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Network
BBC One
Seasons aired
7
Total episodes
74
Genres
Comedy
First aired
1986-05-01
Last aired
1991-11-03
Runtime
30 min
TMDB rating
7.1 / 10 · 24 votes

What is Bread about?

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.

Bread cast

Jean Boht

Jean Boht

Nellie Boswell

Bryan Murray

Bryan Murray

Shifty Boswell

Graham Bickley

Graham Bickley

Joey Boswell

Nick Conway

Nick Conway

Billy Boswell

Jonathon Morris

Jonathon Morris

Adrian Boswell

Deborah Grant

Deborah Grant

Leonora Campbell

Bread seasons

  • Season 11986 · 6 ep
  • Season 21987 · 6 ep
  • Season 31987 · 13 ep
  • Season 41988 · 14 ep
  • Season 51989 · 14 ep
  • Season 61990 · 11 ep
  • Season 71991 · 10 ep

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