I first saw this in Literature and i have watched them all.This one here had myself and my Literature tutor stunned. There are so many different hidden messages and themes running in the backround.Amazing clip.
@rottweilerfromhell I agree with you.. shake hands was definatly based on Andy Shacklady... . Andy pass away on 10th January 2012 R.I.P Andy... shaking hands with the angles now.
Why does shake hand s have plucked eyebrows ??? Looks like an out of work Drag act .... mind you there was a bouncer in Liverpool called Sadie in the 60's, hard as fook !
What's the significance of the pub scene? It seems totally out of place with the rest of the series and just surreal. Is it supposed to be making a point? :o\
Green Man is right, the Middlesborough connection comes from the original pilot when the boys git ripped off by Irish gypsies. Think Shake Hands was played by Ray Navarro.
This was actually filmed in the Princess Alice, Albert Road Middlesbrough, most of the series "Boys from the blackstuff" was filmed in Middlesbrough, lot of people thought it was about oil (blackstuff) but it was about Tarmac!
I believe the character shake hands was based on Billy Magill who used to drink in the Birknhead house in Liverpool an exstoker with avice like grip when he shook hands and was bald wore a cap and parker coat
Those youths who shake hands is approaching, are silly boys and are wind and water. The scene where the pub landlord is nearly runover, and the driver swears at him is funny.
shake hands.....shake hands now......am i talking to myself? thats not nice i like harold, hes my friend....shake hands....ahhhhh. lol, and what does barred out mean? does it mean bared from the pub or something else as when that redundancy group walks in the landlord says there all barred out
@cheatingwanker the term 'barred out' means the person is banned (either permanently or temporarily) from entering or drinking in the pub. People are mostly barred out for either fighting or insulting the bar staff!
I love this scene.I showed it to the lads at work and now all you hear during the day in the work shop is "shakeands" ,"pint of bitter please","large brandy please Michael,much appreciated","wishkey and dry ginger" or "I never felt more like singing the blues".
Terrible times and haunting to watch but fantastically written and acted.
one of the funniest scenes in a drama ever, this was quality writing at its best, and fine acting, its so true, in the early 80s, many pubs were like this up north..priceless,
The good old days of 'Thatcher's Britain' with all the yuppies and millionares getting richer and richer, all OUR nationalised industries being sold off to those that could afford to buy shares!!! I know I couldn't afford to at the time and I was one of the lucky ones with a reasonably well paid job!!!
When that was filmed I was working in a factory across the road from The Green Man on Vauxhall Road, I was made redundant from that job a few months later.
Now we are approaching the same situation and I have been made redundant from another job after 23 years..............GIz a job, I can do that.
Great drama this back in 1982 + still stands up as a fine drama today!, thanx for uploading - I urge people to treat themselves to the original play { the Blackdtuff } + the following episodes now available on Dvd !
It's sad really when you take into context whats happened but so bloody funny with its execution yet British pubs were full of people who'd just lost the plot in the 80's. It wasn't just the economy in depression it was the people.
i just watched this series for the first time and my girl thinks I've gone off my rocker because I've been muttering "Shake 'ands" all day, ahahaha I just said it again out loud and I heard her scream from the other room
@Zen0Ph0bus I just bought this on DVD recently and i love the line "Whisky and dry ginger please"! My wife thinks I'm off me rocker too for shouting this at barmaids in my new adopted country.
Can anyone tell me the name of the piece of classical music that played during some scenes with Yosser and his mrs (julie walters). Would love to know for my Dad's sake!
@pattyheno While I would agree with you about Carla Lane's view of Liverpool I would point out that the writer of Boys From the Black Stuff, Alan Bleasdale, Michael Angelis who played Chrissie Todd, Tom Georgeson who played Dixie Dean and Jean Boht the Employment exchange manager were all from Liverpool. As the series was voted 2nd best drama of the 20th century by TV critics and came 7th out of the top 100 Dramas of the 20th century it can hardly be labelled 'Trash'.
