Blood Rights is a British television thriller drama miniseries written by Mike Phillips that first broadcast on BBC2 between 24 October and 7 November 1990, and ran for three weeks on Wednesday nights. The series comprising three episodes was based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Phillips. All three episodes were directed by Lesley Manning, with Caroline Oulton acting as executive producer.
The series starred Brian Bovell as Sam Dean, a British journalist, who is hired by a prominent Conservative Member of Parliament to find his missing, drug-addicted daughter. Dean's investigation uncovers a darker world of drugs, blackmail and prostitution.
Plot A journalist investigates the disappearance of the drug addicted daughter of a prominent Tory MP, a case that plunges him into the complex and gritty underbelly of 1980s London's multicultural and political scenes.
Cast Brian Bovell as Sam (Sammy) Dean Maggie Steed as Tess Barker Struan Rodger as Grenville Barker DeObia Oparei as Winston Akim Mogaji as Roy Robert Glenister as Pete Hermione Norris as Virginia Barker Margo Gunn as Gillian Sam Kelly as Evans Tim Potter as Erich Warren Morson as Chris Julia St John as Lynn
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Home media The series has never been re-broadcast or released on home video.
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