Boys from the Blackstuff

Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7 1982 on BBC2. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally written for BBC1's Play for Today anthology series in 1978, although it had languished untransmitted for two years before eventually being screened in 1980. The acclaim that the play received on its eventual transmission led to the commissioning of the sequel serial, of which Bleasdale had already written a considerable amount.

External Links

• Encyclopedia of Television
• British Film Institute Screen Online
• Kamera
• Review of the DVD release.