Teen ice skaters chasing glory while their families fall apart—peak '80s British melodrama.
A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.
Acting
Warren Clarke brings unexpected depth to disappointed dad.
Production
Genuine ice rink locations, zero glamour—bleakly authentic.
Director
Alan Dossor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher was Depeche Mode's keyboardist—his only acting role, apparently cast for ice skating skills, not musicianship.
Director Alan Dossor came from radical theatre collective Pip Simmons Group; this was his strange pivot into mainstream TV melodrama.
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