The Black Stuff

A group of lads from "Liverpool" travel to "Middlesborough" in their transit van to lay tarmac on the roads of a new estate on "Teeside". Whilst there they get up to all sorts of mayhem,the young lad who is the "teaboy" is told by the older men to put plenty of sugar in the his tea because it will help his sex drive.! Meanwhile the guys have a dream of owning their own tarmac gang,and go off to a local bank to try to borrow the money for this hair brain scheme. As you can imagine all of this dreaming could go belly up, and the sex drive etc could be a "windup". Most of the cast went to on to be big names in "Great Britain",and this is real classic that will make you howl with laughter.

The dire conditions of early-80's Britain was exacerbated by AWFUL Prime Minister and chief salesperson of taxpayers assets, Margaret Thatcher, who happily became working-class Britain's arch-enemy.

Former working class herself (a grocer's daughter) Thatcher turned like a semi-automatic cobra on anyone less-fortunate than herself which including the hundreds of thousands of Britain's unemployed many of whom she had sent, or would send, to war with Argentina.

In stark contrast to one reviewer; I say that their is no real ha-ha humour in this excellent dramatic series which describes the atrocious conditions imposed on the British working people.

The individual characters created by Tony Bleasedale are masterful, the cast are incredible, and this gripping series deserved every accolade and recognition it received and will continue to receive.

As a Brit, I say it is a superb watch, accurate, and thoroughly recommended A1+++++.