Firm Friends

Firm Friends is a British drama series written and created by Lou Wakefield which was broadcast on ITV from 16 June 1992 to 18 August 1994. The series stars Billie Whitelaw as Rose Gutteridge and Madhur Jaffrey as Jayshree Kapoor. The show was produced by Zenith Entertainment in association with Tyne Tees Television for the ITV network.

Firm Friends
Genre	Drama
Written by	Lou Wakefield
Directed by	Various
Starring	Billie Whitelaw Madhur Jaffrey Zohra Sehgal Michelle Holmes Badi Uzzaman Derek Fowlds
Composer	Barrington Pheloung
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producer	Scott Meek
Producers	Jeff Rosenblatt (1992) Deirdre Kerr (1994)
Production locations	Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Running time	52 minutes (including adverts)
Production companies	Zenith Entertainment Tyne Tees Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	16 June 1992 (1992-06-16) – 18 August 1994 (1994-08-18)

Cast

• Billie Whitelaw as Rose Gutteridge
• Madhur Jaffrey as Jayshree Kapoor
• Zohra Sehgal as Suvira Bhatia
• Michelle Holmes as Maggie Coles
• Badi Uzzaman as Puran Kapoor
• Derek Fowlds as John Gutteridge
• Alexander Morton as DI Hogg
• John McArdle as Peter Cresswell
• Tony Doyle as Michel Gutteridge
• Allen Mechen as Baz

Series overview

Series		Episodes	Originally aired		Ave. UK viewers (millions)
			First aired	Last aired
	1	4	16 June 1992 (1992-06-16)	7 July 1992 (1992-07-07)
	2	4	28 July 1994 (1994-07-28)	18 August 1994 (1994-08-18)

References

External links

• Firm Friends at IMDb