All 74 episodes of the British sitcom written by Carla Lane. The Boswells live in Liverpool and are very adept at scamming the system. Nellie Boswell (Jean Boht) rules the nest and puts up with no nonsense from her children or her long-suffering husband Freddie (Ronald Forfar) as she struggles to support her family through Thatcher's Britain.
Nellie Joey Jack Adrian Billy Aveline and Freddie are the Boswells from Liverpool. They're experts at working the system and getting by with the help of Social Security payments and jobs on the side. Standing firm at the head of the family table is Nellie Boswell (Jean Boht) the matriarch who expects no nonsense especially from husband Freddie who spends his time chasing Lilo-Lil. First broadcast in 1986 this release features every episode from Series One and Two of Carla Lane
BBC comedy series from 1984 about a 15 year old boy and his dreams to play for his beloved Liverpool F.C. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the two novels 'Scully '(1975) and 'Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed' the show regularly features Kenny Dalglish and other several other famous Liverpool players.
For many, an appearance in the magistrates' court is the first encounter with the Law. Bemused, perhaps frightened and often arrogant, their offence may range from a simple motoring case to murder. But whatever the degree of involvement, the experience is one that will remain indelibly etched on the memory. In each of its four series Six Days of Justice examined six fictitious cases, exact in detail, with procedural advice supplied by magistrates; although similar in style and content to Cro...
Welcome to Liverpool at the height of Thatcher's reign where you had to be resourceful to survive. Just like the Boswells. They always knew how to work the system. And in the centre of this large Catholic family is matriarch Nellie Boswell (Jean Boht) surrounded by her sons Joey Jack Adrian and Billy and daughter Aveline while her husband Freddie is rarely to be seen. With Grandad next door Billy's Julie and their Francesca over the road and ""that tart"" Lilo Lil always in the ba
1. Jobs For The BoysChrissie assembles an unofficial building gang but their moonlighting is being watched by the Department of Employment's investigators. A raid by the fraud squad leads to tragedy2. MoonlighterDixie father of four and once the proud foreman is working illicitly on the docks when he discovers happenings that he'd rather not see. Meanwhile after threats from the Department of Employment his wife Freda is too scared to open the door.3. Shop Thy NeighbourChrissie's dole money has been stopped pending the enquiry into the 'moonlighting' affair. With no food in the cupboard the scene is set for a showdown with his wife Angie - this after all was going to be her time4. Yosser's StoryOnce Yosser dreamt of making it big. Now his manic search for work alternates with fruitless efforts to avoid eviction and keep his three children from being taken into care.5. George's Last RideA lifetime of adversity has left George's beliefs unbroken. When the end comes Chrissie discovers a legacy and finds that something must be said.
Featuring a regular cast that includes Jimmy Jewel, David Schofield, Sharon Duce, Jean Boht, Pamela Stephenson and Lynda Bellingham, Funny Man charts the mixed fortunes of an extended family of music-hall entertainers in search of their big break and was based on the experience of Jewel's father's company of players in the 1920s and '30s. The late 1920s is not the best time to be in the business of traditional variety entertainment, as audiences flock to the new cinemas opening in every town. But it is amid these inauspicious circumstances that the Gibsons - comedian Alec and his children Davey, Teddy and Kath, and an assortment of charismatic performers - make the move south from their native North East to try to break onto the London circuit. Encountering family tragedy, indifferent audiences and a constant shortage of funds, it's just as well that Alec Gibson is a tireless perfectionist, and a man who rarely accepts defeat...
...are there some things a girl shouldn't share with her mother? A story of Londoners connected by family, friends and a certain therapist who brings all her patients' problems back to their mothers. Lives start to unravel during an eventful dinner party where the cook spoils the food, a coke headed model flirts with a married vicar, a secret affair is exposed, old family wounds are reopened and... of course... one meddling mother drops by to cause even more trouble.
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