Lost Belongings (Channel 4 1987 with Catherine Brennan and Gerard O’Hare)

UK / ITV – Channel 4 – Euston – Primetime / 6×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 7 April – 12 May 1987

Writer: Stewart Parker / Executive Producers: Johnny Goodman, John Hambley / Producer: Barry Hanson / Director: Tony Bicat

Drama serial. The problems of a young couple in early 1980’s Belfast.

Interestingly each episode was broadcast first on ITV followed by a repeat showing on Channel 4 the following Saturday.

cast
Catherine Brennan as Deirdre
Gerard O’Hare as Niall
Andrew Roddy as Ollie
Barry Birch as Aidan
Stephen Rea as Lenny
Clare Cathcart as Carol Ferguson
Harry Towb as Roy Connell
Colum Convey as Craig Connell
Andrew Roddy as Ollie

THE EPISODES
1. DEIRDRE
2. BUCK ALEC
3. A WANTED MAN
4. LENNY LEAPS IN
5. THE AMERICAN FRIEND
6. A HOUSE ON FIRE

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