| Genre: | Drama |
| Creator: | Paul Abbott |
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| Theme Music Composer: | Murray Gold |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 4 |
| Num Episodes: | 27 |
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| Executive Producer: | Nicola Shindler Gareth Neame |
| Producer: | Juliet Charlesworth |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Company: | Red Production Company |
| Channel: | BBC One |
Clocking Off is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott.[1]
It was effectively an anthology programme, following the lives of a group of workers at a Manchester textile factory, with each episode focusing on the home life of a different character. Well-known actors and actresses who appeared in the series included Christopher Eccleston, Sophie Okonedo, Philip Glenister, John Simm, Lesley Sharp, Siobhan Finneran, Emma Cunniffe, Diane Parish, David Morrissey, Ricky Tomlinson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, William Ash, Ben Crompton, Jack Deam, Jack P. Shepherd, Tina O'Brien, Jason Merrells, Pam Ferris, Wil Johnson, Ashley Jensen, Susan Cookson, Mark Benton, Lindsey Coulson, Paul Copley, Sarah Lancashire, Crissy Rock, Marshall Lancaster, Marc Warren, Claire Sweeney and Maxine Peake.
The series was highly acclaimed by the critics, winning the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 2001. However, over the course of the following two years Abbott's work on the series decreased as he moved on to other projects. Nonetheless, every series was nominated for a BAFTA and other writers including Danny Brocklehurst, John Fay and Jan McVerry wrote successful stand-alone episodes. The programme finally ended, after a series with no Abbott scripts at all, in 2003. The BBC said the programme was axed following declining ratings, but creator Abbott said the programme's demise was down to "a lack of writers able to come up with stories good enough to carry the stand alone episodes."[2]
Twenty-seven episodes were produced across the four series, and in 2004 the first series was released on DVD. In 2015, the first series was released on DVD in Australia[3] and was made available for purchase via the BBC Store.[4]
| Actor | Character | Series | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Jack Deam | Kev Leach | colspan="4" | ||||
| Christopher Eccleston | Jim Calvert | colspan="3" | ||||
| Siobhan Finneran | Julie O'Neill | colspan="1" | ||||
| Philip Glenister | James "Mack" Mackintosh | colspan="1" | ||||
| Joan Kempson | Freda Wilson | colspan="4" | ||||
| Steve Jackson | Barry Sleight | colspan="1" | ||||
| Wil Johnson | Steve Robinson | colspan="1" | ||||
| Sarah Lancashire | Yvonne Kolakowski | colspan="3" | ||||
| Jason Merrells | Martin Leach | colspan="2" | ||||
| Tony Mooney | Ade Cameron | colspan="4" | ||||
| Paul Oldham | Brian Pringle | colspan="2" | ||||
| Diane Parish | Sylvia Robinson | colspan="2" | ||||
| Jason Sampson | Jake Robinson | colspan="3" | ||||
| Lesley Sharp | Trudy Graham | colspan="2" | ||||
| Andrew Sheridan | "KT" | colspan="3" | ||||
| John Simm | Stuart Leach | colspan="3" | ||||
| Christine Tremarco | Katherine Mackintosh | colspan="3" | ||||
| William Ash | Nick Anderson | colspan="1" | ||||
| Susan Cookson | Janice Piper | colspan="2" | ||||
| Paul Copley | Mal Aindow | colspan="2" | ||||
| Lindsey Coulson | Bev Aindow | colspan="2" | ||||
| Ben Crompton | Barney Watson | colspan="3" | ||||
| Ashley Jensen | Babs Leach | colspan="1" | ||||
| Alison Swann | Sue Leach | colspan="2" | ||||
| Ricky Tomlinson | Ronnie Anderson | colspan="2" | ||||
| Alice Barry | Peggy Hargreaves | colspan="1" | ||||
| Katie Blake | Tasha Roscoe | colspan="1" | ||||
| Emma Cunniffe | Kim Anderson | colspan="1" | ||||
| Sharon Duce | Vicky Sullivan | colspan="1" | ||||
| Craig Kelly | Eddie Mackintosh | colspan="1" | ||||
| Katisha Kenyon | Hannah Phillips | colspan="2" | ||||
| Marshall Lancaster | Gary Dugdale | colspan="2" | ||||
| Lisa Millett | Grace Eastwood | colspan="2" | ||||
| David Morrissey | Franny Rothwell | colspan="1" | ||||
| James Murray | Mark Talbot | colspan="1" | ||||
| Sophie Okonedo | Jenny Wood | colspan="1" | ||||
| Robert Pugh | Alan Preston | colspan="1" | ||||
| Nick Sidi | Sam Davidson | colspan="1" | ||||
| Nicola Stephenson | Suzie Davidson | colspan="2" | ||||
| Steven Williams | Ryan Davidson | colspan="2" | ||||
| Paula Wolfenden | Jackie O'Farrell | colspan="2" | ||||
| Keith Barron | Roy Fletcher | colspan="1" | ||||
| Mark Benton | Colin Wilkes | colspan="1" | ||||
| Sushil Chudasama | Faz Usmani | colspan="1" | ||||
| Pam Ferris | Pat Fletcher | colspan="1" | ||||
| Branka Katić | Maya Lazarevic | colspan="1" | ||||
| Derek Riddell | Jamie Campbell | |||||
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