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G.B.H.	comment	G.B.H. is a drama by Alan Bleasdale that was first shown on British TV in 1991. It has elements both of British Conspiracy Thriller and psychological drama, as well as pure comedy and farce.Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) is the charismatic and far-left leader of an unspecified northern city council who, as a show of strength against the then Conservative government, calls a one-day strike of all council services, except that a Special Needs school is accidentally not picketed. The headmaster, Jim Nelson (Michael Palin) is then asked to apologise for turning up to work as usual. He refuses, causing him to be a target for Michael Murray's thuggish supporters. The rest of the series concerns the conflict between the two men as well as their own psychological battles; Michael Murray, in particular, is haunted by a traumatic incident from his childhood. Gradually, it is revealed that both men are merely pawns in a game designed by the British Establishment to discredit the Left.Oh, and by the way, the title refers not to Grievous Bodily Harm, but The Great British Holiday (a good proportion of the series takes place at an awful holiday camp).
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G.B.H. / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Michael Murray is based on Derek Hatton, the notorious Deputy Leader and de facto boss of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s. During a chance meeting with Bleasdale while the series was in production, Hatton, who had heard about it, said that he didn't mind how he was portrayed as long as the actor was handsome. Whilst not exactly celebrities, the series was shot in and around Manchester Town Hall. The production crew tagged a few locals as extras, so in some shots some genuine hard left Councillors are playing... hard left Councillors.
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G.B.H. / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
G.B.H. / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Michael Murray; to make things worse, his father died before he was born.
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G.B.H. / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
G.B.H. / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: After everything, once he learns the truth about Eileen, Michael calmly resigns himself to the destruction of his political career and surrenders himself to the police to face the consequences for what happened.
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G.B.H. / int_26f402a5	type	Trojan Gauntlet
G.B.H. / int_26f402a5	comment	Trojan Gauntlet: Mike Murray, eager to make love to the beautiful blonde waiting in his hotel room, tries to find a packet of condoms in the middle of a Doctor Who convention. Unfortunately the hotel's vending machine is empty thanks to a large influx of firemen the previous night. Mike has to borrow some from the hotel's owner who's in his office with several conventioneers, including one dressed as a Dalek.
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G.B.H. / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
G.B.H. / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Eileen Critchley apparently had some severe mental problems at a very young age, but they weren't noticed, as everyone was paying more attention to Michael Murray. These later resulted in her hanging herself in college.
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G.B.H. / int_2fc6d122	type	City with No Name
G.B.H. / int_2fc6d122	comment	Citywith No Name: We never hear the name of the city. It's often supposed to be Liverpool, and the bridge which Jim Nelson can't cross is indeed just south of Liverpool, but the city hall scenes were filmed in Manchester and the Nelsons live on the city outskirts on the edge of moorland, which doesn't match with Liverpool.
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G.B.H. / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
G.B.H. / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Michael Palin gives a speech in which he claims not to believe in Messiahs...as well as claiming not to be a missionary (Palin wrote and starred in a film called The Missionary). In a case of Producer Allusion, the famous Doctor Who convention scene is a reference to producer Verity Lambert, who was the first ever producer of that show.
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G.B.H. / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
G.B.H. / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: We learn that Mike really wasn't responsible for strangling Eileen Critchley, but he's arrested for inciting the rioting and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm. Lou, Peter and Richard apparently get away with actually inciting the rioting - but it's implied Barbara will use the tape to bring them down. Jim gives a speech to the Labour meeting where he talks his way out of expulsion, and our last shot of the series is of his driving over a bridge, showing he's overcome his fears.
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G.B.H. / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
G.B.H. / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The Conservative reporter who dogs Michael Murray throughout the series and ends up working with the conspiracy to discredit him.
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G.B.H. / int_51df4e54	type	Kids Driving Cars
G.B.H. / int_51df4e54	comment	Kids Driving Cars: there's a scene in which a family needs to drive to another city but their usual driver is unavailable, so their ten year old son offers to drive. On the way, a policeman considers pulling them over because he feels that something "just isn't right", but decides against it after his partner points out that the driver's driving is flawless. When they arrive at their destination, Michael Murray recognizes the car and expects that one of his enemies will be driving, but when he looks in the window and sees a ten year old driving, it triggers the worst yet attack of nervous tic in his arm.
