Jossy's Giants
(1986-1987)
TV Series
Country: UK
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis
Jossy Blair, a former England and Newcastle United youth player forced out of the game by injury, who now runs a struggling independent sports shop, agrees to take over the hapless Glipton Grasshoppers, a youth football team managed by the avuncular Albert Hanson. Renaming them the Glipton Giants he strives to transform the club's fortunes.
Notes
- Comprising two seasons shown in successive years of 5 episodes each
- The series was written by celebrated darts commentator Sid Waddell (1940-2012), a Cambridge-educated polymath who hailed from Northumberland in the North East of England and made a career for himself in broadcasting at Granada and Yorkshire Television before moving to the BBC. Whilst at Yorkshire Television he originated The Flaxton Boys (1969-1973).
- Although the series was filmed in Greater Manchester, it is full of references to the North East. Jossy Blair is a Geordie, the strip the team wear is black and white, and there are cameos in the series from Bryan Robson and Bobby Charlton.
Notable Guest Appearances
- Kieran O'Brien in episode 1.2-1.3 "Foul Play"/"The Siege of St. James'" 1986
Cast
- Jim Barclay
- Mark Gillard
(Ross Nelson) - Paul Kirkbright
(Ricky Sweet) - Julian Walsh
(Harvey McGuinn) - Stuart McGuinness
(Glenn Rix) - Ian Sheppard
(Ian 'Selly' Sellick) - Oliver Orr
(Wayne Chapman) - Julie Foy
- Christopher Burgess
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The series contains a surprising amount of feminism, and the character of Tracey spends all her time hectoring the boys, which isn't entirely pleasant. Nevertheless, the show is quite entertaining, though perhaps not something you are likely to feel the need to watch more than once. One never really gets a sense of the team's progress, of their struggling gradually to success from match to match, since episodes tend to concentrate on something tangential to the team's career. I like the theme tune, though!
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