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Nature Boy

20001 Season55m episodes7.3

Drama

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Runtime: 55m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: GB

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A Kes for the 21st century

David Witton is a sullen teenager who feels more at ease with animals than with people. Following the death of his sister, David embarks on a search for the father who deserted him when he was a child.

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Director: Joe Wright
Writing: Bryan Elsley
Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 14, 2000
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

4 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Lee Ingleby

David Witton

Bill Fellows

Ken Davis

James Armstrong

Deck

Adam Davidson

Mel

Grace Harrison

Shelley

Hannah Winlow

Tracey

Paul McGann

Steve Witton

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Nature Boy

20001 Season55m episodes7.3

Drama

TMDB7.3

Votes3

Your rating

Runtime: 55m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: GB

About

A Kes for the 21st century

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Feb 14, 2000 · 55m
Part 1
Teenage David Witton lives in foster care following his father's departure from home when he was small and his mother's breakdown, and attends a rowdy remedial class. He is happiest communing with nature, nude swimming, and birdwatching with his only friend, fellow loner Fred. Though he impresses his teacher with his knowledge of nature, a school trip to a nature reserve ends in disaster when David has to kill an injured deer. Following the death of his precocious foster sister and the burning down of Fred's hut by a mob who learn that he is an ex-paedophile, David sets free his abusive foster father's captive birds and sets off in search of his real father.
E2 · Airs Feb 21, 2000 · 55m
Part 2
David lives off the land, adopting an injured fox as a pet and sleeping in a shed. He meets Miles, the withdrawn, mute son of unhappily married Tom and Martha, and encourages Miles to speak. A grateful Martha goes to bed with David but they're discovered by Tom. David moves on, having met Jenny, a librarian part of a protest group against Blexco, the factory where Martha works and who gives him an address to help find his father.
E3 · Airs Feb 28, 2000 · 55m
Part 3
David re encounters Jenny, now a fervent member of a protest camp occupying woods to prevent them being cleared to accommodate an airport runway. He asks her to accompany him on his search but she's determined to stay and fight. Initially uninvolved - and bonding with Ted, the under-sheriff trying to clear the camp peacefully, through a love of fishing - David is caught up in a brawl with invading security guards and, after realising Ted lied to him about the eviction date, joins the protesters in an underground tunnel.
E4 · Airs Mar 6, 2000 · 55m
Part 4
Using the address given him by Jenny, David travels south and gets work as an apple picker. He meets Esther, a woman with whom his father Steve once lived and her daughter and, through them, locates Steve, who is now a wealthy but terminally ill recluse. Initially cool towards David, who confronts him about abandoning his family, Steve lets him stay but his time is coming to an end. David returns to the North, where Jenny is comatose in hospital - however, she seems responsive to his voice and touch.

Details

Director: Joe Wright
Writing: Bryan Elsley
Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 14, 2000
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

4 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Lee Ingleby

David Witton

Bill Fellows

Ken Davis

James Armstrong

Deck

Adam Davidson

Mel

Grace Harrison

Shelley

Hannah Winlow

Tracey

Paul McGann

Steve Witton

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