Original title
Dream Team
Released
10/7/1997
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama, Soap
Production companies
Hewland International
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
10
Number of episodes
420
On and off pitch battles of of the fictional Harchester United Football Club.
It's a day for debuts at Harchester United Football Club; for Dean it's the first team, for Lucy it's covering the big game, and for Conor it's a whole new country.
Lynda tries to sell Fletch to Aston Villa but Prash makes sure he messes up the meeting with John Gregory. Lynda deperate for cash decides to sell Scott at a cheap price but he doesn't want to go. She presuades him to join as Ann and Sam will be nearer. Fletch who heared Lynda meantion Scott to John Gregory tells Prash who phones Ray to inform him. Ray turns up at the club with William who he took from Matt and Lizzie's after Matt let slip Kitty was planning to take William to Thiland to live. Ray had an argument with Lynda over Scott going while Kitty turned up and saw them together. Ray then locked himself in the physio room with William. Kitty, Lynda and Scott tried to talk him out. In the end Scott kicked the door down but his ankel was injured.
Scott's injury means his out for the season. The story of his injury is he fell down the stairs as the truth would look bad on Ray. Lynda phones John Gregory and is told he'll only buy Scott in the summer now. Ann and Sam come back to keep him company. Scott decides to go on holiday as it's better then doing nothing. The club agree. Lynda tell's him she hopes to see him in the summer. Everyone says goodbye to Scott who takes Ann and Sam on holiday too in order to try and patch things up with Ann. Harchester play Arsenal and go 2-0 down before half time despite playing really good. Second half see's Eddie set up Danny who makes it 2-1. Just as the game is ending Danny sets up Eddie who makes it 2-2. Last minute see's both teams go for win. Ray Parlor hits over the bar for Arsenal and game ends 2-2. Eddie is named man of the match. Earlier Fletch aggreed to be Eddie's best man but him, Danny and Campbell had conducted a plan to set Maria up. Danny took Eddie to see venus for reception wh
The gas levels at The Baron's get too high so the whole team have to move to The Grange. Fletch managed to get a place of his own to avoid being there. Prash got Fletch to convience the team that he should be chairman. Matt was suspitious as both he and Flech know about the Didier bribe. It was transfer deadline day and Eddie asked Lynda for a transfer. Desperate for money she agreed. Ray said before the Arsenal game it would of been the best thing but now he wants him to stay. Jamie owes the bookies money so they send a heavy to the club who give him to end of day to pay £48, 000. He ends up going to the race track with Eddie and borrowing money from him. They both win and bet again and win for a second time. Meanwhile Jeff has got an offer from Crystal Palace but Eddie won't go there as Maria is in London and his only intrested if the move is abroad. Eddie and Jamie both have £20, 000. Jamie decided they should both bet it all on one horse which they do. Meanwhile FC Jazz only want E
Episode begins with Monday scoring against Middlesborough. Richard Keys voice then comes saying two weeks ago a Champions League place looked certain for Harchester United following a win over Middlesborough, at same time it shows Fletch score. Then it shows Steve Stone score the winner for Villa last week. It then shows Richard Keys and he says today Harchester have to win and keep their figures crossed for a bit of luck. Interview with Gary Bloom on Prash. Prash tells fans to bring passports to game as they are going to win and his team are going Europe. Lynda has interview on and is looking at the baby scan picture. Scene cuts to Fletch watching in his room when door knocks. Prash says team moral is high. Gary asks about Fletch only being manager for 24 hours. Prash says Fletch was only stop gap manager and Ray resigning was just a misunderstanding, he says Fletch is happy with it. At same time Ray comes in Fletch's room telling him, his dropped as his not in the right frame. Prash
The episode begins with a flash back of Series 5! Fletch scores to put Harchester in the UEFA Cup Final. It then shows Sam and Claudia talking and Sam sending her on the coach. The team get on the coach and Claudia sits next to Danny at the front. Lynda see's the news annoucement about the crash and it shows the coach blow up. Screen displays the title IT COULD BE YOU and Dream Team Series 6 has started. The first scene shows a grave yard out side a church. The camara moves along the tombstones towards the church. A gang of nurses (in uniform) are seen entering the chruch. All the regular characters a there in black and looking sad. Two people are standing at the front of the church in black. They are revealed as Patrick Doyle and Karl Fletcher. Patrick starts going threw his pockets like his lost something. It is then revealed to be a wedding and Patrick is the best man and Fletch (yes Fletch) is the groom. The bride comes down the aisle and the vicar perclaims that her and Fletch are
