# Second City Firsts (1973-78 TV Anthology series) (Incomplete)

Second City Firsts is a British drama anthology series of single plays, broadcast by the BBC , all lasting thirty minutes. Recorded at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham , or sometimes filmed on location, the series was broadcast between 15 October 1973 and 13 May 1978. The series title referred both to Pebble Mill's location in England's Second City , and the fact that the series commissioned an unprecedented amount of first-time writers. Among the up and coming writers were Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale, Mike Leigh and former wrestler cum actor Brian Glover, while among the early appearances of future up and coming stars were Alison Steadman, Michael Gambon, Philip Jackson. Toyah Wilcox, Paul Shane, Phil Daniels, Julie Walters, Richard Griffiths, Elizabeth Spriggs, Jack Shepherd, Alun Armstrong, Bob Peck, Pete Postlethwaite, Gwen Taylor and George Costigan to name but a few. There were a few notable episodes in the series, such as "Early To Bed", which saw an 18 year old student having an affair with a young married woman next door (Alison Steadman). The 1974 episode "Girl", about a homosexual relationship between two members in the Women's Royal Army Corps , featured the first lesbian (and same-sex) kiss on British television, between Alison Steadman (as Jackie) and Myra Frances (as Harvey). The recording of the episode was discovered in the Thames Television archives decades later, and digitised by the BBC. The 1975 episode "Club Havana" featured actress Julie Walters in her…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1973
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/second-city-firsts-1973-s-01-e-01-the-medium)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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