Boys from the Blackstuff
1982 British television drama series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boys from the Blackstuff is a British drama television series of five episodes, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2.
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Boys from the Blackstuff | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Alan Bleasdale |
Directed by | Philip Saville |
Starring | Bernard Hill Michael Angelis Alan Igbon Peter Kerrigan Tom Georgeson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 6 (including original Play for Today episode, but not The Muscle Market) |
Production | |
Producer | Michael Wearing |
Running time | 65 mins approx |
Production company | BBC (BBC Birmingham) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC2 |
Release | 10 October (10 October 1982) – 7 November 1982 (7 November 1982) |
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The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play titled The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series... a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people… TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture."[1]