BBC's Boys From The Black Stuff

[craste]

Anybody remember this or like it?

Its my favourite piece of TV Drama, especially 'Yossers Story'

So I made a tune with our Yosser in! Any feedback welcome.

https://youtu.be/jI75crLmiNs

[Fury RS]

Brilliant television. Yosser in the pub with Shake Hands and the bloody bird whistling bloke flying through the pub window

[Fury RS]

craste said:

Anybody remember this or like it?

Its my favourite piece of TV Drama, especially 'Yossers Story'

So I made a tune with our Yosser in! Any feedback welcome.

https://youtu.be/jI75crLmiNs

[vetrof]

I'm Yosser Hughes, I can lay bricks.

Wasn't it a one off 'Play of the Day' or something like that.

The Black Stuff

[Lotusgone]

Gissa job. Go on, gissit.

[coppernorks]

Never sure if Yosser was always a violent, monosyllabic nutjob even before he was unemployed.

Powerful drama, if a tad overwrought.

[Wacky Racer]

[Pit Pony]

Yosser was actually having a mental breakdown.



The title sequences where a ratty old transit is driven south past the Albert docks, filmed from.a helicopter, shows an amazing history of Liverpool.

40 years ago the area that is now a tourist mecca, and shopping paradise was just a derelict landscape.

[Blue62]

Alan Bleasdale wrote some really powerful stuff, the series divided my family who all come from Liverpool. I was a student in London when it aired and I remember my aunt hated it, she felt it misrepresented Liverpool and described it as a Labour Party broadcast!

This was at a time when Thatcher was prepared to throw Liverpool under the proverbial bus, they just didn’t know what to do with the city, the ‘garden project’ was the solution!

[biggbn]

Wonderful, sad, funny series. The one where Chrissie kills all his geese, ferrets and ducks always brings me to tears...