Oktober | |
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Genre | Thriller |
Written by | Stephen Gallagher |
Directed by | Stephen Gallagher |
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Composer | Alan Parker |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 3 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Brian Eastman |
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Cinematography | Bruce McGowan |
Editor | Andrew McClelland |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Carnival Film & Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 2 April 16 April 1998 | –
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Oktober is a three-part British television psychological thriller, written and directed by Stephen Gallagher, that first broadcast on ITV on 2 April 1998. Based upon Gallagher's 1988 novel of the same name,[1] the series stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Harper, a schoolteacher who finds himself drawn into an international conspiracy when a pharmaceutical company eyeball him to be the human guinea pig in a new, state-of-the-art medical trial.[2][3]
Tompkinson told the Daily Mirror that he was keen to take on the more active role of Jim Harper, commenting; “I grabbed this project because I’d never been asked to do anything like this before, and the chance to do stunts was one reason it was so appealing. As soon as I read the script I knew there hadn’t been anything like this on British television for a very long time. It has elements of The 39 Steps running through it. It asks how an ordinary person manages to deal with a set of quite extraordinary events.”[4]
The series was released on Region 2 DVD on 24 May 2004.[2] A reprint of Gallagher's novel with Tompkinson on the cover art followed on 2 January 2018.[1]