TV series that defined the depression-scarred 1980s Britain
Bernard Hill
Yosser Hughes
Michael Angelis
Chrissie Todd
Tom Georgeson
Dixie Dean
Alan Igbon
Loggo Logmond
Peter Kerrigan
George Malone
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.
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Gary Bleasdale
Kevin Dean
Julie Walters
Angie Todd
Jean Boht
Miss Sutcliffe
David Fleeshman
D.O.E Assistant Manager
David Ross
Donald Moss
David Neilson
Lawton
Shay Gorman
Molloy
Chris Darwin
Snowy Malone
Jean Heywood
Mary Malone
Tony Scoggo
Ritchie Malone
James Ellis
Wino
Clive Russell
Policeman
Paul Barber
Scotty
Tony Haygarth
Aich
Ricky Tomlinson
Doctor
Eileen O'Brien
Freda Dean
Sam Kelly
Pub Manager
Noreen Kershaw
Doctor
Struan Rodger
Father Dan Thomas
2 seasons available
A group of lads from Liverpool travels to Middlesbrough in their transit van to lay tarmac on the roads of a new estate on Teeside.
Shown in 1981 as a standalone between the initial drama and the subsequent series, it centres on Danny Duggan played by Peter Postlethwaite, the building boss who employs people cheaply by being complicit in the social security fraud of his employees and therefore guilty of a crime himself.
Bernard Hill remembers Boys from the Blackstuff, Alan Bleasdale’s iconic drama, which is being shown again as part of the BBC’s Centenary celebrations, and which was once described as ‘TV’s most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era’. Hill’s performance as Yosser Hughes, with his ‘Gizza job’ catchphrase, captured the public’s imagination in a way that few roles have since. Here he looks back on how he got the part, why it struck such a chord, and what audiences should take from ‘Blackstuff’ today.
Boys From The Blackstuff | Trailer
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Yosser Hughes - Gizza Job - Boys from the Blackstuff
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