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Bread was a BritCom that ran from 1986 to 1991. It was about the working-class Boswell family of UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}}: ApronMatron Nellie (Jean Boht), and her children Joey (Peter Howitt, then Graham Bickley), Jack (Victor [=McGuire=]), Adrian (Jonathon Morris), Aveline (Gilly Coman, then Creator/MelanieHill), and Billy (Nick Conway). The title refers to Cockney rhyming slang for money (bread and honey = money) and was about attempting to keep the family financially afloat in [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]]'s Britain.

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Bread was a BritCom that ran from 1986 to 1991. It was about the working-class Boswell family of UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}}: ApronMatron Nellie (Jean Boht), and her children Joey (Peter Howitt, then Graham Bickley), Jack (Victor [=McGuire=]), Adrian (Jonathon Morris), Aveline (Gilly Coman, then Creator/MelanieHill), and Billy (Nick Conway). Another key member of the household is Grandad (Creator/KennethWaller).

The title refers to Cockney rhyming slang for money (bread and honey = money) and was about attempting to keep the family financially afloat in [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]]'s Britain.
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Bread was a BritCom that ran from 1986 to 1991. It was about the working-class Boswell family of Liverpool: ApronMatron Nellie (Jean Boht), and her children Joey (Peter Howitt, then Graham Bickley), Jack (Victor [=McGuire=]), Adrian (Jonathon Morris), Aveline (Gilly Coman, then Creator/MelanieHill), and Billy (Nick Conway). The title refers to Cockney rhyming slang for money (bread and honey = money) and was about attempting to keep the family financially afloat in [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]]'s Britain.

A BBC publicity photo of the show's cast on board the Mersey ferry was captioned [[{{Pun}} Bread Cast upon the Water]].

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Bread was a BritCom that ran from 1986 to 1991. It was about the working-class Boswell family of Liverpool: UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}}: ApronMatron Nellie (Jean Boht), and her children Joey (Peter Howitt, then Graham Bickley), Jack (Victor [=McGuire=]), Adrian (Jonathon Morris), Aveline (Gilly Coman, then Creator/MelanieHill), and Billy (Nick Conway). The title refers to Cockney rhyming slang for money (bread and honey = money) and was about attempting to keep the family financially afloat in [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]]'s Britain.

A BBC [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] publicity photo of the show's cast on board the Mersey ferry was captioned [[{{Pun}} Bread Cast upon the Water]].



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Bread was a BritCom that ran from 1986 to 1991. It was about the working class Boswell family of Liverpool: ApronMatron Nellie, and her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy. The title refers to Cockney rhyming slang for money (bread and honey = money) and was about attempting to keep the family financially afloat in [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher's]] Britain.

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Bread was a BritCom that ran from 1986 to 1991. It was about the working class working-class Boswell family of Liverpool: ApronMatron Nellie, Nellie (Jean Boht), and her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Joey (Peter Howitt, then Graham Bickley), Jack (Victor [=McGuire=]), Adrian (Jonathon Morris), Aveline (Gilly Coman, then Creator/MelanieHill), and Billy. Billy (Nick Conway). The title refers to Cockney rhyming slang for money (bread and honey = money) and was about attempting to keep the family financially afloat in [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher's]] Thatcher]]'s Britain.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Series four ends with the clear indication that Shifty will reunite with his estranged wife, Celia Higgins. However, Celia is nowhere to be seen in series five and is never mentioned again.
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Page was movedfrom Series.Bread to Series.Bread 1986. Null edit to update page.
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Grandad was born in 1913


* WhenIWasYourAge: Granddad is fond of scorning the youth of TheEighties as having it much easier than his generation. Given that he is a veteran of both UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and presumably grew up in the TheEdwardianEra, he has a point.

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* WhenIWasYourAge: Granddad is fond of scorning the youth of TheEighties as having it much easier than his generation. Given that he is a veteran of both UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and presumably grew up in the TheEdwardianEra, was a young man during TheGreatDepression, he has a point.
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* OutnumberedSibling: Aveline is the only daughter in the family.
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* OneWordVocabulary: Small-time gangster Yizzel's sole contribution is to back up his colleague with the single word "Yeah!"
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he's on DSS records as Adrian so it's one of his legal names


* DoNotCallMePaul: Adrian's real name is Jimmy, but he changed it because thinks it's too common.

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Adrian's real first name is Jimmy, but he changed but, thinking it because thinks it's too common.common, he switched to his middle name.
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* RaisedCatholic: The Boswells pray, take confession and go to mass, but have a very [[BlueAndOrangeMorality interesting]] take on ethics. They don't seem to suffer from Catholic guilt, either.

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