| Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Jan Francis | Sally Hardcastle | 27 |
| Dennis Waterman | Thomas Gynn | 27 |
| Niall Tóibín | John Lively | 27 |
| Emma Wray | Pippa | 27 |
| Julian Wadham | 2 | |
| Timothy Carlton | 2 | |
| Paul Brooke | 1 | |
| Peter Capaldi | 1 | |
| Celia Imrie | Julie Vernon | 1 |
| Tom Wilkinson | Allon | 1 |
| Julian Firth | Teddy | 1 |
| Ron Donachie | 1 | |
| Warren Clarke | 1 | |
| Lloyd Owen | 1 | |
| Paul Copley | 1 | |
| Christopher Fairbank | 1 | |
| Roger Lloyd Pack | Eddie Vernon | 1 |
| Jim Norton | 1 | |
| Sally Ann Matthews | Nurse | 1 |
| Amanda Burton | Jane Higgs | 1 |
| Frances de la Tour | 1 | |
| Barry Jackson | Detective Inspector Dove | 1 |
| Peter Guinness | 1 | |
| Dermot Crowley | 1 | |
| Denis Lill | Blake | 1 |
| Michael Jayston | Valentine | 1 |
| Guy Henry | 1 | |
| Tony Doyle | 1 | |
| Michael Kitchen | 1 | |
| Stephen McGann | 1 | |
| Marion Bailey | 1 | |
| Dominic Jephcott | 1 | |
| Emma Wray | Pippa O'Connor | 1 |
| Albert Welling | 1 |