TV series

The Good Companions

1980–1981 · 1 season

A gentle, meandering tour through fading seaside towns with a troupe of hopeful performers, warm and quietly bittersweet.

Overview: Discontent with his home, his work and his football team, Jess Oakroyd tears up his insurance card and disappears into the night. Intent on going to Nuneaton, he instead finds himself on the ragged edges of showbusiness. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.
How it feels: Warm, earnest, light and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Found family, ambition, friendship, work
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 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: found family
ambition
friendship
work
identity
Places: small town
countryside
road trip
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: ensemble
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild