White Teeth: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Based on the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel by Zadie Smith, White Teeth is superbly adapted to the screen in this outstanding drama which features a compulsively watchable cast including Robert Bathurst, Phil Davis, Geraldine James, James McAvoy, Om Puri and more. Set in far from glamorous Willesden Green, London from the 1970s to the 1990s, White Teeth finds Archie Jones, interracially married to the post-Jehovah s Witness Clara, meeting up with an old colleague, Samad Iqbal who, with his family, has just arrived in England. The secrets they share from the past, and the secrets they will share in the future, are tossed and tumbled in a rich stew that bubbles with racial and sexual tension, new-found freedoms, old school politics, genetic science, animal liberation and the end of the world as we know it. It all adds up to a feast to be relished from start to finish.

Series details

• Title: White Teeth
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Premiere date: 2002-09-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 2002-10-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 49 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 10973
• IMDb ID: tt0334877
• TVDB ID: 250833

Cast and credited roles

• Archie Panjabi — Alsana
• Charlie Creed-Miles — Ryan Topps
• Mona Hammond — Hortense
• Naomie Harris — Clara
• Om Puri — Samad
• Phil Davis — Archie

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2002-09-17; final listed air date 2002-10-08; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from White Teeth 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.