YMMV / Boys from the Blackstuff

• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Yosser is played by Bernard Hill, aka Captain Smith and King Théoden.
  • Chrissie is played by Michael Angelis, who would later be best known for narrating Thomas & Friends from 1991 to 2012.
  • Chrissie's wife is played by a then-unknown Julie Walters.
  • Donald Moss is played by David Ross, who would later be best known for playing the original Kryten and the second Talkie Toaster in Red Dwarf, and Elgin Sparrowhawk in The Green Green Grass.
  • Ricky Tomlinson appears in "George's Last Ride".
  • Clive Russell is the policeman who gives the benefit fraud officers a speeding ticket in "Jobs for the Boys".

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