When the Boat Comes In — Season 1, Episode 11: Happy New Year, Some Say
Drama • 50 min • 4 seasons, 51 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
It is New Year's Eve and Glaswegian socialist lecturer Sandy Lewis joins Jack, whom he tells that the Labour Party is in the ascendancy, at the George Hotel, where Billy is bartending and Tom evades capture, having stolen from the cloakroom. They join Bill and Bella at a party given by Jessie and Ashton, to whom she is now married. The next day, the Seatons are summoned for allowing their shop to remain open in the evening. Bill suspects they were grassed up by rival shopkeeper Davidson.
About When the Boat Comes In
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a veteran of The Great War who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots
- E2Say Hello... Say Tirra
- E3Fish in Woolly Jumpers
- E4Swords and Pick Handles
- E5Coal Comfort
- E6Empire Day on the Slag Heap
- E7A First Time for Everything
- E8Paddy Boyle's Discharge
- E9Angel on Horseback
- E10King for a Day
- E12Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
- E13Kind Hearted Rat with a Lifebelt