Nightingale's Boys is a drama series of seven plays about the reunion of a group of friends from school, brought together after twenty-five years by their form teacher, Mr. Nightingale.British Video Association
/ref>

Cast

* Derek Farr - Mr Nightingale *

Pauline Yates Pauline Lettice Yates (16 June 1929 – 21 January 2015) was an English actress, best known for playing Elizabeth Perrin in the BBC television sitcom ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin''. She also starred in ''Bachelor Father (British ...

- Margaret * Terry Gilligan - Nick Selby * Michael Hawkins - Hal Crowther

Plot

A group of middle-aged men from Northern England who were each in the same class in 1949 are brought back together by their form teacher, Bill Nightingale, and find that each of them is at a turning points in his life.

Episodes

Tweety (by

Arthur Hopcraft Arthur Hopcraft (30 November 193222 November 2004) was a British screenwriter, well known for his TV plays such as '' The Nearly Man'', and for his small-screen adaptations such as '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy''; '' Hard Times'', ''Bleak House'' ...

) Izzy (by C P Taylor) Big Sid (by

Jack Rosenthal Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV (TV network), ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and over 150 screenplays, including original television plays, featur ...

) Flossie (by

Colin Spencer Colin Spencer (17 July 1933 – 6 July 2023) was an English writer and artist who produced a prolific body of work in a wide variety of media after his first published short stories and drawings appeared in ''The London Magazine'' and ''Encount ...

) Spivvy (by John Finch) "A. J." (by

Alexander Baron Alexander Baron ( – ) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day, ''From the City, from The Plough'' (1948), and his London novel ''The Lowlife'' (1963). Early life Baron's father was B ...

) Decision (by Arthur Hopcraft)

DVD release

Network DVD released the complete series on DVD in 2012.The Digital Fix
/ref>

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 1400912, Nightingale's Boys 1970s British drama television series ITV television dramas Television shows produced by Granada Television British English-language television shows