Bread

S01E03: Episode 3

Freddie Boswell makes a return to his family home. He gets a cool reception from his wife and children.

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.

Episodes

Episode 1

S01E01 Episode 1

May 1, 1986 30 min
The family talks about their dreams and what they hope to achieve in the future. Over breakfast discussions develop about working and what the individual members of the Boswell family do. None appear to have...

S01E02 Episode 2

May 8, 1986 30 min
Billy buys a ring for Julie, but later learns that opals are bad luck and is told to get rid of it.

S01E03 Episode 3

May 15, 1986 30 min
Freddie Boswell makes a return to his family home. He gets a cool reception from his wife and children.

S01E04 Episode 4

May 22, 1986 30 min
A photographer suggests Aveline should pose topless and wishes he hadn't. Jack makes an unsuccessful entry into the art world.

S01E05 Episode 5

May 29, 1986 30 min
Freddie's sea-faring brother has died and the Boswells decide to arrange a burial at sea.

S01E06 Episode 6

June 5, 1986 30 min
Billy finds out that he is to become a father, Joey learns of his dad's gambling debt, Adrian is made redundant, Aveline's nude pictures are published and Jack buries a stolen candlestick in his Grandma's...

Cast

Jean Boht
Jean Boht
Nellie Boswell
Bryan Murray
Bryan Murray
Shifty Boswell
Graham Bickley
Joey Boswell
Nick Conway
Billy Boswell
Jonathon Morris
Jonathon Morris
Adrian Boswell
Deborah Grant
Deborah Grant
Leonora Campbell
Kenneth Waller
Kenneth Waller
Grandad
Melanie Hill
Melanie Hill
Aveline Boswell
Victor McGuire
Victor McGuire
Jack Boswell

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