Sam

Sam is a television drama series written by John Finch and produced by Granada Television between 1973 and 1975 for broadcast on ITV. Finch also created and wrote A Family at War for Granada. The drama was initially set in the coalfields of Yorkshire in the inter-war period, but progressing to the modern era. However, many of the exterior scenes were filmed in Lancashire; for example, the railway station used for filming was Garswood, near Wigan. The story is based on fact, with Sam as a boy growing up in Featherstone. Local dialect is used, e.g.: top-at-knob = North Featherstone. The series was made in then common video/film hybrid format; the interiors were recorded at Granada's studios in Manchester