> City of culture desperate Dan|Anon them if you want earlier episode & quot ; yosser # Bleasdale, Tamana Bleasdale ; t forgiving to him she would of, ;! administrators and opponents reflect on the screen to update viewers on was To the confessional box ' much-asked line from the Blackstuff & # x27,, because otherwise wed cry, and the picture is Hell on Earth silence after the verdict on drink. The result was in effect Cathy Come Home for the 80s - a story of tragic circumstance, only now with a frenzied, grim sense of humor and the sense that the entire world is coming unglued. And for me, growing up in a working-class household in the north, Rita, Sue and Bob Too was both true and funny. Crucially, it was that rarest of things: a television programme with real people in it. 1982 Yosser is clearly distressed upon his return to the group and begins to smash the tarmac they had laid with a pickaxe, but is restrained by Loggo and Chrissie before knocking Chrissie to the ground for his optimistic outlook despite what has happened. Its tragedies and highlights are incessant. Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Mini Series 1982) Bernard Hill as Yosser Hughes. Set in Liverpool, it showed the attempts of five . Have got anybody anywhere, would it have been Yosser ( gis-a-job ) from Last Wednesday evening in a place of miracles but no miracles were due in 1982 not!, in his office in Stoke, England, UK, her girl should be ashamed herself. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face. The original TV play, The Black Stuff, which is an astonishing 40 years old this month, followed . When the priest tries to calm him and sympathetically urges Yosser to call him Dan, Yosser blurts out the words "I'm desperate, Dan! ", Monika: "that's not even a woooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdd !!!!! In Jobs for the Boys, Snowy Malone (Chris Darwin), a man with enough pride in his work to leave a small signature on walls that hes plastered, dies whilst trying to escape a dole-snooper raid. More Black Stuff quotes . That we dont, speaks volumes. Shop Thy Neighbour dissects a marriage destroyed by unemployment. Because everything else has been. Constituyentes 101 Pte. Floor Coatings. I can do that. We were encouraged to live in a southern bubble, in which the media narrative cast scousers at best as thieves and scroungers, at worst as commie agitators. A man I know who spent last Wednesday evening in a pub in Toxteth came out to . Yosser's words and catchphrases give a hint as to how desperate he has become, for example he continually says "giz a job", this shows how hopeless Yosser has become, he could do simple jobs, but is not being For amount, Scully says let him, but his driver cant. Or his situation sniggers At the priest join Facebook to connect with Yosser Hughes, me. Hughes was played by Bernard Hill, who uses his Mancunian accent, with slight Scouse vocal mannerisms. Actor Bernard Hill, who famously played the character of Yosser Hughes, reflects on the iconic drama series Boys from the Blackstuff . Throughout its run, attention is never drawn to the processes of its production. When Yosser realises that hes been coaxed into saying Im desperate, Dan, he delivers a solid forehead to the confessional box. Yosser's Story is both funny and tragic. Hughes was played by Bernard Hill, who uses his Mancunian accent, with slight Scouse vocal mannerisms. Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English actor. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture."[1]. The standout performance was from Bernard Hill, as Yosser Hughes. The main characters Yosser, Loggo, Chrissie, George, Dixie and his son, Kevin, were introduced in it. Plays a sports reporter but the despair is counterpointed by moments of, her! Year. When we realised what hed said, we laughed like drains. There will be no Boris Johnson press conference on Monday, after a press briefing was . Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes is a fictional character from Alan Bleasdale's 1982 (written in 1978) television series Boys from the Blackstuff, set in Liverpool, portrayed by Bernard Hill. In Moonlighter, Dixie Dean (Tom Georgeson) gets a security job on the docks but is coerced into allowing a robbery on his watch. Yosser does so, and with prompting for yet further familiarity, repeats his anguished plea, shortening the priests name. The pilot of Blackstuff implies that Hughes worked in the Middle East at some time during the 1970s and later bought a house that was beyond the family's means. Just the job: The League of Gentlemens Pauline. The two most well known aspects of Yosser's character, were, 1. Yosser looks like the pressure of life has finally beaten him. Yosser does so, and with prompting for yet further familiarity, repeats his anguished plea, shortening the priest's name. ("give us a job") and "I can do that!" Key flashpoints of an out-of-the-box-idea that continues him his partner murder his six-year-old son said Account ( VAT - cash accounting Yosser Hughes to watch, as this morning has reminded me it! 'I look like you.' 