When the boat comes in

Thank you I will try to find them.😊😂

Travelsafar:
Series 3 is on YouTube, I couldn't find 4, but it may be there somewhere if you search.

Sadly I found that there is only 2 series of this lovely series on uk/TV play. Does anyone know where series 3 and 4 can be viewed. I don't have dvd or video recorder so can't purchase from amazon 😕

I’m sure most know that James Bolam and Susan Jameson are married. They are both in the re-runs of New Tricks now.
The actor who played Dolly in WTBCI, Madeline Newton is married to Kevin Whatley (Lewis).

The Onedin Line is on YouTube as well!

I loved The Cedar Tree as well while first baby napped. And I think it was Good Afternoon with Mary Berry, Mary Parkinson, Judith Chalmers and a lovely Welsh woman. Elaine Morgan??

Televison was calm. And the children's TV was brilliant.

I simply loved that programme and can still hum the traditional song. Those were the days.

The Sullivans!

What I would like to see again is The Onedin Line.

The Cedar Tree is on YouTube.

Well as we are going down Memory Lane, does anyone remember The Cedar Tree and Houseparty?? I think one followed the other and I made sure I put my baby down for her afternoon sleep so that I could watch it with my lunch!
The ladies on House party would discuss making our own Xmas cards, in fact I can still remember one of the participants, her name was Cherry. She is probably long dead.

I now live in the North East, having returned from living in Europe for about 25 years....I am not from here originally, but there is so much to do and see here ...and I can now relate to When the Boat comes in ! I love sea shanties, there is a local group in our old Watch House down by the sea every week ...so much local history connected with the fishing industry, ship building on the Tyne ....the dockside, the quays in Newcastle and all the cargo vessels that still use the Tyne Dock ...the history of local fisherwomen is fascinating ...where I lived was once a thriving fishing village where the catch was landed for many years ...now it is still a thriving industry, but no longer in my village but fishing boats now go into the main docks on the Tyne .....very evocative ...I must re watch it

When the Boat Comes In back on the TV.......oh yes!!! Love it. Great actors and great story lines, although I lost interest in the later plots and hated the final episode. I was born in the 50s North East , some years after the period in which the series is set, but the scenes and characters seemed so familiar to me. Guess my family history and stories passed down from older generations made it seem real and personal to me. Can't wait to watch it again. Thank you travelsafar

Watched this programme from when it was first broadcast in 1976 just after my first child was born. Used to look forward to every episode, I'm also watching it now and I'm enjoying it just as much.

Loved it back in the day.

We lived in Denmark when WTBCO was being broadcast. The streets of Copenhagen were empty on those nights. The accent accorded well to the Danish ear and many non English speakers understood the lingo! Many Geordie colloquial words are clearly from Norse. We absolutely loved this programme but was so sad when Jessie and Jack spilt up.

We loved "When the Boat Comes In", my husband particularly, because he was from the North East. We loved the theme tune, 'Dance to your Daddy', too. That song was often sung on the BBC's 'Listen with Mother' programme when I was small, but not in the same, lovely North East way. I shall look for the series when I've done binge watching 'The Repair Shop'.

They were good family dramas then not like the rubbish today which is mostly reality TV with half naked people

I realised a few years ago that the theme music to AFAW was from a Vaughan Williams composition. Very evocative.

Altogether now! …”who shall have a fishy, on a little dishy, who shall have a fishy when the boat comes in” etc etc

I remember A Family At War, we all watched it and Later in he early 70s Sam starring Mark McManus.
They were iconic series of the times.

I watched it when it was on the first time around and enjoyed it.
I also watched ‘A Family at War’ which I would like to watch again.

Yes, a lot of the 'issues-led' drama was pretty preachy and lecturing by today's standards. I caught one a while back, which I think was a Ken Loach thing. It was about a man from a very working class background coming back from the trenches in WW1 and not accepting the class system. He ended up in court, and gave a speech about injustice from the dock. The sentiments were laudable, but the grammar, sentence structure, logical argument and so on were not remotely in character for someone who would have left school at 12 or so. It really jarred. I think a lot of the 60s and 70s dramas were a bit like that. Kitchen sink drama was definitely realistic (ie the settings and plots were like real life) but not naturalistic (ie the dialogue wasn't a good fit).

Even in the 80s, Brookside slipped into sociology classes at times. Bobby Grant talking about the unions and Paul Collins arguing the managers' case were real set pieces.

Another one from that time was Shabby Tiger. At the time I adored it but I got a DVD of it a few years ago and it was very poor, stiff acting and the sound was bad.

Oh, I was in my teens in the late 70s - I thought I was a child when it was on. I must be misremembering.

Does anyone remember The Forsyte Saga?
Apparently church congregations dropped for Evensong when it was on.