While network TV ruled the airwaves, the rise of cable in the 1980s quietly changed the game. Channels like MTV and Nickelodeon didn’t just air shows — they created identities.

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Graham then read everything Bleasdale had written, including the 1980 one-off TV play that first introduced the characters during a road-laying stint in Middlesbrough that went wrong.