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The Muscle Market (Original title)
Dates: 1980 (Copyright), 13 January 1981 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Alan Dossor

Production company billing: ©1980. BBC
Synopsis: Danny Duggan's rough-house business methods and lifestyle owe more to early influences than the CBI. But with the bottom falling out of the building game playing at gangster is only fun on the winning side.

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TV Transmissions
Date: 13 January 1981Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:25-22:45Slot duration: 80 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 05 August 1990Broadcast company: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:30-22:00Slot duration: 90 minsNetwork
Date: 05 August 1990not specified

Credits (56)
[Executive Producer]: David Rose, [Production Company]: BBC Birmingham, ©: BBC, Production Company: Michael Wearing, Executive Producer: Andrew Meikle, Producer: Michael Rolfe, Assistant Floor Manager: James Webster, Photography: David Jackson, Production Unit Manager: Carol Parks, Stills Photographer: Warwick Bedford, Production Assistant: , Production Assistant: David Attwood, Director's Assistant: Diana Coxon, Assistant Director: Terry Dawson, Film Recordist: Martin Dale, [Written] By: Alan Bleasdale, Screenplay: , Director of Photography: , Stills Photography: , Film Editor: Henry Fowler, Film Editor: , Designer: Sally Williams, Designer: , Costume Designer: , Make-up: , Make-up Artist: Pam Rayson, Sound Recording: , Sound Re-recording: , Sound Re-recording: , Dubbing Mixer: David Baumber, Stunt Co-ordinator: , Fight Arranger: Eddie Powell
Cast (22)
Peter Postlethwaite (Danny Dugan), Philip Donaghy (Maxie), Terence Rigby (Bernard), Alison Steadman (Susan), Paul Jesson (John), Mitzi Mueller (Pauleen), Ken Sharrock (Miller), Paul Harman (Abbott), Roger Phillips (`Costello'), Ronald Forfar (`Costello the Second'), Barry McCarthy (Hutchinson), Bill Stewart (auctioneer), Bill Moores (Arthur), Derek Mclean, Adrian Mills (Bernard's son), Mike Donohoe, Steve Faye, Brian Jacques, Jackie Hamilton, Mike Hayden, Johnny Mallen, Ken Rose (heavy)