G.B.H. was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale, made by independent production company Cinema Verity and shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The central characters were Michael Murray (played by Robert Lindsay), the far-left Labour leader of an un-named City Council in the north of England, and Jim Nelson (played by Michael Palin), the headmaster of a special school. The series was controversial partly because the character of Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, the real-life former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council.

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