Happy Valley is the gold standard of British TV drama and stars some of our best actors, spanning all generations. And while we all know Sarah Lancashire found her acting feet in Coronation Street, another Happy Valley pair started their early careers in a very 1980s, very rude and very funny film which was a snapshot of life in the north at that particular time.
Siobhan Finneran (Clare) and George Costigan (Neville) first starred opposite each other in the 1987 Alan Clarke film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too. The saucy comedy-drama showed Finneran and co-star Michelle Holmes (Goodnight Sweetheart, Emmerdale and Coronation Street) as a pair of teenagers from a rundown Bradford estate who embark on an affair with the married man (Costigan) they babysit for.
The characters get into all sorts of scrapes, some too naughty to describe here, and there's a disco scene featuring 1980s kids' pop party legends, Black Lace, doing a rendition of The Gang Bang (definitely not a kids' party track). For more TV news subscribe to our Showbiz newsletter here.