@pattyheno if anything this programme has made me respect scousers, i will pay a visit to liverpool one of these days, the bad times are returning, it is just as bad here in london, ide say worse
@rabbithog I am a scouser, im only 15 but my parents suffered a bit from what you see in this programme, not as much but everyone suffered from it, a lot of clips shot in here is where they both lived aswell :)
Speaking as someone who lives in the ex -industrial town of Baltimore in the USA i am curious as to what people do for a living in Liverpool nowdays. Are there any jobs for working class people?We are in a major recession right no win Baltimore. I work in construction and there are few jobs. Im curious as to whther Liverpool is going through the same thing? BTW,great scene. Too bad they dont sell the DVD over here in America.
@georgecmarshall Liverpool is a prosperous city now friend, it was recently the European capital of culture and is brimming with top hotels and restaurants, it will be forever tainted by Thatchers government in way or another but the city is inhabited by people who dont crumble, work is plentiful, well compared to the eighties it is, back then it was a dying spectre of the giant of the ninetenneth century but now its colourful, vibrant and warm. Visit someday. God bless.
The city has received a great deal of money from Europe, and some large corporations have invested in the City centre, so It looks quite good these days.
But industry is virtually dead.
Some slack has been taken up by large retail concerns but the coming strife in this country will hit Liverpool hard.
You can guarantee that the etonian elite now in charge of the country will ensure that the left-leaning North West will suffer.
I was fortunate enough to be in Liverpool a great deal during the 80''s .Being one of another dying breed , a Merchant Seamen. I had some great mates in "the Pool" and we used to go around town visiting the many great Pubs filled with such amazing characters ,as portrayed by Mr Bleasedale's amazing series.
To all you who were never so lucky to have been there during those really rather sad times......you dipped out big time !
Only now that I watch this in my late 30's, do I see the full significance of this final scene. Me dad used to take me into pubs like this in the mid to late 70s on his way home from work. All along the dock road we knew people like Nasher and Ronnie. I bet there are tonnes of people who don't appreciate the "manager of the Eagle" comment. Sadly the most poignant part has been left out, the demolition of Fairries factory, where my great grandad started work.
had to be about then to get the jist of what this was all about..sad if it wasnt so funny, and the boys from the B/stuff was both..Am 44 fae edinburgh, and me and ma mates loved this back in the day, never missed it, like cult tv this was, a laugh in the bleak land tha was GB then, half ma class were then and are now dead, smack done for them!! No hope, the tory mob were on the march to lining there own deep deep pockets..lying cheating, creatin a war to stay in power, FALKLANDS.
Shake hands actually helped to build the cafe tower, in the sixties he was a builder who worked with my mates dad on it!!! Before he found fame here.....
@richardcadbury Bleasdale has condensed several lifetimes of British pub life into one 10 minute scene.That's pretty great,then there's the black humour,the writing,the acting and the devastating social commentary.Other than that......
made me cry so funny but true in the 80s!! mind you would not like to shake hands!!! wonder what the noise is in the backgound?? sounds like a bird??? great series!! true and well written
Ha ha! This is so true, you can meet lots od colourful and varied characters in pubs! For instance, I was in my local the other night, and I came across this guy in the back room with a Whippet, so I asked the guy what his (the Whippet's) name was, and he said "Dave"! I dunno, somehow that struck me as very amusing!
@mistofoles I went in a London pub in the late 80's and there was a guy in there with a live CROW sitting on his shoulder! You never realise how big and scarey they are till you see one indoors.
Fair play to ya...I always wondered...I'm originally from ireland but have live in the states, Buffalo, New York, for 20 years...when i was 15 i worked in London on the Buildings for 3 months on my Summer school holdiays...I love to go back there someday again...We were staying in Cricklewood, drinking in the Crown....There is a guy here in Buffalo originally form Liverpoool...I'd especially love to visit your town...Kenny Daglish...Mark Lawernson...Ian Rush... One touch...PURE CLASSS.......
Social commentary at its best. Alan Bleasedale...what a genius! Very relevant now but no-one fights anyone's corner but their own anymore. Thats the greatest endictment of Thatcherism. I'm alright Jack!
Terrible times eh. Good job all the decent people got together to sort out the bad people of the 80s' The crims and so on. Oh wait ! they did not? Now their children have grown up and are the slaves of the crims children. Sitting in the pubs with them smelling the weed. That sorts it out does'nt it?
alan bleasdale modeled the shake hands character from a real life bloke from nethy road named andy shack..he was always causing havoc in the pubs around town..nice fella though when sober..lol
I think there was also a line outside the pub, prob not here forlack of time, when one of the boys says 'do you know that every one of them is classed as sane'.
