GBH - Series (1991) [DVDRip (XviD)] *FIXED*

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This release supercedes the earlier upload which had the wrong Episode 2 - Many apologies for messing you all around.



If you have not completed the last download - go to the file location on your hard drive and delete episode 2, then please download this torrent saving it in the *same* location - this will ensure you get the new episode 2 and will not have to download the other episodes.



For those of you who have to download episode 2 again, please accept my grovelling apologies.



Spider.



G.B.H.



G.B.H. was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale, made by independent production company G.B.H (Films) and shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The central characters were Michael Murray (played by Robert Lindsay),the far-left Labour leader of an unnamed City Council in the north of England, and Jim Nelson (played by Michael Palin), the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because the character of Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, the real-life former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council - indeed in an interview included in this rip, Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton,before the series had even been recorded, in which the latter indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions, but does not mind as long as the character playing him is "handsome".



G.B.H. is set in the late 1980s, in the midst of the Thatcher years, when numerous

attempts were made by local left-wing councils to achieve significant degrees of autonomy (not least in Bleasdale's home city of Liverpool). The plot revolves around the deliberate attempt by UK government secret services to discredit and

bring down Murray's leadership. On an ideological level this involves a left-wing theoretician, Mervyn, who is himself manipulated by MI5 agent Lou. Meanwhile, another MI5 agent Peter has recruited a gang of thugs, posing as left-wing activists (and, later, policemen) as agents provocateurs. Each episode reveals more about the convoluted nature of the plot to discredit Murray.



Cast

Michael Murray - Robert Lindsay

Jim Nelson - Michael Palin

Barbara Douglas - Lindsay Duncan

Mrs Murray (Michael Murray's mother) - Julie Walters

Lou Barnes - Tom Georgeson

Peter Grenville - Andrew Schofield

Mr Weller - David Ross

Laura Nelson (Jim Nelson's wife) - Dearbhla Molloy

Franky Murray - Philip Whitchurch

Teddy (Murray's deputy) - Alan Igbon

'Bubbles' McGuire - Peter-Hugo Daly

Grosvenor - Daniel Massey

Philip (Murray's researcher) - Jimmy Mulville

Richard Grenville - Gareth Tudor Price

Frank Twist-Colin Douglas















Spider says:

This is my own rip of the commercial DVD release. One of the finest and most important drama series ever made in the UK - with Bleasdale, Lyndsay and Palin all at the top of their game. It's difficult to imagine anyone even attempting to catch that *mood*, that *time* again in a drama, because inevitably it would be compared against GBH and it would fail. GBH is that rare thing, a drama that is unbearably funny, and a comedy that is important, truthful and tragic. Bleasdale has fashioned a parable, a fable and a love letter to socialism. It is a cautionary tale to anyone who takes politics and politicians at face value and how power corrupts ultimately – at its heart GBH is a warning against left wing complacency and a rejection of right wing extremism.



This release includes commentary tracks on the first episode and an interview with Bleasdale.



File Name .........................................: GBH Episode 01.avi

File Size (in bytes) ............................: 765,499,392 bytes

Runtime ............................................: 1:19:17



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frame Size ......................................: 672x496 (AR: 1.355)

FPS .................................................: 25.000

Video Bitrate ...................................: 1150 kb/s

Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.138 bpp

B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [B-VOP], [], [], []



Audio Codec ...................................: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3

Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz

Audio Bitrate ...................................: 124 kb/s [2 channel(s)] VBR

No. of audio streams .......................: 2







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