Boys from the Blackstuff

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Boys from the Blackstuff is a critically acclaimed early-1980s British television drama series depicting the struggles of unemployed working-class men in Liverpool during a period of economic hardship.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British television drama
television series
basedOn The Black Stuff
broadcastFormat miniseries
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Alan Bleasdale
criticalReception critically acclaimed
depicts economic hardship
unemployment
working-class life
filmingLocation Liverpool
firstAired 1982
genre drama
social realism
hasCultFollowing true
hasMainCharacter Chrissie Todd
Dixie Dean
George Malone
Loggo Lomond
Yosser Hughes
language English
medium television
notableQuote Gizza job
numberOfEpisodes 5
numberOfSeries 1
originalChannel BBC Two
surface form: BBC2
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC
originalRunEnd November 1982
originalRunStart October 1982
portraysActor Alan Igbon
Bernard Hill
Michael Angelis
Peter Kerrigan
Tom Georgeson
precededBy The Black Stuff
producedInYear 1982
productionCompany BBC
setInLocation Liverpool
setInPeriod early 1980s
settingContext Thatcherism
surface form: Thatcher government economic policies
subjectMatter benefits system in the UK
effects of deindustrialisation
theme dignity of labour
masculinity and identity
mass unemployment in Thatcher-era Britain
social injustice
writer Alan Bleasdale

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Bernard Hill notableWork Boys from the Blackstuff
Bernard Hill appearedIn Boys from the Blackstuff
Yosser Hughes fictionalUniverse Boys from the Blackstuff
Yosser Hughes appearsIn Boys from the Blackstuff
Alan Bleasdale notableWork Boys from the Blackstuff
Alan Bleasdale wrote Boys from the Blackstuff
Alan Bleasdale subjectOf Boys from the Blackstuff
Michael Wearing notableWork Boys from the Blackstuff