I was in a Kirkdale pub the other night and said the same thing myself to my mate as it was bedlam with some real mental characters just like here (but legally sane, (I think) haha), but it was brilliant all the same. Wild horses wouldn't drag the name of the pub out of me cos the landlord's a mentalist too and he might get me. lol
this was so true about liverpool at the time. 3 million unemployed,no work every type of person in the pub , all with one thing in common, no work just like now , bring it back to the tv , sad but so true,
Its 2.5 million now but everyone has playstations computers, internet.. cos you get housing benefits and more dole and its loads poundland and cheap food...years ago it was about 20 quid a week and thats your lot...
this was probably the best episode of the series,a sozzled dummy,shake hands,yozza headbuttind,man through the pub window and singing if i classic stuff.were a blackbird.
No, the Eagle on Vauxhall Road, about a 1/4 mile down from the Green Man! By the mini roundabout with the stupid arty sculpture that looks like an overgrown panpipe!
ive never felt more like singin the blues when Everton win an liverpool lose ohhhhh everton you got me singin the blues . . . . ive never felt more like singin the blues when Everton win an liverpool lose ohhhhh everton you got me singin the blues
I was brought up in flinders street kirkdale, the green man still exists
There are many pubs along vauxhall and commercial road that have long gone who had similar characters
The wonderful land of kirkdale was destroyed in the early 1970's when liverpool council tore down the houses, split communities and sent them to far outposts of Kirkby, Fazakerley and Skelmersdale
Scotland Road and Kirkdale are a sad distant memory from my childhood
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I was five in 1973 when my parents were given a compulsory purchase order on their house in Easby Rd Kirkdale. The community and 100-odd year old houses were destroyed and replaced by souless boxes which 30 years later are now boarded up themselves and awaiting demolition!!! Anyone understand the thinking behind this. The heart of our country was destroyed in the 60s and 70s!!
haha evra would get fucked up by him
col06 2 weeks ago
is it me or was the old timer pouring his bitter on his puppet?
The1990Doctor 2 weeks ago
I first saw this in Literature and i have watched them all.This one here had myself and my Literature tutor stunned. There are so many different hidden messages and themes running in the backround.Amazing clip.
kbo300492 3 weeks ago
@rottweilerfromhell I agree with you.. shake hands was definatly based on Andy Shacklady... . Andy pass away on 10th January 2012 R.I.P Andy... shaking hands with the angles now.
53dianna 1 month ago
@53dianna Shake Hands was a windbag and dangerous he, was a nutter and those youths he approached should have got out of the way.
rojblake82 1 month ago
@rojblake82 We all have our own opinions, I respect yours. I new Andy very well and he had a good side as well as a bad side, like all of us!
53dianna 1 month ago
Ive jus got this series 4 crimbo and I luv it! Esp Yosser and shake hands
Jo65747 1 month ago
Why does shake hand s have plucked eyebrows ??? Looks like an out of work Drag act .... mind you there was a bouncer in Liverpool called Sadie in the 60's, hard as fook !
psychodamned 1 month ago
We obese nation now. We never had that under thatcher !!!! All stick insects then.
type42sheff 3 months ago
Just been the blob shop, just like the green man lol.
type42sheff 3 months ago
The Green Man still stands., went for a pint there. Unfortunately, the interior has changed beyind recognition.
mistofoles 3 months ago
Yeah. The dumb people need to work, or else they will go bonkers. Work will set you free.
roryphelan 3 months ago
Good old Yosser
VladTheImpala27 3 months ago
a classic :) shake hands ...am i talking too my self ,shake hands ,hahahaha !
badslabber 3 months ago
funny that
TheDannyManc 3 months ago
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TheDannyManc 3 months ago
one of the best scenes from the Boys From The Blackstuff
neckmaster1000 4 months ago
Who the hell came up with the idea of shake hands?
tberwick1 5 months ago
I would suggest that people do not shake hands with Shake Hands. Can we shake on that?
rcottam 5 months ago 2
What's the significance of the pub scene? It seems totally out of place with the rest of the series and just surreal. Is it supposed to be making a point? :o\
Dizzieblonde79 6 months ago
Gotta love that man chirping like a bird!
