Yellowthread Street
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| Genre | Action • Crime • Thriller |
| Developed by | Ranald Graham |
| Directed by | Roger Cheveley Syd Macartney Gerry Mill Ian Stuttard Tim Dowd |
| Starring | Ray Lonnen Doreen Chan Bruce Payne Robert Taylor Tzi Ma Mark McGann Catherine Neilson |
| Theme music composer | Roger Bellon |
| Opening theme | "Yellowthread Street" |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Keith Richardson |
| ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Ranald Graham |
| Production locationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Hong Kong |
| EditorTemplate:Pluralize from text | Paul Martin Smith |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | Yorkshire Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
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Yellowthread Street is a British television police drama, first broadcast in 1990, that focuses on the work of a group of detectives in the Royal Hong Kong Police. Developed and produced by Ranald Graham, the series was loosely based on the novels by William Leonard Marshall. A single season of thirteen episodes was produced by Yorkshire Television and broadcast on ITV from January 13 to April 7, 1990.[1] The series starred Ray Lonnen as principal character Alex Vale, with Bruce Payne, Robert Taylor, Doreen Chan, Tzi Ma, Mark McGann and Catherine Neilson also appearing as detectives in the series.[2]
The series was well received by viewers and critics alike, despite only lasting one season. However, the series also received negative press, with Matters Criminous stating that "The series chiefest goal seemed to have been to explore just how very badly a dramatisation can corrupt and befoul the ideas and characters of a book."[3] The series was also celebrated for the use of state-of-the-art technology involved with the production, including becoming one of the first series on British television with stereo sound.[4] The series has never been released on DVD.[5]
Novels
In the Yellowthread Street novels, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station are based in the fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong.[6] Four principal characters are featured in the novels; DCI Harry Feiffer, of European heritage but third generation born and brought up in the Colony, Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee, a half-Chinese American and the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer, who attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes.
One of the most notable novels is 1988's Out of Nowhere, in which Feiffer must figure out why in the pre-dawn hours, four people in a plate-glass-filled van with Chinese opera blaring out of the tape deck were driving on the wrong side of a deserted motorway, miles from the nearest on-ramp, before dying in a violent collision with an oncoming lorry.[7] Sixteen novels were published between 1975 and 1998: Yellowthread Street (1975), The Hatchet Man (1976), Gelignite (1976), Thin Air (1977), Skulduggery (1979), Sci-Fi (1981), Perfect End (1981), War Machine (1982), The Far Away Man (1984), Roadshow (1985), Head First (1986), Frogmouth (1987), Out of Nowhere (1988), Inches (1994), Nightmare Syndrome (1997) and To The End (1998).
Cast
Main
- Ray Lonnen as Chief Inspector Alex Vale
- Doreen Chan as Detective Jackie Wu
- Bruce Payne as Detective Nick Eden
- Robert Taylor as Detective Peter Marenta
- Tzi Ma as Detective Eddie Pak
- Mark McGann as Detective CJ Brady
- Catherine Neilson as Detective Kelly Lang
Recurring
- Kenny Chan as Detective Chan
- Diego Swing as Frankie Ku
- Ming-Yang Li as Blind Beggar
- Christopher Leung as Szi Tai
- Winnie Tang as Jei
- Nicholas Eadie as Finn
Production
The series cost approximately £8 million.[8] This made it the most expensive series fully financed by an ITV company at the time of its broadcast.[9]
Episodes
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References
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