Boys from the Blackstuff

Specials

Five unemployed men would do anything just to have a job in Thatcher's Britain.

Where to Watch Specials

2 Episodes

  • The Black Stuff
    E1
    The Black StuffA group of lads from Liverpool travels to Middlesbrough in their transit van to lay tarmac on the roads of a new estate on Teeside.
  • The Muscle Market
    E2
    The Muscle MarketShown in 1981 as a standalone between the initial drama and the subsequent series, it centres on Danny Duggan played by Peter Postlethwaite, the building boss who employs people cheaply by being complicit in the social security fraud of his employees and therefore guilty of a crime himself.

Cast of Specials

  • Bernard HillYosser Hughes
  • Michael AngelisChrissie Todd
  • Tom GeorgesonDixie Dean
  • Alan IgbonLoggo Logmond
  • Julie WaltersAngie Todd
  • Jean BohtMiss Sutcliffe
  • Jean HeywoodMary Malone
  • Tony ScoggoRitchie Malone
  • Paul BarberScotty
  • Mike HaydenPriest
  • Michael WearingProducer

 

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