Grafters was a British drama–comedy programme originally broadcast in the UK on ITV from 27 October 1998 to 20 December 1999 for 16 episodes over two series.

Grafters was based around the Purvis brothers Joe (Robson Green

Robson Green

Robson Green is an English actor, singer–songwriter and presenter.-Biography:Robson Golightly Green was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and baptised in Bethel Chapel, , and named in Northeast tradition as first son after family surnames: Robson is his grandmother's maiden surname, while Golightly...

) and Trevor (Stephen Tompkinson

Stephen Tompkinson

Stephen Tompkinson is a British actor. He is best known for his work in comedy and drama productions such as Drop the Dead Donkey, Ballykissangel, Grafters, In Deep, Wild at Heart and DCI Banks....

), who along with their younger cousin Simon (Darren Morfitt

Darren Morfitt

Darren Morfitt is an actor who has appeared in 55 Degrees North, Grafters, Red Cap, Warriors, Making Waves, The Government Inspector and the cult werewolf movie Dog Soldiers. Most recently he starred as Jesus in the Manchester Passion and in the science fiction action film Doomsday as Dr...

) run a successful building business.

The show regularly received ratings of over 9 million viewers and at the time was among ITV's most popular drama series. Rumours of a revival surfaced in 2006, but no further episodes have been made.

Cast

• Robson Green
  Robson Green
  Robson Green is an English actor, singer–songwriter and presenter.-Biography:Robson Golightly Green was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and baptised in Bethel Chapel, , and named in Northeast tradition as first son after family surnames: Robson is his grandmother's maiden surname, while Golightly...
  
   - Joe Purvis
• Stephen Tompkinson
  Stephen Tompkinson
  Stephen Tompkinson is a British actor. He is best known for his work in comedy and drama productions such as Drop the Dead Donkey, Ballykissangel, Grafters, In Deep, Wild at Heart and DCI Banks....
  
   - Trevor Purvis
• Darren Morfitt
  Darren Morfitt
  Darren Morfitt is an actor who has appeared in 55 Degrees North, Grafters, Red Cap, Warriors, Making Waves, The Government Inspector and the cult werewolf movie Dog Soldiers. Most recently he starred as Jesus in the Manchester Passion and in the science fiction action film Doomsday as Dr...
  
   - Simon Purvis
• Emily Joyce
  Emily Joyce
  Emily Sian Joyce is an English stage and television actress.-Early life:Joyce is the youngest of three sisters, all of whom are in the entertainment business in the UK. Their mother loved the theatre and took the three girls to shows constantly...
  
   - Laura
• Carli Norris
  Carli Norris
  Carli Norris is an English stage, film and television actress.On TV, she first appeared as Alice McMahon in Eastenders, the title character in Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter, central characters in In Deep, Grafters, Roger Roger, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Frank Skinner's Shane, The House that...
  
   - Melanie

DVD releases

Entertainment One

Entertainment One

Entertainment One Ltd is a leading international entertainment business operating in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand...

 has released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. Season 1 was released on 17 July 2007, while season 2 was released on 4 December 2007.

Shock Entertainment

Shock Records

Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...

released the complete series on DVD in Australia on 12 January 2009.