| Title: | Blood Rights | |
| Director 1: | Lesley Manning | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1990 | |
| length: | 51 mins (3 parts) | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | TV drama | |
| Screenwriter: | Mike Phillips | |
| Cinematographer: | Rex Maidment | |
| Editor: | Chris Swanton | |
| Producer: | Caroline Oulton | |
| Production company: | BBC | |
| Cast: | Brian Bovell, Maggie Steed, Dhobi Oparei, Akim Mogaji | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 48 | |
| Synopsis: | Three-part television drama about Sam Dean, a black freelance reporter and investigator, who is asked to find a young white woman, the daughter of an MP, who has gone missing. He discovers that she has been seen in the company of a black man and that she is involved with drugs. Dean's personal story of his broken-up marriage with a white woman and his relationship with his son is interwoven into the crime plot. The TV drama is based on the novel "Blood Rights" by black British writer and cultural critic Mike Phillips. | |
| Keyword 1: | white | |
| Keyword 2: | father-son relationship | |
| Keyword 3: | politics | |
| Keyword 4: | black | |
| Keyword 5: | crime | |
| Keyword 6: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 7: | drugs | |
| Keyword 8: | class | |
| Keyword 9: | detective | |
| Keyword 10: | West Indian | |
| Keyword 11: | Mike Phillips | |
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