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David Main is an ambitious, dynamic and highly capable young solicitor who, having gained valuable experience in London, returns to his native Leeds to establish a new practice. He's in law because it's the main chance-the main chance to make big money & the main chance to help his clients beat the system. Driven by a thirst for success, Main seeks out the most lucrative cases, but is also a man with a conscience who often acts for the most vulnerable and underprivileged. While his occasionally impetuous approach can take him into difficult legal waters - to the distaste of his more reserved and cautious Leeds partner Henry Castleton - Main's acumen and resourcefulness rarely fail him.
John Stride (The Wilde Alliance) stars as David Main, alongside Kate O'Mara (The Brothers) as his wife Julia, with whom he has a turbulent relationship, and Anna Palk as his efficient and attractive secretary, Sarah, in this immensely popular drama from Yorkshire Television.
The Main Chance ran for four series between 1969 and 1975.
The show won a Hollywood International Festival of Drama prize
Series one was released by Network DVD in the UK on 18 May 2009,
series 2 18 January, 2010.
Court room drama... Private Agony..
David Main is a solicitor, one of the new breed who uses the law as a tool, ruthless enough to cut through the dusty traditions of profession, avaricious enough to turn bounty-hunter for the fat prizes at issue, fast and ambitious enough for his methods to bring him into abrasive conflict with both opponents and colleagues.
Some of his cases-and clients-leave scars on him, some of the decisions mean private agony. David Main is always running, always hating to lose, knowing all the risks, aware of the scars-and the consequences to his personal life-as he puts other people's problems before his own.
Based on the highly successful Yorkshire Television Series, written by Edmund Ward
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London, 1976, and by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc: New York: ISBN: 698-10816-7 (1977)