sneakyzidar 6 months ago
Green Man is right, the Middlesborough connection comes from the original pilot when the boys git ripped off by Irish gypsies. Think Shake Hands was played by Ray Navarro.
vantheman1968 6 months ago
This was actually filmed in the Princess Alice, Albert Road Middlesbrough, most of the series "Boys from the blackstuff" was filmed in Middlesbrough, lot of people thought it was about oil (blackstuff) but it was about Tarmac!
anniebinz140365 6 months ago
I believe the character shake hands was based on Billy Magill who used to drink in the Birknhead house in Liverpool an exstoker with avice like grip when he shook hands and was bald wore a cap and parker coat
pfamedia1 7 months ago
Anyone that doesn't like this, has clearly had his hands shook by "Shake-Hands"
Taporeee 8 months ago
One of the greatest scenes ever written for television
antiquax 8 months ago 2
Those youths who shake hands is approaching, are silly boys and are wind and water. The scene where the pub landlord is nearly runover, and the driver swears at him is funny.
rojblake82 9 months ago
shake hands.....shake hands now......am i talking to myself? thats not nice i like harold, hes my friend....shake hands....ahhhhh. lol, and what does barred out mean? does it mean bared from the pub or something else as when that redundancy group walks in the landlord says there all barred out
cheatingwanker 10 months ago
@cheatingwanker the term 'barred out' means the person is banned (either permanently or temporarily) from entering or drinking in the pub. People are mostly barred out for either fighting or insulting the bar staff!
Scousefire 4 months ago
Reminds me of the Two Way Inn in Bognor Regis 1994-95. People from all sorts of backgrounds used to go in and it was like a madhouse.
shaunatkinson6370 11 months ago
Michael Angelis has got the Scouse stoicism in the face of despair look down to a tee.
flaxonx3 11 months ago
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flaxonx3 11 months ago
gotta like them scousers! shake hands
90alexcatalan 11 months ago
Whisky and dry ginger please!!!
yortzandat 11 months ago
this was when pubs were pubs they were great they are shit now all these designer designer/ modern pubs full of poncy, creepy narcissist whimps
rocksoliddude1 11 months ago 3
I love this scene.I showed it to the lads at work and now all you hear during the day in the work shop is "shakeands" ,"pint of bitter please","large brandy please Michael,much appreciated","wishkey and dry ginger" or "I never felt more like singing the blues".
Terrible times and haunting to watch but fantastically written and acted.
scrumpbee 11 months ago
one of the funniest scenes in a drama ever, this was quality writing at its best, and fine acting, its so true, in the early 80s, many pubs were like this up north..priceless,
ablondenortherngirl 11 months ago
3 people asked Yosser to shake hands...
FlaviusConstantius 1 year ago 2
L M F A O !!
mrjackintheboxxx 1 year ago
best tv ever
stellafella67 1 year ago
brilliant
mrpatsy52 1 year ago
I've been to pubs like that, some one them in Sunderland had sawdust on the floor and a spitoon in the corner.
They were great much better than the ghost towns now.
TamaraAndTheDemon 1 year ago
Shake Hands!
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HaleyEisenhowt 1 year ago
The good old days of 'Thatcher's Britain' with all the yuppies and millionares getting richer and richer, all OUR nationalised industries being sold off to those that could afford to buy shares!!! I know I couldn't afford to at the time and I was one of the lucky ones with a reasonably well paid job!!!
johns50 1 year ago
When that was filmed I was working in a factory across the road from The Green Man on Vauxhall Road, I was made redundant from that job a few months later.
Now we are approaching the same situation and I have been made redundant from another job after 23 years..............GIz a job, I can do that.
You have to laugh or they have won ;-)
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stevebenbob 1 year ago
Shake Hands. Shake Hands now.
I love the insistance of his line lol
shinra18 1 year ago
Ps - the landlord is Sam Kelly - he played Bunny Warren in Porridge - + was in a comedy a few years back called Barbera! ..
phulme61 1 year ago
Great drama this back in 1982 + still stands up as a fine drama today!, thanx for uploading - I urge people to treat themselves to the original play { the Blackdtuff } + the following episodes now available on Dvd !
phulme61 1 year ago
the bloke singing scene the weirdest thing i've clapped my eyes on in a long time
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SnupyKreshan 1 year ago
The series just got shown on BBC4 in the UK. Parts of Liverpool lokked really depressing in the early 1980's
cobbyone 1 year ago
@cobbyone They still do!
mistofoles 8 months ago
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"He had know time for his friggin whistling then"
Does anyone know the landlords real name?
A master performance in one of the truly great scenes in TV history.
stevebenbob 1 year ago
"He had no time for his friggin whistling then"
Does anyone know the landlords name in real life?Master performance of one the truly great scenes in TV history.
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NatalieBlacfas 1 year ago
It's sad really when you take into context whats happened but so bloody funny with its execution yet British pubs were full of people who'd just lost the plot in the 80's. It wasn't just the economy in depression it was the people.
CidHighwindRocks 1 year ago
i just watched this series for the first time and my girl thinks I've gone off my rocker because I've been muttering "Shake 'ands" all day, ahahaha I just said it again out loud and I heard her scream from the other room
Zen0Ph0bus 1 year ago
@Zen0Ph0bus I just bought this on DVD recently and i love the line "Whisky and dry ginger please"! My wife thinks I'm off me rocker too for shouting this at barmaids in my new adopted country.
yortzandat 11 months ago
Can anyone tell me the name of the piece of classical music that played during some scenes with Yosser and his mrs (julie walters). Would love to know for my Dad's sake!
2221dini 1 year ago
@2221dini julie walters isnt yossers wife, shes chrissys wife, which episode are you on about ?
shammy150 1 year ago
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(youtube dot com/TheGrassArena
davidlimond 1 year ago
this is my local boozer live right facin top pub
philyob08 1 year ago
Remember watching all these :)
j1o2y3c4e 1 year ago
I lived in Liverpool during this time and still do.
It was a happy time for me as a teenager growing up.
This does not reflect Liverpool these actors are NOT from Liverpool.
At the time we all thought it was great that Liverpool was on TV.
What we didn't realise was the damage it would cause and the perceptions given.
Other writers Carla Lane also made money on the back of taking the piss out of Scousers.
I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Wasn't as bad as this trash portrays.
pattyheno 1 year ago
@pattyheno While I would agree with you about Carla Lane's view of Liverpool I would point out that the writer of Boys From the Black Stuff, Alan Bleasdale, Michael Angelis who played Chrissie Todd, Tom Georgeson who played Dixie Dean and Jean Boht the Employment exchange manager were all from Liverpool. As the series was voted 2nd best drama of the 20th century by TV critics and came 7th out of the top 100 Dramas of the 20th century it can hardly be labelled 'Trash'.
MrsPisaroni 1 year ago
@MrsPisaroni The second best? What was the first?
CidHighwindRocks 1 year ago
@pattyheno if anything this programme has made me respect scousers, i will pay a visit to liverpool one of these days, the bad times are returning, it is just as bad here in london, ide say worse
rabbithog 1 year ago
@rabbithog I am a scouser, im only 15 but my parents suffered a bit from what you see in this programme, not as much but everyone suffered from it, a lot of clips shot in here is where they both lived aswell :)
JohnPaulMJ 1 year ago
@JohnPaulMJ i hope it doesnt happen again but when you have a tory/liberal government who knows lol
rabbithog 1 year ago
Great scene If I were a blackbird I'd whistle and sing. Ha ha
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"Shake 'anz!"
tidzalad 1 year ago
"Shake 'anz!"
tidzalad 1 year ago
Shake 'ands!
tidzalad 1 year ago
THIS WAS THE BEST THIS WAS 1982 I REMEMBER WATCHING AS A KID .HOW TIMES CHANGE WHATS ON BBC NOW THE ONE SHOW ,THATS GOTTA BE WORTH 145 POUNDS .
mackinl 1 year ago
"Whisky and dry ginger please!" 5:49
xhairsfordemocracy 1 year ago
Speaking as someone who lives in the ex -industrial town of Baltimore in the USA i am curious as to what people do for a living in Liverpool nowdays. Are there any jobs for working class people?We are in a major recession right no win Baltimore. I work in construction and there are few jobs. Im curious as to whther Liverpool is going through the same thing? BTW,great scene. Too bad they dont sell the DVD over here in America.
georgecmarshall 1 year ago 4
@georgecmarshall Liverpool is a prosperous city now friend, it was recently the European capital of culture and is brimming with top hotels and restaurants, it will be forever tainted by Thatchers government in way or another but the city is inhabited by people who dont crumble, work is plentiful, well compared to the eighties it is, back then it was a dying spectre of the giant of the ninetenneth century but now its colourful, vibrant and warm. Visit someday. God bless.
