Making Out at last

Tonight BBC4 shows four episodes back to back from series 1 of the classic drama/sitcom Making Out. It will be the first time in 30 years that these episodes have been repeated. My only fear is that TV has moved on since 1989. There have been so many great shows since then. Will Making Out live up to my fond memories of the series and characters? Margi starts the marathon off so it will be interesting to see what she has to say.

PS: Here is what I wrote about the show back in 2009:-

Making Out

Making Out

Another mystery. Here’s a great BBC TV show that’s never been repeated in almost 20 years and criminally, has never been released on DVD. “Making Out” was one of those rarities with a plot that was uplifting and tragic, funny and sad, feel-good yet true to life all at the same time. The plot(s) revolved around the (complicated) lives of a number of women working in an electronics factory in the north of England.

Originally broadcast around about 1990 it is the only programme I can ever remember (before or since) that I would cancel all other engagements to watch. (Can you remember what a pain it used to be to cue up a VHS tape and set the timer to record something….).  The show was written by Debbie Horsfield who would go on to Write/Produce “Sex, Chips and Rock and Roll” (fab too), “The Riff Raff Element”, “Cutting It” and recently “All the Small Things” amongst others. “Making Out” had believable scripts that were brought to life by great character actors such as Margi Clarke, Shirley Stelfox and the gorgeous Tracie Bennett. I’ve just looked on Amazon and cannot believe this series is unavailable in any format.

Here is a brief sample of the Making Out theme tune.

PS: The theme music and incidental music to “Making Out” was provided by the band New Order. And a paperback was issued in 1991 (although heaven knows what Margi and Tracie would have said when they saw the awful photo put on the cover!).