Boys from the Blackstuff: The Complete Series|Michael Angelis

Product Code: BBCDVD1178

EAN: 5014503117825
Catalogue Code: BBCDVD1178
Title: Boys from the Blackstuff: The Complete Series,
Principle Contributor: Michael Angelis
Contributors: Philip Saville, Michael Wearing, Alan Bleasdale, Michael Angelis, Tom Georgeson, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan, Julie Walters, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan, Tom Georgeson, Shay Gorman, Julie Walters, Chris Darwin
Genre: Drama, Television
Produced by Label/Studio: BBC Worldwide, 1982
Published by: 2 Entertain, 26 May 2003
Format: DVD / Box Set,
Media: 3 disc(s)

Commentary: 'The Black Stuff (Play For Today)' - Alan Bleasdale (writer), Jim Goddard (director)|Documentaries: 'The Black Stuff (Play For Today)'

£9.00

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Cover Notes: "Gizza job. I can do that. All you gotta do is walk in a straight line!" Yosser Hughes, systematically stripped of job, pride and ultimately, his family, was to become one of the 80's great characters in TV's most articulate response to the Thatcher era. Includes the Play for Today as well as the complete BBC TV series that swept the awards board in 1982 and has been talked about ever since. Alan Bleasdale's chronicles of the lives of a group of tarmac layers - Chrissie (with a powerful performance by Julie Walters as his wife, Angie), Loggo, Dixie, George and Yosser - bitterly dramatised the frustrations suffered by a fruitless search for work and an antagonistic social security system. Though harrowing and uncompromising, the stories, laced with scouse wit and humour became a seminal series.

Extras: Commentary: 'The Black Stuff (Play For Today)' - Alan Bleasdale (writer), Jim Goddard (director)|Documentaries: 'The Black Stuff (Play For Today)'

Even More Details: Language(s): English|Subtitles: English|Interactive Menu|Scene Access|Screen ratio 1:1.33|Dolby Mono

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