Mayflies: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Everyone has a Tully Dawson - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit…

Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphoria and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

Series details

• Title: Mayflies
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2022-12-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 2022-12-27
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: BBC iPlayer
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 59 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 63737
• IMDb ID: tt13431512
• TVDB ID: 423907

Cast and credited roles

• Tony Curran — Tully Dawson
• Martin Compston — Jimmy Collins
• Ashley Jensen — Anna
• Tracy Ifeachor — Iona
• Tom Glynn-Carney — Young Tully
• Rian Gordon — Young Jimmy

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2022-12-27; final listed air date 2022-12-27; episode order: 2.

Source and licence

Adapted from Mayflies on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.