The episode starts with Harchester playing Chelsea. The score is currently 0-0. Then former Harchester striker Scott Lucas scores for Chelsea in the last minute to give them a 1-0 victory. But despite this defeat Harchester are still top of the league. [more to come later]
Pilar Hernandez has been appoint the Cheif Executive of Harchester United and she has one single player in her eye, the Legendary Luke Davenport. But to sign him on and pay his substantial wage, she must sacrifce someone who has given their life to Harchester United. Karl Fletcher. Burning Fletch's contract and not stopping not even when all three possible owners of Harchester have objected to the selling of Fletch. Fletch is forced out of a club he has sacrificed his whole life for. A club he has faced Death on three occasions for. [b]His[/b] club as the fans consider him to be. Long Live The King. Fletch leaves in a tearful momment leaving Abi and baby Louis in the hands of Marcel. Goodbye Karl Fletcher...
Pilar is at it again as she strikes a deal with the devilish Sheik. He wants a bankrupt club and Pilar plans to give him one. So she uses her sexual appeal to Stuart to entice him into throwning away the Leicester City game. Hesitant at first however Stuart loses his mind as he breaks the team apart to drop Jaws, Curtis and Lee. And with Marcel missing after Fletch discovering about his love affair with a missing Abi Fletcher, things are not looking bright for the future of Harchester United, will they drop from the top six? Or can Stuart or Marcel make a change of heart and stop the Apocalyptic Doomsday that approaches what remains of Harchester United?
The bank finally calls time on Harchester's debts so Curtis and Dean try to get the team to play for free. At first they manage to rustle up eleven men including Jaws, Lee, Clyde and Curtis himself. However thanks to the moronic efforts of so called Football expert Jeff Stein, Lee pulls out as he has no insurance. Harchester prepare to play Charlton with only ten men when suddenly Stuart brings a suprise visitor to save the day!
Having beaten Charlton 1-0. Harchester return to the changing rooms to be be crippled by the bank. But Pilar tries to save the club by begging the bank that with all the players they have enough money to settle the debts. Should Harchester make it to the Champions League the players will be paid in full and Harchester will be restored. But should they fail, the players get nothing and Harchester is finished for good. This causes dispute amongst the players especially Viv Wright who starts the arguement just before he signs on. There is only one man who can save the day, time for the Return of the King...
Luke Davenport returns to save Harchester from complete liquidation. However there is one major problem. After his sight saving operation, Davenport is having problems going in close quarters in the game. He can't afford this so Curtis sets out to try and help him. After he slips in the bathroom and smacks his head Luke wakes up and realises that if that didn't damage his sight, nothing will. And Luke returns to his usual form for the returning game.
Lee's 18th Birthday arrives but all is not well as Blackmailers force him into giving him 40% of everything he earns. His mother is addicted to drugs and owes them £20,000. Instead of paying them off, his mother gave these Blackmailers guardianship over Lee. Entitling them to 40% of what he earns. With Harchester not paying their players because of their current situation, the Blackmailers make sure Lee goes to join another Premiership Club. They have their eye on Chelsea. After spreading the news to Jeff and Nikki, Jeff goes with Lee up to Liverpool to sort out the problems that are plaguing Lee and his Mother.
Luke's career is over. After an eye injury during a collision with John Terry in the Chelsea game, Luke Davenport has had his left eye removed. Meanwhile the blackmailers draw ever closer to signing Lee on to Chelsea. Sparks fly and eventually Jeff tries to fight off the blackmailers but is beaten to a pulp, breaking three ribs and a shoulder bone. Lee blames himself for what has happened to Luke as he was supposed to be marking Terry in that match. In the end it is an emotional speech from Luke and Nikki's quick thinking to get Lee's mum out of the country that saves the day. The blackmailers leave with nothing further to gain from Lee and Lee stays at Harchester United signing on his contract. It is a bittersweet day for Harchester. Sweet for Lee. Bitter for Luke. At the end Luke is in a Mercades Benz looking at the Dragon's Logo, he smiles... and drives away...
