TV series

Airline

1982 · 1 season

A grounded postwar drama of scrappy ambition, bureaucratic friction and stiff-upper-lip resolve, rewarding patient attention with quiet tension.

Overview: Airline is a British television drama created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for nine episodes broadcast from 3 January to 28 February 1982. Produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV1, the series stars Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts up his own air freight business.
How it feels: Tense, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Ambition, work, survival, loyalty
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
work
survival
loyalty
betrayal
Places: countryside
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild