Boys from the Blackstuff (UK)
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Boys from The Black Stuff follows five unemployed tarmac layers ('the black stuff') after losing their jobs. Set in Liverpool, each episode focuses on a different member of the group. The series was highly acclaimed for its powerful and emotional depiction of the desperation wreaked by high unemployment and a subsequent lack of social support. A spinoff from a BBC Play for Today "The Black Stuff"
 | played by Bernard Hill |  | played by Tom Georgeson |
 | played by Michael Angelis |  | played by Alan Igbon |
 | played by Peter Kerrigan |  | played by Gary Bleasdale |
 | played by Jean Warren |  | played by Eileen O'Brien |
 | played by Julie Walters |  | played by Jean Heywood |
 | played by Shay Gorman |  | played by David Neilson |
 | played by David Ross |  | played by Vince Earl |
 | played by Chris Darwin |  | played by Gilly Coman |
 | played by David Fleeshman |  | played by Cheryl Leigh |
 | played by Martin Wyldeck |  | played by Tony Haygarth |
