Bread

Name: Bread
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-05-01
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris

TV Series
1986–1991
30m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

1.6K

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Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Ronald Forfar, Peter Howitt, Victor McGuire, and Jonathon Morris in Bread (1986)

Sitcom Comedy

The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.

Creator
- Carla Lane
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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Creator
- Carla Lane
Stars

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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Jean Boht

Nellie Boswell

Nick Conway

Billy Boswell

Jonathon Morris

Adrian Boswell

Kenneth Waller

Grandad

Ronald Forfar

Freddie Boswell…

Victor McGuire

Jack Boswell

Giles Watling

Oswald

Bryan Murray

Shifty Boswell

Eileen Pollock

Lilo Lill

Hilary Crowson

Julie

Peter Howitt

Joey Boswell

Gilly Coman

Aveline Boswell

Pamela Power

Martina…

Graham Bickley

Joey Boswell

Melanie Hill

Aveline Boswell

Peter Byrne

Derek

Deborah Grant

Leonora Campbell

Joanna Phillips-Lane

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Trivia
Peter Howitt left in the 1988 Christmas Special and was replaced by Graham Bickley and Gilly Coman also left in the 1988 Christmas Special and was replaced by Melanie Hill. Victor McGuire had taken a break from the show and it was written into Series 4 that his character Jack had gone off to visit America.

Goofs
Although it is made clear that Grandad is Nellie's father, Martina from the DHSS refers to him more than once as Mr Boswell; Boswell being Nellie's married name.

Quotes
Lilo Lil: Look, we're both women. We have handbags, and ovaries. We're as devious and clever as a gifted monkey, and here we are fighting over a little man with a yellow cart.
Nellie Boswell: Is that how you see him?
Lilo Lil: No. I thought that's how you might see him.

Connections
Edited into Auntie's Bloomers: More Auntie's Bloomers (1992)

Soundtracks
Home
(uncredited)
(Title Theme)
Written by David Mackay and Carla Lane
Performed by The Cast

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80's Liverpudlian comedy

Comedy set in a Liverpool household, about a family that scrimp and scrape to earn a living. The moral of the story is they sit around the dinner table arguing. Ron Forfar who plays the Dad, Freddie Boswell is a down on his luck nagged man after his affair with 'the tart' as his wife calls her. Not a sitcom that lives long in the memory.