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

13 episodes · September 1987 – November 1987
  1. Episode 1: Episode 1September 6, 1987 · 30 min
    Aveline has been mugged and the Boswell boys make a mass protest at the police station. Billy, meanwhile, has to break the news to his mother that his baby is to be christened in a Protestant church!
  2. Episode 2: Episode 2September 13, 1987 · 30 min
    Joey suspects that he's found his dog that went missing some years back, and Grandad proves to be as shrewd in negotiation as any of them.
  3. Episode 3: Episode 3September 20, 1987 · 30 min
    Freddie loses a valuable ring at a party. Jack, who found it and tried to pawn it, is filled with remorse. Meanwhile, Adrian has gone through a personality change and insists on being called Jimmy!
  4. Episode 4: Episode 4September 27, 1987 · 30 min
    Lilo Lill pays a visit to the Boswell home and indulges in an all out war with Nellie on the doorstep. Roxy has returned into Joey's life and Adrian buys an enormous statue.
  5. Episode 5: Episode 5October 4, 1987 · 30 min
    Aveline is taken to hospital and the family gather to comfort her. Joey finds out that Roxy is married.
  6. Episode 6: Episode 6October 11, 1987 · 30 min
    Joey is forced to confront Roxy's husband, with unusual results, and Aveline decides to give up her modelling career.
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  1. Episode 7: Episode 7October 18, 1987 · 30 min
    Freddie has been arrested for running off with his dust cart after getting the sack, and Grandad has been taken to hospital after wandering off on his own.
  2. Episode 8: Episode 8October 25, 1987 · 30 min
  3. Episode 9: Episode 9November 1, 1987 · 30 min
  4. Episode 10: Episode 10November 8, 1987 · 30 min
  5. Episode 11: Episode 11November 15, 1987 · 30 min
  6. Episode 12: Episode 12November 22, 1987 · 30 min
  7. Episode 13: Episode 13November 29, 1987 · 30 min

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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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