TRIANGLE (1981)

Triangle
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Triangle
Drama
January 5, 1981 - July 6, 1983
Ended
|3 Seasons, 78 episodes
England
English
BBC One

Triangle was a BBC Television soap opera in the early 1980s, set aboard a North Sea ferry which sailed from Felixstowe to Gothenburg and Gothenburg to Amsterdam. A third imaginary leg existed between Amsterdam and Felixstowe to justify the programme title, but this was not operated by the ferry company. The show ran for three series before being cancelled, but is still generally remembered as "some of the most mockable British television ever produced". The scripts involved clichéd relationships and stilted dialogue, making the show the butt of several jokes - particularly on Terry Wogan's morning Radio 2 programme - which caused some embarrassment to the BBC.

In 1992, the BBC screened TV Hell, an evening of programming devoted to the worst television had to offer, and the first episode of Triangle was broadcast as part of the line-up.

The ferry used in the first series was the Tor Line's MS Tor Scandinavia. In the second and third series this was replaced by the DFDS vessel Dana Anglia probably because she had a less intensive schedule and the longer time she spent in port made on-board filming easier.

Episode Guide

Cast & Characters

Michael Craig

Captain John Anderson

Larry Lamb

Matt Taylor

Paul Jerricho

Charles Woodhouse

Kate O'Mara

Katherine Laker

George Baker

David West

Sandra Payne

Christine Harris

Diana Coupland

Marion Terson

Sandra Dickinson

Penny Warrender

Joan Greenwood

Judith Harper

Tony Anholt

Nick Stevens

Penelope Horner

Sarah Hallam

Nigel Stock

Wally James

Dawn Addams

Mrs. Landers

Douglas Sheldon

Arthur Parker

Jonathan Owen

Peter Nuttall

Julia Chambers

Barbara Carter

Michael Elwyn

Roger Powell

Don Warrington

Alan Lansing