YobsrooM 1 year ago
@georgecmarshall
Think Detroit and you might get a picture.
The city has received a great deal of money from Europe, and some large corporations have invested in the City centre, so It looks quite good these days.
But industry is virtually dead.
Some slack has been taken up by large retail concerns but the coming strife in this country will hit Liverpool hard.
You can guarantee that the etonian elite now in charge of the country will ensure that the left-leaning North West will suffer.
26cab40 1 year ago 11
@26cab40
Do you really think that NuLabour would have looked after you any better?
RoadHogGB 2 weeks ago
I was fortunate enough to be in Liverpool a great deal during the 80''s .Being one of another dying breed , a Merchant Seamen. I had some great mates in "the Pool" and we used to go around town visiting the many great Pubs filled with such amazing characters ,as portrayed by Mr Bleasedale's amazing series.
To all you who were never so lucky to have been there during those really rather sad times......you dipped out big time !
mcpackard 1 year ago
This reminds me of the Staff Social Club for a hospital at which I once worked. Oh Happy days !
drpoxy 1 year ago
my god, was britain once like this
its hell on earth
Mirren81 1 year ago
thatchers Britains, soon to be Camerons Britain
montydon21 1 year ago 3
@montydon21 - Well said sir !
drpoxy 1 year ago
@montydon21 Torn between liking the comment and disliking for weeping. FFS. Good luck to my Limey friends. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you all.
pang5 1 year ago
@montydon21 And the Children Shall Inherit the Earth ,Amen
zghvbn1 1 year ago
Only now that I watch this in my late 30's, do I see the full significance of this final scene. Me dad used to take me into pubs like this in the mid to late 70s on his way home from work. All along the dock road we knew people like Nasher and Ronnie. I bet there are tonnes of people who don't appreciate the "manager of the Eagle" comment. Sadly the most poignant part has been left out, the demolition of Fairries factory, where my great grandad started work.
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jelleyman123 1 year ago
Without doubt this was the best drama series ever shown on TV-it was compulsive viewing!
whiteman703 1 year ago 2
god bless shakes mcarthy
1doctoma 1 year ago
GO'Ed Shakes la...
1doctoma 1 year ago
what a pub
PeterOwen88 1 year ago
This is what is coming again.
ouzodave 1 year ago
had to be about then to get the jist of what this was all about..sad if it wasnt so funny, and the boys from the B/stuff was both..Am 44 fae edinburgh, and me and ma mates loved this back in the day, never missed it, like cult tv this was, a laugh in the bleak land tha was GB then, half ma class were then and are now dead, smack done for them!! No hope, the tory mob were on the march to lining there own deep deep pockets..lying cheating, creatin a war to stay in power, FALKLANDS.
buckstoneboy 1 year ago
@buckstoneboy We've got a Tory government now so we'll all be able to relive the 80's real soon....
lewisner 1 year ago 17
Shake hands actually helped to build the cafe tower, in the sixties he was a builder who worked with my mates dad on it!!! Before he found fame here.....
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AlannTH 1 year ago
all these were real people..not fictional characters, apart from yossa,
dicky583 2 years ago
Porbello9, You must be so proud, De Niro had better watch out.
bluer34gtr 2 years ago
thats my uncle shake hands
porbello9 2 years ago
is he still alive shake hands
jezcat22 1 year ago
The best drama series to hit our screens. Nothing has come close to date. Alan Bleasdale's works are supreme.
beuchars 2 years ago
i wish i grew up in the 80s
jelleyman123 2 years ago
this is what it was like in 80's true but bad
150rents 2 years ago
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this is the most depressing piece of shite ive ever seen.
why would anyone find pleasure in watching this?
richardcadbury 2 years ago
why you watching it then dumbass god some people are dum
Other than that great scene
proberthull24 2 years ago
I watched it becoz it was recoemended to me as being really good, so I gave it a chance, since you ask.
