Bread
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
- Episode 1: Episode 1September 1, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 2: Episode 2September 8, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 3: Episode 3September 15, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 4: Episode 4September 22, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 5: Episode 5September 29, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 6: Episode 6October 6, 1991 · 30 min
Show 4 more episodes
- Episode 7: Episode 7October 13, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 8: Episode 8October 20, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 9: Episode 9October 27, 1991 · 30 min
- Episode 10: Episode 10November 3, 1991 · 30 min
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Credits
- Jean BohtNellie Boswell · 74 episodes
- Nick ConwayBilly Boswell · 74 episodes
- Jonathon MorrisAdrian Boswell · 74 episodes
- Kenneth WallerGrandad · 74 episodes
- Ronald ForfarFreddie Boswell · 62 episodes
- Victor McGuireJack Boswell · 61 episodes
- Carla LaneCreator
- Robin NashDirector · 35 episodes
Film and series details
- EPISODE LENGTH
- 30 minutes
- FIRST AIRED
- May 1, 1986
- LAST AIRED
- November 3, 1991
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