Harbour Lights (TV series)

Harbour Lights
Genre	Drama
Created by	David Martin
Starring	Nick Berry Tina Hobley Gerard Horan Matilda Ziegler Tim Matthews Freddie Davies Emma Pike Francis Pope Paola Dionisotti Louis Mahoney Liam Tattershall
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	16 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producer	Steve Lanning
Producer	Mal Young
Production locations	West Bay, Bridport
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	BBC Scotland
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	18 February 1999 (1999-02-18) – 28 May 2000 (2000-05-28)
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Harbour Lights is a British television drama series, broadcast on BBC One, that ran for two series in 1999 and 2000. Starring Nick Berry as protagonist Mike Nicholls, a former Royal Navy officer who returns to his childhood town of Bridehaven to take on the role of harbourmaster.^[1] The first series featured on storylines including a blossoming romance with local constable Melanie Rush (Tina Hobley), the ruthless business dealings of Tony Simpson (Gerard Horan), and the inter-family feuding of the Blades — Steve, George, Jason, Kelly and Rita. Both series were predominantly filmed in West Bay near Bridport in Dorset, which acts as the fictional town of Bridehaven. The second series featured much harder-hitting storylines than the first, and was criticised by local residents for portraying West Bay in a bad light.^[2]

The complete series was released on Region 4 DVD on 3 March 2011.^[3] This is the only commercial release of the series available.^[4] The second episode of the first series, "Marie [sic] Celeste", was famously said to be 'missing' and was never broadcast on the BBC. It has, however, been shown during repeat screenings of the series on digital television, and is included in the DVD release.^[5]