Stay Lucky is a 1989–1993 British

United Kingdom

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 television comedy-drama series. Made by Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

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 and screened on the ITV

ITV

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 network, it starred Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman is a British actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks.-Early life:...

 and Jan Francis

Jan Francis

Jan Francis is an English actress, best known for playing Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy Just Good Friends.-Early life:Francis was born at the former Charing Cross Hospital near Trafalgar Square, London...

.

Plot

Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman is a British actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks.-Early life:...

) from London who discovers a new life up North in Yorkshire.
Helping widowed, self sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis

Jan Francis

Jan Francis is an English actress, best known for playing Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy Just Good Friends.-Early life:Francis was born at the former Charing Cross Hospital near Trafalgar Square, London...

) when her car breaks down
on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds.
Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon finds them being
drawn closer together.

Cast

• Jan Francis
  Jan Francis
  Jan Francis is an English actress, best known for playing Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy Just Good Friends.-Early life:Francis was born at the former Charing Cross Hospital near Trafalgar Square, London...
  
   as Sally Hardcastle
• Dennis Waterman
  Dennis Waterman
  Dennis Waterman is a British actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks.-Early life:...
  
   as Thomas Gynn
• Emma Wray
  Emma Wray
  Emma Wray is a former English actress. She attended the Merseyside Council funded "Glenda Jackson Theatre" whilst still at Birkenhead Park High school, went on to study Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama from 1983–6, and was given her first leading TV role two months after...
  
   as Pippa
• Niall Toibin
  Niall Toibin
  Niall Tóibín is an Irish comedian and actor. Born in Cork into an Irish speaking family, Tóibín grew up on the north-side of the city in Bishop's Field. He has appeared in Ryan's Daughter, Bracken, The Irish R.M., Caught in a Free State, Ballykissangel, Far and Away, and Veronica Guerin, and has...
  
   as John Lively
• Ian McNeice
  Ian McNeice
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   as Franklyn Bysouth
• Willie Ross as Barney Potter
• Susan George
  Susan George (actress)
  Susan Melody George is an English film and television actress, and film producer.-Career:She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four, appearing on both television and film...
  
   as Samantha Mansfield
• Leslie Ash
  Leslie Ash
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   as Jo Blake

Others include Dougray Scott

Dougray Scott

-Early life:The son of Elma, a nurse, and Alan Scott, an actor and salesperson, Stephen Dougray Scott was born in Glenrothes, Fife and attended Auchmuty High School...

, Chris Jury

Chris Jury

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, Belinda Lang

Belinda Lang

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, Amanda Noar

Amanda Noar

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 and Rula Lenska

Rula Lenska

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.

Episode list

Series 1

1. A1 Rain Dancer
2. The Howling
3. Fool's Gold

Series 2

1. Burning Your Boats
2. Bring Back My Barney to Me
3. A Woman's Lot
4. The Devil Wept in Leeds
5. Trial by Marriage
6. Hotrod Horace
7. Bigamy Blues

Series 3

1. Poetic Justice
2. The Food of Love
3. Hard Times, Hard Men
4. An Unsavoury Business
5. The Sisters of Achill
6. A Roman Empire
7. Shingle Beach

Series 4

1. Flameproof and Free
2. The Driving Instructor
3. A Quick Killing
4. Down to Earth
5. The Long Road... There
6. The Long Road... Back
7. Gilding the Lily
8. Blowing Bubbles
9. Sand Dancer
10. One Jump Ahead

Locations

Clarence Dock

Clarence Dock (Leeds)

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, Leeds

Leeds

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, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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, England

England

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, UK (Series 1 - Sally's boatyard)

Canal Basin, Sowerby Bridge

Sowerby Bridge

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, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England

England

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, UK (Series 2 and 3 - Sally's boatyard)

Armley Mills Industrial Museum

Armley Mills Industrial Museum

The Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others....

, Armley

Armley

Armley is a district in the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It starts less than a mile from Leeds city centre. Like much of Leeds, Armley grew in the industrial revolution and had several mills, one of which is now the Armley Mills museum...

, Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, UK (Series 4 - the Yorkshire Industrial Museum)

External links

• Dennis Waterman - Museum website