Talk:Boys from the Blackstuff

Episode titles and synopsis

I'll add these to the article when I've seen the other three (unless someone beats me to it).

First three episodes are called:

• Jobs for the Boys
  • Featuring most of the characters from the inital drama. They take a job on a building site whilst still claiming unemployment benefit. They are followed by the authorities.
• Moonlighter
  • Follows the character who played the foreman in the initial drama and his new position as a security guard, where he is strongarmed into accepting bribes for allowing the removal of goods under his charge in a docked ship.
• Shop Thy Neighbour
  • Concentrates on Chrissie (Michael Angelis) and the domestic pressure unemployment and the attentions of the benefit fraud officers place on him and his wife (Julie Walters).

--bodnotbod 01:06, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Possible mention in the main article perhaps

In the writer and director's commentary track for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Peter Jackson mentions Bernard Hill's role on Boy From The Blackstuff as being a motivating factor in hiring him to portray King Theoden of Rohan. Sochwa (talk) 22:17, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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Locations

The original Blackstuff was filmed on the building sites of the then under construction Coulby Newham housing development, now a southern suburb of Middlesbrough Illuminatusds; talk 10:47, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

The Muscle Market

The infobox mentions the related 1981 Play for Today episode The Muscle Market, which was broadcast after The Black Stuff and before the full series. We need to have some details of this in the article. Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 09:28, 11 November 2023 (UTC)