YMMV / Bread (1986)

• Offending the Creator's Own: Though the show was popular, and received audiences over 21 million, the series was criticised for mocking Liverpudlian culture and people, who had suffered significant economic downturn and unemployment in the 1980s. Carla Lane countered these criticisms saying that her characters were cartoonish and one-dimensional, and were not intended to be a serious social comment on the state of Liverpool.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • May's neighbour from a 1986 episode is played by Barbara New, who would later be best known for playing Mabel Wheeler in You Rang, M'Lord?.
  • Mr. Cossack from a 1989 episode is played by Michael Angelis, who would later be best known for narrating Thomas & Friends from 1991 to 2012.

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