Spearhead is a British television drama produced by Southern Television for the ITV network. With a total of three series and 19 episodes from 1978 to 1981, the series follows the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion Royal Wessex Rangers, a fictional British Army infantry regiment, during The Troubles.
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The series spans 3 seasons with 19 episodes in total (avg. 6 per season).
Each episode runs approximately 60 minutes.
The series ran from 1978 to 1981 — a total of 3 years on air.
Originally aired on ITV1.
Executive produced by Lewis Rudd.
1998
Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.
2002
This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group.
2021
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
1991
Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.
2020
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
1990
Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.
1996
Adaptations of 40 short stories of brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written between 1951 and 1961. The stories were considered scandalous at the time as Rodrigues used immoral characters and black humor to satirize the hypocrisy and repression in people's daily lives.
2024
When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women, Maddie Schwartz and Cleo Sherwood, converge on a fatal collision course.
2021
Lu Xiaoqing, a model worker at a Third Front factory whose life is shaped by a failed romance, the revival of the national college entrance exam, and her pursuit of self-worth through education. Alongside her peers, she devotes her youth to industrial development and witnesses decades of change—from hardship and sacrifice to renewal and national transformation—becoming a living testament to a defining era.
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Spearhead
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English
United Kingdom
7/18/1978
9/3/1981
