| Sam | |
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| Genre | Drama, Family |
| Written by | John Finch |
| Directed by | Colin Cant Les Chatfield Bill Podmore Roland Joffé |
| Starring | Mark McManus Kevin Moreton Barbara Ewing Ray Smith John Price Frank Mills Alethea Charlton Michael Goodliffe James Hazeldine Maggie Jones Dorothy White Jennifer Hilary Cherith Mellor Jan Harvey Ivor Roberts Alan David Stephanie Turner Simon Rouse Veronica Roberts Peter Duncan Windsor Davies Jim Norton Carol Drinkwater |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Michael Cox |
| Production locations | Yorkshire Gin Pit Village, Astley Lancashire |
| Production company | Granada Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 12 June 1973 – 25 August 1975 |
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Sam is a television drama series written by John Finch and produced by Granada Television between 1973 and 1975 for broadcast on ITV. Finch also created and wrote A Family at War for Granada.
The series is based on fact, with Sam as a boy growing up in Featherstone. It was initially set in the coalfields of Yorkshire in the inter-war period but eventually progressed to the modern (then) era. Interior scenes were recorded at Granada's studios in Manchester, while many of the exterior scenes were filmed in Lancashire. For example, the railway station used for filming was Garswood, near Wigan. Local dialect is used, e.g. top-at-knob referring to North Featherstone. The series was made in a video/film hybrid format, which was common at the time.