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When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a veteran of The Great War who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.
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Season list for When the Boat Comes In
James Bolam
Jack Ford
James Garbutt
Bill Seaton
Jean Heywood
Bella Seaton
John Nightingale
Tom Seaton
Edward Wilson
Billy Seaton
Malcolm Terris
Matt Headley
Phyllida Law
Judy Loe
Clive Merrison
Susan Jameson
Jessie Seaton, Jessie Ashton
Basil Henson
Sir Horatio Manners
William Fox
Duke of Bedlington
Michael Melia
Madelaine Newton
Dolly Mather, Dolly Seaton
Rosalind Bailey
Sarah Lytton, Sarah Headley
Geoffrey Rose
Arthur Ashton
