Name: Northern Lights
Released: 2006-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Robson Green, Mark Benton, Nicola Stephenson

Northern Lights

TV Show · Comedy · Drama

Colin and Howie have been chums since they were in school. Now both employed by Sherpa Freight and married to sisters, they find their friendship tested by a sort of one-upmanship. Can their lifelong friendship survive this spirit of competition that seems to have taken them over? And can their wives and children survive the test?

2006 · 47m

Starring Robson Green, Mark Benton, Nicola Stephenson

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Colin gets fired, Pauline feels neglected and Brooke has a new boyfriend.

46 min
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Colin is happy that both he and Howie are out of work as it makes him feel they are equals again. However, when Howie is offered his old job back, Colin decides he must turn over a new leaf and find a new friend. He attempts a split from Howie but discovers he needs him more than ever when his daughter Brooke goes missing.

45 min
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Colin and Howie go to a school reunion where Howie hooks up with an old flame.

46 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Colin becomes the captain of the football team; Jackie joins the snooker team.

46 min
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

Colin is convinced that by taking over the works football team he can persuade Cockburn and the other bosses that he does possess the decision-making abilities and ruthless streak necessary to earn him promotion to a new post. Howie agrees - then Colin displays just how ruthless he can be by dropping him from a vital cup game.

45 min
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

Colin's estranged father is dead and he reluctantly returns to the north east to bury the man who deserted him and his family when he was a small boy. Colin's brother accuses him of turning his back on him and his sister, and being closer to Howie than his own siblings.

45 min