Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)

Genre

drama television series, miniseries

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This British drama miniseries follows a group of unemployed construction workers in Liverpool during the early 1980s. It shows how they struggle with poverty and joblessness while trying to maintain their dignity and humor.

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What happens

Boys from the Blackstuff is a five episode British drama television series, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2. 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." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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