Nuts and Bolts was a weekly television drama series, set in the fictional South Wales

South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...

 town of Ystrad.

Filmed entirely on location in Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil is a town in Wales, with a population of about 30,000. Although once the largest town in Wales, it is now ranked as the 15th largest urban area in Wales. It also gives its name to a county borough, which has a population of around 55,000. It is located in the historic county of...

, the series made large use of exterior locations, with many interiors being recorded in a former Welsh Water

Welsh Water

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is a company which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to most of Wales and parts of western England.It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991.-History:...

 depot; which became a hastily improvised television studio.

Enjoying moderate success, the series became renowned for its accurate portrayal of valleys life (much like the BBC Wales

BBC Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. Based at Broadcasting House in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, it directly employs over 1200 people, and produces a broad range of television, radio and online services in both the Welsh and English languages.Outside...

 series Belonging) and became a proving-ground for new Welsh drama talent, such as Eve Myles

Eve Myles

Eve Myles is an award winning Welsh actress of stage and screen. She is best known to Welsh audiences for her portrayal of Ceri Owen in the BBC Wales drama Belonging, and to audiences worldwide for her role as Gwen Cooper in the science fiction show Torchwood, a spin-off from Doctor Who.-Personal...

, Jonathan Owen

Jonathan Owen

Jonathan Owen is a film and theatre actor.-Career:He has been a member of Equity, the British trade union for actors/actresses, since 1978.Owen appeared as Broter Timoteo in the comedy-drama film The Mandrake Root ....

,Jason May, Lawrence Llewellyn, Nathan Jones, Dean Keohane and Alexandra Dunn.

However, erratic scheduling and a lack of commitment to show the drama nationally, (except irregular, late-night showings on ITV2

ITV2

ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...

), led to the series being cancelled in November 2002; just one month after Nuts and Bolts finished its fourth-series run on HTV

HTV

HTV, now legally known as ITV Wales & West, is the ITV contractor for Wales and the West of England, which operated from studios in Cardiff and Bristol. The company provided commercial television for the dual-region 'Wales and West' franchise, which it won from TWW in 1968...

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The series was written by David Harris.