Welcome to all you need to know about Going Out. It will be when its finished!!

Going Out was a six part, thirty minute episode, drama series written by Phil Redmond (Grange Hill, Brookside etc) and produced by the ex-ITV franchise, Southern Television. The series followed the first six weeks after Sean, Roger Sammy, Cathy and Gerry were released from school and onto Thatcher’s scrap heap. Along with Dikey, who'd already been drawing his Giro for a year, they tried to avoid the nutter Arty 'Haggis' Jackson and his 'crew'.

With Marcus Francis. Gerard Kelly, Eric Richard, Andrew Paul, Perry Benson, Michele Winstanley, Linda Robson, Ray Burdis and others

It was broadcast in 1981 in various ITV regions at various times and days, usually late at night.

The series showed the normal problems that faced us when we left school in the early 80s. No job, no future, no hope…. but plenty of parties, a bit of agro and the chance of a quick snog with Cathy!!

I searched for info on Going Out for quite some time and found nothing. I even began to believe that I had imagined the whole series. I contacted ITV to see who has the rights to the series, no response. I contacted Mersey TV, Phil Redmonds company, and had no response from them either – then by chance, a brief note on a message board led me to a video copy of the series owned by a private collector.

I then decided that if I was looking for info, others must be looking too; and so www.going-out.org.uk was built. In 2006 I contacted ITV & Mersey TV again. Still no response from Mersey TV but I did get a reply from ITV – their response was ‘We have no record of this series’. I also tried Channel 4, as there are some who think they saw it in the early days of the channel – but have had no reply.

Enjoy the site, I will add to it as and when I have the time. I hope it brings back some good memories as it did, and still does, for me.

Thanks for looking
Dave

Southern TV logo copyright Nic Ayling. (Thanks Nic)

On Thursday 4th September 2008 The 'Portsmouth' News printed a double page article on Going Out written by Nadine Bateman, (helped by me and Portsmouth local and fan, Sean).

Click the above for readable version. Opens in new window. 3mb

THE PICTURE OF ME, ISN'T ME!!

UPDATE - May 2008 - Going Out group on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17422809618 ) which has recently been set up, pop in and have a look.

I have copies of the complete series to swap or sell, please email me for details. Thanks Dave.

UPDATE - May 2007 - My thanks already go to Gavin for his scan of a rare cassete copy of the Jugg theme tune. (here). and also to Sean who will be re-photographing some of the filming locations in Portsmouth & Southampton. And to all the others who have kindly given me information and pictures and memories of the series. I hope to incorporate all the new info into the revamped site.

May 2007

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