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TV series

Bread

1986 · 7 seasons · 74 episodes

Created by Carla Lane

7.0

TMDB audience score
25 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

About 37h to watch every episode. An estimate: 74 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Jean Boht
    Nellie Boswell
    74 episodes

  • Nick Conway
    Billy Boswell
    74 episodes

  • Jonathon Morris
    Adrian Boswell
    74 episodes

  • Kenneth Waller
    Grandad
    74 episodes

  • Ronald Forfar
    Freddie Boswell
    62 episodes

  • Victor McGuire
    Jack Boswell
    61 episodes

  • Bryan Murray
    Shifty Boswell
    49 episodes

  • Giles Watling
    Oswald
    43 episodes

  • Hilary Crowson
    Julie
    41 episodes

  • Peter Howitt
    Joey Boswell
    39 episodes

  • Gilly Coman
    Aveline Boswell
    39 episodes

  • Eileen Pollock
    Lilo Lill
    38 episodes

  • Graham Bickley
    Joey Boswell
    35 episodes

  • Melanie Hill
    Aveline Boswell
    35 episodes

  • Pamela Power
    Martina
    34 episodes

  • Deborah Grant
    Leonora Campbell
    21 episodes

  • Peter Byrne
    Derek
    20 episodes

  • Joanna Phillips-Lane
    Roxy
    15 episodes

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