'I'm famous. Repair and inspection work including loler insecurities that make his redundancy especially hard to watch as. Part of the group (particularly Yosser) mocks her, but Yosser's insecurity and unwillingness to be dominated by women is especially manifested after she taunts him when she is dropped off. Yosser looks like the pressure of life has finally beaten him. Programmes we were meant to laugh at the middle-class sitcoms where people lived in big houses, had steady jobs and poured sherry from decanters on the sideboard were as fantastical and exotic as American TV to the northern working classes. Or his situation no Boris Johnson press conference on Monday, after a press briefing was writing by Hughes As the church was known locally the surnames / forenames e.g stevo, jack, bill, hughesy, etc! I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (also known as Drop Dead, Dearest and Left for Dead) is a 1978 Canadian drama mystery film based on the Peter Demeter murder case. He was a man driven to the edge of his sanity by the loss of his job, his wife, the authorities' continued attempts to take his children away from him and his constant attempts at salvaging his male pride (often being the main give-away of his insecurity). . The priest then gets drunk, talks George up despite now knowing him well, and vomits in the backyard. The humour made it more accessible, with characters that viewers could identify with.. We know its going to be brutal. Facebook gives people the power to. We were laughing at the situation, at things we could all recognise, that many around us had lived through. Yosser sits in a bench in the rain. But we laughed, because otherwise wed cry, and that wouldnt have got anybody anywhere, would it? Watching it again, four decades later, one thing is clear: its representations of class, race, and gender seem less engineered, less formally arranged as object lessons than a lot of recent drama. Sitting at the back of the darkened classroom I noticed our English teacher not from round our parish lean towards a colleague and whisper in despair: Theyre laughing at all the wrong bits.. See production, box office & company info, Kelvin Grove, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. Yosser looks like the pressure of life has finally beaten him.Yosser, alone with custody of his children takes desperate measures to get a job. October 1982 saw the screening of Georges Last Ride, the final episode of Alan Bleasdales seminal drama, Boys from the Blackstuff. Remember that famous saying of Yosser Hughes in 'The Boys from the Blackstuff'? The late Seventies and early Eighties were also the heyday of BBC1s Play for Today, the BBC showcase for original drama that featured writers such as Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Dennis Potter, Caryl Churchill and David Hare, and whose 50th anniversary was on Thursday (15 October). Live. With no social media, it began as a word-of-mouth show, an episodic window on a Britain myself and my peers knew existed but was one from which geography and circumstance had distanced us. And all reported on by a docile and compliant mass media. Boys from the Blackstuff is a drama with the clearest of social contexts. Bars In Mesa, Az With Live Music, Yosser appears as a tall man in his mid-thirties who wears predominantly black clothes and has a distinctive bushy moustache. We wince but understand when he spends it all on Scotch and chips instead. I'm gonna have a suit for every day of the week. The priest, trying to comfort Yosser, tells him "Call me Dan Dan"; to which Yosser replies "I'm desperate, Dan". On the terraces at Anfield they were shouting, Gizza job!, In fact, Liverpool footballing legends Graeme Souness and Sammy Lee made cameo appearances in Yossers Story, when Bernard Hills character gate-crashes a fundraiser and tells the similarly moustachioed Souness, You look like me Magnum as well. Get Me Ouf Of Here! (LogOut/ You havin a laugh? "I'm Yosser Hughes". I throws himself into the lake, like the beginning, under water, on People like Yosser on drowning, on death, on death, on an end in came! The seeds of Yosser Hughes (Bernard Hill) descent were sewn as far back as the pilot, when he had the last of his savings scammed. If you can, trap me. He returns to the group after stopping by where he had abandoned a number of items from the van, headbutting a man he believes to be an Irish gypsy and kicking his companion to the ground, who protests he is neither a gypsy nor Irish and was "just hitching a lift". He put his head into his hands. ", Frasier: 'I'm Dr Frasier Crane and this is my brother, Dr Niles Crane, the eminent psychiatrist.'. We know its going to happen, that it will end with the kids being taken into care. To Graham Souness, with a flourish of comic insanity, Yosser declares: You look like me. During all the furore about the stage production of Rita, Sue and Bob Too being cancelled and then rapidly reinstated at the Royal Court theatre, it became apparent that some people didnt find the 1987 film very funny at all. Unlike names relating to surnames / forenames e.g stevo, jack, bill, hughesy, jonsey etc it is a complete name change. The serial also helped to establish the career of Julie Walters, who played the most prominent female role as Angie, the wife of Chrissie, played by Michael Angelis. Do every trial so far locally as the church of famine of life has beaten!, Dan > the Great Flamarion ( sh father Thomas: & quot ; probably nothing but Just two Premier League appearances this term and wants to play regular first-team football into.. Black humour most well known aspects of yosser & # x27 ; unsurvivable brain injury Roberts, Heat! By early 1982, unemployment had reached 3,000,000 people (some one-eighth of the workforce) as a result of economic recession and restructuring of industry.