TV Show Details
Air Date:October 10th, 1982
Last Air Date:November 7th, 1982
Network:BBC Two
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
Boys from the Blackstuff on the Web:Official Website
Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)
TV ShowBBC Two
Miniseries
"TV series that defined the depression-scarred 1980s Britain"
Audience Score
Plot
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.
