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.
James Bolam
Jack Ford
James Garbutt
Bill Seaton
Jean Heywood
Bella Seaton
John Nightingale
Tom Seaton
Edward Wilson
Billy Seaton
Malcolm Terris
Matt Headley
Susan Jameson
Jessie Seaton
Madelaine Newton
Dolly Mather
Basil Henson
Sir Horatio Manners
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Cranford81%
Upstairs Downstairs74%
Dickensian74%
The Waltons71%
Lark Rise to Candleford84%
Little Dorrit78%
Upstairs, Downstairs78%
The Crimson Field75%
Sanditon75%
Foyle's War78%
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries76%
Bomb Girls71%
Combat!77%
Hornblower78%
War and Peace75%
Pride and Prejudice82%
Land Girls78%
Offspring69%
Army Wives74%
