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Overview
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.
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Other works by Laurence Marks
Believe Nothing
2002
Starting Out
1999
Unfinished Business
1998
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993
Get Back
1992
Love Hurts
1992
So You Think You've Got Troubles
1991
Birds of a Feather
1989
Young, Gifted And Broke
1989
Snakes and Ladders
1989
The New Statesman
1987
Holding the Fort
1980
