The OG 'Yellowstone' but with actual rocks and zero billionaire ranch drama.
Season 2 • Episode 8
LatestDouglas and Gordon are involved in a serious accident together. The episode opens with the snow falling that we saw at the end of the previous episode. We realise that the conditions are treacherous and the team hears that there has been an avalanche, two young people who have been skiing are missing.
Rockface is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One from 2002 to 2003. It ran for two series: the first six episodes were broadcast from 13 March to 17 April 2002 on Wednesday nights; the second series of eight episodes ran from 25 May to 27 July 2003 on Sunday nights. The series is set in Glenntannoch, a fictitious town in the Scottish Highlands, and centres around a mountain rescue team led by Dr Gordon Urquhart. The major rescues and incidents in the series were based on real life rescues conducted by the Lochaber Mountain Rescue service.
Acting
Rory McCann pre-Hound, all gentle giant energy and surprisingly soft eyes.
Practical Effects
Real Lochaber rescue stories = zero CGI mountains, all actual suffering.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Lochaber Mountain Rescue team advised on set; several members appear as extras in pub scenes.
Rockface arrived during BBC's early-2000s push for regional UK drama, part of a wave that included Monarch of the Glen — but this was the grittier, less twee cousin that critics preferred and audiences forgot.
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