when the boat comes in?

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steve56
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when the boat comes in?

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70s drama watched evrey week,didnt really get it though?
Illinoisblue
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Re: when the boat comes in?

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What happened Steve, did the boat eventually come in?

steve56
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gawd knows i recall bonnie lass was mentioned about a 100 times.
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Curious---I've seen EastEnders a couple of times over the years, and it seems that, despite being told loads of times, they still haven't left it out.
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MensWorldMayfair
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No, they haven't shut it, either.

Fucking shame.
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James Bolan in 'earthy' northern, flat cap claptrap with a truly awful theme song. Trouble either up t'mill or down t'pit, that sort of thing. Kept millions glued mind, and it was probably Chekov by today's witless standards - Heartbeart etc.

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steve56
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i shall have a bloater when the boot comes in
MensWorldMayfair
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Way-ay, lad. A little fishy on a little dishy... etc.
Illinoisblue
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Hmmm, it does sound pretty dreary.



The Boat Comes In On A Wave of Success
A TV Week Article on the UK show from 16 April 1977.

FANS of The Likely Lads are seeing their comic hero James Bolam in a totally different light ? as star of the ABC's latest top-rating serial, When The Boat Comes In. And, in the grasping, ambitious union leader, Jack Ford, they're getting a far truer glimpse of the real Bolam than they did when he was the bumbling, bachelor, bird-chasing Terry Collier.

There's an added piquancy in The Boat, too. Bolam's opposite female number, Susan Jameson, who plays his true love Jessie, is in life the only woman in the turbulent actor's life. They have a seven-month-old daughter and live together in Fulham, a South London suburb.

The 13-part BBC series ?written mainly by Callan scripter James Mitchell ? is already proving as much of a ratings winner in Australia as it did earlier in Britain. The story centres on the rise of Jack Ford, who's just been discharged from the army after witnessing the horrors of World War I. It's 1919 and the politicians are promising everyone a land fit for heroes to live in. But Jack is sceptical and his latent cynicism needs very little to develop into the characteristic that dominates his every move. Along the way he meets Jessie Seaton, a young socialist-minded teacher with a strong sense of duty to the community. Through her, he's introduced to the rest of her family, a richly varied yet remarkably believable clan. Pervading all is the desperate poverty and class oppression of north-east England's Tyneside, a condition Jack is determined to leave by whatever means are at his disposal.

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Oh, it was one of those utterly bleak 70s series, like The Brothers. God. No wonder I spent all my time out of the house.
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