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Bread

7.0(25)19867 seasons · 74 episodes30m / ep
Comedy

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.

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Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
Last aired
1991-11-03
Language
English
  • BBC One
  • mother
  • northern england
  • liverpool, england
  • scam
  • family
  • unemployment benefits
  • sitcom

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First aired
1986-05-01
Latest episode
1991-11-03
Status
Ended
Next release
Completed
  • Season 11 May 1986
  • Season 28 Jan 1987
  • Season 36 Sept 1987
  • Season 418 Sept 1988
  • Season 510 Sept 1989
  • Season 69 Sept 1990
  • Season 71 Sept 1991

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