When the Boat Comes In (UK)

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TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Season 1 Guide (1976)

	1x01 A Land Fit For Heroes And Idiots -1919. Sergeant Jack Ford returns to the mining town of Gallowshields, on "leave pending discharge". Visiting the cinema to see Chaplin's Easy Street, he encounters school teacher ...	Jan. 08, 1976
	1x02 Say Hello.. Say Tirra - Bella is visited by young Harry, who tells her his mother is "asleep...she'll not waken up". Bella visits Billy's home, where she finds his mother, Connie, dead in bed, probably ...	Jan. 15, 1976
	1x03 Fish In Woolly Jumpers - The miners have been on strike for a month, over a pay claim. Tom, now supporting a wife and son, borrows some money from Jack, who, despite being out of work for two months, doesn't ...	Jan. 22, 1976
	1x04 Swords and Pick Handles - Jessie chastises Bella for taking the baby to the off-licence, leaving Mary alone. Tom has a job, even though the pits have been closed because of the strike for seven weeks. Jessie ...	Jan. 29, 1976
	1x05 Coal Comfort - Billy returns home to find an empty house, and no coal for the fire: the strike has been running for two months. Billy tells Jessie that he's leaving university, fed up with being ...	Feb. 05, 1976
	1x06 Empire day on the slag heap - After eight weeks, the miners' strike is over, but the pitmen have settled without gaining anything. ("It was either that or starve", admits Bill). Mary is feeling better, and ...	Feb. 12, 1976
	1x07 A first time for everything - Bella is visited by a French onion seller, Pierre. Bella has an idea to open a shop, using the front room, and some of the money they've received for Bill's accident. Bill is due ...	Feb. 19, 1976
	1x08 Paddy Boyle's Discharge - Jack is joined at the pub by army friend, black and tan soldier Sid Hepburn. Jack is surprised to hear that he's being paid ten bob a day, all found. Tom and Bill arrive, ...	Feb. 26, 1976
	1x09 Angel on horseback - Miner Ralph Murphy has been off work, following an accident with a full coal tub, but he's well enough to be visiting the pub, and is moonlighting as an illegal bookie's runner, ...	Mar. 03, 1976
	1x10 King for a day - Manners visits the recently-married Jack and Dolly. Dolly is heavily pregnant, but Jack looks leaner than Manners remembers. Manners offers Jack whisky and smoked salmon sandwiches, ...	Mar. 11, 1976
	1x11 Happy new year, some say - It's New Year's Eve. Three young boys (Davie, Tich and Jacker) steal bottles from the Seatons' yard, to claim the ha'penny deposit, to spend on Bella's cinder toffee. Bill remonstrates ...	Mar. 18, 1976
	1x12 Heads you win, tails I lose - Tom and a group of other men are on moorland, illegally gambling on a game of Pitch and Toss. Handfuls of notes change hands. Tom leaves the men with his winnings (about sixty ...	Mar. 25, 1976
	1x13 Kind hearted rat with a lifebelt - A strike is brewing at Whitely's Shipyard. Union Branch Chairman Les Mallow offers Jack the position of District Secretary. Discovering that Jack's not interested, Les asks if ...	Apr. 01, 1976

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Season 1 Characters

Tom Seaton	played by John Nightingale
Jack Ford	played by James Bolam
Jessie Seaton	played by Susan Jameson
Bill Seaton	played by James Garbutt
Bella Seaton	played by Jean Heywood
Matt Headley	played by Malcolm Terris
Billy Seaton	played by Edward Wilson
Dolly	played by Madelaine Newton
Mary Seaton	played by Michelle Newell
Arthur Ashton	played by Geoffrey Rose
Sir Horatio Manners	played by Basil Henson
Policeman	played by Neil McCaul
Sarah Robinson	played by Lyn Douglas
Paddy Boyle	played by Ralph Watson
Robert Armstrong	played by Richard Glasgow
Ronnie Fairbairn	played by Tony Nelson
Martin Hopkins	played by John Graham (XVII)
Maj. Reginald Leslie Pinner	played by Roger Hammond
Magistrate	played by Gerald Case
Sid	played by Peter Marshall (IV)
Lucinda Routledge	played by Helen Lindsay
Lord Calderback	played by John Welsh
Mine Owners' Representative	played by Richard Butler

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