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 · January 1987 – February 1987
  1. Episode 1: Episode 1January 8, 1987 · 30 min
    Adrian has found a girlfriend, Carmen. Jack gets hijacked by a couple of punks who need a lift to Manchester.
  2. Episode 2: Episode 2January 15, 1987 · 30 min
    Julie goes into labor earlier than expected and Joey has to come to Billy's rescue.
  3. Episode 3: Episode 3January 22, 1987 · 30 min
    Jack and Adrian witness a burglary, then find themselves pursued by the perpetrators.
  4. Episode 4: Episode 4January 29, 1987 · 30 min
    Things are looking up for Billy when he starts making money on his sandwich round. Unfortunately, his sudden realization that money can come out of a hole in the wall, is spoilt when it is stolen out of his hand.
  5. Episode 5: Episode 5February 5, 1987 · 30 min
    Billy is distraught when Julie takes the baby and heads to London to stay with friends, and Freddie Boswell comes home to stay.
  6. Episode 6: Episode 6February 12, 1987 · 30 min
    The Boswell's pet dog, Mongy, is not well and the family rally round to make sure he has every comfort. Meanwhile, Julie has returned from London.

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Film and series details

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

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