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G.B.H. / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
G.B.H. / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Jim and Mike both suffer a lot of this.
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G.B.H. / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
G.B.H. / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion: Jim Nelson is a total hypochondriac as well as having a phobia of bridges. However, when threatened by Murray's thugs, he becomes a total Badass.
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G.B.H. / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
G.B.H. / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Eileen Critchley, several years before the series began.
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G.B.H. / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
G.B.H. / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Michael's wife Maureen, whose face we never see.
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G.B.H. / int_8898ce54	type	Initialism Title
G.B.H. / int_8898ce54	comment	Initialism Title
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G.B.H. / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
G.B.H. / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Eileen Critchley.
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G.B.H. / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
G.B.H. / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: As his world crumbles around him, Murray starts to develop a Twitchy Eye, then his arm starts shooting up or out uncontrollably.
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G.B.H. / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
G.B.H. / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Mike is very fond of his mother, and seems to spend far more time with her than he does with say, his wife and children.
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G.B.H. / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
G.B.H. / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A hilarious scene in which Michael Murray attempts to buy condoms in the middle of a Doctor Who convention is almost immediately followed by the savage beating of a black waiter.
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G.B.H. / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
G.B.H. / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jim Nelson whenever he has to talk to Michael Murray.
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G.B.H. / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
G.B.H. / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Jim Nelson's speech in the final episode, which Alan Bleasdale admitted was a statement of his own philosophy.
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G.B.H. / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
G.B.H. / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Michael dislikes being called "Mickey" by his older brother, and starts to react angrily to people saying he's going bald once Jim Nelson remarks on it.
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G.B.H. / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
G.B.H. / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Michael Murray.
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G.B.H. / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
G.B.H. / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Jim Nelson is deathly afraid of going over bridges. Merely mentioning Eileen Critchley's name is enough to send Michael Murray into hysterics.
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G.B.H. / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
G.B.H. / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Lillian pulls this on Michael in the penultimate episode: "You are no son of mine."
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G.B.H. / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
G.B.H. / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Michael Murray attributes his behaviour to an incident in his childhood when he was tormented by a girl called Eileen Critchley.
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G.B.H. / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
G.B.H. / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Jim is adored by the students at his school, and he goes to great lengths to teach them entertainingly.
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G.B.H. / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
G.B.H. / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Mr. Weller is this trope played for drama. Thanks to Michael's torment of him, he's a barely contained bag of neuroses.
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G.B.H. / int_dccc5309	type	Do with Him as You Will
G.B.H. / int_dccc5309	comment	Do with Him as You Will: The young thugs who have been stirring racial tensions by beating up black people while dressed as policemen are betrayed by their controller who hands them over to a gang of black rioters. They are only beaten up and humiliated rather than killed, but he doesn't seem to care; he laughs hysterically as he watches them dragged from their van.
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G.B.H. / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
G.B.H. / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Mike and wife Maureen, as he's constantly unfaithful and never pays attention to her or the children. Most of her appearances are her calling him to yell at him. Jim and Laura's friends, Martin and Diane. They're always arguing, both unfaithful and she's pregnant with another man's child. However, they patch things up by the end.
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G.B.H. / int_e70127	type	The Mole
G.B.H. / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: There are several people that Michael Murray is working with who are secretly conspiring to discredit and destroy him (and with him the Left), but the best example of this trope would probably be Barbara.
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G.B.H. / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
G.B.H. / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Jim Nelson is well aware of the city-wide strike, but ignores it because his union has defined strike-breaking as crossing a picket line, and Murray's goons forgot to picket his school.
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G.B.H. / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
G.B.H. / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Eileen Critchley is both incredibly intense, disturbingly morbid, and seems to enjoy causing Michael Murray misery a bit too much.
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G.B.H. / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
G.B.H. / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Michael Murray may be corrupt and a bit of a bully, but he is also decidedly anti-racist, being well-known among the Labour establishment for his ability to relate to black and Asian (aka from the Indian subcontinent) constituents.
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