1 Season
5 Episode
Boys from the Blackstuff - Season 0 Episode 2 The Muscle Market
TV series that defined the depression-scarred 1980s Britain
Shown in 1981 as a standalone between the initial drama and the subsequent series, it centres on Danny Duggan played by Peter Postlethwaite, the building boss who employs people cheaply by being complicit in the social security fraud of his employees and therefore guilty of a crime himself.
- Year: 1982
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: northern england, miniseries, working class, unemployment
- Director: Alan Bleasdale
- Cast: Bernard Hill, Michael Angelis, Tom Georgeson, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan, Gary Bleasdale