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The Grimleys | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Created by | Jed Mercurio |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Granada Television |
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Network | ITV[1] |
Release | 5 July 1997 1 April 2001[2] | –
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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]
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.
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