Yosser's Story is both funny and tragic. This is the story that made everyone sit up and take notice of the serial Boys from the Blackstuff.
I was going to say that after it was broadcast, we all talked about it at school the next day especially all the funny bits. Yosser telling the priest; 'I'm Desperate Dan.' The appearance of several Liverpool players.
It did happen but only after the series was repeated on BBC1 in early 1983. Only a few watched the original broadcast on BBC2. My brother and I were the few.
Our school teacher had enough of us finding Yosser's Story so amusing. So she decided to lecture us about his plight and desperation due to the recession of the early 80s.
She told us that Yosser Hughes was a man driven to insanity and mindless violence because of a lack of a job, money and self worth. Yosser knew that whatever his dreams were as a child, that he could be a somebody were shattered forever.
He has lost his floozy of a wife. He was now about to lose his home and kids. Their mother did not want them. So Yosser and the kids go about passing the day and trying to make ends meet.
Yosser's catchphrase was 'Gizza job' or 'I can do that.' By the end Yosser had nothing to live for.
That school teacher incidentally voted Lib/SDP Alliance in the 1983 election. Ironically a sentiment Alan Bleasdale would deal with in the final episode.
Bernard Hill became a star after this episode and was showered with award nominations. He not only delivered an iconic character, it was maybe the greatest hour of drama in the history of television.
I was going to say that after it was broadcast, we all talked about it at school the next day especially all the funny bits. Yosser telling the priest; 'I'm Desperate Dan.' The appearance of several Liverpool players.
It did happen but only after the series was repeated on BBC1 in early 1983. Only a few watched the original broadcast on BBC2. My brother and I were the few.
Our school teacher had enough of us finding Yosser's Story so amusing. So she decided to lecture us about his plight and desperation due to the recession of the early 80s.
She told us that Yosser Hughes was a man driven to insanity and mindless violence because of a lack of a job, money and self worth. Yosser knew that whatever his dreams were as a child, that he could be a somebody were shattered forever.
He has lost his floozy of a wife. He was now about to lose his home and kids. Their mother did not want them. So Yosser and the kids go about passing the day and trying to make ends meet.
Yosser's catchphrase was 'Gizza job' or 'I can do that.' By the end Yosser had nothing to live for.
That school teacher incidentally voted Lib/SDP Alliance in the 1983 election. Ironically a sentiment Alan Bleasdale would deal with in the final episode.
Bernard Hill became a star after this episode and was showered with award nominations. He not only delivered an iconic character, it was maybe the greatest hour of drama in the history of television.
