Stay Lucky


Stay Lucky is a British television comedy-drama series ran from 8 December 1989 to 6 August 1993. Made by Yorkshire Television and screened on the ITV network, it starred Jan Francis and Dennis Waterman.

Plot

Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire.
Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds.
Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.
The fourth series finished with several ongoing plot threads not fully resolved, with it not expected to be the end of the series. The planned fifth series would have seen Thomas, after being forced to be a last minute stand for an unwell pub singer, trying would break into the music business, with Sally acting as his promoter from her boat. However the fifth series was cancelled before filming began, part of ITV dropping several series in the face of overall dropping ratings on the channel.
Dennis Waterman several times called for ITV to commission a Christmas special, to continue or conclude the series, but to no avail.

Cast

Others include Chris Jury, Belinda Lang, Rula Lenska, Amanda Noar and Dougray Scott.

Episode list

;Series 1
  1. A1 Rain Dancer
  2. The Howling
  3. Fool's Gold
;Series 2
  1. Burning Your Boats
  2. Bring Back My Barney to Me!
  3. A Woman's Lot
  4. The Devil Wept in Leeds
  5. Trial by Marriage
  6. Hotrod Horace
  7. Bigamy Blues
;Series 3
  1. Poetic Justice
  2. The Food of Love
  3. Hard Times, Hard Men
  4. An Unsavoury Business
  5. The Sisters of Achill
  6. A Roman Empire
  7. Shingle Beach
;Series 4
  1. Flameproof and Free!
  2. The Driving Instructor
  3. A Quick Killing
  4. Down to Earth
  5. The Long Road... There!
  6. The Long Road... Back!
  7. Gilding the Lily
  8. Blowing Bubbles
  9. Sand Dancer
  10. One Jump Ahead

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