What is "great" about this scene? (genuine question)
richardcadbury 2 years ago
@richardcadbury Bleasdale has condensed several lifetimes of British pub life into one 10 minute scene.That's pretty great,then there's the black humour,the writing,the acting and the devastating social commentary.Other than that......
UKromany 1 year ago
SUPERSTUFF
TheBillfer 2 years ago
This could be any boozer in any city in the 80's so true of the times was the Boys From the Blackstuff....
sofakingdrunk66 2 years ago 11
@sofakingdrunk66 so true!!!!!!!
tezzad01 1 year ago
@sofakingdrunk66 so true!!!!!!!...thats like a typical nottingham pub lmao
tezzad01 1 year ago
made me cry so funny but true in the 80s!! mind you would not like to shake hands!!! wonder what the noise is in the backgound?? sounds like a bird??? great series!! true and well written
mondeo1701 2 years ago 2
Ha ha! This is so true, you can meet lots od colourful and varied characters in pubs! For instance, I was in my local the other night, and I came across this guy in the back room with a Whippet, so I asked the guy what his (the Whippet's) name was, and he said "Dave"! I dunno, somehow that struck me as very amusing!
mistofoles 2 years ago 2
@mistofoles I went in a London pub in the late 80's and there was a guy in there with a live CROW sitting on his shoulder! You never realise how big and scarey they are till you see one indoors.
lewisner 1 year ago
@lewisner Oh, cool! Wish I'd seen that!
mistofoles 1 year ago
Brilliant and 100% true portrayal of life in a Liverpool pub in the 1970s/1980s. Haha the face on Yozzer when Shake Hands confronts him is class!
Scousefire 2 years ago
Fair play to ya...I always wondered...I'm originally from ireland but have live in the states, Buffalo, New York, for 20 years...when i was 15 i worked in London on the Buildings for 3 months on my Summer school holdiays...I love to go back there someday again...We were staying in Cricklewood, drinking in the Crown....There is a guy here in Buffalo originally form Liverpoool...I'd especially love to visit your town...Kenny Daglish...Mark Lawernson...Ian Rush... One touch...PURE CLASSS.......
Peek4pony 2 years ago
OZ IS HARDER THEN YOZZZA
vacherno3 2 years ago
Dont talk out of your fuckin ass !
Oz is a shithouse.
Let me take you outside and split your fuckin nose down the centre ,then go to your nannas and splat a meat pie on her head!
carbonbodyworker 2 years ago
Social commentary at its best. Alan Bleasedale...what a genius! Very relevant now but no-one fights anyone's corner but their own anymore. Thats the greatest endictment of Thatcherism. I'm alright Jack!
mijahan 2 years ago 2
@mijahan you hit the nail on the head their
rabbithog 1 year ago
pure madness but true
150rents 2 years ago
Really bad days.
Dragonrdh 2 years ago 6
@Dragonrdh Yep very bad indeed i fear we have returned to them....
sofakingdrunk66 1 year ago
Ah Shite not shake hands, scousers are salt of the earth
dubtoffee 2 years ago
Am I talking to myself?
cottonwhiskersuk 2 years ago
Terrible times eh. Good job all the decent people got together to sort out the bad people of the 80s' The crims and so on. Oh wait ! they did not? Now their children have grown up and are the slaves of the crims children. Sitting in the pubs with them smelling the weed. That sorts it out does'nt it?
cu16855 2 years ago
What is the strange noise going on in this clip...its brilliant
mitelyod 2 years ago
it's the guy whistling through his fingers
Malover11 2 years ago
I hope Bernard hill,Alan Bleasdale or Michael Angelis die so they put it back on TV as a tribute.
Great stuff
davidlimond 2 years ago
alan bleasdale modeled the shake hands character from a real life bloke from nethy road named andy shack..he was always causing havoc in the pubs around town..nice fella though when sober..lol
dibbleman 2 years ago 3
@dibbleman accually shake hands was based on billy magill he was my uncle
pfamedia1 7 months ago
what a buffoon
TehHunSkelper 2 years ago
@davidlimond The series is currently rerunning on BBC4 on Sunday nights. You can get BFTB on DVD as well.
cobbyone 1 year ago
@cobbyone
This guy has carefully disguised the name so's not to get it deleted but the entire series including the pilot is on this site
(youtube dot com/TheGrassArena
davidlimond 1 year ago
@davidlimond bloddy hell david
rabbithog 1 year ago
I think there was also a line outside the pub, prob not here forlack of time, when one of the boys says 'do you know that every one of them is classed as sane'.