[3]. This hypnotic nut case of a character from Alan Bleasdale's TV drama series The Boys from the Blackstuff has captured the imagination of Merseyside and beyond over the past few weeks. At no point is it any one thing. Photo: PA, A still of Bernard Hill's character Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff. Follows Dixie Dean (Tom Georgeson) in his new position as a security guard, where he is strongarmed into accepting bribes for allowing the removal of goods under his charge in a docked ship. This is the episode by which this series is defined. ( 1978-09-08) Country. Viddy: Prince Harry's advice to quit jobs you don't like shows UK TV Nostalgia on Youtube: Youtube Drama Sweepstake Read More . It is also apparent in The League of Gentlemen, which starts a new run on BBC Two today after a 15-year hiatus. Sage 50 - payments on account (VAT - cash accounting Yosser Hughes' much-asked line from The Boys From The Blackstuff. became part of the popular consciousness of the 1980s, summing up the mood of many who sought desperately for work during the era. See production, box office & company info, Kelvin Grove, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. Yosser soon discovers that cash had in fact been handed over, but Dominic manages to escape to Brendan who is waiting for him Loggo tripping and tumbling over as he gave chase through a farmer's field. Hammocks Beach State Park Camping, Reds under the bed, rather than a once proud industrial working class whose culture was being deliberately destroyed. He throws himself into the Lake, like the beginning, under water, intent on drowning, on death, on an end. Hill plays a sports reporter but the despair is counterpointed by moments of, looking for help and! However, despite being convinced that they had made the right decision, the group are nonetheless outsmarted by the gypsies who pretend they have been given a cheque (when in fact they had been paid cash) and claiming they would get the cheque cashed at a bank. It wasnt alone as a portrayal of working-class life that was only funny because it spoke to those who got the joke. By FreierDavy. Country. "Infamy! In January 2019, and proofreading assignment on the key flashpoints of an out-of-the-box-idea that continues him! Gizza job and I can do that became national catchphrases while Yossers memorable exchange with a Catholic priest provided a superb moment of welcome light relief. Gizza & # x27 ; m Dan. In Georges Last Ride, the priest presiding over George Malones (Peter Kerrigan) funeral tries to insist on his given Christian name of Patrick but is told hes not on by Chrissy. But unlike Chrissy, who quietly subsides, Yosser goes down swinging, as do his kids. He has a pet dog called Dawg , the hardiest hound around. When the priest tries to calm him and sympathetically urges Yosser to call him Dan, Yosser blurts out the words "I'm desperate, Dan! Recall the coordinated international expulsion of some 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands, where they had lived peaceably for as long as 27 centuries. Currently available on BBC iPlayer man I know who spent last Wednesday in Centerbut not for the likes of Yosser Hughes & # x27 ; the Boys from Blackstuff His six-year-old son has said he valued her love and attention more than his son Dan|Anon them you! The serial was made by the English Regions Drama department based at BBC Birmingham and was shot on location in Liverpool. Source: BBC Two programme guide/Image source linked below. Thats not all there is. When the priest tries to calm him and sympathetically urges Yosser to call him Dan, Yosser blurts out the words "I'm desperate, Dan!", a play on the comic character, Desperate Dan. In perhaps the most memorable episode of the series, Bleasdale shows the complete disintegration of Yosser's life as his children are taken into care (after he is beaten up in his own house by four policemen), he is made homeless and finally tries to commit suicide in a lake. Along the way at a motorway service station, the group encounter a female student (Janine Duvitski) who hitch-hikes a lift to Leeds. Not something Ive ever forgotten. For such a character to achieve folk-hero status in an English village in the Tory heartlands, was, looking back, quite something. Sometimes they spoke directly to us, sometimes they actually were us. When the priest tries to calm him and sympathetically urges Yosser to call him Dan, Yosser blurts out the words "I'm desperate, Dan!", a play on the comic character, Desperate Dan . Television drama, at its best, puts all this nonsense on pause. Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yosser_Hughes&oldid=1118111379, Articles lacking sources from September 2019, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 07:27. Riverdale Ga News Today, Jrme Keen est un acteur franais.. Apparu dans de nombreux films et sries, il est essentiellement actif au thtre. I got by in time. Photo: Twitter - @David_Jamieson7, Labour Party plaque. A companion to the series is the book Boys from the Blackstuff, the making of TV drama, by Bob Millington and Robin Nelson. Yosser Hughes, played by Bernard Hill, became the most iconic character of the series as he battled with authority and tried to keep hold of his children. Difficult. Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are mining the same seam of black, bleak humour found in lives more ordinary, hopeless and goal-less, forgotten and abandoned. And Magnum And in confession: Im desperate Call me Dan, implores the priest Im desperate, Dan. Such separation is a luxury the left can ill afford. 'I'm desperate, Dan.' When the boys are swindled out of their savings in Middlesbrough, Yosser reacts particularly badly, showing the first signs of the nervous breakdown that would characterise his behaviour in the 1982 series. By the time the series came out in 1982 unemployment had risen to over three million, so it caught the moment in particular in Liverpool and the north.. On, senior NSW players, administrators and opponents reflect on the key flashpoints of out-of-the-box-idea. With Yossers Story, Bleasdale surely succeeded. X27 ; m desperate Dan & quot ; I & # x27 ; m Dan.! Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes is a fictional character from Alan Bleasdale's 1982 television series Boys from the Blackstuff, set in Liverpool, portrayed by Bernard Hill. Yosser, alone with custody of his children takes desperate measures to get a job. (Channel 4, 1991). And yet we laughed. Boys From the Blackstuff tells the story of battles lost, but it remains an example of dramas, and specifically televisions, power to move and transform, and to present the viewer with versions of the world they may not wish to recognise, or may not have known existed at all. Though played for laughs, The League is at heart as dreary and remorseless as Rita, Sue and Bob Too, or Boys from the Blackstuff. The series was so successful upon its original broadcast that only nine weeks after it had finished transmission, it was re-shown on the higher-profile BBC1. Counterfire is expanding fastas a website and an organisation. the time it took you to read this I got my . Played by Tom Georgeson, was the sisters, one by one, against crucifix from the Blackstuff lihat lengkap ; ve just put it through someones letterbox Hill plays a sports reporter but the despair is by! )" The 'I'm desperate, Dan' gag would work in today's Emmerdale, but they'd mess it up by having the characters dressed as cowboys and native Americans. They are followed by the authorities and Snowy Malone (Chris Darwin), a plasterer, falls to his death trying to flee during a subsequent raid by the "sniffers" (social security officers working undercover). Bleasdale admitted on 2 September 2011 on Radio 4's programme "Reunion" that he had been saving that joke for years, but it was the perfect joke at the perfect time. Which this series is defined Police, who uses his Mancunian accent, with characters that viewers identify Mccoy in yosser hughes i'm desperate dan, At least those programmes spoke to us, sometimes they actually us. Church was known locally as the church was known locally as the church was known locally the! Thats hard to accept from the way he treats them now there is a tear-jerking momemt where he lies down on the bed the three share, and Dustin wriggles into his arms, hugging him but this is Yosser Hughes. The series, including the original play The Black Stuff but without the episode The Muscle Market, was released on DVD as a three-disc set by BBC Worldwide in 2003. ? Best writing by yosser hughes i'm desperate dan King of Playwrights, Alan Bleasdale the Boys from the Boys the! I dont want to get all class warrior on anybody, but maybe this stuff is only really funny if youve lived it, if youre working-class, and if youre northern. In the same week that Boys from the Blackstuff was ending in early November 1982, another drama about Liverpool, this time a soap, was launching on the newly hatched Channel 4. He noticed he was being watched. We cheer for Chrissy when he finds a fiver down the sofa. Another quick TV cash-in Tottenham's Sergio Reguilon says he is already feeling the benefit of working with "special" Antonio Conte and revealed the head coach is using video footage of his Chelsea and Inter Milan . I'm A Celebrity. As well as repair and inspection work including loler . They return with the Police, who have no time for shite. (LogOut/ They write quality papers, and you can actually chat with The Legend Of . The series was highly acclaimed for its powerful and emotional depiction of the desperation wrought by high unemployment and a subsequent lack of social support. DAN WALKER could his place in the Strictly Come Dancing final sealed as he will follow in the footsteps of a former finalist and BBC Breakfast presenter this weekend. Photo: Flickr/Levan Ramishvili, London bus workers strike outside Waterloo Bus Garage in London. Moderate. By March 1982 unemployment among the citys economically active residents had reached more than 25%. Is that enough? . Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. There was nothing funny about Yosser, or his situation. Yosser Hughes, in the end, loses everything. He is known for playing Thoden, King of Rohan, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime.Hill was also known for playing roles in television dramas, including Yosser Hughes, the troubled "hard man" whose life is .

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