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Gone to the Dogs
Genre	Comedy-Drama
Written by	Tony Grounds
Directed by	Tony Dow Sandy Johnson
Starring	Alison Steadman Jim Broadbent Harry Enfield Warren Clarke
Music by	The Gutter Brothers
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Michele Buck
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	Central Films
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	29 November (1991-11-29) – 27 December 1991 (1991-12-27)
Related
Gone to Seed

Gone to the Dogs is a television miniseries by Central Films for Central Independent Television bought from writer Will Warrior, and was broadcast by ITV between 29 November and 27 December 1991 in the UK. The six episode comedy drama series revolved around the relationship of Jim Morley (Jim Broadbent) and Lauren Patterson (Alison Steadman) in the world of greyhound racing. The series had a notable cast and much of the greyhound racing filming took place at Walthamstow Stadium.

The series was followed by Gone to Seed where several members of the cast from this series also appear, albeit in entirely new roles.

Cast

Main

• Alison Steadman as Lauren Patterson
• Jim Broadbent as Jim Morley
• Harry Enfield as Little Jim Morley
• Warren Clarke as Larry Patterson

Recurring

• Martin Clunes as Pilbeam
• Sheila Hancock as Jean
• Julia St John as Sophie
• Cliff Parisi as Stanley
• Rosemary Martin as Margaret
• Arthur Whybrow as George
• Barbara Keogh as Betty
• Paddy Joyce as Quinn
• Lisa Jacobs as Maid
• Walter Sparrow as Stretch

Guest

• Bobby Moore
• Martin Peters
• Geoff Hurst
• Michelle Collins
• Donna Ewin

Episodes

Home Media

The complete series was originally released on VHS on 4 November 1991 by the Video Collection and Central Video. It was released on DVD in a three disc boxset along with its follow up series Gone to Seed, by Network on 27 February 2012.

References

1. ^ Hancock, Sheila (1933-). BFI Screenonline. Accessed May 2014.
2. "Gone to the Dogs". Comedy.co.uk.
3. "Warren Clarke obituary". The Guardian. 12 November 2014.
4. "Gone to Seed". British Comedy Guide.
5. "Gone to the Dogs VHS". Amazon. November 1991.
6. "Gone to the Dogs/ Gone to Seed". Network. 27 February 2012. Archived from the original on 16 March 2023.

External links

• Gone to the Dogs at IMDb
• Gone to the Dogs at British Comedy Guide

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