Dream Team 80’s

Episode 2

 

Sky One Transmission Date:

Sunday 28th May 2006

 

 

 

 

Ruthie Glover (Angela Curran)

Charles Glover (John Gunnery)  Barry Davies (Commentator)

 

 

 

 

 Produced By John Salthouse

Directed By Rob MacGillivray

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ann

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Mike, Jonny

 

 

 

 Isabelle, Kevin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Mike, Susan

 

November 1981 and Terry has recently moved up to the first team. He and Jonny are at a car sales showroom where they encounter Mike, who is now working as a salesman where his father is expanding the business to the Midlands. He takes Terry on a test drive for a car he likes. Terry asks Mike whether he'll have it ready for Saturday, as his family are coming down from Yorkshire to watch him play. Mike watches Terry leave with a sense of sadness at what could've been him. At the training ground, Al is leaving to take up a promotion managing the reserve team, and tells the youth team boys that some of them will be coming up with him. He singles Kevin out first, who thinks he is finally in for a promotion, only to be told by Al that he wants Kevin to continue working for him, i.e. cleaning his car and tending to his garden, which Isabelle really appreciates!

 

Saturday arrives and Terry's family, including his hard-to-please mother, wait for him in reception. Mrs Glover is more interested in Terry introducing her to the new receptionist Ann, as Susan, now Harry's personal secretary, appears. Terry hears his car being delivered and rallies everyone round to come and see. Terry's mother is none too impressed at the money spent, and things get worse for him when Mike personally delivers the car. Out on the pitch, Terry has a rough time and things go from bad to worse when he is sent off and Harchester lose 0-3 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Susan is annoyed at Mike for not contacting her for six months, and he explains it away by saying it was down to his injury. He asks to take her for a drink and she reluctantly agrees. The next day, Harry calls Terry into his office where he tells him after four games he thinks they brought him up into the first team a little too soon. Terry is forced to join Al with the reserves, and it takes Al to show Terry a mistake he made when he was supposed to be marking George Best, in a 1963 Man U v. Leeds game before Terry gets his determination back again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terry, Al

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harry, Mike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Al

 

 

Kevin

 

 

 

 

By February 1982, Mike returns Terry’s car after its third smash, and criticises Jonny for not stopping Terry drink driving. Jonny is more interested in bagging himself a car like Terry's and asks Mike what it would cost from him, explaining that Trish is divorcing him and he needs to pay for Karl. Mike gets in there and asks Jonny how much he is earning, and Jonny tells Mike forty grand a year, warning him there will be trouble if that gets out. Mike knows he is onto something and goes to see Harry. There he tells the manager that he is now representing players, but Harry doesn't want to hear it - his players don't need agents, and certainly will not be getting pay rises. The day of the FA Cup 4th Round against Aston Villa arrives and Jonny is mysteriously absent. An irate Harry has to put Terry on, while it turns out Mike is behind Jonny's no show. They are doing this to make Harry sweat and give into Mike's request, adding to Jonny that he will need him to score today.

 

Jonny shows up before the team go out and a furious Harry lays into him before throwing Terry out of the dressing room. As the game kicks off, Kevin meets up with Isabelle who is convinced he is avoiding her. He tells her he is leaving the club as he isn't getting anywhere with a manager who sees him as nothing more than a servant, while kids who aren't as good as him are given contracts first. Isabelle begs him not to leave her here. They make love in the ladies as Jonny scores outside. Everyone is present for the grand opening of what Jonny says "will put Harchester on the style map of Britain" - infamous nightclub Studs. Isabelle turns down alcohol, and watches on as Kevin dances on the floor with the gang his own age. Harry approaches Mike and accuses him of being behind Jonny's stunt today. Mike tells Harry he just wants what Jonny is owed, as he is a World Cup contender. Harry thinks it's hilarious when Mike requests he pay Jonny sixty-grand a year, plus goal bonuses, and Mike tells Jonny it is sorted.

 

Mike takes Susan outside where he loudly asks her to marry him. He tells her he's got it all worked out now and was just waiting for the right opportunity to come along. Before long, the two are inside announcing the news, and when Ann tells Terry he is so taken aback that he grabs hold of her and kisses her. As the night continues, Isabelle grows increasingly down about Kevin, realising it will never work because of the age gap, and tells Al she is going home alone. Kevin follows her outside and says he'd rather be with her, but Isabelle has privately made her mind up, telling Kevin she will see him tomorrow. The next day the reserve team are waiting to travel to their away game at Stoke, and Terry arrives to be told by Ann that Al still hasn't shown up. He and Kevin drive to Al's house where they find him sprawled out on the sofa, drunk and announcing that Isabelle has left him. Kevin is in shock and dashes upstairs where he finds all of Isabelle's clothes gone.

