Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series follows the ongoing lives of Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser—unemployed tarmac layers from Liverpool—along with their admired older companion George Malone, a retired dockworker and union leader. While they scrape by in a struggling economy and try to keep their cash-strapped families intact, they face constant harassment from petty DHSS officials. Yet this lumbering investigative machine is driven, in ways both funny and heartbreaking, by people holding only provisional licenses.
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