About this season
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 (13)
1. Episode 1
Aired 6 September 1987 • 30 min
Aveline has been mugged and the Boswell boys make a mass protest at the police station. Billy, meanwhile, has to break the news to his mother that his baby is to be christened in a Protestant church!
2. Episode 2
Aired 13 September 1987 • 30 min
Joey suspects that he's found his dog that went missing some years back, and Grandad proves to be as shrewd in negotiation as any of them.
3. Episode 3
Aired 20 September 1987 • 30 min
Freddie loses a valuable ring at a party. Jack, who found it and tried to pawn it, is filled with remorse. Meanwhile, Adrian has gone through a personality change and insists on being called Jimmy!
4. Episode 4
Aired 27 September 1987 • 30 min
Lilo Lill pays a visit to the Boswell home and indulges in an all out war with Nellie on the doorstep. Roxy has returned into Joey's life and Adrian buys an enormous statue.
5. Episode 5
Aired 4 October 1987 • 30 min
Aveline is taken to hospital and the family gather to comfort her. Joey finds out that Roxy is married.
6. Episode 6
Aired 11 October 1987 • 30 min
Joey is forced to confront Roxy's husband, with unusual results, and Aveline decides to give up her modelling career.
7. Episode 7
Aired 18 October 1987 • 30 min
Freddie has been arrested for running off with his dust cart after getting the sack, and Grandad has been taken to hospital after wandering off on his own.
8. Episode 8
Aired 25 October 1987 • 30 min
9. Episode 9
Aired 1 November 1987 • 30 min
10. Episode 10
Aired 8 November 1987 • 30 min
11. Episode 11
Aired 15 November 1987 • 30 min
12. Episode 12
Aired 22 November 1987 • 30 min
13. Episode 13
Aired 29 November 1987 • 30 min