Mile High
| Mile High | |
|---|---|
 Title card of Mile High (Series 1) | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Jane Hewland & Cameron McAllister |
| Producer | Reza Moradi |
| Running time | 44 minutes approx. |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sky1 |
| Release | 16 February 2003 – 20 July 2005 |
Mile High is a British television drama based on the lives of the cabin crew members of "fresh!", a budget airline based in London. The name of the show comes from the "Mile High Club". The show was broadcast on Sky1 from 2003 to 2005.
Background
A Hewland International production, Mile High is a mix of fast-paced drama, sex and comedy. The show is based around the flight crew of a young budget airline (Fresh!), in and out of uniform, in the air and on the ground. The series follows the flight crew as they travel around the world and their lives in the London home they share.
Filming locations
Although the airline flies to destinations all over the world, the two airports that were used are London Stansted Airport and Palma de Mallorca Airport. Also used in filming on location were London and Spain.
Airline
Mile High revolves around a fictional budget airline, Fresh![1][2], which operates Boeing 737 aircraft to destinations across Europe and North Africa.
In series two, Fresh! and Goldstar, a long-haul airline, merge causing distress to workers, mainly those from Goldstar, and creating two subsidiaries, Fresh! Europe and Fresh! Global which operates a Boeing 747-200. The old uniform of Fresh! is retained for all crew, a blue colour rather than the Goldstar crew's mustard colour uniforms.
The airline's main base is London Stansted Airport, sometimes referred to as London Airport, where the airport's external and interior shots are filmed. Other destinations mentioned in the series include Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Newcastle domestically. Internationally, destinations include Palma de Majorca, Amsterdam, Paris, Split, Kosovo, Brussels, Belfast, Helsinki, Kos, Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Monastir. Destinations incorporated after the merger with Goldstar include Toronto, Dubai and Bahrain.
Episodes
There are 13 episodes in series one, and 26 episodes in series two, which was originally broadcast in three separate batches.
Cast
Main characters
| Character | Actor | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Coyle | Emma Ferguson | 1 |
| Katherine Cassandra "K.C." Gregory | Sarah Manners | 1 |
| Jason Murdoch | James Redmond | 1 |
| John Bryson | Matthew Chambers | 1 |
| Janis Steel | Jo-Anne Knowles | 1-2 |
| Lehann Evans | Naomi Ryan | 1-2 |
| Marco Bailey | Tom Wisdom | 1-2 |
| Will O’Brien | Adam Sinclair | 1-2 |
| Poppy Fields | Stacey Cadman | 2 |
| Captain Nigel Croker | Christopher Villiers | 2 |
| Charlotte Taylor | Sarah Farooqui | 2 |
| Jack Fields | John Pickard | 2 |
| Rachel Potter | Emma-Jane Portch | 2 |
| Lorna Newbold | Katy Edwards | 2 |
| Dan Peterson | Luke Roberts | 2 |
| Ed Russell | Scott Adkins | 2 |
Recurring cast
| Character | Actor | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Beardsley | Tim Crouch | 1 |
| Ian | Peter Collins | 1 |
| Marco’s Mum | Heather Tobias | 1 |
| James Motherbaugh | Martin Cole | 1 |
| Jackie Randall | Sarah Matravers | 1-2 |
| Kevin McMillian | Charles Daish | 1-2 |
| Captain Robyn Palmer | Georgia Zaris | 1-2 |
| Marvin Lloyd | Kal Weber | 2 |
| Lucy Collins | Emma Willis | 2 |
| Denise Croker | Alison King | 2 |
| Terri | Debbie Chazen | 2 |
| Connor | Connor Fletcher | 1 |
International viewing
Mile High has been broadcast in many different countries around the world, including: Canada, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, India, Israel, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, South Korea, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia the United Kingdom and the United States. In Serbia 80 000 fans have written a petition to continue recording Mile High but the petition never reached to the producers.
DVD release
UK
- Series one, two, and the complete series are available in the UK.
Australia
- The complete season one 7-disc boxset was released in Australia on Region 4 DVD in November 2006. The complete season two boxset was released on 21 March 2007.
USA
- Season one 1 was released in the USA by Koch Vision on 13 March 2007, with Season two volumed 1 and 2 being released later in 2007.
Theme song
- Mile High's theme song is The World Is Mine by Belgian band, Hooverphonic.