Making Out
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Making Out is a British television
series, shown by the BBC
between 1989 and 1991.
The series, written by Debbie Horsfield
, mixed comedy and drama in its portrayal of the women who worked on the factory floor at New Lyne Electronics in Manchester
, tackling the personal lives of the characters as well as wider issues of recession, redundancy and retrenchment
as the factory goes through various crises and take-overs.
The music for the series was composed by New Order
(The Other Two
in final episodes). The main theme for the show is an adaptation of the song "Vanishing Point". There is a specific mix of this song called the Making Out Mix.
British television
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series, shown by the BBC
BBC
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between 1989 and 1991.
The series, written by Debbie Horsfield
Debbie Horsfield
Debbie Horsfield is a British theatre and television writer and producer.- Early life and career :Hosfield was born in Eccles, Lancashire and she attended Eccles College before studying at Newcastle University....
, mixed comedy and drama in its portrayal of the women who worked on the factory floor at New Lyne Electronics in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, tackling the personal lives of the characters as well as wider issues of recession, redundancy and retrenchment
Retrenchment
Retrenchment is an act of cutting down or reduction, particularly of public expenditure.-Political usage:The word is familiar in this, its most general sense, from the motto of the Gladstonian Liberal party in British politics, "Peace, Retrenchment and Reform."The manifesto for 1906 Liberal...
as the factory goes through various crises and take-overs.
The music for the series was composed by New Order
New Order
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...
(The Other Two
The Other Two
AlbumsSingles-External links:* * - Videos :* * * *...
in final episodes). The main theme for the show is an adaptation of the song "Vanishing Point". There is a specific mix of this song called the Making Out Mix.
The girls
- Queenie (Margi ClarkeMargi ClarkeMargi Clarke is a British actress . She was born in Liverpool and raised in Kirkby , and is known for her Scouse accent and platinum-blonde hair.-Early career:...
), the fiery ScouseScouseScouse is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool and the adjoining urban areas such as the boroughs of south Sefton, Knowsley and the Wirral...
ring-leader of the women. - Pauline (Rachel DaviesRachel DaviesRachel Davies is a British actress, with numerous television credits to her name from the beginning of the 70s onwards.She has played leading roles in the following series: Boon, The Cuckoo Waltz, Making Out, Band of Gold, Emmerdale, Nice Guy Eddie, Linda Green and The Chase.She appeared in the...
), union shop steward for the women. - Jill (Melanie KilburnMelanie KilburnMelanie Kilburn is an English actress, well known for playing PC Laura Bryant in ITV's, The Bill....
), new girl at the factory who starts work in the first episode. - Donna (Heather Tobias), middle-class woman who is desperate for a baby with her husband.
- Ariadne, known as "Klepto" (Moya BradyMoya BradyMoya Brady is a British actress. Born in Manchester, Brady grew up in the seaside town of Blackpool with other actor classmates such as David Thewlis of Harry Potter fame. She has appeared in a wide variety of roles in film, television and the theatre, including a role as F.D.O. Roberta Cryer in...
), young woman bullied by her Greek Orthodox family. - Carol May (Shirley StelfoxShirley StelfoxShirley Stelfox is an English actress, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is best known as Edna Birch in British Soap Opera Emmerdale....
)
The factory
- Rex (Keith Allen), randy boss at the factory who is having an affair with Carol May.
- Norma (Tracie BennettTracie BennettTracie Bennett is an English stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Clapham, London...
), ambitious, efficient company secretary. - Bernie (Alan DavidAlan DavidAlan David is a Welsh television actor. Living in London, he is married with two sons.David was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He has had many television credits ranging from Coronation Street in 1973 to Virtual Murder , Honey for Tea and "The Unquiet Dead", an episode of Doctor Who in 2005...
), supervisor of the women on the shop floor. - Simon (Gary BeadleGary BeadleGary Beadle is an English actor, best known for playing Paul Trueman in EastEnders and Gary Barwick in Operation Good Guys....
), the only man on the floor, romantically attached to "Klepto".
The blokes
- Chunky (Brian HibbardBrian HibbardBrian Hibbard is a Welsh actor and singer, best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original Flying Pickets.Hibbard was born in Ebbw Vale, and after various job including teacher, steel worker, barman and chimney sweep, he formed the Flying Pickets with a group of other actors who had practised...
), Queenie's no-good petty criminal husband. - Ray (Tim DantayTim Dantay-Partial filmography:* Brookside * Making Out * All Creatures Great and Small * EastEnders * Playing the Field * Hollyoaks * Coronation Street * I'm Alan Partridge...
), Jill's husband who eventually leaves her and their kids for another woman, a dimwitted hairdresser called Rosie (Jane HazlegroveJane HazlegroveJane Hazlegrove is an English actress.Jane is well known for portraying Lisa Shepherd in Families, Yvonne Bradley in London's Burning, Sue Clayton in Coronation Street in 1985 and has appeared in Jonathan Creek, The Bill, Doctors and Holby City. She is currently playing Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon in...
). - Frankie (John ForgehamJohn ForgehamJohn Forgeham is a British actor who is probably best known for playing businessman Frank Laslett in the ITV series Footballers' Wives....
), Pauline's husband. - Colin (David HargreavesDavid HargreavesDavid Hargreaves is Associate Director for Development and Research of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust . He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Foundation Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences....
), Carol May's husband. - Gavin (John LynchJohn Lynch (actor)John Lynch is an Irish actor from Northern Ireland.-Biography:John Lynch was born in the United Kingdom and moved to his father's native home in Corrinshego, County Armagh, near Newry, County Down in Northern Ireland as a child. He attended St Colman's College, Newry, a Catholic school...
), footballer with whom Jill starts a relationship after her husband walks out on her. - Gordon (Jonathan Barlow), Donna's bank manager husband.