 

 

Two years pass to September 1984 and Mike and Susan are now married. As he shows her his new offices, he asks Susan to come and work for him. She believes Harry needs her but Mike informs her that Harry will be gone by the end of the season. The reserve team are waiting to play Queens Park Rangers reserves, only Al is late again. Terry and Kevin find him slumped at the wheel of his car severely hungover. Terry has to take charge of the team once more and thanks to him, they just about win the game. Kevin is now practically Al’s carer, and that night at his house Kevin learns that today is ten years since Al married Isabelle. Al goes searching for more booze and finds Kevin has cleared it all out, causing him to flip. Kevin yells back that if Al doesn't stop drinking the club are going to fire him, and the lads can't cover for him anymore. Al adds he always knew Isabelle would kill him one day.

 

Terry is at Jonny's playing poker with the other first-teamers when his mother phones him. His older brother is in hospital after being badly beaten up. No sooner than he's walked into the room, Terry's mother Ruthie lays into him, over having so much money when he's not even playing, and how his older brother has a harder life going down the pits. Terry tells her it's not his fault that he could play and his brother couldn't, and reminds his mother that she too is to blame - for never showing him any encouragement or even ever saying she was proud of him. Terry leaves the hospital to find his car has been graphitised with the word 'Scabs'.

 

 

By October Terry has sold the car, to Ann's pleasure and things seem to be back on track between the two. Al also seems to be getting back on track, and on the training pitch he asks Kevin if he'll come and look at the garden again. Kevin tells a stunned Al no, and that he has let him call him "Snowball" and treat him like a cleaner for too long, before walking out of training. Shortly afterwards, Kevin goes to see Mike about representing him and finding him a new club. Mike tells Kevin he might not need a new club if he can speak to Sidwell, and lets it slip that Al formally quit as Reserve Team manager yesterday. By match day, Kevin has joined Terry in the first team, at last making his debut for the Dragons.

 

 

 

Notes:

 

First appearance of Ann Kavanagh (Amy Huberman)

 

Last appearances of Harry Sidwell (Ian Burfield) and Alan “Al” Mackay (Alex Ferns)

 

Best Known For: Amy Huberman was already a rising star in her home country of Ireland, appearing in both series of “Showbands” (2005 & 06), twice nominated for the IFTA Best Actress in a Television Role Award for Daisy O'Callaghan in "The Clinic" (2003-09). Other highlights include comedy "Threesome" (2011-12), "Cold Feet" (2016-17), "Striking Out" (2017-18), the acclaimed "Butterfly" (2018), “Harry Wild” (2022-) and starring, writing and the executive producer of "Finding Joy" (2018-20)

 

Angela Curran's 90+ acting credits include "Close To Home" (1990), "Mike Bassett: England Manager" (2001), “Calendar Girls” (2003), "Eric & Ernie", "Jane Eyre" and the Oscar winning "The Iron Lady" (all 2011), and regulars Janette Hodgkins in "The Job Lot" (2013-15), Mrs Hobbs in "Waffle the Wonder Dog" (2018-20) and Caitlin Morgan in "Doc Martin" (2019-22)

 

Logic: The opening of Studs (in its very first location) is shown in 1982, however three played songs - Spandau Ballet’s True, Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Chaka Khan’s Ain't Nobody came a year early, all not released until 1983.

 

Foreshadowing: We see Jonny doing cocaine, something Fletch has picked up from his father when we first see him in Season 1 as a 25-year-old.

 

Additional Info: By February 1982, Jonny has 22 goals and an England cap. Kevin is also still living at Mrs Quinn’s at this time.

 

Soundtrack: Billy Idol: “Rebel Yell” and “White Wedding”,  Chaka Khan: “Ain't Nobody”,  Culture Club: "Do you really want to hurt me",  Cyndi Lauper: "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun",  Duran Duran: “Hungry Like The Wolf”,  Eurythmics: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)",  Human League: "Don't You Want Me",  Kraftwerk: "The Model",  Spandau Ballet: "True",  The Jam: "Start",  The Police: "Invisible Sun"

 

 

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