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'Dream Team' was a British television series produced by Hewland International and aired on Sky One and Sky Three, that chronicles the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United F.C.. Despite the show no longer being on tv, the story continues online at Harchester.tv
A significant part of the action, including game play, is shot at The New Den, the home ground of the Football League One club Millwall.
The series has completed its 10th and final season as of June 3rd 2007. Although the show has had a long and successful run, its viewing figures declined in recent seasons which prompted the cancellation of the show in April 2006.
The club is based in the fictional town of Harchester (which is said to be close to Tamworth) in the West Midlands. The most popular stars of the show, through the years, are Alison King who plays Lynda Block and Terry Kiely who played Karl Fletcher.

Contents

Season 2006/2007

Cast

Current squad

Karl Fletcher

Acting Career Launches

Foreign Audience

Differences to the real world

See also

External links

Season 2006/2007

The final season came to a head at Harchester United as the gates at the Dragon's Lair, the home of fictional Premiership football team Harchester United, open for one last time. The future of the team was uncertain, despite winning the FA Cup last season. Liam MacKay was unable to play football again after fighting a lifetime ban. With Ashleigh King being revealed as Casper Rose's murderer, his brother Eugene never found out that it was his other brother - Alex Dempsey - who killed him
A new arrival took charge at the club as Jimmy Craig became manager, and brought his 18 year old daughter, Gemma, with him.
Jason Porter, who has been a life-long fan and season ticket holder, was now on the pitch trying to take Harchester to the top.
The main story of the season was the ongoing "Dragonslayer" problem. This was the work of Danny Sullivan (Danny Husbands) as he knew that he would not receive a player's medal if the club won the Premier League, as he had only played nine games, and would not play another because of injury. Instead he is signed up as a coach, and through this position he goes on to destroy the teams chances of winning the league, eventually burning down the stadium in the last episode.
After it was announced that the show was ending for good with season 10, the series had lost many influential characters, including Alex Dempsey, Lynda Block, Ryan Naysmith and Ashleigh King.
Season 10 concluded with a last attempt to win the Premiership title. Danny Sullivan sets fires to the changing rooms and boardroom. As the boardroom burns, Harchester United win the Premiership after Jason Porter scores the winning goal.
Season 10 premiered on Sky One on October 29, 2006 and ended on June 3, 2007.

Cast

Cast members who featured during the shows tenth and final season.

★ 'Alison King'
as Lynda Block (1998-2002, 2003, 2005-2006, 2007)

★ 'Jamie Lomas'
as Alex Dempsey (2005-2006)

★ 'Lucinda Kennard'
as Amy Kerrigan (2005-2007)

★ 'Naomi Ryan'
as Ashleigh King (2005-2006)

★ 'Julie Healy'
as Chloe Tyler (2005-2007)

★ 'Jessica Jane'
as Cindi Marshall (2005-2007)

★ 'Danny Husbands'
as Danny Sullivan (2001-2007)

★ 'Junior Nunoo'
as Eugene Rose (2005-2006)

★ 'Jonathan Howard'
as Gavin Moody (2005-2007)

★ 'Duncan Pow'
as Liam Mackay (2005-2007)

★ 'Sapphire Elia'
as Gemma Craig (2006-2007)

★ 'Frankie Fitzgerald'
as Jason Porter (2006-2007)

★ 'Danny Midwinter'
as Jimmy Craig (2006-2007)

★ 'Amy Perfect'
as Katy Irwin (2006-2007)

★ 'James Floyd'
as Miguel Lopez (2006-2007)
For a list of characters that have appeared on Dream Team, see Dream Team Characters.
See also: List of Dream Team cast members

Current squad

For a list of previous seasons squads, see Dream Team - past squads

Karl Fletcher

Main articles: Karl Fletcher

Arguably the most famous character in Dream Team was Karl Fletcher (played by Terry Kiely), who became the series' stalwart character, remaining a fixture in the cast from the beginning of season 1 through to the end of season 8. During his tenure with Harchester, Fletch was briefly promoted to manager, became a father, married (and divorced) physiotherapist Abi Fletcher, and was briefly jailed. At the end of season 8, he was finally killed by deranged manager Don Barker.
The death of Fletch was seen by many as a desperate attempt to boost falling ratings, but in truth lay in the fact that Kiely wanted to pursue other projects (namely Channel 5 soap-opera ''Family Affairs'') and had grown tired with the character. Fletcher (or 'Fletch' as he was affectionately known) remained the most popular character throughout the entire show, topping the popularity ratings each year until the character's death.
On Easter Sunday 2007 Fletch returned to haunt Jason Porter after Jason's world started to fall apart and as before Fletch was up to his old tricks by taunting Jason saying he's not good enough to play for Harchester and then disappears.

Acting Career Launches

''Dream Team'' managed to open promising careers to more actors than any other dramas which aired on Sky One. Alison King (who played Lynda Block) starred in BBC One's sitcom ''Help'' as one of the primary cast members and also appeared in numerous amount of supporting and leading roles in independent films, some receiving international attentions. She made her first official appearance as a regular cast member in UK's primetime soap drama, ''Coronation Street'' in December 2006, playing Carla Connor.
Other ''Dream Team'' actors of note include Nathan Constance (Leon Richards), who played Ian Walmsley on ''Footballers Wives''; Robert Kazinsky (Casper Rose), currently playing Sean Slater on ''EastEnders''; and Ricky Whittle (Ryan Naysmith) and Jamie Lomas (Alex Dempsey/Rose), both of who star in ''Hollyoaks''.
In the United States, Ed Sanders (Eddie Moliano) appears on and will host the gameshow ''National Bingo Night''. He was also the host of the UK version of ''Fear Factor'' after leaving ''Dream Team''.

Foreign Audience

In the United States, Fox Soccer Channel (like Sky, a part of News Corporation) airs the series several series behind Sky One; the sixth season began broadcasting on Thursdays at 9pm ET on August 23, 2006. Series is currently aired in Serbia, on Studio B television, and in Montenegro on TV In.

Differences to the real world

★ In 1999, Manchester United won a historic treble, winning the Premier League, F.A. Cup & Champions League. In the show, this never occurred as Harchester defeated Manchester United in the F.A. Cup Final.

★ In 2005, West Ham United won promotion to the Premiership by defeating Preston North End in the Championship play-off final, however, in the show, this was seen as Harchester beating The Hammers (using footage from the previous year's play-off final when West Ham had lost to Crystal Palace).

★ In 2006 Liverpool won the F.A. Cup, beating West Ham United in the final, and Manchester United won the League Cup, beating Wigan Athletic in the final. In the show Harchester won the F.A. Cup after beating Arsenal, having been runners-up to Chelsea in the League Cup final earlier that season.

★ In the spin-off series, Dream Team 80's, Harchester United won the first division trophy in 1985/86 season. In real life, Liverpool won the League and completed a League and cup double (which did not happen in the world of Dream Team).

★ The Dragon's Lair, home of Harchester United, is in fact the New Den, home of Millwall Football Club.

★ In 2007, Harchester won the Premier League with the last kick of the game. In the real world, Manchester United won the League a few weeks before the end of the season.

See also

List of deaths in Dream Team

External links

★ Harchester United Official Website

★ Harchester.tv - The story continues here