Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), The Black Stuff (1980) 3 x DVD

"Gizza job. Go on, gizza job. I can do that." The hectoring catchphrase of Yosser Hughes, the character played by Bernard Hill in Alan Bleasdale's classic BBC drama Boys from the Blackstuff, passed almost overnight into the language under the first Thatcher government.
The original TV play, The Black Stuff followed Yosser and a gang of Liverpudlian tarmac-layers as they went on a mishap-laden job in Middlesbrough. The subsequent 1982 series, Boys from the Blackstuff, depicted the effect of unemployment on the same characters just as the number of those without work in the UK topped three million.
Alan Bleasdale's 1982 series vividly captured the mood of the nation, driven to despair by rising unemployment. It was set in Liverpool, but it could have been in any city or town in Britain where men felt thrown on the scrapheap of life, no longer able to provide for their families.

DVD5 + 2xDVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 103 + 306 minutes | 19.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast: Michael Angelis, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Tom Georgeson
Country: UK
Genre: Drama
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