint .Full Story on request

Prismark10 Truckers was the BBC's attempt to match Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Of course some years later the Beeb decided it was just easier and better to get the cast and writers together and nab it off ITV.This leaves Truckers with its earthy language and many shenanigans which lots of viewers did not find arresting consigned to the footnotes of dramas that did not fly.James Hazeldine was the star who took time out from London's Burning to make this. Apparently he took HGV lessons to prepare for the role.Maynard Williams, a singer and actor and the son of Bill Maynard was the supposed eye candy for the ladies.

jolrea Truckers was great. There were some good characters in this series and I too would like to see it on UK Gold at least. I was 18 when this series was out and there was nothing like it. A couple of other actors that I remembered in the series were Julie Shipley who played the office girl, who always wore very tight jeans and looked hot as a girl next door type and Maynard Williams (Bill Maynards son) played wide boy rocker driver Rollo. Hope it gets another airing, it was believable. There is nothing like Truckers on telly now, only reality shows and we don't want to see those, we want to see some underrated classic British telly that Truckers was.

mightymariner-1 I was about 14 yrs old when i first came across truckers and the reason why i came across this programme was because of the Grimsby connection the Town i grew up in, the very first episode was titled.. One night in Grimsby... and i seemed to think it was a decent series for the late eighties as the story lines didn't go OTT!! and some of the characters were quite funny and the company seemed to be fighting for it's life every episode. The bloke that worked in the yard was quite annoying as i seem to remember, i would recommend this series and would hope to see it on DVD one day which i think is quite impossible as there seems little call for it. The only way of seeing this good series is to check out ebay ask for someone to do a copy.