Boys from the Blackstuff

Story

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.

«TV series that defined the depression-scarred 1980s Britain»

Kurzinfos

Originaltitel

Boys from the Blackstuff

Status

Ended

Start

10.10.1982

Laufzeit

50 min

Originalsprache

en

Genres

Drama