I was in a Kirkdale pub the other night and said the same thing myself to my mate as it was bedlam with some real mental characters just like here (but legally sane, (I think) haha), but it was brilliant all the same. Wild horses wouldn't drag the name of the pub out of me cos the landlord's a mentalist too and he might get me. lol
formby2 2 years ago
Nice one mate.
MrKippers22 2 years ago
thanks for putting this on
MrKippers22 2 years ago
theyre all getting pissed on home brew cause they havent the price of a pint
t5y665yrty56 2 years ago
this was so true about liverpool at the time. 3 million unemployed,no work every type of person in the pub , all with one thing in common, no work just like now , bring it back to the tv , sad but so true,
bigfella108 2 years ago
Its 2.5 million now but everyone has playstations computers, internet.. cos you get housing benefits and more dole and its loads poundland and cheap food...years ago it was about 20 quid a week and thats your lot...
Its like a state subsidised weath these days
ACNC1 2 years ago 2
this was probably the best episode of the series,a sozzled dummy,shake hands,yozza headbuttind,man through the pub window and singing if i classic stuff.were a blackbird.
forestgumpaed 2 years ago
Too funny for words a Classic
ceedcorp 2 years ago
Sh1t, I swear I was in a pub as bad as this !!!
23929500 2 years ago
bernard hill looks like a f***in psycho .
cathkin33 2 years ago
pint of bitter boss
kirkbyla 2 years ago 2
Christ the Eagle in Huyton !! That was a rough place, I remember all the gangsters running outta there cos they set the place on fire lol
psychodamned 2 years ago
No, the Eagle on Vauxhall Road, about a 1/4 mile down from the Green Man! By the mini roundabout with the stupid arty sculpture that looks like an overgrown panpipe!
clarence335 2 years ago
WOW...thanks for the upload...classic scene!
i was 11 years old when this was aired, i remember the whole family sitting down to watch it every week....great stuff
sawneybean71 2 years ago 2
this is british heritage stuff, bring it all back
fod1fod1 2 years ago 2
went renshaw last week it was just like this
dannycefc 2 years ago
Shake annns
Pint of bitter boss
Classic :)
dennytwp 2 years ago
fellainisafro 2 years ago
Lmao. Spiked Midget!
AldoBorelli 2 years ago
Shake 'ands.....SHAKE 'ANDS!
If I was a blackbird, I'd whistle and siiing..tweet, tweet, tweet, whistle whistle tweet
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 2
Large brandy michael much appreciated......
rsm1804 2 years ago
Yosser still the hardest man on TV
kniteboss1 2 years ago 3
This guy the original Purple Aki?
BennettIsAmazing 2 years ago
I was brought up in flinders street kirkdale, the green man still exists
There are many pubs along vauxhall and commercial road that have long gone who had similar characters
The wonderful land of kirkdale was destroyed in the early 1970's when liverpool council tore down the houses, split communities and sent them to far outposts of Kirkby, Fazakerley and Skelmersdale
Scotland Road and Kirkdale are a sad distant memory from my childhood
My parents would cry if they could see it now
depotinjection 3 years ago
does anybody know where lorne walker is?
kingatronkingy 2 years ago
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rsm1804 2 years ago
(Something like this message might appear twice because my server went down just as I sent the first version)
I was five in 1973 when my parents were given a compulsory purchase order on their house in Easby Rd Kirkdale. The community and 100-odd year old houses were destroyed and replaced by souless boxes which 30 years later are now boarded up themselves and awaiting demolition!!! Anyone understand the thinking behind this. The heart of our country was destroyed in the 60s and 70s!!
formby2 2 years ago
Thoses houses they built are horrible. The ones by the old Pheonix Pub (that's gone too).
MrKippers22 2 years ago
the BBC should play this series again, its so good and actually sadly almost relevent again
bring the boys back people need to watch this
itlabs 3 years ago 2
@itlabs Almost?!
MisAnnThorpe 1 year ago