The episode continue from the last one, Vivian has the team locked in the dressing room after finding Stuart threw the a game. He tries to make him confess but he won't. Everyone think Viv's imgining it. Marcel then tells Stuart to confess which he eventually does. Meanwhile Everton are on the pitch waiting to kick start the second half which they trial 1-0 due to Clyde scoring against them for the second time in two years. Everyone wonders where Harchester are and the ref goes in the tunnel to warn them the points will go to Everton if they don't come out soon. Stuart tries telling everyone how he threw the game for the good of the team. They are still in shock and furious so don't listen when he says it was Leicester he threw they go mad as it bankrupted the club. Stuart says it was meant to make The Sheikh save them. The team are still trying to get around it and are wondering about the rest of Everton. In the end they go out for the second half as they can't afford to lose but they
The eighth series of Dream Team was broadcast on Sky1 from October 2004 to May 2005, covering the 2004-05 English football season. It followed the story of Harchester United attempting to return to the Premier League after relegation the previous season and their first participation in the UEFA Champions League.
Series 8 starts just after Series 7, with the players still celebrating their Champions League qualification. Then when they find out the news that they have been relegated, the majority of the team wants out. However their new owner, Eli Knox, and their new manager, Don Barker, explain to them that if they leave they don't get paid for their efforts last season (they still have a two leg qualifying round before they have actually qualified for the Champions League). The players try to adjust to life in the Championship, with the help of two new signings - defender Frank Stone (signed from Wigan) and midfielder Tommy Valentine (on loan from Chelsea). Clyde Connolly causes problems - made to play central midfield against his will, at half time in the Dragons' opening match he switches positions with Tommy. The team lose one nil, and Don blames Clyde for the shock defeat.
As the team prepare for their first leg Champions League qualifier in Lisbon, Nikki and Jeff are locked in discussions with Manchester United trying to negotiate a deal for Lee. However, Lee is unwilling to move. He also wants to play in the Champions League match, but can't as Man Utd don't want him cup-tied. He eventually plays in the match and stays loyal to Harchester, and also sleeps with Nikki. Meanwhile, Tommy has injured his shoulder. He tries to keep it secret as he sees this big match as his big chance to prove himself to potential buyers. Everything goes wrong for the team when a brawl breaks out and all the players except Viv get arrested. Holly, the new trainee physio, hides Tommy's passport resulting in the whole team being bailed out except for him (she found out about his injury, and didn't want him to play).
Fed up with life in the Championship, several players hand in transfer requests in the hope of securing moves back to the Premiership. However, Eli gets Dean to stall the moves, so that none of the players leave. The team lose the first leg of their Champions League qualifier 2-1, but in the second leg get a 1-0 victory to qualify for the group stage (away goal ruling). It is then that Dean tells them they can't leave. Also, Jeff admits he has feelings for Nikki, only to find out about her and Lee. However, Lee is done with both of them (as agents anyway). He gives them a cheque for the money they would have made if he'd joined Barcelona, and they both leave.
The players are put through a gruelling two days at a Boot/Training Camp. Curtis proves himself worthy as captain in this time, despite competetion from Frank Stone for the armband. Meanhile, Ryan suffers a further setback. Already struggling to recover froom his broken leg, an incident at a party means that it will now be about ten weeks until he is fit to play again. But at least he's not alone - he finds a friend in Chelsea.
The team start the episode on a high. Since Boot Camp, they have gone five games unbeaten without conceding a goal, and Don Barker is Manager of the Month. However, it all goes wrong in the Champions League game against Barcelona. The team are mauled 4-0, mainly because of Frank Stone's poor performance. Clyde isn't helping - he is constantly taunting Frank. Their arguments reach boiling point when Frank viciously assaults Clyde. Meanwhile, Chelsea can no longer hide her feelings for Ryan. They kiss, then during the Barcelona games things get steamy between them in the boiler room.
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