Boys from the Blackstuff (series)
- User score: 7.8
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Creator: Alan Bleasdale
- Production companies: BBC
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/10/1982
- Release date of last episode: 11/7/1982
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 5
- Run time: 50 min.
Series description
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
