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 |