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Bread

  • TV series
  • 1986
  • 7 seasons
  • 74 episodes

Created by Carla Lane

7.0

TMDB audience rating
7.0 out of 10 from 25 votes

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Overview

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.

Roughly 37h to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 74 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

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Series cast and crew

  • Jean Boht

    Jean BohtNellie Boswell
    74 episodes

  • Nick ConwayBilly Boswell
    74 episodes

  • Jonathon Morris

    Jonathon MorrisAdrian Boswell
    74 episodes

  • Kenneth Waller

    Kenneth WallerGrandad
    74 episodes

  • Ronald ForfarFreddie Boswell
    62 episodes

  • Victor McGuire

    Victor McGuireJack Boswell
    61 episodes

  • Bryan Murray

    Bryan MurrayShifty Boswell
    49 episodes

  • Giles WatlingOswald
    43 episodes

  • Hilary CrowsonJulie
    41 episodes

  • Peter Howitt

    Peter HowittJoey Boswell
    39 episodes

  • Gilly Coman

    Gilly ComanAveline Boswell
    39 episodes

  • Eileen Pollock

    Eileen PollockLilo Lill
    38 episodes

  • Graham BickleyJoey Boswell
    35 episodes

  • Melanie Hill

    Melanie HillAveline Boswell
    35 episodes

  • Pamela PowerDHSS Clerk
    34 episodes

  • Deborah Grant

    Deborah GrantLeonora Campbell
    21 episodes

  • Peter Byrne

    Peter ByrneDerek
    20 episodes

  • Joanna Phillips-LaneRoxy
    15 episodes

Created by
Carla Lane
Network
BBC One

Seasons and episodes