Bread

1986–1991 · Ended · 7 seasons · 74 episodes · Comedy · United Kingdom

Creator Carla Lane · Channel BBC One · Starring Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris

Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
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Episodes

6 episodes · May 1986 – June 1986
  1. Episode 1: Episode 1May 1, 1986 · 30 min
    The family talks about their dreams and what they hope to achieve in the future. Over breakfast discussions develop about working and what the individual members of the Boswell family do. None appear to have any sort of regular income except Adrian who is in real estate.
  2. Episode 2: Episode 2May 8, 1986 · 30 min
    Billy buys a ring for Julie, but later learns that opals are bad luck and is told to get rid of it.
  3. Episode 3: Episode 3May 15, 1986 · 30 min
    Freddie Boswell makes a return to his family home. He gets a cool reception from his wife and children.
  4. Episode 4: Episode 4May 22, 1986 · 30 min
    A photographer suggests Aveline should pose topless and wishes he hadn't. Jack makes an unsuccessful entry into the art world.
  5. Episode 5: Episode 5May 29, 1986 · 30 min
    Freddie's sea-faring brother has died and the Boswells decide to arrange a burial at sea.
  6. Episode 6: Episode 6June 5, 1986 · 30 min
    Billy finds out that he is to become a father, Joey learns of his dad's gambling debt, Adrian is made redundant, Aveline's nude pictures are published and Jack buries a stolen candlestick in his Grandma's grave.

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EPISODE LENGTH
30 minutes
FIRST AIRED
May 1, 1986
LAST AIRED
November 3, 1991

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