Bread
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related.Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods. Bread featuring Peter Howitt and Jean Boht is not currently available to stream, rent, or buy but you can track it for updates. It's a comedy show with 74 episodes over 7 seasons. Bread is no longer running and has no plans to air new episodes or seasons. It has an average IMDb audience rating of 6.2 (1,450 votes).
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Bread Season 5 Overview
Sep 10, 1989 - Dec 25, 1989Season 5 of Bread has 14 episodes that are not available to stream or rent on any services. Track the series to get notified when an episode becomes available on your services.
Bread Season 5 Episodes
S05 E14Episode 14
Dec 25, 1989Christmas for the Boswells brings its usual mix of hilarity, sadness and surprises.
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S05 E13 Episode 13
Dec 3, 1989It's Ma Boswell's birthday and she waits by the phone for Derek to ring and make her day. A surprise...
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S05 E12 Episode 12
Nov 26, 1989Aveline is finally pregnant but the timing is not to her liking now she has made the "glossies". Meanwhile, Grandad...
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Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related.Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.