- The Invisibles (TV series)
Infobox Television
show_name = The Invisibles
caption = "The Invisibles" intertitle
genre =Comedy drama
creator =William Ivory
director =Will Sinclair Metin Huseyin
company =Company Pictures
starring =Anthony Head Warren Clarke Jenny Agutter Dean Lennox Kelly
composer = Norwell and Green
country =United Kingdom
language = English
num_series =
num_episodes = 6
list_episodes =
executive_producer =George Faber Charlie Pattinson
William Ivory
Andrew Lowe
Polly Hill
producer =Richard Burrell
editor = Adam Trottman
location =Ireland Northern Ireland
camera =
runtime = 60 min.
network =BBC One BBC HD
picture_format =576p (SDTV )1080p (HDTV )
audio_format =
first_aired =1 May 2008
last_aired =
website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/invisibles
imdb_id = 1215315"The Invisibles" is a
UK 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for theBBC . It was produced byCompany Pictures , shot in theRepublic of Ireland andNorthern Ireland .Premise
Maurice Riley (Head) and Syd Woolsey (Clarke), are old friends who return from the good life on the Costa del Crime to a quiet
Devon fishing village. They plan to eke out their retirement fishing and availing themselves of the NHS. However, the quiet life is not for them. As their ill-gotten gains run short, they find themselves drawn back into a life of crime with the son of their former partner Hedley Huthwaite (Lennox Kelly) - only crime has moved on and they've got new things to learn. Maurice's wife Barbara (Agutter) is aware of her husband's penchant for cracking open the odd safe or two but their daughter, Grace (Emily Head ), has no idea how her dad made his money. [citeweb|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/invisibles|title=The Invisibles|publisher=BBC One|accessdate=2008-04-26]Cast
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Warren Clarke as Syd Woolsey
*Anthony Head as Maurice Riley
*Dean Lennox Kelly as Hedley Huthwaite
*Jenny Agutter as Barbara Riley
*Emily Head as Grace Riley
*Paul Barber as Young Nick
*Mina Anwar as Helen Huthwaite
*Darren Tighe as Joe WoolseyProduction
The series was filmed in the
Northern Ireland village ofPortaferry ,County Down which was considered a good look alike for a Devon village without being so crowded.fact|date= May 2008 A second series is already planned.fact|date=May 2008It was originally commissioned under the title "Desperados" [cite news|first=James|last=Welsh|title=Clarke and Head to star in 'Desperados'|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a79968/clarke-and-head-to-star-in-desperados.html|work=
Digital Spy |date=2007-11-16 |accessdate= 2008-05-02] but was changed to "The Invisibles" to match the name used by Head and Clarke's characters, and in reference to how people become "invisible" in society as they get older. [cite video|people= Clarke, Warren|date2= 2008-04-29|title=The Paul O'Grady Show |medium=Television production|publisher=Olga TV |location=London ,United Kingdom ]DVD
It was released on DVD 14th July 2008.
Episodes
References
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/invisibles "The Invisibles"] at
bbc.co.uk
*imdb title|id=1215315|title=The Invisibles
* [http://www.comedy.org.uk/guide/tv/invisibles/ British Comedy Guide]
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