TV show

Boys from the Blackstuff

Name: Boys from the Blackstuff
Genre: Drama
Released: 1982-10-10
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Bernard Hill, Michael Angelis, Tom Georgeson, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan

1982 50 min / per episode 1 season · 5 episodes

Drama

78%

Audience score19 votes on TMDB

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“TV series that defined the depression-scarred 1980s Britain”

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.

Creator: Alan Bleasdale
Status: Ended
First air date: 10/10/1982
Original language: English