Genre: | Comedy-Drama |
Director: | Tony Dow Sandy Johnson |
Starring: | Jim Broadbent Alison Steadman Warren Clarke Harry Enfield Sheila Hancock Martin Clunes Peter Cook Cliff Parisi Rosemary Martin |
Music: | The Gutter Brothers |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Seasons: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 6 |
Producer: | Michele Buck |
Runtime: | 50 minutes |
Company: | Central Films |
Network: | ITV |
Gone to the Dogs is a television miniseries by Central Films for Central Independent Television bought from writer Will Warrior, and was broadcast by ITV in 1991 in the UK. The six episode comedy drama series[1] revolved around the relationship of Jim Morley (Jim Broadbent) and Lauren Patterson (Alison Steadman) in the world of greyhound racing.[2] The series had a notable cast and much of the greyhound racing filming took place at Walthamstow Stadium.
The series was followed by Gone to Seed where several members of the cast from this series also appear, albeit in entirely new roles.[3]
The cast included
Guest Appearances
The complete series was originally released on VHS on 4 November 1991 by the Video Collection and Central Video.[4] It was released on DVD in a three disc boxset along with its follow up series Gone to Seed, by Network on 27 February 2012.[5]