Our Friends in the North (1996) [8 of 9]

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Episode 8 "1987" (March 4, 1996) : Nicky and Mary have been married for two years, and Mary has just become a grandmother. Nicky has become a very successful photographer who has had many books of his work published. As Leader of the Council, Mary is faced with hard decisions involving making cuts in services and being restricted from all she would like to do by new government regulations. Felix has become very senile due to the onset of Alzheimer's disease and Florrie, realising she can no longer cope, puts him into a home. Christopher Collins, who used to torment Felix and Florrie as a youth, is involved in a siege on his estate and ends up being shot and injured by a police marksman. Whilst on a book-signing trip to London, Nicky encounters student Alice McDonald who is writing a dissertation on his work, and he begins having an affair with her.

Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial. It was originally broadcast in nine episodes in early 1996. Written by Peter Flannery, it tells the story of four friends from Newcastle upon Tyne over a period of 31 years, from 1964 to 1995. The story makes reference to certain political and social events which occurred during the era portrayed, some specific to Newcastle and others which affected Britain as a whole. These include general elections, police and local government corruption, the UK miners' strike (1984–85), and the Great Storm of 1987.

The series was directed by Simon Cellan Jones, Pedr James, and Stuart Urban. It stars Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig, Mark Strong, and Peter Vaughan. Contemporary popular music was used throughout the production to evoke the feel of the year in which each episode was set.