''Grady'' is a three-episode British television series which aired in 1970. It was a drama written by Edmund Ward and produced by Marc Miller for

Yorkshire Television ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV (TV network), ITV network. Until 19 ...

. The series starred

Anthony Bate Anthony Bate (31 August 1927 – 19 June 2012) was an English actor. He is possibly best known for his role as Oliver Lacon in the BBC television adaptations of the John le Carré novels ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' and ''Smiley's People'' and ...

in the title role as a trade-union negotiator in a northern factory. ''Halliwell's Television Companion'' praised the star and the script: "Anthony Bate rides into town like an old-time gunfighter as a modern hero of labour, a shop-floor loner interested only in a bigger share of loot for the workers, contemptuous of all ideologues. One of television's more successful attempts to wrest drama from the industrial 1970s, and certainly the first to imbue it with the values of the Wild West of the 1870s." Despite the

wiping Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant prop ...

that was common among British broadcasters during the 1970s, the series still exists in the archives.http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=Grady

References

Bibliography

Halliwell, Leslie; with Philip Purser, 1985. ''Halliwell's Television Companion'', 3rd edition. London, Paladin Books. {{ISBN, 0-586-08540-8

External links

''Grady'' on IMDb
1970 British television series debuts 1970 British television series endings 1970s British drama television series English-language television shows ITV television dramas